An elderly man and woman are sitting in armchairs in front of a cottage, each smoking a pipe. The woman holds a glass, the man a pitcher. They are surrounded by farm animals. A beehive, a birdcage and birdhouses are in the background
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Title from item., Two columns of verse below image on either side of title: Old Darby with Joan by his side, you've oft times regarded with wonder ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Livestock, Birdcages, Birdhouses, Beehives, Chairs, and Windmills
Title etched above image; subtitle etched below images., Plate numbered '87' in upper left corner., and Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759.
Title etched above image; subtitle from below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '87' in upper left corner., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., A copy in reverse of: No. 36 98 in v. 3 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Dutchmen -- Reference to Amsterdam -- Reference to English privateers.
"Portrait of John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, nearly half-length, very slightly to right, looking to front, wearing long curly wig, lace cravat, sash and and jacket with star; in oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., After a painting by Sir Peter Lely. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Smollett, T. A complete history of England. London : Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher; and R. Baldwin, v. 8 (1759)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 51 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
James Rivington and James Fletcher; and R. Baldwin
"Satire on the French king and his nobles melting valuables to make coin to pay war expenses in reaction to the disasters of the year 1759. Louis XV stands on the left holding a broken sceptre that he prepares to add to the crucible; Marshal Belle-Isle crouches on the right cutting up a candlestick; Madame de Pompadour works the bellows. Items of plate lie on the floor, including a vase lettered, "Germain fec" and a box lettered, "Messonier Inv"; on the wall hang portraits of W[illiam] P[itt], lettered "Terror of France", into which a sword is stuck, Newcastle and Fox, the latter two covered by a large cobweb."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paris coiners 1759
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject headings: Reference to George Germain, Viscount Sackville, 1716-1785., and Mounted to 24 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. accordg. to act by MDarly, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764, Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Hearts is trump & has won the game and Hearts is trump and has won the game
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Title from item., Plate numbered '90' in upper left corner., and Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761, and Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792
Title from item., Publication date from British catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Whilst Marshal C-t-s [i.e., Contades] & [the] gallant gay B-lio [i.e., Broglie], with their armies advanced in order so droll-o ..., and Mounted to 27 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792, Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785, and Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770
Subject (Topic):
Minden, Battle of, Germany, 1759 and Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Title etched above image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Publication date possibly later than 1759. See British Book Trade Index online., Two columns of the fable in verse below image: An old revrend [sic] seer had three lads to his sons, stout fellows tis said and a match for three nuns ..., and Mounted to 30 x 44 cm.
A gentleman who wears fool's cap, carries a bauble in one hand and a bell (which he rings) in the other. He is accompanied by another gentleman who carries a halbred as they driving four geese and four turkeys before them on the road "To London" as the sign-post states. The former gentleman says, "This vastly pretty." His companion responds, " This is fine sport, only I am very cold."
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Title engraved above image., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., Copy in reverse of a print of the same title published by Edwards & Darly 27 October 1756. See British Museum catalogue no. 3407., Two lines of text below image: Birds of a feather flock together, Like to Like, as the Devil said to the Collier., Related print identifies the two gentlemen as the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Rockingham: Now goose, now turkey, or, The present state of England. See British Museum catalogue no. 3409., and Plate from: England's remembrancer. London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title from captions in Latin and English below image., Text below Latin title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, 9 pedes et 6 digitos alta 7 pedes lata in aedibus regiis Kensingtonii conservata., Text below English title: From the painting of Guido Reni, 9 feet 6 inches high by 7 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cupid, Graces, The, in art, Venus, Gods, and Mythology