"Judges, lawyers, and others rush headlong from Westminster Hall. Three women are among the crowd, one of whom has fallen on her back. In the background is a Gothic doorway, on each side of which are two windows; through the upper left window appears a maidservant with a mop. Beneath the title is printed: 'Or, Courts of Law without a Covering, and Lawyers' Fears without Foundation; 'Causes without an Issue, and an Issue without a Cause'. This is followed by two quotations from Virgil, below which are verses printed in five columns"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Caption title from letterpress printed below image., Title followed by two quotations from Virgil., Plate mark cannot be determined., Plate is early state, before alterations., Five columns of verse below the title: God prosper long our noble King ... However strange, 'tis strictly true, That thus a simple Wench, Did - (what no other Power could do) - Drive Mansfield from the Bench!'., Publication statement etched in plate below image: Published as the act directs, 28th Aprl. 1785, by Woodman & Mutlow, No. 30 Russel Court, Covent Garden., and Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Hall: exterior court of the King's Bench -- Courts -- Panic -- Maidservants -- Literature: quotations from Virgil, 70-19 BC. -- Incidents: panic at the King's Bench, April 22, 1785 -- Legal costume -- Allusion to Charles Hughes, fl. 1785 -- Allusion to Philip Astley, 1742-1814.
Publisher:
Printed for Woodman & Mutlow, engravers and print-sellers, Russel Court, Covent-Garden, and A. Wells, Warwick-Place, Bedford Row
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Dated in British Museum catalogue: 1 August 1771., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 29., Temporary local subject terms: Hibernia (Symbolic character) -- Secret influence -- Sport: cricket bat., and Lower corners cut off diagonally.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Hercules, Britannia (Symbolic character), Harps, and Volcanoes
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy, without plate number, of No. 4037 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Dragons -- Demons -- Mythology: Minerva -- Emblems: boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Allusion to Magna Charta -- Periodicals: reference to Briton -- Animals: fox -- British Lion -- Medical: syringes -- Amputees -- Taxes: reference to excise -- Personifications: France -- Personifications: Spain., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 4 (1769), p. 321., and Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Great Britain and dominions -- Alliances -- Elections: reference to Middlesex elections, 1769 -- Riots: reference to the riots at St. George's Fields, 1768 -- Reference to Boston riots, June 1768 -- Reference to the Duke of Grafton's divorce.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, and Rochford, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, Earl of, 1717-1781
Title from item., Publication place and date from book for which the plate was published., Plate numbered '37' in lower right corner., Six lines of verse below title: See here the State turn'd upside down / The bonnet triumphs o'er ..., Plate from: The 2nd volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the years 1762 and 63. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Cf. No. 3877 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Treasury -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Seven Years War: reference to Newfoundland - -Military uniforms: Scotch uniforms -- Scots., and Mounted to 27 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Title from item., Publication date in Stephens: August 1762., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Dedication within design etched below images: To the King of the Cherokees a lover of Englishmen this prints is inscribed by his most obedient slave, the author., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Whitehall (Treasury Building) -- Interiors: Treasury -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Seven Years War: reference to Newfoundland -- Reference to the Cherokee chiefs - -Military uniforms: Scotch uniforms -- Vehicles: cart -- Sland: coal (cole), i.e., money -- Sentry -- Scots., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Printmaker, title, and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., and Temporary local subject terms: Peace: peace negotiations with France, 1762.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Saint James's Palace (London, England), Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Drummond, Robert Hay, 1711-1776, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
