Title from item., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1 July 1772., Plate from: Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, v. 4, p. 304., Temporary local subject terms: London: Palace Yard -- Buildings: Westminster Hall -- Stilts -- Patriots -- Clergy: satire on Presbyterian clergy -- Allusion to pensions -- Allusion to titles., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Onslow, George Onslow, Earl of, 1731-1814, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
"An engraving, which is in some respects the sequel to "The Addressers", British Museum Satires No. 4273, and "The Battle of Cornhill", British Museum Satires No. 4274, showing a party of workmen and tradesmen assembled in a room of the Merchant Seamen's Office, which was over the Royal Exchange. They are grouped about a large table, on which lies a long scroll or address. The president is a butcher, with a naked knife hi his hand; a tray at his feet contains a shoulder of mutton; doubling his fist, he cries: -- "I shall stick my Knife in Magna Charta, & cut up the Carcase of the Sill of Rights." A lean, hungry -looking man, sits grinning behind the butcher; next to the sitter stands a porter who declares: -- "D--mn his swivel Eyes I wish he may sink under his load." This refers to the marked squint of John Wilkes, who was at this time in prison and strongly opposed to the Court; see "John Wilkes Elected Knight of the Shire", British Museum Satires No. 4189, and "The Scotch Victory. (A.)", British Museum Satires No. 4196. A Dutchman, probably Mr. Muilmann, see "The Addressers", British Museum Satires No. 4273, declares: -- " Ah ! de gross Scrip for Mynheer too"; this is in reply to a Jew who exclaims: -- " Oh for a large portion of Scrip.", i.e. probably subscription scrip to Government loans, which was very profitable to the lenders, and often alleged to be used as a bribe by the ministry; see "The Battle of Cornhill", British Museum Satires No. 4274, and "Frontispiece to the Middlesex Petition", British Museum Satires No. 4289. A barber, with a shaving dish and napkin under one of his arms, and holding a wig in one hand, stands before the scroll, signing his name to it; he says: -- "I've got an order for a new Wig, only for signing my Name." A gaunt Scotch pedlar, with a bale at his back, and carrying a wand, declares: -- "Saumy mun sign too, gin it be to the Deel, for my gued laird's sake", i.e. for the sake of the Earl of Bute, the reputed patron of Scotchmen, see "We are all a comeing", British Museum Satires No. 3823. A baker, with a basket of bread on his shoulders, approaches the table and says: -- "Brother Merchants follow my example & you'll never want Bread." A meagre chimney-sweep, clad in sooty garments, advances to the table and remarks: -- "Who knows but I may be appointed to a Chimney at Court.""--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Principal merchants and traders assembled at the Merchant Seaman's Office ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), page 134., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Merchant Seamen's Office -- Food: loaves of bread -- Petitions: Address of the Merchant Trades of London, March 1769 -- Peter Muilman., and Mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Five men stand round six chamber-pots, arranged in two piles of three, each inscribed 'Poll Book 1784' and supported on a rectangular block or table on which the title is engraved. Each man holds his nose. One (left) in profile to the right, who holds a spoon, is vomiting; he says: "I already am sick Of this poisonous trick The busines so thick T'would weary old Nick With spoon or stick Right from wrong to pick." His vis-à-vis (right), who stirs the contents of a pot with a spoon, says: "The cause I may gain, Though with labour and pain I can hardly refrain From puking amain Thro such fillth for to tag Is wares [sic] than euphorbium bag" (an allusion to the bag thrown at Fox in Westminster Hall, see BMSat 6426, &c). The other three stand together behind the table; the central one says, "A hogo here is. Worse than Cats pis Than Devils Spew. Or Asafoetida." Two demons hold out a net which stretches behind the scrutineers. One (left) says: "Ay Brother and by my tail, The Sheriffs shall admit no bail." The other (right) says: "Spread the net and you shall see Many a false oath will come to me."
Alternative Title:
Examination of the filth
Description:
Title etched in image., Attributed to printmaker only identified as 'Phillips' in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Plinths -- Nets -- Demons -- Scrutiny: Westminster election, 1784, begun on April 23, 1784 -- Allusion to the euphorbium bag thrown at Fox in Westminster Hall on February 14, 1784 -- Poll books as chamber pots -- Cutlery: Spoons.
Publisher:
Publish'd by S. Fores, No. 3, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Great Britain. Parliament
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Publication statement etched as part of design.
Publisher:
Publishd by some body in [the] caracter of no body one of [the] minority
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Motto: "Cogit amor nummi" -- Allusion to Arthur's Club., and Mounted to 41 x 30 cm., matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by J. Marks on the pav'd stones of St. Martins Lane
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top resulting in partial loss of title., Following imprint: Price 6d., Four columns of verse below image: Behold corruption openly profest , the Venal Lawyer ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: anchor -- Paintings amplifying subject: portrait of Edward II -- Reference to William Allen, d. 1768 -- Mythology: alllusion to King Midas -- Personifications: Equity -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Emblems: sword of Justice -- Emblems: shield of integrity., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, and King's Bench Prison (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Embelms, Demons, National emblems, English, Scottish, Pulpits, and Thrones
Title from item., Publication date, based on dates of the passage of the Boston Port Act and Quebec Bill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Québec (Province).
Subject (Topic):
Boston Port Bill, 1774, Clergy, Crutches, Eyeglasses, Gout, Hammers, Hypodermic syringes, Ladders, and Money
Caricatured portrait of William Hogarth. An ugly boy wearinga fool's cap and bells and dressed in a girl's clothes is seated in a chair painting Hogarth's portrait of John Wilkes. He is seated before an easel in mid-stroke painting the image of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; he holds a paint brush and palette in his hands as he turns to talk to a gentleman leaning against the artist's chair (right foreground). Under the chair is Hogarth's dog Trump. In the background is a caricature of Hogarth's "Sigismunda" being a grotesque skiethc of Mrs. Hogarth and with an indecent suggestion
Alternative Title:
Wm. Hogarth Esqr and William Hogarth Esquire
Description:
Title engraved above image., Note below image: Drawn from the life & etch'd in aqua-fortis., Original drawing has been ascribed to Paul Sandby., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 294 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed image with all text except title: 30.9 x 22.5 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Pridden in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Dogs, Painters (Artists), Liberty cap, and Legislators
Caricatured portrait of William Hogarth. An ugly boy wearinga fool's cap and bells and dressed in a girl's clothes is seated in a chair painting Hogarth's portrait of John Wilkes. He is seated before an easel in mid-stroke painting the image of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; he holds a paint brush and palette in his hands as he turns to talk to a gentleman leaning against the artist's chair (right foreground). Under the chair is Hogarth's dog Trump. In the background is a caricature of Hogarth's "Sigismunda" being a grotesque skiethc of Mrs. Hogarth and with an indecent suggestion
Alternative Title:
Wm. Hogarth Esqr and William Hogarth Esquire
Description:
Title engraved above image., Note below image: Drawn from the life & etch'd in aqua-fortis., Original drawing has been ascribed to Paul Sandby., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Pridden in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Dogs, Painters (Artists), Liberty cap, and Legislators
