Caption title., Printed in two columns with a woodcut at the head of each column, and playing cards surrounding text., Text begins: The serjeant commanded his party to the church, and when the parson had ended his prayer, he took his text; and all of them that had a Bible pulled it out to find the text, but this soldier had neither Bible, almanack, nor common prayer book, but he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a pack of cards, and spread them before him as he sat, and while the parson was preaching he first kept looking at one card and then at another., Undated; James Catnach was active at this address from 1813 until his retirement in 1838; see Hindley, C. The history of the Catnach Press ..., 1886. Queen Victoria is mentioned in the text: "And also of Queen Victoria, to pray for her.", so the printing date must be after her accession in 1837., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Middleton, Richard, Private in the 66th Regiment of Foot.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Prayer, Christianity, Soldiers, Religious life, Almanacs, Playing cards, Religious services, Soliders, and British
"The Princess of Wales and the Earl of Bute drag the British Lion, or George III, in a small car, such as children use, decorated with a big Thistle; on the king's head is a very large jack boot, which, falling over his face, blinds him. Pitt leans over the balcony and endeavours to remove the boot, i.e. to deliver the British Lion from the influence of Bute. The Duke of Cumberland, very fat, wearing the costume supposed to be appropriate to Roman generals, rushes forward to aid the king, his nephew. A soldier, a sailor, and a lawyer endeavour to hold back a wheel of the car, pulling at a rope attached to it. A number of persons, male and female, stand under the balcony and look on. In the background a harbour is indicated by the masts of ships. On our left is "THE OLD BRITISH WARE HOUSE", from which merchants are despatching bales of goods to "Pondicherry", "Martinico 1'', "Guadeloup", "Louisbourg", and "Quebec". These are the names of places captured from the French during the war which it was proposed to conclude by the peace promoted by Lord Bute, and agreed to in 1762. A Frenchman and a Spaniard, colonists (?), are receiving these goods in an amicable way. ... This satire was doubtless designed to induce the ministry of Lord Bute to desist from surrendering the places in question to the French as, even thus early in the negotiations, it was rumoured they intended to do. ...The minister and the princess drag the car towards a "Hosptial for Scoth pensioners." On our right, at the windows, three Scotchmen appear. Hogarth, mounted on a ladder, is busily painting a Scotch Thistle on the sign of the hospital. On his paint-pot is written: "500 250". This refers to Hogarth as the recipient of a pension, or rather as Serjeant-Painter to the king, and especially to the publication of "The Times. Plate I” ..."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political strugle and Political struggle
Description:
Title etched below image. and Cf. No. 3885 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
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,, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778,, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774,, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Chariots, City & town life, National emblems, British, Scottish, Taxes, and Warehouses
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 18., and Temporary local subject terms: Elizabeth Wrottesley, Duchess of Grafton -- Gertrude Russell, Duchess of Bedford -- Allusion to adultery.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15, Upper Ossory, John Fitzpatrick, Earl of, 1745-1818, and Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick, Countess of, d.1804
"Standing figure, whole length, of a tall slim man in profile to right. The profile and the enormous looped queue are caricatured. In his left hand he holds a long tasselled cane. He wears a three-cornered hat and ruffled shirt."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., and For a later state with additional numbering, see no. 5006 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly Apl. 3d, 1772, accor. to act, (39) Strand
Leaf 72. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Standing figure, whole length, of a tall slim man in profile to right. The profile and the enormous looped queue are caricatured. In his left hand he holds a long tasselled cane. He wears a three-cornered hat and ruffled shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "2" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Little cocked hat, laced., and Second of three plates on leaf 72.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly Apl. 3d, 1772, accor. to act, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Wigs, Hats, and Staffs (Sticks)
Portrait of a young man, full-length, facing the viewer but with his head turned slightly to the right. He lacks hands and legs beyond the knee and is seated before a lectern (right) with a drawing of a tree on the page. He holds a pen held against his mouth using his left elbow
Description:
Title etched below image., Text etched below the image: "This extraordinary young man was born Decr. 18, 1769, at Hook, in Hampshire, without arms or legs, as here delineated, occasioned as his mother supposes by a fright she suffered when pregnant with him. Notwithstanding these disadvantages he has by industry acquired the arts of writing & drawing, holding his pencil between the stump of his left arm and his cheek & guiding it with the muscles of his mouth. In order to assist these extraordinary efforts of ingenuity, this drawing was presented to him by Mr. Robertson, & Mr. Fittler kindly super-intended the etching. This print is sold by T. Inglefield at No. 8 Chapel Street, Tottenham Court Road, where ladies & gentlemen may see him & many more of his performances."--Below title., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Sold by T. Inglefield at No. 8 Chapel Street, Tottenham Court Road
