Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; reversed copy from Hogarth's print and reduced. Wilkes is shown from the head to knees; the table with the North Briton newspapers cropped out
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire
Description:
Title below image., "Price 6 pence.", and Contemporary copy of the Hogarth print, cropped and reversed.
publish'd according to act of Parliament May [the] 16, 1763.
Call Number:
Hogarth 763.05.16.06.2+ Box 200
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes shown full-length and seated, holding the Staff of Maintenance mounted with a vessel similar to the Cap of Liberty against his shoulder. Copies of the North Briton newspapers and feather pen and ink well are place on the table to his left
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire
Description:
Engraved title below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., and "Price 1 shilling."
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; reversed copy from Hogarth's print. With a demon under the Cap of Liberty whispering in his ear
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire
Description:
Title etched below image., Note below title: "N.B. Mr. Wilkes's familiar whispering in his ear, is an addition to Mr. Hogarth's design.", and Mounted to sheet: 32.2 x 41.2 cm.
Depicts a horizontal Scotsman wrapped in a letter which is floating in the air under a signpost inscribed "To London." The letter bears a round stamp "Free" and is addressed "To the Majority, St. Stephen's Westmr. Free Duke or no Duke". A reference to allegations that the Duke of Portland bribed Scottish M.P.s with money for travel
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably a later state, with added scribbles in the background and with the presence of significant plate wear that makes printmaker's initials in lower left corner illegible. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.5108., and Mounted to 35 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Legislators, National characteristics, Scottish, Corruption, and Signs (Notices)
Depicts a horizontal Scotsman wrapped in a letter which is floating in the air under a signpost inscribed "To London." The letter bears a round stamp "Free" and is addressed "To the Majority, St. Stephen's Westmr. Free Duke or no Duke". A reference to allegations that the Duke of Portland bribed Scottish M.P.s with money for travel
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably a later state, with added scribbles in the background and with the presence of significant plate wear that makes printmaker's initials in lower left corner illegible. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.5108., and Mounted on page 34.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Legislators, National characteristics, Scottish, Corruption, and Signs (Notices)
Depicts a horizontal Scotsman wrapped in a letter which is floating in the air under a signpost inscribed "To London." The letter bears a round stamp "Free" and is addressed "To the Majority, St. Stephen's Westmr. Free Duke or no Duke". A reference to allegations that the Duke of Portland bribed Scottish M.P.s with money for travel
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably a later state, with added scribbles in the background and with the presence of significant plate wear that makes printmaker's initials in lower left corner illegible. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.5108., 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 23.3 x 28.7 cm, on sheet 25.4 x 30.3 cm., Mounted on leaf 22 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark: 1811.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Legislators, National characteristics, Scottish, Corruption, and Signs (Notices)
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; reversed copy from Hogarth's print
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire drawn from life
Description:
Title etched at base of image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, p. 176., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 214., and Mounted to: 33.7 x 45.7 cm.
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; reversed copy from Hogarth's print
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire drawn from life
Description:
Title etched at base of image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, p. 176., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 214., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of print: See next page., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nicholl's book, 3d edit, p. 386., and On page 195 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: .
Caricatural portrait of John Wilkes sitting on a chair holding stick topped by a cap of Liberty. On the table beside him are two issues of the newspaper North Briton, nos. 17 and 45 as well as a box with a feather pen in an inkwell
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side., Copy of no. 4050 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted to 482 x 305 mm. With Bowdich's notes on recto of mount.
