Portrait of British magistrate Sir John Fielding, the blind brother of Henry Fielding; a bust in oval frame, with Fielding facing left and below the frame, a child holding emblems of justice -- a book, scales, and a sword
Description:
Title etched in image., Probably a book illustration, but not the engraving in Leslie-Melville's Life and work or the portrait in The malefactor's register (1779)., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Opposite page 199. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Sir John Fielding, half-length to the right, sitting in a chair; holding a book or papers in his left hand; wearing a hat
Alternative Title:
Sir John Fielding
Description:
Title from note in ink at bottom of sheet., Statement of responsibility written in pencil in upper right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., Placement instruction "199" in pencil in lower left corner., and Mounted opposite page 199 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
"Satire on Lord Bute in the form of a reply to Henry Howard's bawdy ballad, "The Queen's Ass" (BM Satires 3870): the zebra kicks Howard, who has fallen to the ground, behind him a group of men comprising John Fielding, the three Cherokee chiefs who visited London in 1762, and another who may be identified as the man referred to in the verse below as "M-re [who] sally'd forth the fair Sex to relieve"; on the right, Bute, dressed in tartan and wearing a boot, riding a tamed British Lion; a Jewish stockbroker in the stocks; and George Whitfield looking into a mirror which reflects the image of an ass. In the background Charles Churchill, wielding a stick, chases off Bute's supporters, the journalists Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett, who raise their hands in surprise. Engraved inscriptions, title and verses in two columns by "Fartinando", to be sung to the tune of "The Ass in the Chaplet"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Answer to Harry Howard's ass
Description:
Caption title below etching., Engraved broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet (late mark 30.1 x 20 cm). Etching signed: J. Jones delin et sculpt., Harry H----d's = Henry Howard., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The lion bears some resemblance to those designed by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale for the Ladies Amusement (first published by Sayer in 1760), especially plate 108, and was perhaps copied from his work. Cf. British Museum online catalogue., Ten stanzas of verse below title: Permit me good people (a whimsical bard) and snarl not [the] critical class ..., and Mounted to 35 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Jews, Clergy, England, National emblems, British, Stocks (Punishment), and Zebras
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate from the second volume of: The British antidote to Caledonian poison London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., and Temporary local subject terms: Animals: zebra -- British Lion -- Clergy -- American Indians: Cherokee chiefs visiting London -- Punishments: stocks -- Jews.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Howard, H. (Henry), and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764
Blind Justice and the secretaries One Eye and No Head examining ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Portsmouth dockyard fire, July 1770 -- Personifications: Justice as an ugly woman -- Shears -- Bags of money., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Rochford, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, Earl of, 1717-1781, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Suffolk, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1739-1779
A scene in a room: Justice Henry Fielding stans in a circle drawn on the floor, the scales of 'Astrea' in his pocket, his hand supported on the sword of Justice. Also in the circle as if to protect them from witchcraft are the Lord Mayor Sir Crisp Gascoyne, his state collar round his neck, and "Dr." John Hill, the clyster-pipe of 'Galen' in his pocket; the latter points to the gypsy Mary Squires whose cause he advocated. Fielding points to Elizabeth Canning with an attendent(?) behind, whose story he eagerly defended. Two pictures hanging on the wall amplify the subject of the print: on the left, a view of the Mansion House, London, then recently erected; and on the right, a view of the Old College of Physicians, comprising a mortar, a dried and stuffed skin of a crocodile, a human skeleton, and a stuffed ostrich. Between the pictures hangs the regalia of the City of London. Centered on the ground is a bottle labelled 'Another bottle' alluding to the 'Bottle-Conjurer' (See British Museum satire 'The magician' no 3022).
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Pr. 6d"--Lower right below verses., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: When one head has a cause in hand, A cause it cannot understand; Auxilliarys must be good, To make the matter understood: Three conj'rers sure must find ye out, Which, one, might ever hold in doubt., and Mounted to 35 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and British.
Subject (Name):
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Hill, John, 1714?-1775, Gascoyne, Crisp, Sir, 1700-1761, Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773, and Squires, Mary, -1762
Subject (Topic):
Romani, Fraud, Interiors, Criminals, Physicians, British, Government officials, and Magicians
Title from item., The blindfolded judge may represent Sir John Fielding., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Judges -- Justice blindfolded -- Male dress: legal dress.
Publisher:
Publish'd December 15, 1772, by W. Darling in Great Newport Street
