Title etched at top of plate., Publisher identified from address., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke., and Mounted to 18 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Market in the Strand
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
Page 172. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Caricatures copied from George Lord Townshend
Description:
Title written in ink beside image, in a contemporary hand., Artist unidentified; after designs by George Townshend., Numbered key below title identifies the figures in the image: 1. Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle; 2. Geo. Lord Lyttelton; 3. William, Duke of Cumberland; 4. Henry Fox, Lord Holland., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 172 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
"The Princess Dowager of Wales sits under a canopy of tartan (indicative of the alleged influence of Bute), with a face of dismay. Seven members of her supposed 'Junto' approach her."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Carlton House junto in fear and trembling
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on that of the periodical for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London, v. 6 (1771), p. 200., Temporary local subject terms: Politics -- London elections: sheriff -- Symbols: tartan as window curtain., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from item., Plate numbered '67' 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]., and Mounted to 19 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
E. Morris
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bilson-Legge, Henry, 1708-1764, and Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764
Title from item., Plate numbered '67' in upper right corner., and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bilson-Legge, Henry, 1708-1764, and Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764
Refus'd by foreigners, Refused by foreigners, and Foreigners think this too dangerous
Description:
Title from item., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Two lines of text below top design: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Two lines of text below center design: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Two lines of text below bottom design: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., Enlarged and reversed copy of Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive, i.e., No. 3490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Personifications: Property as gun-carriage -- Personifications: heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Guns: cannon -- Maps: map of England -- Money: coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Ammunition: trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Ammunition: books of 'Priestcraft', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Emblems: trade as a ship -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Bill: Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches -- Bible --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
Dr. Musgrave prescribing for Britannia who is in a deep consumption
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., and Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 95.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Musgrave, Samuel, 1732-1780, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Medical equipment & supplies, and Medical procedures & techniques
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse in two columns engraved below image: And shall the substitutes of power our genius thus bedeck ..., 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: Dress: French dress, ca. 1756., and Mounted to 21 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from item., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: And shall the substitutes of power our Genius thus bedeck ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: French dress, ca. 1756 -- Shields: bipartite shield, British and French -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- French influence -- Pictures amplifying subject.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Early state, without plate number, of no. 4027 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 8, 1763 -- Executions: hangings -- Gallows -- Effigies: Lord Bute's effigy -- Farmers -- Demons., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774