A young woman, in a rich dress and elaborate headdress, sits by a table reading a book she is holding in her left hand. Her right elbow rests on the table and her chin in her right hand
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Possibly a portrait of Queen Charlotte. See Chaloner Smith.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Title from item, Numbered '316' in lower right of plate., Two columns of verse on either side of title: Near five o'clock - his comrade's gone, and luckless squander left alone ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Spendthrifts -- Young men -- Furnishings: wall clock -- Window curtain -- Lighting: candleholder -- Dishes: china bowl -- Money: empty purse -- Smoking: pipe -- Gambling: playing cards -- Male dress, ca. 1765., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1768]
Call Number:
765.00.00.89+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image. and Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See Bénézit's Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... v. 11, p. 302.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.49
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on the reproduction in Paston. See Social caricature in the eighteenth century, by Paston, 1905., Attributed to Mortimer in contemporary hand on verso. Also added in contemporary hand in the lower left corner of design: EP., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: The powers of the pen / by Evan Lloyd. London, 1765., Early state, with the face of the president turned away from the viewer, of No. 4247 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: dungeon -- Reviewers -- Birds: owl -- Serpent -- Publications: stack of printed sheets -- Posters -- Personifications: Genius of Dulness -- Porters -- Containers: basket -- Books -- Asses -- Altars -- Lighting: oil lamp -- Literature: The powers of the pen by Evan Lloyd.
Title from item., Sixth edition, with four additional stanzas of the song, of No. 4115 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and with minor losses of text in the song below it., Published together on one sheet with The pillory triumphant, or, No. 45 for ever (Tune, There was a jovial beggar,) &c. Sixth editio[n]. [Sol]d by E. Sumpter, at Bible and Crown, facing Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, and all the printsellers and pamphlet shops in London and Westminster. Price 6d plain or 1s. coloure[d], Publisher's advertisement following the song's imprint: Where may also be had The choice spirit museum, being a collection of songs by H. Howard, elegantly printed in quarto., Temporary local subject terms: Pillories -- Newspapers: reference to No. 45 of North Briton -- Buildings: Westminster -- Westminster: Palace Yard -- Emblems: jack boot as Lord Bute -- Vehicles: coach -- Emblems: greyhound for the King's messenger -- Ladders -- Boxing -- Crowds -- Angels -- Reference to Joh Wilkes -- Michael Curry, 1732-1788, printer and informer against Wilkes., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, March 1st 1765 for E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Williams, John, fl. 1767-1772 and Bradshaw, John, 1602-1659
An old, bearded man in a cap and long, furred robe, sits by a table, his eyes downcast in a pensive expression. On the table, placed next to large and opened window, are several volumes and an inkwell. One of the volumes is opened and propped up on a lectern. On ledge separating lower and upper window stands a vase. In the background is an empty fireplace. A plate hangs on the wall above it.
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Part of imprint, following Sayer's address, burnished from plate.
Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1765 and 1775]
Call Number:
765.00.00.88+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A Dutch interior with two Puritan men asking the parents of Saartje to marry her to Reinier Adriaansz. On the left in the background a young girl eavesdrops at the door. On the wall is a portrait of a girl and a seascape with two sailing vessels. On the right windows with curtains and another frames painting (or mirror?). A scene from the comedy "Jan Claasz. of de Gewaande Dienstmaagd".
Alternative Title:
Marriage consultation
Description:
Title engraved below image, with quotation on either side: Well, quoath her parents, be it so: Sukey was ready months ago. Had but an husband offer'd: Eighteen my friends, a ticklish time: Let Johnny take her in her prime ... The very thought my rage alarms, Shall Summer marry Winter., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., After the 1738 pastel by Troost in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, inv. no. 180., Imperfect: sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt Sayer, Print & Map Seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Marriage proposals, Parents, and Puritans
Title etched below image., Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.4371., A reduced copy of no. 4128 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate engraved for: The British Antidote or Scot's Scourge. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Economy -- Law: taxation without representation -- Ships: ships for sale (with brooms at masthead) -- Prisons -- Personifications: America as a native man -- Newfoundland: reference to the Newfoundland fisheries -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards -- Reference to Havana -- Reference to Guadeloupe -- Reference to Philippines -- Money: colonial dollars -- General Warrants -- Lighting: save-all -- Excisemen: Stamp men -- Reference to the dismissal of Henry Seymour Conway, 1721-1795., Mounted to 34 x 44 cm., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Grenville, George, 1712-1770
A courier on horseback blows his horn as he approaches a small building with a sign board dangling from its post "Popularity, The Blown Bladder by W P". A bandaged foot (gouty) resting on a stool is sticking out the door; crutches resting against the side of the hovel. Behind the rider is a cushion with a royal crown, decorates with thistles labeled B-e (for Lord Bute) and M-d (for the Earl of Mansfield). Three young trees on the lower right represent the three British kingdoms. A quotation from Book II of Virgil's Aeneid in lower right corner of image
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Second state, as described in the British Museum catalogue, with the large cushion substituted for the public house behind the duke; It intended to express that Lords Bute and Mansfield though not in the cabinet, overshadowed the King., A satire intended to express that Lords Bute and Mansfield though not in the cabinet, overshadowed the King., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 23., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
