"Portrait after a drawing by Hogarth; head and shoulders of a man with a prominent forehead and hooked chin, to left looking down, wearing a wide-brimmed hat set at a tilt and cravat; with another head in profile to left wearing a plumed cocked hat, behind; before plate reduced and inscription curtailed and re-engraved."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, with line break before the word 'engravers'., Date in plate has been changed from 1786 to 1781., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For another state published by W. Dickinson see: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3099., and On page 208 in volume 3.
A "Lilliputian" couple in the costume of late 17th century walk from right to left, the verse engraved below them. The design and verse are encirled by a rococco border which incorporates objects and figures that amplify the subject verse
Alternative Title:
Sir Jeffrey Jumble and my lady Grave-airs
Description:
Title from item., Later state of one of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. The month name "January" has been burnished from the top of the image, as has the text "The twelve months represented by" that was present above the remaining text "Lilliputian figures". For an earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0214.1., Date of publication based on the ca. 1840 date given in the British Museum for the earlier state of the plate., Six lines of verse below title: Dear Duck, while thus abroad we go, expos'd to chilling frost and snow ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Series title, including month designation, partially erased from this impression., Traces of an earlier imprint burnished from plate and replaced with John Bowles's publication line., and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Iohn Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Sir Tony Watch-waters and Dame Grizell his beautiful wife
Description:
Title etched within item., Publication attributed to John Bowles and dated based on imprint from other prints in the series., Print for August. One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. Only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures"., Six lines of verse below title: Hah madam, have I caught ye napping, how luckily for me things happen ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians., Month designation in series erased from this impression., and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
publishd [sic] according to act of Parliament, March 12 1739/40.
Call Number:
740.01.00.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
European coursers, heat I
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Pr. 1s."--Following imprint., Three columns of verse below image: What secret springs to action princes move Inferior mortals strive in vain to prove ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: trade revived., Bowditch's ms. notes on mounting sheet., Some damage to bottom edge resulting in minor loss of text in imprint and price., and Mounted to 43 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Ed. Ryland in Ave Mary Lane, Ludgate Street, London
publish'd according to act of Parliament 25 March 1740.
Call Number:
740.03.25.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: America -- Cuba -- Havanna -- Clergy: cardinals -- Personifications: figure of Folly -- Figure of Fortune -- Robert Jenkins -- Mottoes: aut mors aut victoria., Annotation in unidentified hand below image., Restrike?, and Mounted to 34 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751
publish'd according to act of Parliament 25 March 1740 [that is 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 33. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the jockeying for position of the European powers in early 1740. A race-course on the sea-shore with a variety of animals and riders representing different countries: first comes Cardinal Fleury (France) falling from his fox which has stumbled at the winning post on "[Baron] Sinclair's papers". Behind the fox stands the devil holding a sheet of paper with a picture of five ships, lettered "Baltic Sea", an allusion to the French failure to form an alliance in that region. The devil pulls down one of the scales hanging from the umpire stand; the heavier scale represents the Imperial allies with swords, coins, a picture of the Imperial eagle and a note reading "ballance of power", while the lighter one holds objects connected with France and Spain, a cardinal's hat, mask, fox, and notes of "50,000 livers" and "10,000 pistoles" as well as a paper lettered "Mediation". On the umpire stand, America is in conversation with Africa while Europe embraces Asia for the sake of "Protection [of]Trade". Further to the left stands Captain Jenkins holding out his severed ear. Behind Fleury's fox runs the Spanish wolf, its rider unseated by the British lion's lashing tail, lettered "No Search Free Trade". The Russian bear, ridden by a man with a scimitar, follows; the bear kicks its hind legs at the Turkish elephant that is draped with a cloth lettered "Belgrade" in reference to the recent ceding of that city to Turkey. The sultan stands behind the