"A number of men with asses' heads sit round a table signing a petition. They are upon a platform in a ramshackle room; a ladder rests against its left corner; on the ladder appear the head and shoulders of Fox in back view; he holds strings attached to the noses of the asses. The ass seated at the head of the table (left) hands down to him a 'Petition to the House of Commons for Delay [signed] Ign[or]amus'. An ass holds a long document, the 'Commercial Treaty with France', which falls across the table on to the ground; on his right shoulder an ass rests his head; another on the left sleeps with his head resting on a pile of books on the table. A spectacled ass writes busily; next him, at the end of the table (right), an ass leans back asleep. The nose of a braying ass appears through a door on the extreme right. Behind the table an ass places a notice on the wall: 'Chamber of Commerce at a Meeting held the 10th of February Resolved'. This partly covers another bill: 'Chamber [of] Commerce at a Meeting 9th Decr 1786 Resolv[ed]'. On a shelf (left) a figure of Mercury with a wooden leg dances, flourishing a caduceus; the right hand is broken off; behind it part of a vase is visible inscribed 'Wedgwood'. Figure and vase are on a pedestal inscribed 'Ex Quovis Ligno non fit Mercurius'. A casement window with broken panes and a raftered ceiling indicate the squalor of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Assemblée des not-ables anglois and Assemblée des notables anglois
Description:
Title etched in bottom center of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., and Mounted on page 52 with one other print.
Publisher:
Publd. the 14th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France.
Subject (Name):
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795. and France.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foreign economic relations, Mercury (Roman deity), and Donkeys
"A number of men with asses' heads sit round a table signing a petition. They are upon a platform in a ramshackle room; a ladder rests against its left corner; on the ladder appear the head and shoulders of Fox in back view; he holds strings attached to the noses of the asses. The ass seated at the head of the table (left) hands down to him a 'Petition to the House of Commons for Delay [signed] Ign[or]amus'. An ass holds a long document, the 'Commercial Treaty with France', which falls across the table on to the ground; on his right shoulder an ass rests his head; another on the left sleeps with his head resting on a pile of books on the table. A spectacled ass writes busily; next him, at the end of the table (right), an ass leans back asleep. The nose of a braying ass appears through a door on the extreme right. Behind the table an ass places a notice on the wall: 'Chamber of Commerce at a Meeting held the 10th of February Resolved'. This partly covers another bill: 'Chamber [of] Commerce at a Meeting 9th Decr 1786 Resolv[ed]'. On a shelf (left) a figure of Mercury with a wooden leg dances, flourishing a caduceus; the right hand is broken off; behind it part of a vase is visible inscribed 'Wedgwood'. Figure and vase are on a pedestal inscribed 'Ex Quovis Ligno non fit Mercurius'. A casement window with broken panes and a raftered ceiling indicate the squalor of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Assemblée des not-ables anglois and Assemblée des notables anglois
Description:
Title etched in bottom center of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject.
Publisher:
Publd. the 14th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France.
Subject (Name):
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795. and France.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foreign economic relations, Mercury (Roman deity), and Donkeys
"Four monarchs divide between them a map of the territories of the Dutch Republic, all saying, "Let us support the poor Dutch!" In the background (left) the 'Stadt House' falls in ruins, and on a small rock in the sea inscribed 'Texel' a fat Dutchman in back view, looking out to sea, says, "Now, I am an Absolute Monarch"; the words ascend in the smoke of his pipe. He holds a sword and is surrounded by cackling geese. All four sovereigns hold the map, and all shed tears: George III (right) tugs at it with both hands, tearing off a piece inscribed 'Good Hope', 'Java', 'Saba', 'Eustatia', 'Curac', 'Bonaire' (?), 'Coruba', 'St Martins', 'Surinam'. Frederick William of Prussia (left), seated on the ground, wearing a fool's cap decorated with the skull and cross-bones of the Death's Head Hussars, uses a dagger to cut off a piece containing 'Friesland', 'Groningen', 'Overyisel', and 'Ceylon'. The Emperor Joseph, standing opposite Frederick William, slices the map with a large sword, securing 'Utrecht', 'Zalper' (?), 'Holland', 'Molucca Islands'. Between Joseph and George III Louis XVI, dressed as a French fop, uses a pair of shears to cut off 'Guelderland', 'Zeeland', 'Rotterda[m]', and 'Hague'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Series title etched in upper right corner of plate. For another print in the series, see No. 7214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Dutch Republic.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fox muffs -- Key to the back stairs -- Female costume -- False bosoms and derrières., and Watermark in center of sheet.
A Prince of Wales holds his hat and a tasselled cane in his left hand while his rightt hand is in the pocket of the breeches pocket. His coat, breeches, waistcoat, and stockings are all striped, alluding to the picture of a braying zebra on the wall behind him and above a settee. A zebra belonging to his mother, Queen Charlotte, was referred to as "the Queen's ass", and her affection for the Prince was well-known
Alternative Title:
Queen's ass
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub'd April 17, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"An escutcheon with four quarterings, the flower and leaves of a thistle serving as crest and supporters. The dexter chief and and sinister base quarters are covered with a lattice of rectangular bars suggesting a tartan. In the dexter chief quarter is ajar inscribed 'Brimstone'; in the dexter base, a French fleur-de-lis flag across a broken broadsword; in the sinister chief is a decapitated and bleeding head wearing a Scots bonnet across a headsman's axe; in the sinister base a set of bagpipes. The jewel of the order of the Thistle hangs from a ribbon draped round the escutcheon, with the motto 'Nemo. me. impune. lacessit.', but in place of the St. Andrew's cross is a pair of gloved hands, the right hand adjusting the glove of the left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., In lower left of image: Gentlemens designs executed gratis., Temporary local subject terms: Influence of Scotland -- Jacobites -- Coat of arms -- Allusion to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811,, and The '6' in the imprint statement has been written over with a '7'.
Publisher:
Pub'd Jany. 9, 1786 [i.e. 7], by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Attributed to Kingsbury. Cf. British Museum catalogue., At bottom of the image: Gentlemens designs executed gratis., Temporary local subject terms: Bishops -- Ladies' costumes -- Derrières -- Muffs -- Upside down pictures., and Partial watermark center on left edge.
Title etched below image., Wicksteed as engraver from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; loss of text from imprint statement?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume -- Puffs -- Men milliners -- Altered Biblical quotation: "They are altogether lighter than vanity" from Psalm 62:9., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 16, 1787 by J. Wicksteed, No. 30 Henrietta Strt. Covt. Gard
A thin, worn-out author sits at his table under the window in his small garret in the attic. He leans his chin on his hand as he writes with his quill pen. A thin dog sits at his feet. A robust man (a bailiff?) with a cane confronts him presumably with bills. His bed is folded up against the wall
Alternative Title:
Miseries of authorship
Description:
Title etched below image., "Designed & etched for The British mercury." Cf. British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Rowlandson in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Bookseller -- Garret -- Bed., and Mounted to 20 x 26 cm.
