"John Palmer (left), striding across a miniature circular tower surrounded by a moat, falls back under the attacks of two men on the other side of the moat. He wears pseudo-Elizabethan dress, with a cloak; his feathered hat falls off. On his arm, in place of a shield, is a document inscribed 'Licence . . . Wild-moat'; he drops from his right hand a paper inscribed 'Tower Privilege'. Cornwallis, saying, "I am down again". Miniature cannon are firing from the tower. Facing him, one foot on an upturned tub inscribed 'For the Use of Cov: Gar. Wardrobe', is a man wearing nightcap, dressing-gown, and slippers, with an apron, who is about to hurl a bar inscribed 'Castile Soap', saying, "I am a Gentleman, you Vagabond"; on his left arm, in place of a shield, is a paper inscribed 'An Act for regulating the Stage'. He is probably George Colman. Beside him, his left arm in a sling, a young man (? Colman the younger) discharges at Palmer a blast from a pistol inscribed 'Breach of Articles'. Three spectators stand close together on the right, saying, "Mr Palmer, we must oppose: we told you so at Christmas!" They are Sheridan and probably his partners, Linley and Dr. Ford. In the background (right) is a building inscribed 'Circus', in front of which a man stands on one toe on the back of a galloping horse, while a monkey stands on its head on the back of a pig; the pig's saddle is inscribed 'Jacko'; from its mouth issues 'ABC', representing Astley's, General Jacko, and the Learned Pig (see BMSat 6715, &c); a scroll issuing in a curve from Astley and Jacko is inscribed 'We shall all Play'. In the moat are frogs and the bodies of two tiny women, Tragedy and Comedy, one holding a cup and dagger, the other a mask."--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. 7171 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Pseudo-Elizabethan -- Male costume: night clothes -- Unlicensed theatres: Royalty Theatre -- Allusion to Covent Garden -- Learned pigs -- Castile soap -- Lighting: rushlights -- Slings -- Body of Tragedy -- Body of Comedy -- Moats -- Guns: Pistols -- Miniature cannons -- Stage properties: tub -- Horace Walpole refers to print -- Towers -- Circuses: Astley's Circus -- Performing monkies: General Jacko., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 16.4 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 17.7 x 25.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 30, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Palmer, John, 1742?-1798, Astley, Philip, 1742-1814., Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805., Colman, George, 1732-1794, Colman, George, 1762-1836, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Linley, Thomas, 1733-1795, and Ford, Edward, 1746-1809
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Commercial treaty with France, 1786 -- Puns: Artist's and engraver's names -- Allusion to the Massacre, St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572 -- Eating English food -- Drinking French wine -- Allusion to French faith, or the virtuous individual., Watermark in center of sheet: J. Whatman., and Mounted to 28.5 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pub'd Feby. 26, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
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 on leaf 9 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 15 Jany. 1787 by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary le bone, Golden Square
Volume 2, page 53. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior scene in a tavern, at left a woman rasies a large tankard to her lips, the man sitting near her with his hand around her waist, another customer sitting beside them encourages her to take a drink, a cigar(?) in his hand, behind a woman bends down to tend to the fire, across the room at right a patron sits reading from a newspaper, a smartly dressed man with a lantern(?) in hand standing beside him, another in labourers clothes leans on the back of his chair at right; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: verse: No more the farmer's news, the barbers tale, no more, the woodman's ballad shall prevail, no more the smith his duskey brow shall clear, relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear; the host himself, no longer shall be found, carefull to see the mantling bliss go round; nor the coy maid, half willing to be press'd, shall kiss the cup, and pass it to the rest. Goldsmith., Illustration to Oliver Goldsmith's poem 'The deserted village'., and Mounted on page 53 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published April 7th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Newspapers
An old woman wearing a white apron and bonnet sits in a chair, with two canes at her side. She is bandaging the hand of a tearful young woman, while another young woman looks on. A cat sits in the ledge beneath a casement window
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '199' in lower right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 15.2 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm., and Year in imprint statement has been partially erased from sheet and final two digits have been altered in ms.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th June 1787 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Clothes chests, Crutches, Physicians, and Women
An old woman wearing a white apron and bonnet sits in a chair, with two canes at her side. She is bandaging the hand of a tearful young woman, while another young woman looks on. A cat sits in the ledge beneath a casement window
