Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
762.09.00.25
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
True contrast
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Publisher probably Mary Darly. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 3912, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Tents -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Emblems: petticoat for the Princess of Wales -- Treaties: Treaty of Paris, 1763 -- Mottoes: mores, homines., Unidentified watermark, possibly Vryheyt., and Mounted to 35 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. in Ryders Court and to be had at the sign of the pannel painter in Cheapside or at the bust of Impudence alias the brazen head in Leicester Square
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
"Satire in the form of a transparency on the Earl of Bute and his dominance of the king in contrast to the Duke of Cumberland's loyalty, with a reference to William Hogarth. A large tartan military tent decorated with an irradiated jack-boot from which a thistle emerges; fleurs-de-lis on the border of the roof. On the left, stands Cumberland, "Emblem of England" vowing to stop "this Scotch & French scheme"; on the right, stands the Duke of Nivernois, "Emblem of the state of France", trembling in fear of Cumberland. When held to the light figures within the tent (printed on a backing sheet) are revealed: Princess Augusta and Bute express their mutual affection while George III stands beneath a petticoat implying female rule."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
True contrast
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '23' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Tents -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Emblems: petticoat for the Princess of Wales., and Mounted to 30 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of caption in verse below image: Here happy Britain tells her joyfull [sic] tales ..., See British Museum catalogue no. 3042., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: library -- Allusion to Jacobites -- Papal bulls -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Culloden, 1746 -- Furniture: rococco table -- Male dress: Highlander's dress, ca. 1746., and Annotated on verso: From Ld. B Album, p. 54.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge with loss of upper part of title., Ninety four lines of verse in five columns, in letterpress, below image on the plate: An arch and sturdy bellman of the town, that us' to cry his matters up and down ..., Temporary local subject terms: LIterature: The bellman and the captain, by John Byrom, 1691-1763, The Chester Courant, July 25 1749 -- Jacobites -- Literature: Jacobitish tales -- Bells: hand bells -- Bellmen -- Trades: butcher -- Military uniforms: captain's uniform -- Signs: butcher's sign -- Male costume: butcher's outfit -- Bellman's outfit -- Harlequin -- Allusion to King George II., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title etched above image., Publisher indentified from address., Four columns of verse below image: When conjurers [the] quality can bubble, and get their gold w[i]th very little trouble ..., Temporary local subject terms: Haymarket Theatre: burning of stage properties -- Bottles: conjurer in a bottle -- Watch: Military uniforms: Grenadier, Foot Guard -- Sticks -- Placards: Foote gives tea., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
Sold in Mays Building, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
"Satire on the negotiations for the Peace of Paris. A lion and lioness (the King and Queen) look in alarm from the window of a coach (Great Britain) as it crashes against a large rock. Lord Bute, the driver, and Princess Augusta, who has been sitting beside him, fall headlong to the ground and the horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Bute cries out, "De'el dam that Havanna Snuff its all most blinded me". The postilion, Henry Fox, lies on the ground having hit his head on a rock labelled "Newfound Land"; a speech balloon lettered "Snugg" emerges from his mouth. Behind him Pitt, holding a whip, grasps the leading horse's reins; the Marquis of Granby gallops up to assist him, together with William Beckford (who was shortly to become Lord Mayor of London) and the Duke of Newcastle. In the foreground is a conflict involving a number of journalists: Bute's supporters, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett shoot their pistols at Pitt, and further to the right Charles Churchill, in clerical robes, fires a cannon labelled "North Briton" at them, causing another man to fall to the ground his arm resting on a copy of the Gazetteer (the fallen man must be either Charles Say, editor, or John Almon, contributor to the Gazetteer, an anti-Bute newspaper), with the headline, "A letter from Darlington" (a reference to Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, a relation of Bute's by marriage). The British lion beside Churchill urinates on the Scottish thistle. Behind this group, the Duke of Cumberland runs forward anxiously mopping his bald head, having lost his wig. In the background are Lord Mansfield and the Earl of Loudon, the latter suggesting that they retreat (a reference to his failure to capture Louisbourg from the French in 1757). To the right a group of Scotsmen are driven off by two Englishmen with whips; another Scot sits on the ground scratching himself."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fall of Mortimer and Coach overturned
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Two columns of verse below image: With raptures, Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney's turn'd over by driving too fast ..., Plate numbered '31' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's, [1763]., and Mounted to 29 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330.
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Politics and government, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Journalists, National emblems, British, Scottish, and Newspapers
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Four lines of verse below image: Why man he doth bestride this narrow world like a colossus; and we petty ministers ..., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 1 (1767)., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Scourges -- Colossi: Colossus of Rhodes -- Emblems: goat as lust -- Snake as fraud -- Praying -- Gout -- Literature: paraphrased quotation from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, i.2., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Scott, James, 1733-1814, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Title from text etched at top of image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For the appearance of comet, see Gentlemen's magazine, Sept. 1757, p. 392., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below., and Imprint partially burnished from plate.
Publisher:
D.P. according to act [...]
Subject (Geographic):
Halley's comet., Minorca (Spain), Corsica (France), Flanders., and America.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
A courier on horseback blows his horn as he approaches a small building with a sign board dangling from its post "Popularity, The Blown Bladder by W P". A bandaged foot (gouty) resting on a stool is sticking out the door; crutches resting against the side of the hovel. Behind the rider is a cushion with a royal crown, decorates with thistles labeled B-e (for Lord Bute) and M-d (for the Earl of Mansfield). Three young trees on the lower right represent the three British kingdoms. A quotation from Book II of Virgil's Aeneid in lower right corner of image
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Second state, as described in the British Museum catalogue, with the large cushion substituted for the public house behind the duke; It intended to express that Lords Bute and Mansfield though not in the cabinet, overshadowed the King., A satire intended to express that Lords Bute and Mansfield though not in the cabinet, overshadowed the King., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 23., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
