"Satire on the attempt to establish an Anglican episcopacy in the American colonies. A group of angry colonists push away from a quayside a ship named “The Hilsborough” (a reference to Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State who had ordered troops to Boston in June 1768) On the ship is a large carriage with its wheels and a crosier and mitre beside it. A bishop is climbing the rigging saying “Lord, now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace” (Archbishop Secker who died in August 1768 had left £1000 to help establish a bishopric in North America). The colonists are shown as advocates of liberty of conscience and religious non-conformism: one waves a large book lettered “Sydney on Government”, another brandishes “Locke”; “Calvins Works” has already been thrown towards the bishop; another colonist waves a flag, topped with the cap of liberty and emblazoned with the words “Liberty & Freedom of Conscience”; a Quaker holds “Barclay’s Apology” saying “No Lords Spiritual or Temporal in New England”. A monkey on the quay holds a stone as if intending to throw it at the bishop. A paper lies on the ground lettered “Shall they be obliged to maintain Bishops that cannot maintain themselves”. The print appeared in the Political Register, 1769, facing p.119."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., and Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 5 (1769), p. 119.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768, Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793, and Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Chariots, Clegy, Monkeys, Bishops, Ships, and British
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of the widow of a Marine lieutenant (identified by Burford as Mrs. Winter), numbered 25, and Wills Hill, Marquis of Downshire and Earl of Hillsborough, numbered 26.
Alternative Title:
E. of H-h, E. of Hillsborough, Earl of Hillsborough, and Mrs. Winter
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1777, page 457., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on board with pages 457-[460] of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Chevalier D'Eon producing his evidence against certain persons
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 184., and Temporary local subject terms: Petitions: reference to City petitions -- Clyster pipe -- American Indian.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771, Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Musgrave, Samuel, 1732-1780
Subject (Topic):
Apes, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Medical equipment & supplies, and Rifles
Title from item., Trimmed to plate line on sides and bottom., "Resembles the manner of Viscount Townshend."--British Museum catalogue., and Publisher's name transcribed as "Kearly" in British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1st. of March 1780 by J. Kearly Stafford St., Old Bond St. & E. Hedg under the Royl. Exchange
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793., and Buckingham Palace (London, England)
Title from item., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: June 21, 1770., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum. London : Printed for the authors , v. 5 (1770), p. 106., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London, 1709-1770 -- Allusion to Jamaica -- Allusion to Boston -- 7th Earl of Winchelsea., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, William, 1709-1770, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Mrs. Winter, a widow of a lieutenant in the Marines, and Lord Hillsborough, afterwards Marquis of Downshire
Alternative Title:
Noble dupe
Description:
Titles from text below images., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, October 1777 (ix, 457) with different titles and without numbers above portraits., and Variant state of No. 5419 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 5 (1769), p. 183., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Mythology: Cerberus -- Bill of Rights -- Petitions: various petitions in 1769.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, and Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 280., and Temporary local subject terms: Thrones -- Treasury -- Tools: pickaxes -- Magna Charta -- Bill of Rights -- Prerogative -- Liberty of the press -- Bags of money -- Animals: wolf-- Ape -- Witches -- Brooms -- Bags of money -- Emblems: trumpet from heaven -- Devil -- Boats.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
