Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: a man with a curved nose and profile, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Convex : the field preacher
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and First of three plates on leaf 102.
Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: a woman with a bonnet wig and ogee-shaped profile, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ogee -- Female costume -- Female hats., and Second of three plates on leaf 102.
Two grotesque figures of a well-dressed man and woman stand before a background of Corinthian pillars topped with Doric capitals. The man points with his left hand to his mouth and grimaces at the viewer
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., First published by Carington Bowles on 20 October 1775; original publication date burnished from the plate. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786., Date of publication inferred from paper and from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., and Numbered in plate: 332.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver at their Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Probable book illustration, within ornamental frame, of a man declaiming from a raised platform before an audience composed chiefly of men in the foreground and of women in the upper gallery, the setting illuminated by candles on the table before the speaker, and by a chandelier
Alternative Title:
School of Shakespeare
Description:
Title from item. and Date inferred from costume.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Dramatic productions, Acting, Actors, Audiences, and Stages (Platforms)
"A design in compartments showing the malpractices at the Shaftesbury election of 1774 which became notorious owing to the petition of the defeated candidate, the subsequent proceedings in the House of Commons, and actions at law 1775-6. Three compartments in the upper part of the print show interiors labelled "Punch's Room" (left), "Secretaries Room", and "Agents Room" (right), shown as three adjacent rooms, visible by the removal of the fourth wall. The interior of the rooms is revealed by Truth, a naked woman on the extreme right. who holds up an enormous curtain which would screen all the rooms if it fell. Underneath these compartments are scenes taking place in the street outside and below these rooms. A broad gangway crowded with voters leads from the street-level to the central room. In "Punch's Room", a man dressed as Punch with a large hump and wearing a peaked hat and jack-boots stands on a stool putting a packet through a small opening in the partition dividing this room from the centre or "Secretaries Room". Behind him a stout man stands by a round table, apparently making up the packets for Punch; he holds a paper in both hands, and says, this "Note for 68 will make 3 votes". On the table are papers, a money-bag, and two piles of coins. At a rectangular table on the other side of the room (right) a man is seated, pouring out wine from a bottle; another man stands opposite him, holding a wine-glass and saying, "They swallow Pills well". At the back of the room are two wheelbarrows filled with money-bags, other money-bags lie on the floor. The room is quite bare except for tables, stool, and chair. The ceiling is raftered, there is a window in the left wall, and two hats hang on the wall. In the next room, a man stands on a chair facing the left wall and takes the packet which Punch is handing to him. Four birds, each with a coin (?) in its claws, appear to have just flown through the opening which is immediately above a padlocked door of communication. Behind him stands another elector, his hat in both hands, looking up at the opening. Two other men stand by, one holding a long staff. Two men sit at a round table; one with a large hump is writing; the other is in conversation with two men, one holding a paper, the other, holding his hat, appears to be making a request. Two hats hang on the wall. On the back wall hangs a large framed picture over which is inscribed "We'll purchase Europe". It represents an Indian scene: a corpulent man sits on a canopied howdah on an elephant; he is crowned and holds a sceptre; money-bags are piled on both sides of the howdah; a mahout sits on the animal's neck. The elephant appears to be picking up money-bags from the ground with its trunk; an Indian in a turban who lies across these bags is being beaten and kicked by a European. In the third room, two men sit writing at a round table, one points to three supplicants, saying "Begone you Rogues you'll vote for Mortr" [Mortimer]. Of the three men whom he addresses, two stand hat in hand, the third hurries away putting on his hat and saying "Nothing for honest men". Another disappointed voter stands between the two men at the table, his hands clasped. The lower part of the print represents the street below the three rooms. On the left is a procession (left to right.) escorting Punch; in front walks a man carrying a flag inscribed "Punch & Rupees for ever". He is followed by six men with marrow-bones and cleavers, which they are striking together to produce the traditional election noise. All wear election favours in their hats, the men with the marrow-bones have aprons twisted round their waists and are probably butchers. Immediately