"Satire on Robert Walpole showing him as a colossal figure at the entrance to St James's Palce bending forward with his naked backside exposed for an ambitious young man to kiss; another man holds a petition and bowls a hoop lettered, "Wealth", "Pride", "Vanity", "Folly", "Luxury", "Want", "Dependance", "Servility", "Venality", "Corruption" and "Prostitution", through Walpole's legs towards an arcade whose arches are labelled, "Saint [James's P]alace", "The Treasury", "The Exchequer" and "The Admiralty"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Way to preferment
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in minor loss of text., Four lines of text below image: And Henry the King made unto himself a great idol ... Chronicle of the Kings, page 51., Bowditch's ms. annotations at bottom of sheet., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Three columns of verse below image: B**t humbly entreats you will now condescend, to tell at what price he can make you is [sic] friend ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Imps -- Pets: feeding stick for birds -- Literature: allusion to Ossian, by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Literature: allusion to Temora by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Money: bribes -- Allusion to the governorship of Canada., and Watermark: Strasburg lily, with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title from the first line of verse on the item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six images in vignettes illustrating verse etched in center of sheet., Twenty lines of verse: King Jesus batters with a heavy rod, his unrelenting, and disloyal foes ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: churches -- Emblems: lamb -- British Lion -- Pagan rites -- Reference to George II., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
A large, ugly woman, shown in full-length in profile looking left, holds in one hand a tailor's dummy on top of which is a tall wig that she is diligently powdering with a flour dredger
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., State wiithout vol. number. Cf. No. 4647 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark, partially cut off: Strasburg bend with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Cooking utensils, Dandies, British, and Wigs
A large, ugly woman, shown in full-length in profile looking left, holds in one hand a tailor's dummy on top of which is a tall wig that she is diligently powdering with a flour dredger
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., State wiithout vol. number. Cf. No. 4647 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 18.6 x 12.3 cm, on sheet 24.5 x 15.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Cooking utensils, Dandies, British, and Wigs
Title from caption etched below image., Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered in upper right corner: c. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor scenes: village -- Games: leap-frog -- Male dress: boys' dress -- Vauxhall Gardens: paintings in Vauxhall., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic], and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Portrait of Samuel Foote performing in his comedy Diversions of the morning; whole length, turned to the left with arms spread out and exclaiming "Oh! Ah! Bitch, what is all this?"; his hat and stick on the ground to the left
Description:
Title etched above image., Original drawing by Francis Hayman is held by the British Museum; see Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain ..., v. 2, page 278, no. 2., Printmaker inferred from listed street address; George Bickham the Younger worked out of May's Buildings, Covent Garden at this time., Text below image: Harkee Tedy! Can't you make use of some mechanical means to keep [your] fire alive? Such as whispering to your self. Oh! Ah! Bitch &c., and Watermark: horn on crowned shield, with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777,
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Portrait prints, and Theatrical productions
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Crimes: murder -- Monarchs: figures of 3 kings in crowns -- Personifications: blindfolded Justice -- Personifications: Vengeance -- Jacobites -- Buildings -- Courtyards., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Title engraved above image., Twelve lines of verse in four columns below image: Huzza, boys! A fare: who can first get to port? ..., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster -- Buildings: Admiralty Building -- Admiralty Board members -- Naval uniforms: sailor -- Lord Archibald Hamilton., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Cockburn, John, ca. 1679-1758, Lee, George, Sir, 1700-1758, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Norris, John, Sir, 1660?-1749, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
