Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Cap and staff of Liberty -- Liberty's shield with sunflower., and Mounted to 24 x 21 cm.
A vicious satire on the life and works of Philip Thicknesse, writer and soldier, dedicated to a number of Thicknesse's most prominent enemies: Lord Thurlow, the Earls of Camde, Bute, Bathurst, and Coventry as well as Thicknesse's own sons Baron Audley and Philip Junior. Minerva bursts from Thicknesse's head; on her shield is a damning list of his "Acts of Courage & Wisdom," including running from his command in Jamaica, extorting money, refusing to fight Lord Orwell, debauching his own niece, and horsewhipping his daughter to death
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant Governor Gall-Stone inspired by Alecto and Birth of Minerva
Description:
Title etched below image., Quoted text following title: "From his head she sprung, a goddess arm'd." Milton., Dedication etched below title: To the opinions of The Right Honble. Edward, Lord Thurlow, the Earls Camden, Bute ... this attempt to elucidate the properties of honor and courage, intelligence and philanthropy, is most respectfully submitted by their servant, Js. Gillray., 1 print : etching and engraving with aquatint on wove paper ; sheet 52.8 x 39.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 15th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Demons, Erinyes (Greek mythology), and Minerva (Roman deity)
A vicious satire on the life and works of Philip Thicknesse, writer and soldier, dedicated to a number of Thicknesse's most prominent enemies: Lord Thurlow, the Earls of Camde, Bute, Bathurst, and Coventry as well as Thicknesse's own sons Baron Audley and Philip Junior. Minerva bursts from Thicknesse's head; on her shield is a damning list of his "Acts of Courage & Wisdom," including running from his command in Jamaica, extorting money, refusing to fight Lord Orwell, debauching his own niece, and horsewhipping his daughter to death
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant Governor Gall-Stone inspired by Alecto and Birth of Minerva
Description:
Title etched below image., Quoted text following title: "From his head she sprung, a goddess arm'd." Milton., and Dedication etched below title: To the opinions of The Right Honble. Edward, Lord Thurlow, the Earls Camden, Bute ... this attempt to elucidate the properties of honor and courage, intelligence and philanthropy, is most respectfully submitted by their servant, Js. Gillray.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 15th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Demons, Erinyes (Greek mythology), and Minerva (Roman deity)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to: Ode upon Lord Mayor's Day, 1790. From the Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 66., 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., and Mounted on unidentified 19th-c. map of an estate; mounted to 20 x 24 cm.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Print from: The attic miscellany, v. i, p. 121., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790 -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Animal magnetism -- Dr. Yeldell., and Mounted to 25 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Name):
De Mainauduc, John Boniot, -1797 and Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812
"Portrait bust of the Honble Peniston Lambe, turned in profile to left on a ledge, wearing winged helmet of the god, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1917,1208.2897., Mounted on page 262 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
Subject (Name):
Lambe, Peniston, 1773-1805, and Mercury (Roman deity)
Title from item., Below title: A favourite song, composed and sung at the Lyceum, by Mr. Dibdin., Four stanzas in two columns are printed below the plate: I was, d'ye see, a waterman ..., "The Waterman," a ballad-opera, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1774., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures &c in the Kingdom. Admittance one shi., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Sailors -- Buildings: rustic cottages -- Wooden fences -- Pigs -- Kissing.
Title from item., Below title: A favourite song, composed and sung at the Lyceum, by Mr. Dibdin., Four stanzas in two columns below the plate: I was, d'ye see, a waterman ..., The Waterman, a ballad-opera, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1774., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Sailors -- Buildings: rustic cottages -- Wooden fences -- Pigs -- Kissing., and Watermark: partial countermark W.
This sketch is humbly inscribed to George Lockup ...
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Elections -- Electors -- Prisons: allusion to Bastille -- Asylums -- Buildings: brick houses -- Architectural details: high garden walls., and Watermark: countermark W.