behind them is Punch on horseback, with an immense hump on both back and chest, a conical hat and a frill round his neck. His face is covered by a net and he is saying "20 Guin[eas] for two Voices & one round Oath well swallowed". He is accompanied and followed by a number of electors who wave their hats. In the centre is a sloping platform leading up to the "Secretaries Room". A boy with a long staff stands on the right. saying, "None but Voters come in". A crowd of men stand upon it in conversation. In the centre is a woman who says "My three tenants shall have more than 60". A hunch-backed man on the left says, "I shall discover their Schemes." On the right. are steps giving access to the right. side of the gangway. A balustrade divides the open front of the Agents' room from the street, and is continued down the right. side of the gangway and by the side of the steps. Two men are mounting the steps; in the road below two men, hat in hand, are in conversation with a third, who appears to be the candidate; he grasps one of them by the hand, placing his hand on his shoulder. On the back of the print is pasted a press cutting from the 'London Chronicle' (1776) "A card with the Figure of punch holding a Paper with the under-written Lines, was lately sent to the present Mayor of S------y. With empty bags, and without noise or drum, In woful plight, behold, I'm once more come, Humbly to crave your Worship's kind protection, From threat'ning evils of the last Election: In justice guard me from your folly past, If 'tis your first, I trust, 'twill be your last: Though I was PUNCH, behind the Scene convey'd, You, and your Friends the magic wire play'd.' Your's, PUNCH.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humours of Punch and Shaftesbury election
Description:
Title from item., State with imprint. Cf. No. 5341 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Shaftesbury elections, 1774 -- Punch -- Personifications: Truth., and Previously pasted on three layers of paper and used as a mirror lining, according to the donor.
"Satire: a poor country curate at home, reading the Bible while peeling turnips for the evening meal, rocking a cradle on the right, and listening to his son's schooling; verses beneath record that his wife is "at washing" (perhaps for other families) and compares him with the lazy "proud Prelate"; on the wall hangs the popular image of 'Shon Ap Morgan' (see 1983,0625.9).""British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Eight lines of verse are inscribed in two columns on either side of title: "Tho' lazy, the proud prelate's fed... And rocks the cradle with his foot."
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Children, Families, Interiors, Clergy, and Welsh
Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in plate: 326., Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud., and Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A landscape divided by a stream. On the left, a desolate wasteland with a man cutting down the remaining apple tree while several other men attack a cow with knives or drink its blood. The cow bears on its rump a large stamp, alluding to the Stamp Act of 1765. To the right a cow garlanded by flowers and standing on a yoke is milked by a woman while the milk is drunk from bowls by women and children. Other children dance in the background and a boy picks apples in a tree. Contrasts England's harsh rule of her American colonies with benign and more profitable policies, possibly those of Holland
Description:
Title from item., Sheet cropped into plate mark with some loss of text., Date from British Museum catalogue., Text in plate below image: "Let us not cut down the tree to get at the fruit. Let us stroke and not stab the cow, for her milk and not her blood can give us real nourishment and strength.", and Mounted on paper 30 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and America.
Subject (Topic):
Colonies, Children, Eating & drinking, Dancers, Milking, Cows, and Apple trees
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 17th 1775.
Call Number:
775.09.17.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Danger and folly of going to law and Law is a bottomless pit
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The design is composed of a large rectangular image at top center of sheet and another image below it, and three small images in form of vignettes on each side of the sheet., Possibly a 2nd state, with title of the 1733 edition of the rectangular image at top etched in the enter of that image. Cf. The danger and folly of goeing to law / George Davise inv. ; R. Parr sculp. [London], 1740, and Law is a bottomless pit, ca. 1733., Central upper panel is a later state of Law is a bottomless pit, ca. 1733. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1990., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Folded and mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
177[5]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. A copy after Hogarth without the two wall maps
Description:
Title etched below image., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., On page 206 in volume 3., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: See Mr. Nichol's book, 3d edit., p. 289., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil to right of date: [5].
