Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 March 1757]
Call Number:
757.03.04.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Three Damiens
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., Print attributed to Matthias Darly. See British Museum online catalogue., Plate numbered '60' in upper right corner., Eight lines of verse engraved below image: The volture, ape, and fox can do more wickedness than Damien knew ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 25 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act March 4, 1757, to be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from item., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged horizontally, separately titled., Title of the center design assigned by cataloger from its original. See Stephens 3342., Four lines of verse below title in left design: Aquilus can nurse his own, on other birds he'll prey ..., Six lines of verse below center desgin: Oh! Shame to nature, shame to common sense. must Britain for its own defence ..., Five lines of explanatory description below right design: 1.1. Two heads imperfect & of a black hew suppos'd to have been wood ..., Copies of, from left, nos. 3502, 3342, and 3417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Justice -- Personifications: Loyalty -- Pictures amplifying subject: images of Justice and Loyalty hung upside down -- Cap of Liberty -- Wigs: Lord Chancellor's wig -- Reference to French influence -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Newcastle Administration --Birds: vulture -- Money: bags of money -- Bible: Revers'd Bible -- Literature: quotation from Horace's Ars poetica, 5 -- Military: chained English soldiers -- Monuments -- Military: Hanoverian Hessians -- Plinths -- Swords: broken swords -- Societies: reference to Society of Antiquarians.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of text below image: These figures gem'men & ladies are the richest & largest in Europe ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of No. 3394 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Mr. Punch -- Personifications: Punch's wife, Joan -- Literature: reference to Bardolph in Shakespeare's Henry IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Title from caption etched above image., Plate numbered '37' in upper right corner., Four lines of text below image: These figures gem'men & ladaes [sic] are the richest & largest in Europe ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Punch -- Punch's wife, Joan -- Literature: reference to Bardolph in Shakespeare's Henry IV., and Mounted to 16 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 15, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at [the] Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Title from caption below image., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: the Marriage Act, 1756 -- Reference to France -- Reference to Lord Anson., and Mounted to 19 x 28 cm.
Title from first line of text. Series title and number etched in image., Plate numbered '53' in upper right corner., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: No more the snakes in sunshine bask, immerg'd the black insidious task ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 20 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Decr. 4, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Title from item., Plate numbered '30' in upper right corner., Two lines of verse below image: Aloft in air the loaded scale does mount ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 15 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Title from item., Two columns of verse below image: A patient sick you see above, one that should claim the doctors love ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Diseases: cancer -- Medical procedures: operation -- Military: Hessian mercenaries -- Military: Hanoverian mercenaries -- Allusion to physicians., and Mounted to 19 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 2, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Shields, Spears, and Wounds & injuries
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Two columns of verse below image: A patient sick you see above, one that should claim the doctors love ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Hessian and Hanoverian mercenaries.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Mercenaries (Soldiers)
Titles etched above images., Plate numbered '51' in upper right corner., Two images on one plate, each with a title above the image., Six lines of verse under design: No more thy gracious mind perplex / The vulture now no more shall vex ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 13 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly and Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
