"Satire on the ministerial party's attempts at bribery to influence the poll at Brentford during the Middlesex By-election in December 1768. A drunken feast is taking place in a tavern with voters and others sitting round a table on which is a large joint of meat. John Horne, in clerical dress, sits behind the table with a small glass in his hand. A man crowns him with a tankard while waving his hat and shouting “Huzza for the Rector of old Brentford Huzza”. Also seated round the table are respectably dressed voters and a woman tossing back a glass of wine. At the front of the table, on the left, a large man picks at a bone, one hand reaching behind him to receive a purse from a man in court dress. In handing the purse he upsets a bottle and bowl of punch on to a dog, another dog gnaws a bone at the large man’s foot. Behind them a woman carries aloft another joint of meat towards the table splashing liquid on to a document being read by two men standing conspiratorially in a corner. On the right at the front a prosperous butcher sits at his ease turning his head towards a man offering him a handful of coins saying “Your Money & you be d[a]md here’s a bumper to Glyn!”At the same time a ragged boy picks the briber’s pocket. Behind him a unkempt drunken man flings up his arms, waving his hat with an election cockade he declares “Huzza for the Freemen of Middlesex Glyn for ever, Huzza!” while spilling the contents of a tankard on the boy. A barmaid on the right is filling a tankard from a large half-barrel while pushing away a man who tries to molest her. A cat sits upright on a chair toying with a mouse on the edge of the half-barrel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: Dec. 1768., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), page 37., Temporary local subject terms: Election dinners -- Electors -- Freeholders: Middlesex freeholders -- Trades -- Bribes -- Sir William Beauchamp Proctor -- Food: ribs -- Fowl -- Containers: water tub., and Mounted to 29 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Glynn, John, 1722-1779 and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Subject (Topic):
Elections, Bribery, Eating & drinking, Butchers, and Pickpockers
Title in letterpress above image., Publication place and date from date of letter., Letter from John Wilkes below image in letterpress: To the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the County of Middlesex. Signed John Wilkes, King's-Bench Prison, Saturday, June 18, 1768., Letter signed and dated: John Wilkes, King's-Bench Prison, Saturday, June 18, 1768., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: lion -- Emblems: cap of liberty -- Emblems: rod of Maintenance -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: snake., and Mounted to 37 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Glynn, John, 1722-1779
"A broadside on the electorate of John Wilkes, presenting a petition signed by 1565 freeholders to King George III on 24 May 1769; with an etching showing on the right the King seated on his throne, attended by two courtiers, in front of him a man kneeling and presenting a scroll, on the left a group of six men standing; with engraved title, and letterpress title and text in three columns. (n.p.: [1769])".--British Museum online catalogue and A petition to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, signed by 1565 freeholders, that also includes images of: Aldermen; an image of William, Earl Talbot, 1710-1782, Lord Steward of the Household; personification of the figure of Justice; a large carpet and window curtains
Alternative Title:
Humble petition of the freeholders of the County of Middlesex
Description:
Title engraved above image., Caption title to letterpress text printed below image: The humble petition of the freeholders of the County of Middlesex., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Also published in The Oxford magazine., and Mounted to 44 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Glynn, John, 1722-1779.
Title from text below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which the edition of this plate including the statement of responsibility was engraved., Later state. Orginally published in: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors ... 1768-[1776], v. 2, page 90., Cf. No. 4268 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Middlesex elections, 1768 -- Animals.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Glynn, John, 1722-1779, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Bloodhounds, Clergy, and Judges
Title etched below image., Publication date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject terms: Elections: allusion to Middlesex election, 1768 -- Allusion to John Wilkes, 1725-1797 -- Allusion to Middlesex freeholders -- Documents -- Pedestals.
"A satire on Wilkes's release from custody in April 1763 and the successful actions for damages by the printers of the North Briton, No. 45. A copy without any background, and lacking the figure of Beckford, of British Museum satire no. 4065: The devils triumphant or The messengers in the suds."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Blessing of a London jury
Description:
Title etched above image., After Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale according to the British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from that of the original print: The devils triumphant, or, The messengers in the suds., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Altered copy of No. 4065 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Glynn, John, 1722-1779, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Blackmore, Robert, -1763., Carrington, Nathan, -1777., Money, John, active 1763., and Watson, John, active 1763.
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Demons, Fighting, and Judicial proceedings
Council of the rulers and the elders against the tribe of the Americanites
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Westminster magazine. London : Printed for W. Goldsmith, v. 2 (1774) , p. 640., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons -- Male dress: mayoral gown and chain, 1774 -- Male dress: lawyer's gown and bands -- Money: bank-notes -- Secret influence -- Remonstrances -- Lighting: chandelier in House of Commons -- Maps: map of North America in flames -- Bribery -- Allusion to American War -- Documents -- Friends of George III.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Glynn, John, 1722-1779
"Satire on Wilkes's release from custody in April 1763 and the successful actions for damages by printers of the North Briton, No. 45. A scene in Guildhall with the legs of Gog and Magog visible at top left and the lower parts of two portraits at right: on the left, a prancing devil grasps the collar of Nathan Carrington, King's Messenger (his position identified by his greyhound badge) who complains that he had acted on "Orders from Above" in arresting the printers; two angry men reproach Carrington for having seized their papers, one demanding the return of "my Memoirs", the other, Arthur Beardmore, asking for his journal, the Monitor. In the foreground, two devils attack three other Messengers (Money, Watson and Blackmore) lying on the ground; a devil with type arrayed on his head belabours them with a printer's mallet. Behind this group are Sir Fletcher Norton, by then Attorney-General, and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, covering their faces with their hands and lamenting their failure; they are sent on their way by a man who alludes to the General Warrant and damns them to make "good Fuel" in Hell. Wilkes takes the hand of Pratt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who had released him from the Tower; Wilkes's advocate John Glynn stands behind and all three are celebrating the triumph of Liberty and English justice; William Beckford (shown with a black face in allusion to his Caribbean wealth) rushes towards them enthusiastically. To the right, a group of printers delight in their good fortune in the substantial sums they have been awarded, one man holding out both hands full of coins."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Messengers in the suds
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three columns of verse below image: [The] sons of the type view this scene in Guildhall, the devils triumphant and messengers fall ..., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Arms: City of London -- Slang: 'coney catchers' -- Trials: John Wilkes's trial, 1763 -- Nathan Carrington, d. 1777 -- John Money, fl. 1763 -- Arthur Beardmore, d. 1765., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Glynn, John, 1722-1779, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Guildhall (London, England),
