"Engraving, described in the advertisement as 'General Paoli, Dr Johnson, and the Journalist practising his celebrated Imitations'. Johnson and Paoli drag Boswell (right to left) in a roughly constructed child's go-cart. Boswell sits jauntily, kept in place by a stick across his seat; from his mouth issues a blast inscribed 'Moo o oh'. He wears ordinary English dress with a barrister's wig and bands and a Scots cap decorated by two bells; behind his ear is a pen, an ink-bottle is fastened to his coat, in his right hand is a rattle, in the left a book inscribed 'Ogden'. Round his neck is a portrait-medallion inscribed 'Bruce'. From each side of the cart projects a bulky book: 'Corsica' and 'Journal to the Hebri[des]', On the near side of the cart is the monogram 'JB' surmounted by a fool's cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
All hail Dalblair
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Child's go-cart -- Corsica -- Fool's cap -- Barrister's wig -- Scottish cap., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-142.
Publisher:
Pubd. 15 May 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary[le]bone Street, Golden Square
"Stanhope stands in his library, declaiming; he has just risen from his chair and holds his pen in his raised right hand, his left rests on a small table (right) covered with documents. He wears a cocked hat; his leanness is caricatured, his legs being of exaggerated thinness. His right foot rests on a large volume, 'Cocker's Arithmetic'. Under his left hand are 'Observations upon Mr Pitts Plan' and 'M . . of Mr Sheridan's Speech - I prefer the Noble Lord['s] Plan to th[at] of the Minister less visionary'. Behind the table is a bookcase against which are pinned two placards, the smaller superimposed on the other. The larger is a 'Table of the Average Price of Stocks for April 1786', the prices being partly hidden by the smaller print: a man rides a horse in the air, above a line of buildings; a flying figure blows a trumpet. It is inscribed 'Ready for Ascension in a few Days Aerial Figures' and 'Thin glittering Textures of the filmy Dew'. On the right is a small cupboard on legs, its open door showing a chamber-pot whose overflowing contents drip on to a document inscribed 'To Prevent Bribery at Elections'. On the pot are papers inscribed 'Sinking Fund' and 'Surplus'; these fragments appear to have been torn from a document inscribed 'Report of the select Committee upon the Ministers Plan for the Reduction of the National Debt. Amount of Taxes Red[ucti]on of Salar[ies]'. Above this is an oval picture of the three Graces, to ridicule Stanhope's lanky figure and awkward gestures ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to the 2d edition of Lord Stanhope's Observations on Mr. Pitt's plan of finance and Frontispiece to the second edition of Lord Stanhope's Observations on Mr. Pitt's plan of finance
Description:
Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: "One St.... pe pester'd his Relations With sage Advice about the Graces But left Finance and Calculations To plodding Pates, and graver Faces.Another St.... pe now appears Ye Pitts and Neckars give him place In Figures first of Financiers The first of Figures too in Grace.", Variant state, with '29' burnished from date in imprint. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6960., and Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole makes reference to this print.
