"Six country people surround a flaming bowl on a small round table. A man jocosely holds a terrified cat over the bowl to force it to pull out a raisin. A man wearing a shirt or surplice stands with both arms held up, from one hand dangles a (?) burnt rag. A mastiff (right) snarls at the cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue and from original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Plate numbered '165' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Snap dragon -- Punch bowl., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 12th 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Games, Beverages, Bowls (Tableware), Tables, Pets, Cats, and Dogs
Plate [155] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Hercules seated on a rock in the foreground, looking at a scene of naval battle on a scroll within clouds above which Fame flies with trumpets and banner."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spanish fleet destroyed at Santa Cruz, 1656
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [155] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
"View in Covent Garden showing St Paul's Church on fire; flames and smoke rising from the roof; in foreground people gather to watch spectacle, some on the tops of stalls, empty barrels, sacks and pieces of wood in foreground to left and right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Paul's, Covent-Garden : as it appeared on fire, at eight o'clock on Thursday evening, 17th Sepr. 1795
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title begins: Was built by that celebrated architect Inigo Jones, in 1640, by the direction and at the expence of the Earl of Bedford ..., and Mounted to 35 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Published 5th Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A crowd of rotund stock brokers sit and stand around a table and against a wall with a clock. The broker centered in the front reads from a copy of the Gazette Extraordinary while some of the others peer over his shoulders looking for news, many where glasses and one uses a glass to read the print on the page. To his left at the table is a broker holding bank stock in his right hand, and another broker knocking over a bottle of Madeira at the table
Alternative Title:
Gazette extraordinary
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Dighton from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1318., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 29 April 1795 by Haines & Son, No. 19, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Intoxication, Newspapers, Optical devices, and Stockbrokers
Plate [134] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; diagram showing the rectos and versos of five coins from the Stuart period, on a plaque with decorative border, surmounted by a medallion showing grieving female allegorical figure, flanked by unicorns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Image consists of two interconnected designs, each with its own statements of responsibility etched below., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Plate [134] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
"Ministers sit at a round dinner-table guzzling guineas, while through the window is seen a hungry mob. Pitt, in profile to the left, sits on the right, a large fish made of guineas on a dish before him, of which he shovels huge lumps into his gaping mouth; he sits on a 'Treasury' chest which is closed by a padlock inscribed 'WP'. Opposite him on the extreme left, seated on the woolsack, is Loughborough, indicated by an elongated Chancellor's wig in back view (cf. BMSat 6796); he clutches a large bowl of 'Royal Turtle Soup', holding a large ladle-full of guineas to his mouth. The others sit on the farther side of the table: Grenville next Loughborough, Dundas in the middle, Pepper Arden next Pitt. Grenville stoops, putting his mouth on the level of his dishful of guineas. Dundas, wearing a plaid, gnaws a fish which he holds in both hands. Arden, between Pitt and Dundas, holds a lump of coins on his fork. Between him and Dundas are three bottles labelled 'Bur[gundy]', 'Champaign', 'Port'. On the table are sauce-boats and small dishes full of guineas. Before Dundas are two glasses of wine. At the near side of the table, between Loughborough and Pitt, is a group of three sacks on each side of which is a large wine-cooler filled with bottles. The central sack is: 'Product of New Taxes upon John Bulls Property'. On its mouth rests a small basket of potatoes inscribed 'Potatoe Bread to be given in Charity'. The other sacks are labelled 'Secret Service Money'. Behind (right), three steaming dishes are being brought in, held high by footmen (their heads obscured): a haunch of venison, a sirloin, and a large bird. They wear, not livery, but the Windsor uniform, and the symmetrical pair immediately behind Pitt are probably the two Treasury Secretaries, Rose and Long; this is supported by Gillray's 'Lilliputian Substitutes' (1801). On the wall are two placards: 'Proclamation for a General Fast, in order to avert the impending Famine and Substitutes for Bread Venison, Roast Beef, Poultry, Turtle Soup, Fish, boild in Wine, Ragouts, Jellies &c. Burgundy, Champaign, Tokay, &c, &c.' The heads of men wearing bonnets-rouges are seen through the window; they hold up a loaf on a pole with a scroll inscribed '14 Pence pr Quartern' and two placards: 'Petition from the Starving Swine' (see BMSat 8500, &c.) and 'Grant us the Crumbs which drop from your Table'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorables saving the loaves & dividing the fishes
