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
Chevalier D'Eon producing his evidence against certain persons
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 184., and Temporary local subject terms: Petitions: reference to City petitions -- Clyster pipe -- American Indian.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771, Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Musgrave, Samuel, 1732-1780
Subject (Topic):
Apes, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Medical equipment & supplies, and Rifles
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication inferred from those of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : R. Baldwin, v. 38 (1769), p. 393., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings -- Personifications: Liberty -- Personifications: Truth -- Military: sentry -- Animals: muzzled mule -- Aldermen -- Effigy of Thomas Harley -- Sir Robert Ladbroke, 1713-1773 -- Samuel Turner, Lord Mayor of London, 1769 -- Petition of the Livery of London, 1769 -- Allusion to the American colonies.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804, Trecothick, Barlow, 1718?-1775, and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
City cuckolds and court horned beasts comparing each others beauty
Description:
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.
Publisher:
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
"Satire on the French king and his nobles melting valuables to make coin to pay war expenses in reaction to the disasters of the year 1759. Louis XV stands on the left holding a broken sceptre that he prepares to add to the crucible; Marshal Belle-Isle crouches on the right cutting up a candlestick; Madame de Pompadour works the bellows. Items of plate lie on the floor, including a vase lettered, "Germain fec" and a box lettered, "Messonier Inv"; on the wall hang portraits of W[illiam] P[itt], lettered "Terror of France", into which a sword is stuck, Newcastle and Fox, the latter two covered by a large cobweb."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paris coiners 1759
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject headings: Reference to George Germain, Viscount Sackville, 1716-1785., and Mounted to 24 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. accordg. to act by MDarly, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764, Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Soldiers' uniforms -- General Evening Post -- Bills & petitions: address from the City of London on the loss of Minorca -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, 2.353-59 -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet i.5.9 -- Reference to Greenwich., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sepr. 9, 1756, to be had at the Lyon near St. Paul's
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Torrington, George Byng, Viscount, 1663-1733, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Newspapers, and Devil
Five oval portraits or caricatures. The larger, central one represents the King ; the four smaller ones members of the so-called 'Court Party.'
Description:
Title from item., Place and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Frontispiece to: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : J. Miller, v. 2 (1770), page 5., Temporary local subject terms: Nicknames: Mungo -- Nicknames: Jefferies (Ld Mansfield) -- Blacks -- Animals: Lord Holland as a fox -- Literature: reference to Volpone, or, The fox, by Benjamin Johnson, 1572-1637 -- Reference to George, 1st baron Jeffreys, 1648-1689., and On verso: W.S. Lewis's ms. note regarding Horace Walpole's comments on the politicians represented in this print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Needs must when the de'el drive and Needs must when the devil drive
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., First published by J. Williams in Sept. 1762. Cf. No. 3898 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Dismemberment of the British Empire., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Hannell, printseller under the Royal Exchange
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Carriages & coaches
Title, imprint and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title and imprint., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Clergy: bishops.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bilson-Legge, Henry, 1708-1764, and Hume-Campbell, Alexander, 1708-1760