Godfrey, Richard Bernard, approximately 1728- printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1784] and [printing after 1798]
Call Number:
SH Views P266 no. 1 Impression 1 Box 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the cottage on the grounds of Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill, as seen through a grove of trees
Alternative Title:
East view of the cottage-garden at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title engraved below image., In the upper right corner, above image: "Vol.II.P.509.", Plate from: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798-1825, vol. ii., and First state of the plate, without volume and page numbering, engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Publisher:
G.G. and J. Robinson
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: bishops -- Dancers --Female dress: petticoats -- Female dress: stays -- Tools: measuring stick.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 19th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Barrington, Shute, Bishop of Durham, 1734-1826 and Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809
Title etched below image., Attributed to Richard Newton on unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Lewis Walpole prints 798.03.14.01: Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of part of title. Remainder of title transcribed from the Library of Congress record (cf. LC PC 3 - 1798).
"The three Bow Street Justices sit at a rectangular table (left); Addington in the chair, the scales of Justice, evenly balanced, above his head; on his right and on the extreme left, Bond(?) is writing: 'Wright. W. against [?]...'. The third sits resting his chin on his hands, which are supported on the head of his cane; he gazes fixedly at the culprit. 'Lying-Jack' stands in a rectangular pen formed of posts and rails immediately in front of the justices, his elbows resting on the rail, his hands clasped, his knees bent, tears falling. He says: "Oh! God dang it, - your Worship, do take bail, your Honor tw'ant my fault please your Majesty, that I com'd the Black-guard over him: - God dang it, didn't he say that his thing was printed before mine? & that all my things were only Copies & piracies? - God dang it, your Worship, Ax Almon ye Bookseller if I was a Blackguard all the while I was a Porter! - or ax ye people where I & Wife kept a small-coal Cellar in Leather Lane if I'm a Blackguard! - God dang it, was I act like a Blackguard when I let that Cooper the Printer, pull me by the Nose, only for saying he was a Liar? - god dang it, your honor, was it like a Blackguard when I offer'd to beg Ridgeway's pardon, after he had kick'd my own Arse in my own Shop? - but I sees how the Booksellers all hates me! & wants to ruin me! - & says I lives by only Copying other peoples works your Worship! - 'tho' I only 'bridges 'em! - yes your Worship, they all hates me; & respires against me: & calls me Lying-Jack, your honor, - & Filching Jack the Plagurist! - & Stock'ee Jack the Informer! your honor - ah Gad dang it! Gad dang it, - they'll be my ruin your Honor! Gad dang it Gott damn. . . .[The last words dwindle into illegibility]" From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Speech of the Lord Chanr of Ireland'. Beside him, outside the dock, is a large bundle of books tied together, the wrapper inscribed 'Ways & Means'; these are: 'Sandford & Merton', 'G Nicol... Abridgd Embassy to China', 'D. Cox, Piracy', 'Harpers Pamphlet', 'Philanthropic Society'. Against the bundle lies a porter's knot (a pad for the shoulders attached to a ring which goes over the head) inscribed: 'Lying-Jack his Knot'. With this are the implements of a blacksmith : hammer, pliers, and horse-shoe. On the wall behind him are three bills: 'Lying Jack the Thief Taker'; 'Perjury'; 'Injuntion [sic] of the Court of Chancery agains Lying Jacks copy', and a map: 'Original Map of the Island of St Domingo by W. Faden. Charing Cross.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lying Jack the blacksmith at confession and Lying Jack the bookseller at confession
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "bookseller" is scored through and the word "blacksmith" is etched above, inserted with a caret., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following imprint: Price 6 d., for the benefit of the Philanthropic Society., One line of text below title: Scene: Bow Street, with Lying Jack answering a charge of abuse & blackguardism., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Bow Street Court -- Emblems: scales of Justice -- Blacksmith's tools -- Bundle of books -- Porter's knot.
"French soldiers, who have just landed, are being bayoneted and ridden down by English troops. They flee in terror-stricken confusion. Among the Englishmen are yokels with pitchforks. Three Frenchmen, dead or painfully dying, lie in the foreground ; beside them is a drum. The scene is a grassy slope leading to the sea, where distant ships are in action and where four French troop-carrying rafts, cf. BMSat 9160, are foundering. Tiny figures flee into the sea (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frenchmen naturalized
Description:
Titles etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Temporary local subject terms: Invasions: French invasion., Watermark: 1794., and Mounted to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 16, 1798, at Ackermann's Gallery, No. 101 Strand
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Two columns of verse below image: Smoak [sic] is the order of the night, this a tete a tete enjoyment , but smoaking is my friends delight / When he has no great employment ..., Plate numbered '222' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: table -- Lighting: chandelier -- Dishes: tankards.
