"Portrait; whole length, standing, to the right, head turned to the left, one arm gesturing out towards the right; in fur trimmed robes and garter medal; standing in niche with two naked boys below to the right, one supporting a large book; the sword and mace to the left; after a sculpture by Carlini."--British Museum online catalogue
Title from British Museum catalogue, Questionable attribution to H.W. Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: French postillion wigs -- Whips -- Dogs -- Muffs -- Jack-boots., and Title added in pencil in a modern hand at bottom of sheet: [A (French) postillion].
"A young lady at confession; on the right, a monk leans on his elbow, right hand resting on a Bible, lecherously looking sideways at a young girl beside him, who stands holding a rosary, looking down sorrowfully with tears running down her cheek, she wears a veil on her head. On the ledge are various symbols of mortality, and a paper, lettered "...From fornication and all other deadly Sins Libera nos Domine! 'Tis better to Marry than burn...", to the far left stands an altar; after Millar; scratched-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from the Catalogue of the Society of Artists, 1771, no. 83., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Chapel of a Catholic church -- Religious rites -- Rosaries -- Allusion to sins., and Watermark.
Page 289. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an ugly old woman dressed in richly decorated black clothes, leering at a macaroni wearing a wig with an enormous looped queue, one hand on his shoulder while he lays one hand on his breast and smiles admiringly at her; a black page standing behind the old woman and a couple smiling at them as they pass by, in the background to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies
Description:
Title from later state., Additional title from note below image, written in pencil and brown ink: Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Wilson delt. & fecit., Early state, with scratched-letter publication statement only. For a later state with the title "A real-scene on the parade at Bath" and other lettering in lower margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.363., Publisher from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd March 21st, 1772, by J. Parker, No. 82, Cornhill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Female costume, 1772 -- Male headdresses., Folded to 30.6 x 24.5 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 289 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Henry Parker
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Dandies, British, Wigs, Older people, Courtship, Couples, and Servants
Volume 2, page 9. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist's signature etched backwards in lower right portion of image., Mounted on page 9 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: The drawing by Ostade in Ind. ink in possion. of J.T.
"Hibernia lies on the ground with her harp broken. On a table (left) are two money bags, one full and labelled "Exchequer", the other decorated with the Irish harp and almost empty. Into this Lord North is plunging his hand while an African with outstretched hand says: "Don't forget poor Mungo my good Ld N------h". A man in hat and laced coat is trampling on Hibernia, saying to a bystander: "Sr George we must keep her down". Sir George [Macartney] answers: "Ay my Ld T------d. [Townshend] and exert ourselves or she will be too Strong for us"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from the index to the magazine. See British Museum catalogue., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to the article, The history of the late Parliament in Ireland, published in the London Magazine, v. 41 (1772)., Plate from: London magazine, or Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed by C. Ackers, v. 41 (1772), page 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Hibernia -- Bags of money -- Reference to the Exchequer's Office -- Reference to the Irish revenues -- Harlequin -- Blacks: politicians as blacks -- Musical instruments -- Furniture.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806, and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807
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
Title from item., Frontispiece from: Stevens, G.A. Songs, comic, and satyrical. Oxford : Printed for the author; sold by J. Waller, in Fleet-Street; G. Robins ...,1772., Sheet trimmed to image with loss of title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 292 in volume 3.
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image: Thus our senators cheat the deluded people with a shew, of liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of ... . Otway., Title-page vignette from: Senators, or a candid examination into the merits of the principal performers of St. Stephens Chapel / Thomas Delamayne. London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1772., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons speaker's chair -- Executioner's axe -- Acts of Parliament: Royal Marriage Act, 1772 -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to the Bill of Rights -- Literature: quotation from Venice Preserv'd by Thomas Otway (1652-1685)., Contemporary mss. note below plate on the first mounting paper: The Royal Marriage Act obtained the Kings consent April 1, 1772 -- in consequence of the Duke of Cumberland having married Mrs. Horton., and Mounted to 16 x 19 cm, and mounted again to 25 x 32 cm.
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
