"British troops are about to march through a large fortified gate leading from open country (left) to the town of Buenos Ayres, where confused street-fighting is in progress. Can are fired from the battlements of the gate at the soldiers, some of whom lie dead or wounded. In the foreground an officer (mounted), in conversation with others, asks: "where is the General"; others say: "go look for the General"; "Find the General"; "why the General is lost". A Highland officer, taking snuff (right), slyly; "I dare say he is varra safe." From the country (left) three mounted men gallop, all saying, "I come for Orders". In the background Whitelocke's head and shoulders are seen peeping over a hillock on the extreme left. He says: "He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day, But he thats in the Battle slain, Will never live to fight again". In the distance, behind him, are tiny (British) soldiers in close formation. In the city men are firing and hurling stones from the roofs of flat-roofed houses on British soldiers in the plaza. On the wall (right) is a placard: 'Lost, or Mis-led a General officer Who ever can [give] Information ... ampl[y] rewarded.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of courage
Description:
Title etched below image., "G. Whiteliver" is a pseudonym. Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7629., Variously attributed to either Isaac or George Cruikshank; see British Museum catalogue., Title is a direct reference to an Isaac Cruikshank print, published by S.W. Fores in 1790, entitled "Symptoms of courage, or, The tables turned." Cf. No. 7667 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., and Penciled note in an unidentified hand: relates to Genl. Whitelock's conduct at Buenos Ayres, S. America.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Argentina and Buenos Aires.
Subject (Name):
Whitelocke, John,
Subject (Topic):
History, Campaigns & battles, Soldiers, British, Military officers, Scottish, Ethnic stereotypes, Gates, and Signs (Notices)
In the courtyard of St. James's Palace along St. James's Street: street vendors including a knife grinder; a chimney sweep; a woman holding a ballad entitled "The last dying speech of Macleane"; a funeral procession with the pallbearers in mourning carrying a coffin labeled "Trade"; a man pushing a wheel barrel filled with calves heads; and a man playing a hurdy-gurdy as a girl dances; two boys beg of bread as courtiers bemoan the absence of the king
Alternative Title:
St. James's in October, the King in Hanover
Description:
Title from caption engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d., col'd 1s.'--Following imprint., Watermark., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by T. Fox in the Old Baily according to act of Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Chimney sweeps, Coffins, Guards, Musical instruments, Organ grinders, Signs (Notices), and Street vendors
Title etched above image., Temporary local subject terms: Election polls -- Scrutiny -- Allusion to canvassing -- Allusion to Duke of Devonshire., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Horses, Signs (Notices), and Political elections
Leaf 60. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike; plate originally issued ca. 1800?, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Copy of the left half of a design by Bunbury, which was first engraved by Bretherton in 1785 and then later reissued by J. Harris in 1799 with the title "The Easter hunt at Epping Forest". Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call nos.: Bunbury 785.03.25.01 ; Bunbury 799.03.01.01., and On leaf 60 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Hunting, Horseback riding, Dogs, and Signs (Notices)
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 7, 1771.
Call Number:
771.03.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two ballad singers, one of them standing on top of an overturned large basket, are singing to a small but pleased-looking crowd by the entrance to an inn. A child standing in front of the basket is reaching up to offer the singer a coin
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 February 1751]
Call Number:
751.02.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image., Attributed to Boitard on stylistic grounds; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.3913., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Two black geese of middle age, by some thought cunning, few thought sage ..., Caption in the lower left corner of plate: In the porch the emblems of disappointment, malice, envy ..., Caption in the lower right corner of plate: **A cuckow with an asse's head singing his own wise productions., "Price one shilling.", Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth: Municipal Council as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The farmer and the snake' -- Burgesses as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The dog and the shadow' -- Literature: The geese in disgrace, a tale. Portsmouth : printed by W. Horton, for J. Wilkinson, 1751 -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Gangs of sailors -- Taverns: 'The Hercules's Pillars', Portsmouth -- Shops: Agent for Prizes -- Navy: ships -- Ships: Centurion, at anchor in Portsmouth, 1751 -- Maps: map of Nova Scotia -- Map of Gibraltar -- Allusion to trade with Newfoundland -- Furniture: dining chairs -- Lancets -- Postillion blowing horn -- Gothamites -- Aldermen -- Birds: hen and chicks -- Storks -- Eagle grasping fulmen -- Cuckoo with ass's head -- Dining tables -- Trades: surgeon, as a goose -- Medicine: in bottles -- Wheelbarrows -- Emblems -- Trade with Lima, 1751 -- Personifications: Covetousness, Disappointment, Malice, Envy -- Medical procedures: bleeding., Mounted to 30 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Feb. 21, 1751, by Dan Job, stationer in King Street, Covent Garden
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 December 1771]
Call Number:
771.12.14.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 14. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat man attempting to mount a horse, assisted by a groom, while a couple laugh from an upper window."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
London jockeys going to Newmarket
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number "16" etched in upper left corner, see no. 4636 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Inn sign -- Inn: The Moon.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Decemr. 14th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Horse grooms, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Couples
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 December 1771]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 14. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat man attempting to mount a horse, assisted by a groom, while a couple laugh from an upper window."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
London jockeys going to Newmarket
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number "16" etched in upper left corner, see no. 4636 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Inn sign -- Inn: The Moon., On leaf 14., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 35 cm, on 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Decemr. 14th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Horse grooms, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Couples
"A clumsy lumbering diligence, with four horses, leaves the porte-cochère of an inn, part of whose ornate façade is on the left. The sign, 'Le Qoque [sic] en Pate', hangs from a wrought-iron bracket. Two postilions ride the near horses, flourishing their whips. The coach is full inside and out with typical French characters, humorously drawn, soldiers, monks, and women, with couples absorbed in conversation. An old couple beg from the passengers. A lean sow with small pigs scampers beside the coach. In the background (left) is the west end of a small church with a Calvary beside it at which nuns kneel in prayer; a group of monks approaches holding a cross. Down the hill leading from inn and church a post-chaise and pair and a post-boy on a horse are galloping, the latter wearing the huge 'milk-churn' boots which astonished visitors to France. A row of very ancient gabled houses forms part of the background, while on the extreme right is a large building of more recent date."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paris diligence
Description:
Title from caption below item. and For a later state with imprint and plate number, see no. 11624 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Carriages & coaches, Cities & town life, Christianity, Crucifixions, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Passengers, Pigs, and Stagecoaches