Publisher:
Published August 21st 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Reduced copy of Hogarth's print; interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners who include a woman swooning on the floor and a young couple embracing; many of the congregation are clutching figures of Christ; a barking dog with a collar without "Whitfield" etched on it echoes the preacher
Description:
Title etched below image., Lettered above the image with text beginning: Hogarth's first thought for the medley. Copied from a very curious print designed and engraved by Hogarth, of which there are only two impressions, both of them in the possession of John Ireland. After taking the above impressions, Hogarth changed the point of his satire from the superstitious absurdities of popery & ridiculous personification delineated by ancient painters, to the popular credulities of his own day, erased or essentially altered every figure except two, & on the same piece of copper engraved the plate which is copied on the opposite page., Dedication etched below title: Humbly dedicated to his Grace the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, by his Graces most obedient humble servant Wm. Hogarth., Text following dedication: Advertisement. The intention of this print, is to give a lineal representation, of the strange effects of literal and low conceptions of sacred beings, as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books, &c., "Page 233"--Above image, right., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2425., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 210., and On page 190 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published March 1798 for John Ireland, Poets Corner, Palace Yard
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763, Villiers, George, 1690-1748., and Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Demons, Ghosts, Witches, Sleeping, and Supervisors
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Signs: milestones -- Coachmen -- Travellers -- Vehicles: gigs., and Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jan. 15th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"A burlesque of the trial of O'Connor at Maidstone (22 May), parts of the court being hidden by the large labels which issue from the mouths of prisoner and witnesses. The presiding judge (Buller) looks down with horror at the witnesses, the other judges are hidden. O'Connor (not caricatured), wearing leg-irons, stands at the bar; his hands are clasped, and he bends forward in profile to the left, making a confession which, though condensed, does not differ substantially from that made by him, McNevin, and Emmet, and published in the Report of the Secret Committee made to the Irish House of Commons on 21 Aug. ('Lond. Chron.', 27 Aug.), see BMSat 9244, &c. ... From O'Connor's pocket hangs a paper: 'The Press by O'Connor' [inflammatory organ of the United Irishmen, see BMSat 9186]. Round his neck is a noose of rope held by the hand emerging from clouds of the (invisible) Justice; in her right hand are equally balanced scales. The witnesses to O'Connor's character are speaking simultaneously. Four stand in the foreground in profile to the right, behind a barrier, looking towards the judge across a table. Fox (right), nearest O'Connor and the spectator, holds the book to his lips, his raised left arm thrust forward in a rhetorical gesture. ... From his pocket projects a book: 'Letters to Lord Ed F. M O'Connor &c &c.' (cf. BMSat 9244). Next stands Sheridan, with a sly expression, holding the book, 'Four Evangelists', his hat in his left hand; he testifies ... Next is Erskine, kissing the book, with left arm raised oratorically ... Next (left) is the Duke of Norfolk, kissing the book, his expression and attitude suggesting embarrassment. ... On the extreme left and behind Norfolk is Grattan. ... Among a crowd of other heads, chiefly hidden by labels, is one resembling Tierney. Above this phalanx of Opposition witnesses is a crowded gallery. Three counsel (the Attorney-General (Scott), Solicitor-General (Mitford), and (?) Garrow), who sit beneath the judges, are divided from the witnesses by a table covered with papers, &c, one being conspicuous: 'Charges of High Treason against Arthur O'Connor, Oliver Bond Dr McNevin.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine, or, Monthly politique and literary censor. London, 1798, v.1, p. 285., and Temporary local subject terms: Irish Rebellion, 1798 -- Trials: O'Connor's treason trial at Maidstone, May 1798 -- Judges -- Witnesses -- Emblems: scales of Justice -- Noozes -- Pamphlets: Reference to Character or the Innocent Imposture.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1st, 1798, by J. Wright, 169 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
O'Connor, Arthur, 1763-1852, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
"Nelson, in naval uniform, stands knee-deep in water, among a swarm of crocodiles which he is dispatching with a club of 'British Oak', raised in his left hand. In the hook which replaces his right hand are cords attached to barbed hooks which transfix the jaws of nine (tricolour) crocodiles. In the foreground crocodiles are contorted in death-agony, one emits tiny crocodiles in a gush of water from its jaws. Two swim off (left). One disappears with tail erect. Behind (right) the jaws of a monster larger than the others gape from the water, emitting a fiery explosion. The crocodiles are tricolour, most shed tears. In the background the Nile winds inland, tiny crocodiles are indicated swimming in its mouth. Behind are pyramids, and on the shore the buildings and columns of Alexandria."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
British hero cleansing [the] mouth of [the] Nile
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Victories: Nelson's victory in the battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 -- Explosions -- Weapons: clubs -- Egypt: pyramids -- Alexandria -- Amputees -- Military uniforms: admiral's uniform.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 6th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
