A head and shoulders profile portrait of Miami chief Pacanne, holding a tomahawk across his chest, with bracelets on his upper arms and jewellery in his ears, nose and across the crown of his head
Description:
Title in scratched letters at top of image, partially in reverse; the individual letters are printed correctly but the words themselves run right to left on the print., Printmaker attribution and date from impression at the Library and Archives Canada (Acc. No. 1938-223-42), on which the contemporary statement of responsibility "by Mrs. Simcoe 1794" is written in ink., After a drawing by British Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton, who travelled with Pacanne during the American Revolution. The original drawing is now housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard., A slightly later date is suggested by a contemporary ink annotation beneath plate mark on Lewis Walpole Library impression: An Indian Chief N. America of the Miamis tribe (from life 1795)., and Presumably one of only two small plates etched by Simcoe, which were sent to England in 1794 and printed in Bristol and London; see Dictionary of Canadian Biography, entry for Elizabeth Posthuma (Simcoe) Gwillim.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Caption below title: Oh! Mr. Blacksmith ease our pains -- and tye us fast in wedlocks chains., Plate numbered '277' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Blacksmith's shop -- Trades -- Coachmen -- Gretna Green -- Female costume, 1795.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Forge shops, Blacksmiths, Military uniforms, Coach drivers, and Marriage
"John Bull's head and shoulders emerge from a gigantic coffee-mill. He is being ground by Pitt into guineas which pour from the spout of the machine into the inverted coronet of the Prince of Wales, held out by the Prince (left). John Bull, his hands clasped, shrieks "Murder! Murder!" Pitt (right), both hands on the handle, is working hard, stripped to his shirt. His coat lies across an enormous heap of guineas on which he rests his left knee. He says: "God save great George our Ki . . ." Behind him, and in the upper right corner of the design, is the crown, the centre of a sun whose rays extend behind Pitt's head, with the words: "Grind away! grind away grind away Billy! never mind his bawling! grind away." Other words from the crown are directed towards the victim: "What! - What! - what! Murder hay? why, you poor Stupe, is it not for the good of your Country? hay? hay". Between Pitt and the post of the mill Dundas and Burke are grovelling for guineas: Burke, frowning, uses both hands; Dundas, who wears a plaid, fills his Scots cap. Behind the post Loughborough grovels, his elongated judge's wig turned in back view (cf. BMSat 6796). The Prince (right) wearing a Garter ribbon, with the letters 'G.P' on the jewel, kneels on one knee, his head turned in back view; he points out his harvest of coins to a row of creditors. These stand in a row on the left: a jockey, probably Chifney (given a pension by the Prince, see BMSat 7918), holds out a paper: 'Debts of Honor'. Next, a bearded Jew holds out a paper headed 'Money Lent at £500 pr Cent'. Next is Mrs. Fitzherbert (caricatured) and another woman (? Mrs. Crouch); others are indicated. Behind this group is part of the colonnade and façade of Carlton House."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Coffee-mills -- Taxation -- Debts: Prince of Wales's debts -- Buildings: Carlton House -- Creditors -- Jews -- Pensions: pension for Samuel Chifney, the jockey -- George III as sun -- Crowns -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers., and Mounted to 34 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Sketch of Lord Mayor's Day and Peep at a city feast
Description:
One plate printed on two sheets pasted together, each of the sheets with its own title., Artist from the original issue of this print., Publication dates from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum: June 1, 1794 and January 1, 1795., Above left half of the joined image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Plate from the Carlton House magazine, v. iii, p. 100 and 465., Reissue as two separate prints and under different titles, of left and right halves of No. 7757 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.6., and Temporary local subject terms: Lord Mayor's Day -- Banquets -- Buildings: Guildhall -- Interiors: banquetting hall, Guildhall -- Furniture: tables -- Benches -- Pets: dogs -- Dishes: dinner plates -- Silverware -- Food: pudding -- Cooks -- Lighting: chandeliers -- Glass: wine bottles.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Goalers.
A man in a tricorne hat shown three-quarters length, in profile looking left and leaning on a walking stick
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 19 x 16 cm.
An etching showing a single human form with the left half shown as a male apothecary and on the right a housewife. She is shown standing on a rug before a cooking fire with a saucepan. He is shown with shelves of bottles behind him
Alternative Title:
Man-midwife
Description:
Title etched below image., After Isaac Cruikshank; see British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of text following the title, etched below it: ... or a newly discover'd animal, not known in Buffon's time ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Male midwives -- Obstetricians -- Allusion to Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, 1707-1788 -- Literature: allusion to Man-Midwife Dissected -- Saucepans -- Grates: domestic grates -- Midwifery -- Bipartite figures -- Medical instruments: obstetrics -- Surgeons' dispensaries.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Midwives, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, and Medical equipment & supplies
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: screen -- Window curtains -- Drunkenness -- Pests: rats.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Queen Anne -- Male costume, ca. 1701-1714 -- Female costume, ca. 1701-1714 -- Walking staves., and Mounted to 23 x 18 cm.
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: Male costume, 1795 -- Female costume, 1795 -- Bludgeons -- Umbrellas., and Mounted to 23 x 18 cm.
