"An election mob in which Townshend and his supporters, as butchers, are violently attacking the populace with cleavers and marrow-bones. They wear aprons with butchers' steels dangling from the waist. George Hanger (right), his hat decorated with three ostrich feathers and the coronet of the Prince of Wales, raises a cleaver in both hands and threatens two constables with staves who fall backwards, wounded or terrified. He is in violent action, one foot rests on the unconscious body of a sailor whose face is gashed and bleeding. In the sailor's hand is a flag with a ship and the words 'Royal Navy'; on this Townshend, who uses his marrow-bone and cleaver as a musical instrument, not as weapons, is trampling. Behind Hanger, Fox, climbing above the crowd, is violently smashing the sign of 'The King's Head' (a bust portrait of the King) which is over a door inscribed 'Martin'. In the foreground a woman half-lying on the ground tries to protect her screaming infant from a cleaver and bone brandished by Sheridan. On the extreme left Lord Derby attacks a kneeling sailor with a wooden leg. Behind Sheridan, Burke raises a cleaver in both hands, and behind him the Duke of Norfolk waves a flag inscribed 'Townsend and Liberty'. Behind is a dense crowd brandishing cleavers and bones, while others attempt to escape. On the right are houses inscribed 'James Str[eet]', the houses of Covent Garden are indicated on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text right of title: Price 1 s., and Mounted to 32 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July [...]th. by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Coleraine, George Hanger, Baron, 1751?-1824, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Axes, Butchers, Crowds, Political elections, Riots, Sailors, British, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
"Satire on the Jacobite rebellion, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, and the pro-French and Catholic measures he was expected to introduce. The Prince walks through a market place wearing a tartan kilt and a coat covered in fleur-de-lis; he is proceeded by a drummer and followed by Scots troops carrying Lochaber axes all of whom wear cockades on their Scots bonnets. At a butcher's stall on the right, proclaiming 'Flesh for such as haue Licences', a bishop buys a piece of beef from a woman who chops it up with a cleaver. Beside this is a stall selling 'FINE PLUMP FROGS for a Fricace'e, specimens of which hang from rods over the stall while a young woman arranges more on her counter; next is a Frenchman offering 'Woode(n) Shoes A la mod(e) PARIS' from a selection on a table before him. Above the final stall two angels hold a notice, adorned with the Papal arms, advertising 'Holy RELICKS from JERSULEM ITALY FRANCE SPAIN & other Catholick Countries to be Sold or Chang'd for old Silver by Antonio Maria Francesco Credo' while in the stall beneath a monk stands before a pile of sculls holding a broken femur; the wares for sale include a rosary, a cross, a knife, 'Queen Maries shoes', bits of bones, one of which is labelled 'Legg of St. Andrew', another, 'Arme of St Ninion', and notices advertise, 'The VIRG(in's) MILK', 'Angels Sweat', 'Saints Teeth'; in front of the stall a dog holds a 'Bone of St Dominick' in its teeth. In the foreground, on the left, a group of Scotsmen, one playing the bagpipes, sits outside an inn from which hangs the sign of the 'FRENCH YOKE', while another enters carrying over his shoulder a heavy bag lettered 'CONTRIBUTION MONEY'. On the balcony of the in inn stand Cardinal Tencin, the Pope, holding a cross and a crown, and a monk; lettering at their feet reads, 'FRENCH BRANDY & ITALIAN WINES imported by P.BENIDICT C. TENCIN'. A street sweeper sweeps up papers lettered 'Magna Charta', 'Bank Notes', 'India Bills', and 'Scotch Directory for Worship', 'The HOLY BIBLE' and 'The BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER'. Behind him a Scotsman gives a coin to a monk in exchange for papers lettered 'Indulgences for 100 Years' and 'Pardons for Sins Past'; a French priest standing beside him, a white Jacobite cockade in his hat, carries a pedlar's tray laden with bottles and balls lettered, Poison Gaggs and Spanish Padlocks'. In the centre, a barefoot boy drives a donkey with panniers on top of which are papers lettered 'Petition for a General Spunge', 'Petition to dissolve the Union', 'Petitions of your true Friends', 'Petition to Restore Abby Lands and for Clanships'. On the right, a young woman, also barefoot, kneels by a basket, with the label 'Royal Nosegays' offering for sale bunches of thistles and lilies. In the background is a market cross on which hangs a paper lettered 'J[ames] R[ex]', with the sign of a fleur-de-lis, 'MANIFESTO by the Power of France and Spain Rome Sept 2 sign'd Okely'. Beyond is a chapel with a thatched roof in the doorway of which a woman kneels before a monk standing behind three thistles; on the front of the chapel, under the sign of a host over a chalice with St Peter's keys and the papal tiara, is a large notice promising 'Full Indulgences, MIRACLES Done here by the Holy Fathers of the INQUISITION Three Thistles grow out of a hard Stone'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Highland fair
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified from address., Publisher's announcement following imprint: ... & a 100 sortmt., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: The Pretender's manifesto by Pierre Guerin de Tencin, 1679-1758 -- Frogs for sale -- Trades: frog seller -- Flower seller -- Wooden shoe seller -- Clerical sellers -- Donkey driver -- French yoke -- Market cross with a sign on it -- Booths in market place -- Brooms -- Hoaxes -- Jacobites -- Enslaved person in wooden shoes -- Money: contributions -- Market signs -- Tavern sign: French Yoke -- Documents being swept away -- Angels holding sign.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden ...
