Title from item., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: January 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : Printed for J. Miller ... , 1770- , v. 1 (1770), p. 79., and Temporary local subject terms: Councils: Privy Council -- Devil -- Personifications: Folly -- Petitions.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Cornwallis, Frederick, 1713-1783, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XVI and No. XVII, of a Mrs. Sw-n and Richard Rigby, known as Bloomsbury Dick
Alternative Title:
Bloomsbury Dick
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 289., In upper right corner of plate: Vol. VI., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on one support together with four pages of text for which this print was an illustration.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Petitions: Essex Petition, 1769 -- Animals: calves., and For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788 and Dingley, Charles, -1769
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 3(1768), p. 65., Temporary local subject terms: Altars: Baal's altar -- Reference to the liberty of the press -- Reference to the Constitution -- Reference to Habeas corpus -- Discharged sailor -- Scourge -- Bags of money -- Allusion to the East India Company -- Allusion to the Bank of England -- Allusion to the American colonies -- Emblems: an earl's coronet -- Pensions: allusion to Lord Chatham's pension., and Mounted to 32 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, Rochford, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, Earl of, 1717-1781, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gout, Beggars, Peg legs, and Musical instruments
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: February 6, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 7 (1770), p. 185., Temporary local subject terms: Treasury -- Scales -- Reference to previous administrations., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788
Title from caption above image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Two lines of quote below image: His wit all seesaw between that & this; and he himself one vile antithesis. Pope., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 3 (1768), page 257., and Temporary local subject terms: Debts: national debt -- Hell -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May 10, 1768 -- Reference to John Wilkes, 1725-1797 -- Personfications: Folly -- Zanies -- Devil -- Seesaws -- Whips -- Literature: quotation from Alexander Pope.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in Stephens: July 1768., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 78., and Temporary local subject terms: Tolls: toll bar -- Tolls keeper -- Riots: St. George's Fields, May 10, 1767-- Toll tickets -- Maclaughlin, fl. 1768 -- Reference to Willilam Allen, d. 1768 -- Reference to Lord Bute.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804 and Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788
In an outdoor setting, a bare-chested Lord Thurlow, his judge's wig at his feet, faces a bare-chested Charles Fox in a boxing match over the proposed regulation of the fees of the Exchequer Officers. Rigby's, proposition to exempt him from this new regulation was opposed in Parliament by Fox. The contenders'seconds are Rigby for Thurlow and Sheridan for Fox
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by D. Archery, July th [sic] 1783, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Boxing, Wigs, and Clothing & dress
Full-length portrait of Rigby facing left, his hat held in his extended right hand, his left hand gripping his sword
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 18.3 x 12 cm., Printed on laid paper; hand-colored., and With contemporary ink annotation in upper right: Mr. Rigby, paymaster of the Army.