"Stanhope stands in his library, declaiming; he has just risen from his chair and holds his pen in his raised right hand, his left rests on a small table (right) covered with documents. He wears a cocked hat; his leanness is caricatured, his legs being of exaggerated thinness. His right foot rests on a large volume, 'Cocker's Arithmetic'. Under his left hand are 'Observations upon Mr Pitts Plan' and 'M . . of Mr Sheridan's Speech - I prefer the Noble Lord['s] Plan to th[at] of the Minister less visionary'. Behind the table is a bookcase against which are pinned two placards, the smaller superimposed on the other. The larger is a 'Table of the Average Price of Stocks for April 1786', the prices being partly hidden by the smaller print: a man rides a horse in the air, above a line of buildings; a flying figure blows a trumpet. It is inscribed 'Ready for Ascension in a few Days Aerial Figures' and 'Thin glittering Textures of the filmy Dew'. On the right is a small cupboard on legs, its open door showing a chamber-pot whose overflowing contents drip on to a document inscribed 'To Prevent Bribery at Elections'. On the pot are papers inscribed 'Sinking Fund' and 'Surplus'; these fragments appear to have been torn from a document inscribed 'Report of the select Committee upon the Ministers Plan for the Reduction of the National Debt. Amount of Taxes Red[ucti]on of Salar[ies]'. Above this is an oval picture of the three Graces, to ridicule Stanhope's lanky figure and awkward gestures. Beneath the title is etched: 'One St.... pe pester'd his Relations With sage Advice about the Graces But left Finance and Calculations To plodding Pates, and graver Faces. Another St.... pe now appears Ye Pitts and Neckars give him place In Figures first of Financiers The first of Figures too in Grace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to the second edition of Lord Stanhope's Observations on Mr. Pitt's plan of finance
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole makes reference to this print., and Mounted on page 39 with one other print.
Publisher:
Publd. 29 May 1786 by Thos. Cornel [sic], Bruton Street
"Stanhope stands in his library, declaiming; he has just risen from his chair and holds his pen in his raised right hand, his left rests on a small table (right) covered with documents. He wears a cocked hat; his leanness is caricatured, his legs being of exaggerated thinness. His right foot rests on a large volume, 'Cocker's Arithmetic'. Under his left hand are 'Observations upon Mr Pitts Plan' and 'M . . of Mr Sheridan's Speech - I prefer the Noble Lord['s] Plan to th[at] of the Minister less visionary'. Behind the table is a bookcase against which are pinned two placards, the smaller superimposed on the other. The larger is a 'Table of the Average Price of Stocks for April 1786', the prices being partly hidden by the smaller print: a man rides a horse in the air, above a line of buildings; a flying figure blows a trumpet. It is inscribed 'Ready for Ascension in a few Days Aerial Figures' and 'Thin glittering Textures of the filmy Dew'. On the right is a small cupboard on legs, its open door showing a chamber-pot whose overflowing contents drip on to a document inscribed 'To Prevent Bribery at Elections'. On the pot are papers inscribed 'Sinking Fund' and 'Surplus'; these fragments appear to have been torn from a document inscribed 'Report of the select Committee upon the Ministers Plan for the Reduction of the National Debt. Amount of Taxes Red[ucti]on of Salar[ies]'. Above this is an oval picture of the three Graces, to ridicule Stanhope's lanky figure and awkward gestures. Beneath the title is etched: 'One St.... pe pester'd his Relations With sage Advice about the Graces But left Finance and Calculations To plodding Pates, and graver Faces. Another St.... pe now appears Ye Pitts and Neckars give him place In Figures first of Financiers The first of Figures too in Grace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to the second edition of Lord Stanhope's Observations on Mr. Pitt's plan of finance
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole makes reference to this print.