Subject (Name):
Inglefield, Thomas, 1769-
Subject (Topic):
Abnormalities, Human, Phocomelus, Artists, British, and People with disabilities
"Portrait in profile of a young man who lacks hands and legs beyond the knee; full-length, sitting on a cushion before a lectern on the right, drawing a tree with a pen held against his mouth using his left elbow."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Etched below the image: These deficiencies were occasioned, (as his mother supposes) by a fright she suffer'd whilst pregnant with him. Notwithstanding these disadvantages he has by industry acquired the arts of writing, and drawing, holding and guiding the pen and pencil with the muscles of his cheek and arm., and Mounted to: 27.7 x 21 cm
Publisher:
Publish'd for T. Inglefield
Subject (Name):
Inglefield, Thomas, 1769-,
Subject (Topic):
Abnormalities, Human, Phocomelus, Artists, British, and People with disabilities
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1767]
Call Number:
767.00.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on fashionable life described in a sub-title as "Address'd to the Professors of Driving, Dressing, Ogling, Writing, Playing, Gambling, Racing, Dancing, Duelling, Boxing, Swearing, Humming, Building, &c. &c. &c." with broad space flanked by large buildings leading down to the sea. On the left, "The Academy for the Noble Art of Boxing NB Mufflers provided for delicate Constitutions" through the windows of which a pugilist can be seen addressing a yong nobleman, and two men boxing. Beside this a theatre into which a large crowd enters via a staircase, encouraged by a zany standing on a balcony with three actresses, two actors wearing turbans and another dressed as a soldier; the sign above refers to notorious hoaxes of the earlier part of the century: "Britannia Humm'd Or the Tragedy of the Secret Expedition [presumably the Expedition on Rochefort, 1757], A Mock Tragedy to which is added a Farce call'd The Pregnant Rabit Woman [i.e., Mary Toft], Together with the Adventures of the Bottle Conjurer [see BM Satires 3022, 1868,0808.3875], and Polish Jew [Henry Simons]. As likewise the taking ye Standard at the Battle of Dittingen." The next house is built in a variety of styles; beyond, the sea the sun rises "for the Vigilant". In the foreground fashionable people are shown as described in a key below: 1. "British Nobility disguis'd", three women dressed in French style in an open carriage are bowed to by 2. a foppish young man "Return'd from the Polite Tour"; behind him 3. "Foreign Insolence [is] express'd by the French Valet de Chambre daring to Insult 4. English Bravery in Distress [an old sailor with a wooden leg], reduc'd to ask Alms in his Native Country, after having courageously lost his limbs in Defence of it on board a Privateer & unjustly kept out of his Prize-money"; next is 5. "The Optical Ogle, or polite Curiosity", a young gentleman peering at the women in the carriage through an eye-glass; 6. "An Author", a miserable gentleman with his hands tucked into the breast of his coat who is barked at by two dogs; by contrast, 7. "A Player" reclines comfortably in a sedan chair, a footman walking before him; 8. describes a scene at the door of the house on the right, "The Industrious Tradesman thrust off with Contempt, expecting a just Debt to be paid, to make room for a high Life Gambler [also in a sedan chair], politely usher'd in to receive his Debt of Honour"; behind this group is, 9. "A Feather of the Turf", a man mounted on a high gig drives two horses, and 10. "The Balance of Merit in this happy Climate for useless Exotics, [where] A French Dancing Master obtains 300£ pr. Ann. & a clear Benefit worth near 300£ more, while the Ingenious English Shipwright, tho' Assistant to the Honour Profit & Defence of his Country, by hard Labour barely obtains 40£ pr. Ann."; on the left, 11. a hearse drives into the scene with "The Corps[e] of a Blood, conveying to Interment, who boldly lost his Life in a Duel defending the Reputation of a Prostitute"; 12. is the house beside the sea, "Modern Architecture The Corinthian, Venetian, Gothic & Chinese huddled in one Front,"; 13. an old woman leaning out of an upper window calling to a woman and two men at the door represents "Modern Hospitality in the Character of Old Age, left to take care of Furniture, & answer Duns that the Family is in the Country"; 14. fishing boats at sea are reminders that "One British Buss [fishing boat] of more service to the Community than ten Italian Singers"."--British Museun online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of text below image: Explanation. 1 British Nobility disguis'd, 2 Return'd from the Polite Tour, 3 Foreign Insolence express'd by the French valet de chambre daring to insult 4 English Bravery in distress ..., and Mounted to 26 x 35 cm., window mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
A young barmaid wearing a frilly dormeuse cap and a neckerchief with a breast knot, attends to a group of male customers gathered around the bar. An elderly military officer wearing a saber leans on the bar spooning custard from a glass, while three young men on his left ogle the barmaid. Two other men occupy the right side of the bar, and two dogs the center foreground, a poodle jumping up at the bar, and a pug urinating on a copy of "The Gazette extraordinary" which lies on the floor. Other newspapers are in the hands of the customers, the "Ledger" and the "Morning post". Bottles, glasses and bowls are arranged on shelves behind the girl
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue, Numbered '384' in lower left of plate., and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Bartenders, Military uniforms, British, Clothing & dress, Newspapers, Taverns (Inns), Interiors, Glassware, Bars (Furniture)., Shelving, Hats, and Dogs