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dogs, Donkeys, Petitions, Frogs, Street vendors, Markets, Sweeping & dusting, Chapels, Skulls, Bones (Anatomy), and Signs (Notices)
A scene inside a barbershop with dandies and other citizens awaiting service. The man in the barber chair looks on with horror as a chimneysweep enters the shop wtih his bag over his shoulder. On the wall is a sign "Shave for a penny" and shelves with wig boxes labeled "Aldmn. Grizzle" and "Mr. Rumfit."
Description:
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Three lines of text below title: A knowing young sweep, after finishing a chimney at barbers ..., Numbered '195' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: barber's shop -- Barbers -- Chimney-sweeps -- Wigs -- Signs: Shave for a penny., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Published 19th August 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Barbershops, Chimney sweeps, Signs (Notices), and Wigs
Title from caption below image., Probably a companion print to: The rejected candidate., Sheet trimmed below title with probable loss of statement of responsibility as in companion print: from a sketch by the late celebrated Theodore Lane ; W. Day lithog., 17 Gate Street., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published (for the proprietor) by James Bulcock, 17 Park Walk, Chelsea
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Elections, Cheering, Corruption, Crowds, Political elections, Politicians, and Signs (Notices)
Leaf 57. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A standing French man with shears and a dog under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Variant state based on comparisons with other versions in The Lewis Walpole Library. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call nos.: Bunbury 771.04.25.01.1, Bunbury 771.04.25.01.2., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 1" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., and For an earlier state lacking volume numbering, see no. 4668 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. Aprl. 25th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 57. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A standing French man with shears and a dog under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Variant state based on comparisons with other versions in The Lewis Walpole Library. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call nos.: Bunbury 771.04.25.01.1, Bunbury 771.04.25.01.2., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 1" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., For an earlier state lacking volume numbering, see no. 4668 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., First of three plates on leaf 57., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 15 x 10.5 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. Aprl. 25th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Title etched at bottom of image., Variant state without numbering. Cf. No. 4643 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Racing horses: 'Eclipse' -- Betting post -- Nosegays -- Male dress: Great-coat., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Pub. May 12, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Name):
O'Kelly, Dennis, approximately 1720-1787
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Race horses, and Signs (Notices)
Leaf 39. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dennis O'Kelly dressed as a macaroni in profile mounted on his race-horse, Eclipse, by 'The Betting Post'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Eclipse macaroni
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Hats: Tricorne -- Racing horses: 'Eclipse' -- Posts: The Betting Post -- Tasselled canes -- Racecourses -- Nosegays -- Male dress: Great-coat., and First of two plates on leaf 39.
Publisher:
Pub. May 12, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Name):
O'Kelly, Dennis, approximately 1720-1787
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Race horses, and Signs (Notices)
George III, plainly dressed and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, stands in profile to the right, addressing a pretty young woman (Hannah Lightfoot?) seated on a stile, a bucker at her feet. They are under a large tree on whose trunk is fixed a sign pointing 'To Cheltenham Spa'. A path from the stile leads to the village of Cheltenham in the background. Behind the tree Queen Charlotte watches the conversation, her hand pointing near her cheek. On a hill (left) is a pavilion on wheels
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse inscribed in two columns on either side of title: Did you know the Lad that Courts you He not long need sue in Vain Prince of Songs of Dance of Sports: You Scarce will meet his like again. Midas., and Watermark: J Whatman.
"A farm-yard scene with Windsor Castle in the distance (right). In the centre four pigs feed at a trough; George III (right) and Queen Charlotte (left) stand on each side of it facing each other in profile, both slightly caricatured. At the King's feet are a bucket and a young pig. The Queen scatters grain to chickens and ducks. On the right a guardsman walks off carrying a bundle of turnips across his shoulder (see BMSat 6946). In the background (left) are haystacks and farm buildings; from one projects the sign of a royal crown inverted. A young woman (probably one of the princesses) advances with a basket (cf. BMSat 7897). On the right is a large placard on a post, 'Mantraps & Spring Guns'. Behind it are sheep."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attributed to Kingsbury in Angelo's Reminiscences, 1904, v. i, p.326., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Queen Charlotte and George III identified by ms. note in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aprll [sic] 29, 1786 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Farms, Farmers, Poultry, Sheep, Haystacks, Military uniforms, British, Signs (Notices), Swine, and Troughs
