Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from watermark., and Cf. No. 10488 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. for different state of print with imprint.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Female Costume: 1805 -- Vehicles: cart -- Horses -- Sailors -- Jack Tar.
Publisher:
Pubd. July, 1805 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
A group of clergymen sit around a table in a tavern drinking and smoking and conversing with a Quaker. Some of their hats are hanging on pegs along the wall on either side of a framed picture of a man on a race horse. A fire is blazing in the fireplace to the left
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '383' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of descriptive text below title: Toasts and sentiments were going regularly round from the gentlemen of the cloth, but when it came to Broad-brim's turn he refused! Saying that it was not customary with his profession, to give either toasts or sentiments ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 12, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Great Britain, Eating & drinking, and Pipes (Smoking)
"The lion, with the face and wig of Melville, lies gazing up, blood falling on the papers under his paws: 'Plans for Manning tfthe Navy - List of ships built in 1804 ... of ye Line'; 'Abolition of Impress'. He is struck down by the blast from a blunderbuss whose muzzle is a tankard inscribed 'Whitbreads Entire'. This is fired by St. Vincent who crouches (left) behind a withered tree. The blast issues from a circle of froth inscribed 'Report'. Part of it, inscribed 'Condemnation without Trial', passes above the lion and strikes Britannia to the heart. She is leaning against an ancient but flourishing oak on the extreme right. The blast that strikes Melville is inscribed 'Invectives', 'Popular Clamour', 'Envy', 'Disappointed Jacobins', 'Malice'. On the upper part of the withered tree sits a monkey with the head of Wilberforce, holding up an open book: 'Solution of Vital Xianity', but directing at Melville a blast from his posteriors inscribed 'Cant! - Envy! - Abuse! - Hypocrisy! - Cruelty.' Three asses are kicking up their heels at Melville as they scamper off towards the mountainous background. The nearest has the head of Sidmouth, with ass's ears. He is laden with panniers inscribed 'Physick for the Lion.'; these are heaped with medicine-bottles, one labelled 'Emetic for ye Lion'; there are also a 'Clyster for the Lion', and a box of 'opening Pills' (cf. BMSat 9849), The other asses are Hily Addington and Bragge, cf. BMSat 9986. The latter (right) turns his head to say: "Very highly indebted to the Lion, brother Heeley!" His panniers are inscribed 'Provisions for the Doctors Family' and 'Trifles procured thro' the Lions Generosity'; they are piled high with papers: 'Pension to Brother Brag &...'; 'Annuity to all our Cousins'; '£40000 pr Ann'; 'Sinecure'; 'Pension for Aunts'; 'Pension for Brother Hely'; 'Pension'. The other ass (Hiley) answers: "Then give him another kick, Brother Braggey". He is laden with a sack of 'Candid Whorehound'. The lion is also assailed by a fox (Fox) who viciously bites his hindquarters, and by a serpent with the head of Grey (Whitbread's brother-in-law) who bites his neck. Three small rats, wearing legal wigs and bands (right), run viciously toward the lion; they are (left to right): Jekyll (see BMSat 9179), Erskine, and Robert Adair, an ardent Foxite, cf. BMSat 7158. A dog, its collar inscribed 'Kinard' (Kinnaird), bites the lion's tail, while one foot is in a plate containing a bare bone, and inscribed 'Melville-Castle' with a coronet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of quoted text following title: "And now, all the sculking herd of the forest, some out of insolence, others in revenge ..." Vide, Aesop's fables., and Mounted to 31 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 16th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, and Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
An engraved ticket with the arms of the Order of the Garter
Description:
Title engraved below image., Blanks fillled in with the words 'nave' and the date "April 23, 1805". Also numbered in the lower edge, "363" and with the name "F. Binfield"., and For further information consult library staff.
An oversized John Bull with a carbuncled-faced sits at a round table across from a very young looking William Betty and his father, both handsome and not caricatured. John Bull toasts the two, full wine glass in hand: "Youngster, heres to you I'm glad to see you in town. Old Master Roscius your health, and may you get such another boy every New Year's Day for the benifit [sic] of the English stage." Behind them pinned to the wall are two prints: the one a profile portrait of Mrs. Siddons, hangs from one corner only, and the other a portrait of J.P. Kemble. The three ostrich feathers on the back of Master Betty's chair may indicate the patronage of the Prince of Wales
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F., and Description from British Museum catalogue of "Young Roscius and Don John" mounted on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd January 4, 1805, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Betty, William Hen. West 1791-1874. (William Henry West),, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Theater, Actors, British, and Child actors
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date and printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 41 x 36 cm.
Title and publication information from British Museum online catalogue., One plate from a verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., and Mounted to 28 x 35 cm.
"Portrait seen almost half-length to right, eyes to front, wearing plain dark coat, white cravat and frill and badge on ribbon around neck, his hair short; landscape seen beyond, behind raised curtain; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
James King Esqr. : Master of the Ceremonies at Bath & Cheltenham
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger; alternative title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statement of responsibility on lettered state: Painted & engraved by I [sic] I.R. Smith., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Publication information inferred from imprint on lettered state: London, Pub. Feb. 1, 1805, by I.R. Smith, 31, King Street, Covt. Garden, & R. Ackerman, 101, Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 178 (leaf numbered '216' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
