"Between Fox and Surrey, Powys, the second violin, is seated on the ground, looking with an agonized expression (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6413) towards Fox, the first violin. From Fox's pocket hangs a paper: 'Irish Propositions set to music for the White Boys'. Burke is farther to the left, blowing his trumpet with a deeper scowl. Lord Derby has been displaced from his central position for Lord Sandwich, seated in an arm-chair, holding a roll inscribed 'Catches & Glees' with which he beats time, turning to the right where Stormont blows the French horn as before. Farther to the right Lord Carlisle, in profile to the left, plays the clarinet (or hautboys). Derby, standing between Burke and Sandwich, plays the pipe and tabor. Eden plays the Irish harp as before and in the same position, but at his feet is a squalling cat, watched contemptuously by a large dog whose collar is inscribed 'watch'. Another dog howls with its fore-paws on the open music-book inscribed 'Ballanamonioro'. On the extreme left, in 'profil perdu' to the left, Portland is seated at the harpsichord; his music is also '[B]allanamonioro'. In the foreground (left) is a fox, its collar inscribed 'Fox', standing on a kettledrum, its cloth decorated with the Cavendish arms and motto, 'Cavendo tutus', and snarling at an overturned side-drum decorated with the royal arms; this indicates Fox's attitude to the Crown and the support given to him by the Duchess of Devonshire. Other books of music, a cittern, &c, lie in the foreground. On a chimney-piece, behind Portland, is a bust, laurel-wreathed with a blank face, inscribed 'oντiς'; against it lean a lyre and a smiling mask. Two manuscripts hang down from the chimney-piece: 'Critique on the Rolliad' and 'Probationary Odes for the Laureateship'. These emblems signify the anonymity of the two famous political satires which went into several editions in 1785 after appearing in the 'Morning Herald'. On the back wall, above the heads of the performers, are (left to right) marrow-bones and cleavers, reminiscent of the bands of butchers who had supported Fox in the Westminster Election. Next is a framed picture: Fox beating a tambourine, North playing a clarinet to which dance performing dogs and a hare. In the centre is an oval bust portrait of the Prince of Wales, the frame inscribed 'Auspicium melioris Ævi' (see British Museum Satires No. 6771). The third depicts Fox leading a performing bear, while a man, resembling a bearded Jew, plays a hurdy-gurdy. On the extreme right a legal wig is hung above a set of bagpipes; it is inscribed 'New Wig' [Whig] with the letters 'C.P'; on the bag are the letters 'PC', on one of the pipes '1745'. They represent Loughborough, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and his self-seeking changes of party."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Published [the] 7th June 1785 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Concerts, and Musical instruments
Title etched in open letters below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of first letters in title. Missing letters supplied in contemporary hand., Dated from the ms. note on impression at The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on verso of a partially trimmed map: Operations of the siege of the citadel of Antwerp showing the 1st and 2nd parallels and the commencement of the works of the 3rd. London : Published by M. Colnaghi, Decr. 1832., and Mounted to 22 x 28 cm.
Title from text below image., Printmaker from plate no. 1., Series title from plate no. 1., No. 2 from the Dighton's series: Twelve prints representing the most interesting, sentimental and humourous scenes in Tristam Shandy., Plate is numbered "2" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Corporals' uniforms -- Male costume, ca. 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Crutches, Screens, Furniture, Tables, Chairs, Stools, Interiors, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Smoking
Title from item., No. 5 in 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: Interiors: kitchens -- Interiors: stone floors -- Utensils -- Plates -- Candlesticks -- Coal buckets -- Coals -- Brooms -- Towels hanging on racks -- Fireplaces -- Kettles -- Female costume, ca. 1785 -- Male costume, ca 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Title from item., Printmaker, place and date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Soap tax -- Tax on lights -- Tax on windows -- Signs: sign-posts -- Trades: washerwomen -- Vehicles: tumbrels -- Windows -- Pitt's speech -- Gallow ropes., and Partial watermark in upper right of plate: fleur-de-lis on shield with initials L V G.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title etched below image., Publisher from that of the magazine for which the print was issued., and Listed without description with other prints from: The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., no. 6885.
Publisher:
Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Lawyers, Judicial proceedings, and Manners & customs
Title etched below image., Reissue of illustration in The wit's magazine, 1785, p. 115, with the publication line burnished from the plate., Publication date based on that of the first issue in The wit's magazine., and Listed without description with other prints from: The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., no. 6885.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Lawyers, Judicial proceedings, and Manners & customs
"Delpini, dressed as a woman, both arms held above his head, runs forward in profile to the left imitating a dancer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One line of quoted text following title: "Grace was in all her steps" &c., and Mounted on page 52 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 26th April 1785 by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Delpini, Mr. -1828 (Carlo Antonio),
Subject (Topic):
Cross dressing, Opera singers, and Stages (Platforms)
"Delpini, dressed as a woman, both arms held above his head, runs forward in profile to the left imitating a dancer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One line of quoted text following title: "Grace was in all her steps" &c., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 27.4 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 22 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 30 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 26th April 1785 by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Delpini, Mr. -1828 (Carlo Antonio),
Subject (Topic):
Cross dressing, Opera singers, and Stages (Platforms)