elephant, offering a bag of money to a Frenchman wearing a bag-wig; a monkey also wearing a bag-wig, representing France, crouches in front of the bear. A Dutchman, smoking a pipe, stands beside a distance post having abandoned the race; his boar is laden with trade goods. Behind, on the left, the devil and a fool lead a group of Roman Catholic bishops, roped together, towards a closed building labelled "Conclave" where they will elect a successor to Pope Clement XII. In front of them seven men representing the European powers are seated at a round table with papers lettered "Alliance" and "Sinclair"; Cardinal Fleury turns aside towards another devil asking, "Extricute me now & I'm yours for ever". Further forward, a British herald, supported by classical female soldiers, blows a trumpet; beside them Fleury raises the front of his robe attempting to catch billowing smoke, lettered "Universal Monarchy". In the foreground, Time sits on his hour-glass holding a paper with a picture of a wolf dressed as a cardinal; rats chew at the bottom of the sheet; Fortune looses her grasp of Theodore of Corsica who throws his orb after his crown as it flies off on outspread wings; a British bulldog savages a Spanish wolf while a French fox runs off behind a bush; Captain Coram shows the plan of the Foundling Hospital to a woman and child seated on the ground; a Catholic ecclesiastic wrings his hands saying, "Ye have taking away my Gods, what have I more"; a man bends down to lift a chest full of "10000 pieces of Eight"; Emperor Charles VI rides on an eagle towards the finishing post, holding a shield with the British coat of arms in front of him while a shield with the fleur-de-lis falls to the ground; he is preceded by Charles Albert of Bavaria, fully armed on horseback, and carrying a shield with the motto, "Never conquered"; in front of him, a French ambassador kneels pleading with the British lion who tramples on a shield with the fleur-de-lis and prepares to fire a cannon. At lower right, Britannia pushes aside France (a woman in classical dress with a helmet, and a cock at her side holding out a paper lettered "Mediation") and points to a map showing the island of Cuba offered by a British herald and a sailor. In the background, to left, is the bay of Cadiz in which the Spanish fleet is shut up, British ships sail freely on the sea; a nymph holding a pennant lettered, "Quatuor Maria Vindico" (I claim the four seas), rides a dolphin; beyond are the island of Cuba and distant mountains. Lettering beneath on either side of a medal of a fighting cock which is itself lettereed "Aut Mors Aut Victoria" (Death or Victory)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 2449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 33 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751
A male figure composed of utensils used in the business of an apothecary holds in one "hand" a volume titled, 7. Frauds detected in drugs, and in the other a scroll inscribed: "We are all in the dumps, our bill is rejected and flung out." Under the apothecary's "belt," formed by the barrel's hoop, is secured a paper inscribed "Quincys Dispensary." The utensils making up the figure are numbered, and the key identifying them is engraved below the image of the figure. The whole is enclosed in an ornamental cartouche. Reference to an Apothecaries' petition
Description:
Title from item., Date based on reference in the image to a pamphlet published in 1748 and a failed bill of the same year. See Frauds detected, or, Considerations offered to the public : shewing the necessity of some more effectual provision against deceits, differences, and incertainties in drugs ..., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate numbered '45' in upper right corner., Dedication below title: To the Right Honble the Lord Walpole these four plates are humbly inscribd [sic]., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for voice on two staves with interlinear words., Opening words: Fill ye bond wth [sic] flowing measure ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate number erased from this impression.
"Satire on butchers showing a calf as a butcher holding an axe and a cleaver, with a meat tray as a breastplate, a candle in his hat, and a steel hanging from his apron. In the background, the enclosure of Smithfield market (with street lamps against the fences) in which a group of men with sticks and dogs chase a runaway ox; the entrance to St Bartholomew's hospital and the distant dome of St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Enclosed in a delicate frame a sheep's fleece hanging between verses below; these allude to the butcher's manly strength and his wife's consequent faithfulness."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state
Description:
Title etched within image., Originaly published ca. 1740 by George Bickham. See no. 2470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., and Two columns of verse below image: Old Aesop who in morals did surpass, wrapt in a lion's skin, produc'd an ass ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Smithfield Market, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Butchers, Equipment, and Street lights