As described in Book 2of Milton's Paradise lost, God and Christ watch Satan as he struggles across Chaos headed for earth and vengeance
Alternative Title:
Council in hell
Description:
Title from original print as cited in Paulson., Date based on known dates of Ireland's years of activity., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 64, Ms. note in Steevens hand above print: Copy., Paulson records a second state in Steevens that corresponds with this copy by Ireland., and On page 55 in volume 1.
As described in Book 2 of Milton's Paradise lost, God and Christ watch Satan as he struggles across Chaos headed for earth and vengeance
Alternative Title:
Council in hell
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., According to Paulson this print was never published., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Given me by the Rt Honble Willm Windham / original., and On page 55 in volume 1.
Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd as [the] act directs, 2d March 1772.
Call Number:
772.03.02.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A freely drawn sketch of three figures. A Jew in profile to the right holds a glass show-box which is supported by a strap round his shoulders. Facing him in profile to the left is a man with a large pack tied to his back, he is looking at the Jew's wares, one hand held up as in surprise. Between them, and full-face, stands a Dutchman (?) wearing trousers and smoking a pipe; he is looking at the Jew's show-case. [In 1765 Cole compared the Paris shop-windows to the show-cases carried about by Jews. 'Cole's Paris Journal', 1931, p. 50.] Above the heads of the figures a devil is flying, he holds two strings, one of which is attached to the neck of each pedlar."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peddlers
Description:
Title supplied from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: street pedlars -- Dutchmen -- Pedlars' show-boxes., and Watermark: countermark crowned royal cipher G R.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Ethnic stereotypes, Peddlers, Pipes (Smoking), and Devil
"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Date range for publication based on publisher's street address. John Bowles gave his address as 13 Cornhill between 1768 and 1779; see British Museum online catalogue., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., Price erased in state 5 and new publication line added in state 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 8 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Financial crises and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Publication information inferred from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., "Price 1 shilling."--Lower right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss to text at bottom margin., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: South-Sea. In pencil below: See Nichol's book, 3d edit. p. 122., and On page 8 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Mrs. Chilcot and R. Caldwell?
Subject (Geographic):
Financial crises and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
On a raised platform, the Devil sits on top of 3 casks, one labelled "small beer". He straddles a huge key, from which are suspended, as on a gallows, 2 gentlemen, the one on the right bearing some resemblance to George III. On the left 2 maids or washerwomen wave mop and broom at the hanged man (possibly Pitt?), saying "You tax maid servants no more". On the right Samuel House, standing before his tavern, offers a tankard to Jeffrey Dunstan, who is voicing his support of Charles James Fox. The Devil is uttering the words of the title
Alternative Title:
Key of the back stairs and the small beer etc
Description:
Title derived from text in image. and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797. and House, Samuel, -1785.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Keys (Hardware), Taverns (Inns), Women domestics, Hangings, and Clothing & dress
A man in a bag wig and with crossed eyes lands on his "broad bottom" between two chairs pulled from under him by two diminutive devils. His face has an expression of utter surprise. The devil on the left, with the name Oliver on the large club of his hair tied in the macaroni fashion, pulls with his cane 'city chair 1772.' The devil on the right, with the name Sawbridge on his club, pulls the chair inscribed 'liberty.'
Description:
Title from item., [The] at the beginning of the title in the form of a brevigraph., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse below title: There's many a slip 'twixt [the]cup and [the] lip, we often have found ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to mayoral elections, London, 1772 -- Aldermen -- Aldermen: Alderman Oliver.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797 and Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795