Publisher:
Publd. 29 May 1786 by Thos. Cornel [sic], Bruton Street
"Stanhope stands in his library, declaiming; he has just risen from his chair and holds his pen in his raised right hand, his left rests on a small table (right) covered with documents. He wears a cocked hat; his leanness is caricatured, his legs being of exaggerated thinness. His right foot rests on a large volume, 'Cocker's Arithmetic'. Under his left hand are 'Observations upon Mr Pitts Plan' and 'M . . of Mr Sheridan's Speech - I prefer the Noble Lord['s] Plan to th[at] of the Minister less visionary'. Behind the table is a bookcase against which are pinned two placards, the smaller superimposed on the other. The larger is a 'Table of the Average Price of Stocks for April 1786', the prices being partly hidden by the smaller print: a man rides a horse in the air, above a line of buildings; a flying figure blows a trumpet. It is inscribed 'Ready for Ascension in a few Days Aerial Figures' and 'Thin glittering Textures of the filmy Dew'. On the right is a small cupboard on legs, its open door showing a chamber-pot whose overflowing contents drip on to a document inscribed 'To Prevent Bribery at Elections'. On the pot are papers inscribed 'Sinking Fund' and 'Surplus'; these fragments appear to have been torn from a document inscribed 'Report of the select Committee upon the Ministers Plan for the Reduction of the National Debt. Amount of Taxes Red[ucti]on of Salar[ies]'. Above this is an oval picture of the three Graces, to ridicule Stanhope's lanky figure and awkward gestures. Beneath the title is etched: 'One St.... pe pester'd his Relations With sage Advice about the Graces But left Finance and Calculations To plodding Pates, and graver Faces. Another St.... pe now appears Ye Pitts and Neckars give him place In Figures first of Financiers The first of Figures too in Grace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to the second edition of Lord Stanhope's Observations on Mr. Pitt's plan of finance
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole makes reference to this print., 1 print : etching with aquatint and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 25 x 15.1 cm, on sheet 27.1 x 17 cm., and Mounted on leaf 25 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 29 May 1786 by Thos. Cornel [sic], Bruton Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., At top of image: The military coffee room., Beneath design: Published according to the articles of war, and dedicated in a soldierlike manner ..., 'Army list' heavily struck out: later impression than George copy?, Temporary local subject terms: Furniture -- Tea set -- Wall clock -- Bottles and glasses -- Pets -- Dogs -- Military uniforms -- Literary quotations of Thomas Otway, 1652-1685 -- Coffee houses -- Tea services -- Army list -- Wooden leg., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Published 1st March 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout man seated by a table (left), one hand resting on a book as if sitting for a portrait. He holds a crutch, one gouty foot is bandaged; his hair is tousled, his face ludicrously contorted buy a frown. Four framed prints of men on horseback or leading horses are on the wall, which is also decorated by a pair of clumsy top-boots hanging from a nail. A saddle leans against the wall."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece to: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Imperfect; artist's signature has been mostly erased from lower left corner of sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Medical equipment -- Medical disease -- Male costume: Top boots -- Furniture: Pictures that amplify subject of print., and Watermark, trimmed.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout man seated by a table (left), one hand resting on a book as if sitting for a portrait. He holds a crutch, one gouty foot is bandaged; his hair is tousled, his face ludicrously contorted buy a frown. Four framed prints of men on horseback or leading horses are on the wall, which is also decorated by a pair of clumsy top-boots hanging from a nail. A saddle leans against the wall."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece to: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Imperfect; artist's signature has been mostly erased from lower left corner of sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Medical equipment -- Medical disease -- Male costume: Top boots -- Furniture: Pictures that amplify subject of print., Mounted on page 66 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.6 x 20.0 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark, and artist's signature has been mostly erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Two men, heads and shoulders only, face each other, grinning. The man on the left wears a nightcap and pince nez on the tip of his long, hooked nose. The man on the right wears a wig, a high stock and jabot and has a long "Cyrano' nose
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attribution from unverified 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: Men's costumes -- Pince-nez., Watermark in center of sheet., and On verso in pencil: See drawing by H. Kingsbury. Cf. Port. of Wm. Pitt in Moore's Sheridan, vii, 112.
Publisher:
Pub'd by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"The Speaker in his hat and robes stands in back view directing a stream (as Gulliver extinguished the fire in the royal apartments in Lilliput) upon Lilliputian fortifications and cannon; those seen between his legs are being dashed to pieces. Beyond are the masts of ships. The devastating stream is inscribed 'Casting vote'. The right side of the Speaker's chair is visible (right)."--British Museum online catalogue and Allusion to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels in reference to a bill in the House of Commons addressing Richmond's fortifications. It was defeated, Feb. 27, 1786
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 24 x 16.4 cm, on sheet 26.1 x 18.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 30 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 1st March 1786 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Richmond (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789 and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Cannons, Forts & fortifications, British, Guns, and Urination
