"Portrait, just below half-length, standing directed to right, head turned slightly to right, eyes to front, left hand on hip, right hand holding staff pointing across himself to right, wearing uniform with sash and star, and tricorn over powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: "Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.", Date of publication and publisher's name from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and In paper frame: 395 x 291 mm.
Publisher:
H. Overton
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765.
publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.02.01.1+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times Plate 1' (Paulson 211) contrasting particular elements of that print to suggest that Lord Bute is creating faction within the country while Pitt and his supporters attempt to calm the situation. St James's Palace is ablaze; flames issuing from the gate set fire to an inn sign of the globe lettered "New Lost Land" (a reference to the recent loss of Newfoundland). On the left, Bute, wearing a tartan night shirt, holding a large pair of bellows, runs away from the fire but encourages it by breaking wind; two other Scots, crouching, also break wind, one of them addressing the other as "Brother Small Wit" (i.e., Tobias Smollett); Henry Fox runs away from Bute's supporters crying, "D[am]n the Dogs how they stink I'll turn my tail on them". On the right, Pitt stands on a fire engine directing a jet of water on the fire (in contrast to Hogarth's print where he stands on stilts fanning the flames while a supporter of the king is the chief fire fighter); the pump is manned by the Dukes of Newcastle and Cumberland and sailors who parallel the prominent sailor in Hogarth's print. Cumberland complains that the "machine is sadly out of Order" (meaning government) to which Newcastle responds "Yes ever since you left it", referring to Cumberland's resignation from military command. The sailors allude to Pitt's letter of October 1761 to William Beckford in which he explains his resignation "in order not to remain responsible for measures which I was no longer allowed to guide" (published in the Annual Register, 1761, p.300); they compare Pitt as the "Master [who] Guides it well" with Bute whose action is a wind that "encreases the Flame" and "comes from a very foul quarter". Charles Churchill, in clerical dress, walks towards the Pitt's group carrying a bucket labelled "North Briton" and offering to "help without hope of a Pension", an allusion to payments made by the Crown both to Hogarth and to Pitt. In the background, to left, a group of men look on saying the "Squire" (the king) and his family are "safe on the other side" (implying they have joined the opponents of Lord Bute, which was not in fact the case); one man continues to encourage Bute, "Blow away my Lad they will expend all their Water soon". Etched verses below describe the scene in scurrilous terms suggesting that the fire began in "the Welch Ladys Bed Room", i.e., that of Princess Augusta, and call for quenching of the "Fire of Party."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls hous in flames, to whom is this owing, / That's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing / New lost land is done for, and all the worlds going ..., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Buildings -- London: St. James's Street -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Seven Years' War: reference to the loss of Newfoundland -- Signboards -- Fire-engines., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Bellows, Flatulence, Fire fighting, and Sailors
publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times': A scene in St. James's Street ... reading the newspaper 'North Briton' ... -- the loss of Newfoundland
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house sett in flames and John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Below middle column of verse., Second state, with plaid design added to Lord Bute's nightshirt and additional cross-hatching in foreground., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls house in flames, to whom is this owing, that's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing ..., and On page 289 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 24.4 x 28.9 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and St. James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Fire engines, Military uniforms, British, and Signs (Notices)
publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.02.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times': A scene in St. James's Street ... reading the newspaper 'North Briton' ... -- the loss of Newfoundland
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house sett in flames and John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Below middle column of verse., Second state, with plaid design added to Lord Bute's nightshirt and additional cross-hatching in foreground., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls house in flames, to whom is this owing, that's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing ..., and Window mounted to 28 x 39 cm, mounted again to 34 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and St. James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Fire engines, Military uniforms, British, and Signs (Notices)
French Leuisdors for English bricks and French louis d'or for English bricks
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Sheet trimmed., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., State lacking imprint and verse. Cf. No. 4043 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Lansdowne House, London -- Trades: masons -- Ladders -- Bricks -- Animals: fox -- Monkey playing violin., and Mounted to 34 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Animals in human situations, and Wheelbarrows
publish's according to act of Parliament, July 15th, [1749]
Call Number:
749.07.15.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Mars on his knees
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d.'--Lower right corner., Two lines of verse below title: Musick hath charms to soothe the savage breast! / To soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak. Congrave [sic]., and Temporary local subject terms: Savoyards -- Mythology: allusion to Mars -- Buildings: Eton College -- Peasants -- Royal Arms -- 'The great fat hog to be seen alive' -- Literature: quotation from The mourning bride by William Congreve, 1670-1729.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Subject (Topic):
Musical instruments, Organ grinders, and Signs (Notices)
The Duke of Cumberland rides a horse towards the left; in the distance are buildings which are labelled 'Eton College'. From his mouth come the words, "My all is in my possession, possession, possession. My all is in my posession. Mounted behind him on the horse is a pretty, young woman playing a hurdy-gurdy. From her mouth, the words, "Virgins are like [the] fair flowers in its lustre." A large belt labelled "The girdle of affection" encircles the two riders waists. A distressed young peasant, the girl's brother, chases the horse, crying, "My dear sister. Stop 'e. Stop 'e. Stop 'e. O, I fear she's gone for aye." He carries the box for the hurdy-gurdy on his back. An allusion to the Savoyards - and Mars. Quotation from Twelfth night, I.i.1, by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Alternative Title:
Mars on his journey
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 'Price 6d.'--Lower right corner., One line of verse added after title: If musick be the food of love, play on. Gay., Temporary local subject terms: Savoyards -- Mythology: allusion to Mars., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the peace conference at Breda, 1746 -- Games: leap-frog -- Cities: view of Breda -- Emblems: bag of the Secretary of State -- Karl August Friedrich, Fürst von Waldeck, 1704-1763 -- Karl Joseph, Fürst von Batthyány, 1697-1772 -- Mr. Gilles, plenipotentiary and pensionary of Holland.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of, 1720-1789
A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
Description:
Title from item., Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ..., Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire., and Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
