Titles from items., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Two lines of verse below top design: The ass of Balaam through oppression spoke our Stone-Ase of oppression brings the yoke., Caption below center design: Absolute obedience my brethren ; murmering [sic] against your superiors is rebellion and consumate impudence., Caption below bottom design: Justice has leaden feet but iron claws., None of designs recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Asses -- Bible: nos. 22.21-35 -- Human body: mechanical human heart -- Money: bags of money -- Bellows -- British Lion -- Personifications: figure of Justice -- Balances -- Allusion to Gibraltar -- Treasury: Sinking Fund -- Battles: allusion to the Battle of Minorca, Port Mahon, 20 May 1756.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Title of center design assigned by cataloger from the original. See Stephens 3369., Title of bottom design assigned by cataloger., Top and center designs are copies of, from top, Nos. 3370 and 3369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Bottom design not recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Battles: reference to the Battle of Port Mahon, Minorca, 20 may 1756 -- Trials: Admiral Byng sentenced by court-martial to death for neglect of duty, 27 Janaury 1757 -- Allusion to the loss of Minorca.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
"Satire on the corruption of Newcastle's government suggesting that it accepted French bribes; Byng, crushed by Hardwicke and Fox, is treated with some sympathy."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French way of catching fools and Oh! How are the mighty fallen?
Description:
Title etched above image., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bribes -- Pictures amplifying subject: spider-web covered painting of Justice -- Emblems: French fleur-de-lis -- Gambling: EO table., Note by E. Truman filed with the print., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Sold at the Star on Holborn Hill
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Title etched above image., Date of publication inferred from date of Lord Bute's resignation., Based on no. 4032 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Games: bob-cherry -- Oeconomy -- Offices: Clerk of the Pells., and Watermark: 1748.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Henry Edward, 1755-1811, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Grenville, George, 1712-1770
Titles etched above images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sticks: wand -- Bag of secret service money -- Newcastle's bribery, 1756 -- Parliament: corruption of Parliament by Newcastle -- Newcastle Administration -- Allusion to William, Baron Blakeney, 1672-1761 -- Interiors: forge -- Tools: farrier's tools -- Forgery: Admiral Byng as victim of forgery -- Trials: allusion to Admiral Byng's court-martial for neglect of duty -- Money for Hanover -- Addresses: subsidiary treaties -- Scales: weighing addresses against money -- Taxes: 1756.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
Subject (Topic):
Petitions, Bribery, Forge shops, Scales, Fools' caps, and Money
Title from item., Printmaker identified by Richard T. Godfrey, Dec. 13, 1979., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Trade as a caryatide -- Personifications: Public credit as a caryatide -- Subsidies., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
"Satire on the ministerial changes and payments made to out-going ministers; Admiral Byng is shown in chains holding the dispatches referring to his withdrawal from action at Minorca; Earl Sandwich concerns himself only with opera and theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Council of expedients and Byng returned
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below image: The quacks of government who sate at the unregarded helm of the state ..., Temporary local subject terms: Trials: court-martial of Admiral Byng -- Reference to the Battle of Minorca, 20 May 1756 -- Fetters -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., Watermark., and Mounted, for further information consult staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Minorca (Spain)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Title etched at top of plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer. London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
Title etched at top of plate., Publisher identified from address., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke., and Mounted to 18 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Market in the Strand
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
Page 172. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Caricatures copied from George Lord Townshend
Description:
Title written in ink beside image, in a contemporary hand., Artist unidentified; after designs by George Townshend., Numbered key below title identifies the figures in the image: 1. Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle; 2. Geo. Lord Lyttelton; 3. William, Duke of Cumberland; 4. Henry Fox, Lord Holland., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., and Mounted on page 172 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774