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '199' in lower right corner of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th June 1787 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Clothes chests, Crutches, Physicians, and Women
"A scene from Act V of Murphy's play as performed at the private theatre of the Duke of Richmond at Richmond House, on 20 April 1787 and subsequently. Lovemore (Lord Derby) stands between Mrs. Lovemore (Mrs. Damer), who holds his right arm, and the Widow Belmour (the fat Mrs. Hobart). Beside the Widow, and on the extreme right, stands a very thin man dressed with exaggerated foppishness, his hat under his arm; he says, "As the man says in the Play your Lordship is right welcome back to Denmark". He is Sir Brilliant Fashion, played by the Hon. Richard Edgcumbe. Mrs. Damer says, "This is Lord Etheridge Madam", and Mrs. Hobart answers, "No Madam this is Lord Lovemore"; the speeches have been transposed by an engraver's error. In a stage box on the extreme left sit the Duke of Richmond and a lady (the Duchess?) holding an enormous muff, her high coiffure much exaggerated. The box is decorated with a group, two crossed cannon, lying on a plan of a fort, with a kettle-drum, surmounted by a laurel wreath, an allusion to Richmond's unpopular scheme for fortifying Portsmouth and Plymouth, see BMSat 6921, &c. The ladies have tiny faces, framed in elaborately dressed hair, which contrast with Lord Derby's large head. A draped curtain frames the stage; in the centre is the customary 'Veluti in Speculum'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Veluti in speculum
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Captain Mercer by the curator based on style., At top of print: Veluti in speculum., Temporary local subject terms: Horace Walpole refers to subject -- Richmond House Theatre -- Arms -- Richmond fortifications., and Watermark: E & P.
Publisher:
Pub'd Aprl. 23, 1787 by H. Humphries, Bond Strt
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Richmond, Mary, Duchess of, 1740-1796, Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, Valletort, Viscount 1764-1839 (Richard Edgcumbe),, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829
A pretty young girl with long hair under a huge mob cap sits on the knees of a fat clergyman who in turn sits astride a cart made from a cask of ale marked 'October'. One of the wheels of this cart is labelled "Cheshire"; the cart is being pulled by a sow whose three babies are suckling her. The clergyman is kissing the girl and holding a glass in his right hand. A devil stands on the back of the cask looking over the clergyman's head and the tip of his tail is in the glass. A signpost to the right reads "To the Bottom". A boar follows the cart at a distance. In the distant background on the left is a church
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
1787 Published by Boyne & Walker, March 16 Gr. Turnstile
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 823); whole-length seated to left, facing and eyes to upper right, wearing sash and star, with a large volume held in both hands and resting on his lap, his left elbow resting on table to right with decorative jug and rolls of paper; the floor scattered with books, papers and artefacts, and a large urn to right; curtain above and landscape through window to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honble. Sir William Hamilton, K.B. and Honourable Sir William Hamilton, K.B.
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imprint from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Bottom two corners also trimmed at an angle; mounted to sheet 693 x 448 mm.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 20th. 1787 by H. Hudson, and sold by J. Young No. 28 Newman Street, London
"A fashionable dentist is extracting the teeth of the poor in order to insert 'live teeth' immediately into the jaws of his patients. In the centre a young chimney-sweep sits in an arm-chair, over the back of which the dentist leans, holding the boy's head, and inserting an instrument into his mouth. Next (left) a lady sits in a similar chair watching the sweep with a pained and angry expression; she holds a smelling-bottle to her nose; she has just endured an extraction and is about to receive a transplantation. On the right a good-looking young lady leans back, her fists clenched in pain, while a spectacled dentist peers closely into her face, placing his instrument in her mouth. Behind her a lean, ugly, and elderly man wearing regimentals stands in profile to the right, holding a mirror in which he inspects his mouth with a dissatisfied expression. On the left a ragged boy and girl are leaving the room, both crying with pain: the girl inspects the coin in her hand. On the door is a placard: 'Most Money Given for live Teeth'. A placard on the wall is headed by a coronet and two ducks, indicating quackery: 'Baron Ron------Dentist to her High Mightiness the Empress of Russia'. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 6760."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state of a plate that was reissued in 1790, at which time Harris's imprint was burnished out and replaced with that of William Holland. Cf. No. 7766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Tooth extraction -- Tooth transplant -- Baron Roh...*.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1787 by J. Harris, No. 37 Dean St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Donation of organs, tissues, etc, Quacks and quackery, Poor persons, Chimney sweeps, Pain, Dental equipment & supplies, Chairs, and Signs (Notices)
