"Fox as Dr. Busby birches Pitt and his supporters in a lofty hall with stone walls. Fox (left) sits under a statue of Justice which is in an alcove above his head, a birch-rod in her right hand, in the left, her scales evenly balanced. Pitt lies across Fox's knee, his posteriors scarred; he says, "O pardon me & I'll promise you on my honor that I will Honestly & boldly endeavour a reform!" Fox, his birch-rod raised to smite, says, "That's all Twaddle! - so here's for your India Task! there! there! there! & there's for blocking up the old Womens Windows & making them drink Tea in the dark! - there! there! & there's for------O I've a a a hundred accounts to settle - there! there! there! there! there! there." Those who have been already chastised are borne off (right), a sea of heads, on the backs of the Foxite party ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dr. Busby settling accounts with Master Billy and his playmates
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Illustrious burns, might merit more regard ...", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 41 x 29 cm., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1785, by J. Ridgeway, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Robinson, John, 1727-1802, Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Sculpture, Justice, Scales, Buttocks, Chamber pots, and Spanking
No. 10 from the series: Twelve prints representing the most interesting, sentimental and humourous scenes in Tristam Shandy / by R. Dighton., Printmaker from series title on plate no. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Gardens -- Garden gates -- Cannons -- Cannon balls -- Pick axes -- Sentry boxes -- Wheelbarrows -- Baskets -- Weapons: battle axes -- Weapons: spears -- Quizzing glasses -- Crying -- Female costume, ca 1785 -- Male costume, ca 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1749-1789), politician and patron of the arts, held summer performances at his estate at Wynnstay, in North Wales. Bunbury incorporates into the design of this admission ticket the titles for the 1785 season: The Confederacy, As You Like It, The Agreeable Surprise, Venice Preserved, and Harlequin's Invasion. The titles are shown on banners held by the figures of Tragedy, Comedy, Pantomime, and Farce or draped over the branches of the tree. Bunbury uses Farce dressed as a harlequin holding a club labelled "invasion" to form a rebus of Garrick's play. In the background, the four figures are identified on the sails of a windmill. In the banner at the top of the oval is the name of the theatre and the year "1785"; at the top and bottom of the oval are the masks of comedy and tragedy
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 22 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 20.8 x 15.5 cm., and Imperfect; printmaker's signature has been mostly erased from sheet.
Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1749-1789), politician and patron of the arts, held summer performances at his estate at Wynnstay, in North Wales. Bunbury incorporates into the design of this admission ticket the titles for the 1785 season: The Confederacy, As You Like It, The Agreeable Surprise, Venice Preserved, and Harlequin's Invasion. The titles are shown on banners held by the figures of Tragedy, Comedy, Pantomime, and Farce or draped over the branches of the tree. Bunbury uses Farce dressed as a harlequin holding a club labelled "invasion" to form a rebus of Garrick's play. In the background, the four figures are identified on the sails of a windmill. In the banner at the top of the oval is the name of the theatre and the year "1785"; at the top and bottom of the oval are the masks of comedy and tragedy
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Opposite page 51 in Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of a sphinx with a woman's head, facing right, sitting on a pedestal
Description:
Title devised by curator, taken from the footnote on page 51 of: Walpole, H. Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Strawberry Hill, 1785., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 18 x 24 cm., and Bound in opposite page 51 of Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
A social satire: a "curtain lecture" with a standing woman in night-clothes, one breast expose, berating a man in bed, who draws the bed-covers up to his chin. The bedroom has a large casement window through which is seen moonlight; on the sill are three bottles. Beside the bed is a chair on which his coat hangs; on the floor his unbuckled shoes and a candle
Alternative Title:
William and Margaret
Description:
Letterpress fragments from a ballad, pasted to the bottom edge of the print: William and Margaret. A Burlesque. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by S. Watts, No. 50 Strand
"Lord Sackville advances in profile to the left, declaiming, left knee raised as if climbing a citadel, left hand on his breast, holding up in his right hand a cylindrical roll resembling a document, but inscribed 'Telum imbelle', symbolizing his unsoldierly conduct at Minden. His feet are cut off by the lower margin. Behind and below him (right) are the grinning heads of Lord Stormont and Lord Derby, saying "Hear Hear Hear". Sackville faces a flag inscribed 'Irish [P]ropositions', above which is a dove with an olive-branch, symbolizing the reconciliation between the Opposition and Sackville, who is supposed to be acting under their orders. Below the design is etched: 'Head Quarters Brookes's, 18th July 1785 You are to attack the Enemy's Propositions at six o'clock this evening [Fox] To [Sackville]' The signature and address are represented by strokes of erasure, see BMSat 6802 A. Beneath the plate is written in an old hand (? Sayers'): 'When France our Arms at Minden tried Gainst France opposd on Mindens plain [This line is erased, the first line having been written above it] When [erased] And Brunswick gave the Word Bid Sackville bring his pow'r he cried The Noble Lord demurr'd Pitt's propositions now the foe He boldly mounts the Breach Obeys Command & aims a Blow With all his pow'r,- of Speech'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Ireland & Irish -- Irish Propositions, 1785 -- Flags -- Symbols: dove with an olive branch -- Allusion to the Battle of Minden, August 1, 1759., Lord George Sackville identified by ms. note in contemporary hand in top right of sheet., and Two columns of verse in pencil below the plate mark: Gainst France oppos'd on Minden plain when Brunswick gave the word ...
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796
"Lord Sackville advances in profile to the left, declaiming, left knee raised as if climbing a citadel, left hand on his breast, holding up in his right hand a cylindrical roll resembling a document, but inscribed 'Telum imbelle', symbolizing his unsoldierly conduct at Minden. His feet are cut off by the lower margin. Behind and below him (right) are the grinning heads of Lord Stormont and Lord Derby, saying "Hear Hear Hear". Sackville faces a flag inscribed 'Irish [P]ropositions', above which is a dove with an olive-branch, symbolizing the reconciliation between the Opposition and Sackville, who is supposed to be acting under their orders. Below the design is etched: 'Head Quarters Brookes's, 18th July 1785 You are to attack the Enemy's Propositions at six o'clock this evening [Fox] To [Sackville]' The signature and address are represented by strokes of erasure, see BMSat 6802 A. Beneath the plate is written in an old hand (? Sayers'): 'When France our Arms at Minden tried Gainst France opposd on Mindens plain [This line is erased, the first line having been written above it] When [erased] And Brunswick gave the Word Bid Sackville bring his pow'r he cried The Noble Lord demurr'd Pitt's propositions now the foe He boldly mounts the Breach Obeys Command & aims a Blow With all his pow'r,- of Speech'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Ireland & Irish -- Irish Propositions, 1785 -- Flags -- Symbols: dove with an olive branch -- Allusion to the Battle of Minden, August 1, 1759., and Mounted on page 46 with one other print.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, his cheeks inflated, blows at the flames; Fox (right), seated on a bulky roll inscribed 'Petition from the Cotton Manufacture[rs]', plies a pair of bellows. The fuel of the fire consists of papers inscribed 'Rumour', 'Evidence at the Bar' (2), 'Pamphlets', 'Pleadings at ye Bar' (2), 'Arguments'. The flames and smoke which extend above their heads are inscribed 'Distrust', 'To Scotland', 'Discontent', 'To the Chamber of Commerce', 'Objections', 'Jealousy', 'To Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 47 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, his cheeks inflated, blows at the flames; Fox (right), seated on a bulky roll inscribed 'Petition from the Cotton Manufacture[rs]', plies a pair of bellows. The fuel of the fire consists of papers inscribed 'Rumour', 'Evidence at the Bar' (2), 'Pamphlets', 'Pleadings at ye Bar' (2), 'Arguments'. The flames and smoke which extend above their heads are inscribed 'Distrust', 'To Scotland', 'Discontent', 'To the Chamber of Commerce', 'Objections', 'Jealousy', 'To Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted to 27 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
