Title etched at top of image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Warehouses -- Merchant ships -- Skulls: skulls of the rebels of 1715 and 1745 -- Bible: burial service -- Clergy: bishops -- Stamps upon black flags -- Child's coffin -- Cargoes: bales and boxes -- Bank of Thames -- Tombs -- Boats: lighter -- House of Lords: votes on repeal of Stamp Act, 1766 -- Allusion to America -- Lawyers' briefs -- Dogs -- American trade -- Scotch appeals -- Weepers: Bute wearing a weeper -- Catches: funeral anthem -- Mottoes: semper eadem., and Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet; mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Scott, James, 1733-1814, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Reduced copy of The repeal by Benjamin Wilson, with several alterations and a description added below image., Three columns of text below image: Over the vault are placed two skeleton heads. Their elevation on poles and dates of the two rebellion years ..., Temporary local subject terms: Warehouses -- Merchant ships -- Skulls: skulls of the rebels of 1715 and 1745 -- Bible: burial service -- Clergy: bishops -- Stamps upon black flags -- Child's coffin -- Cargoes: bales and boxes -- Bank of Thames -- Tombs -- Boats: lighter -- House of Lords: votes on repeal of Stamp Act, 1766 -- Allusion to America -- Lawyers' briefs -- Dogs -- American trade -- Scotch appeals -- Weepers: Bute wearing a weeper -- Catches: funeral anthem -- Mottoes: semper eadem., and Bowditch's notes below plate mark, recto.
Publisher:
publisher not identifies
Subject (Name):
Scott, James, 1733-1814, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., State without imprint. Cf. No. 4141 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Laws and statutes: repeal of the Stamp Act -- Laws and statutes: Cyder act -- Monuments -- Demons: Fury -- MIrrors: hand-held mirror -- Rebellions: skulls of the Jacobite rebels -- Poverty -- Emblems: tobacco leaves -- Emblems: apple tree branch as Cyder act -- Stamps: caricature of stamps for the American colonies., Watermark: countermark: initials GR below crown., and Mounted to 30 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Scott, James, 1733-1814, Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting
Alternative Title:
Gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny ...
Description:
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Reversed copy of a print published ca. 1730. Publication information for this later version based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publisher alternatively identified as John Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.29, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was t'abuse it ..., Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner. Plate number indicates that it may be one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 29 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 41.3 x 30.3 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Number '8' mostly erased from sheet.
A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting
Alternative Title:
Gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny ...
Description:
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Reversed copy of a print published ca. 1730. Publication information for this later version based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publisher alternatively identified as John Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.29, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was t'abuse it ..., and Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner. Plate number indicates that it may be one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s.
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Publication date based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. See no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution and with different verses, of a print published ca. 1730. Cf. No. 1863 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Now gentlemen - see, here's a piece! I hope you'll all bid up for this, two guineas, thirty shillings, twenty sure gentlemen, that will content ye ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Paintings: Anthony Van Dyck, 1599-1641 -- Paintings: Adriaen van de Velde, 1636-1672, or Cornelius van de Velde, 1699-1729 -- Lighting: trident-like torch -- Reference to South Sea Company -- Reference to East India Company -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes -- Lions -- Monkeys -- Bulls -- Cats -- Sheep -- Goats.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Art auctions, Auctioneers, Jewelry, Paintings, Torches, and Artists' materials
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Publication date based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. See no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Copy in reverse of a print published ca. 1730. Cf. No. 1864 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: See valiant Captain Snout appears, the drum beats up for volunteers, you that are weary of your wives, and willing to live merry lives ..., Plate numbered '3' in lower left corner. Possibly a reissue of Egbert van Heemskerck, the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s., and Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Military: recruiting sergeants -- Food: roast beef -- Plum pudding -- Buildings -- Signs: tavern signboard -- Nest made of a bottle -- Elephants -- Boars -- Monkeys -- Cats.
Publisher:
Robert Sayers?
Subject (Topic):
Recruiting & enlistment, Military uniforms, Drums (Musical instruments), Banners, Taverns (Inns), Birds, and Nests
Volume 1, page 10b. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 97. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature of a man with a protruding lower lip, whole-length, standing in profile in outline only, with his hands in his pockets, wearing a low cocked hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Profile of a man in long coat
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bishop's wig., Mounted on page 97 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 21.4 x 15.1 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 15.5 cm.
Volume 1, page 10b. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 97. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature of a man with a protruding lower lip, whole-length, standing in profile in outline only, with his hands in his pockets, wearing a low cocked hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Profile of a man in long coat
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bishop's wig., and Mounted on page 10b in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
