City cuckolds and court horned beasts comparing each others beauty
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Title etched below image., Attributed to Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale on stylistic grounds in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), p. 276., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: petticoat hoop -- Male dress: jack-boot -- Allusion to Augusta, Princess of Wales -- Allusion to the Earl of Bute -- Cuckolds -- Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke., and Mounted to 31 x 36 cm.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799
Title from item., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; statement of responsibility erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Lightning bolts -- Thunder -- Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm; mounted again to 25 x 25 cm.
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Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Subject (Topic):
Hydra (Greek mythology), Britannia (Symbolic character), Lightning, Clouds, Shields, and Crutches
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 3(1768), p. 65., Temporary local subject terms: Altars: Baal's altar -- Reference to the liberty of the press -- Reference to the Constitution -- Reference to Habeas corpus -- Discharged sailor -- Scourge -- Bags of money -- Allusion to the East India Company -- Allusion to the Bank of England -- Allusion to the American colonies -- Emblems: an earl's coronet -- Pensions: allusion to Lord Chatham's pension., and Mounted to 32 x 41 cm.
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Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, Rochford, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, Earl of, 1717-1781, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gout, Beggars, Peg legs, and Musical instruments
Title from item., Below image on left: Price 1s., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: A prophet fourteen years ago, foretold Britannia's fate ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: King's Bench prison -- Military: Scotch soldiers -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May10, 1768 -- Animals: Lord Bute as a crocodile -- Nicknames: Lord Bute as Moloch -- Mythology: Hecate -- Cerberus -- Hydra -- Emblems: jack boot -- Emblems: thistle -- Hell -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Law: judges -- Birds: peacock -- Animals: cat -- Monkey -- William Allen, d. 1768., Mounted to 35 x 46 cm., and Watermark.
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Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title from item., Illustration to: The dialogue between a premier and his journeyman., Placement instructions in upper left corner: Vol. II No. IX., Plate from: The town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Junr., 1769-1796, v. 2, p. 137., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Mrs. Cornelys's house at Soho Square -- Masquerades: masquerade given by Mrs. Cornelys on Februrary 14, 1770 -- Costume: masquerade -- Captain Watson -- Costume: jockey -- Costume: Harlequin.
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Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Title from caption above image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Two lines of quote below image: His wit all seesaw between that & this; and he himself one vile antithesis. Pope., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 3 (1768), page 257., and Temporary local subject terms: Debts: national debt -- Hell -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May 10, 1768 -- Reference to John Wilkes, 1725-1797 -- Personfications: Folly -- Zanies -- Devil -- Seesaws -- Whips -- Literature: quotation from Alexander Pope.
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Subject (Name):
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Four lines of verse below image: Why man he doth bestride this narrow world like a colossus; and we petty ministers ..., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 1 (1767)., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Scourges -- Colossi: Colossus of Rhodes -- Emblems: goat as lust -- Snake as fraud -- Praying -- Gout -- Literature: paraphrased quotation from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, i.2., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
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Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Scott, James, 1733-1814, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Court character that appear'd at the King of Denmark's masquerade
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Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in British Museum catalogue Oct. 10, 1768 which was the date of the masquerade alluded to in the title., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), p. 24., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns: earl's coronet -- Cuckolds -- Literature: Reference to A wife to let by Eliza Haywood, ?1693-1756., and Mounted to 33 x 37 cm.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Title from item., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: June 21, 1770., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum. London : Printed for the authors , v. 5 (1770), p. 106., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London, 1709-1770 -- Allusion to Jamaica -- Allusion to Boston -- 7th Earl of Winchelsea., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
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Subject (Name):
Bedford, William, 1709-1770, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796
George as a farmer and Charlotte dressed simply as a farmer's wife sit outside a cottage (left) smiling as they point to a pair of large foxes hanging from a gallows in the middle of their farmyard. A rooster and geese stand looking up at the fox; in the foreground sheep and rams observe the scene before them, some with looks of alarm
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Title etched below image., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 46., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Oxford magazine
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dwellings, Foxes, Farmyards, Geese, Gallows, and Sheep