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched below title: To the charitable committee, for reducing the high price of corn by providing substitutes for bread in their own families ..., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Bible, reference to loaves and fishes -- Food: bread -- Fish -- Turtle soup -- Wine: champagne -- Burgundy -- Tokay -- Port -- Dishes -- Sauce boat -- Furnishings: wine coolers -- Taxes, 1795 -- Allusion to John Bull -- Money: guineas as food -- Treasury bench -- Crowds: hungry mob -- Secret Service money -- General fast, 1795, satirized -- Ministerialists -- Poverty vs. abundance ., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 24th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"Ministers sit at a round dinner-table guzzling guineas, while through the window is seen a hungry mob. Pitt, in profile to the left, sits on the right, a large fish made of guineas on a dish before him, of which he shovels huge lumps into his gaping mouth; he sits on a 'Treasury' chest which is closed by a padlock inscribed 'WP'. Opposite him on the extreme left, seated on the woolsack, is Loughborough, indicated by an elongated Chancellor's wig in back view (cf. BMSat 6796); he clutches a large bowl of 'Royal Turtle Soup', holding a large ladle-full of guineas to his mouth. The others sit on the farther side of the table: Grenville next Loughborough, Dundas in the middle, Pepper Arden next Pitt. Grenville stoops, putting his mouth on the level of his dishful of guineas. Dundas, wearing a plaid, gnaws a fish which he holds in both hands. Arden, between Pitt and Dundas, holds a lump of coins on his fork. Between him and Dundas are three bottles labelled 'Bur[gundy]', 'Champaign', 'Port'. On the table are sauce-boats and small dishes full of guineas. Before Dundas are two glasses of wine. At the near side of the table, between Loughborough and Pitt, is a group of three sacks on each side of which is a large wine-cooler filled with bottles. The central sack is: 'Product of New Taxes upon John Bulls Property'. On its mouth rests a small basket of potatoes inscribed 'Potatoe Bread to be given in Charity'. The other sacks are labelled 'Secret Service Money'. Behind (right), three steaming dishes are being brought in, held high by footmen (their heads obscured): a haunch of venison, a sirloin, and a large bird. They wear, not livery, but the Windsor uniform, and the symmetrical pair immediately behind Pitt are probably the two Treasury Secretaries, Rose and Long; this is supported by Gillray's 'Lilliputian Substitutes' (1801). On the wall are two placards: 'Proclamation for a General Fast, in order to avert the impending Famine and Substitutes for Bread Venison, Roast Beef, Poultry, Turtle Soup, Fish, boild in Wine, Ragouts, Jellies &c. Burgundy, Champaign, Tokay, &c, &c.' The heads of men wearing bonnets-rouges are seen through the window; they hold up a loaf on a pole with a scroll inscribed '14 Pence pr Quartern' and two placards: 'Petition from the Starving Swine' (see BMSat 8500, &c.) and 'Grant us the Crumbs which drop from your Table'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorables saving the loaves & dividing the fishes
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched below title: To the charitable committee, for reducing the high price of corn by providing substitutes for bread in their own families ..., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Bible, reference to loaves and fishes -- Food: bread -- Fish -- Turtle soup -- Wine: champagne -- Burgundy -- Tokay -- Port -- Dishes -- Sauce boat -- Furnishings: wine coolers -- Taxes, 1795 -- Allusion to John Bull -- Money: guineas as food -- Treasury bench -- Crowds: hungry mob -- Secret Service money -- General fast, 1795, satirized -- Ministerialists -- Poverty vs. abundance ., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 39.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 24th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel state, admittance one shilling. Folios lent., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Fencibles' uniforms -- Military: soldiers as rats -- Food: cheese as fortifications -- Suffolk -- Suffolk Fencibles., Watermark: center of sheet., and Booksellers' stamps: S.W. Fores
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st 1795 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Plate [88] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Title-page to Bowyer's edition to Hume's 'History of England'; armed men leading monks out of a monastery, while they look back unhappily towards books, Chalice and Crucifix lying in a pile on the right; headpiece with plaque below with chapter reference and contents' list."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [88] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
