An old soldier in uniform carrying a cudgel importunes a clergyman for alms, without success; a broadside with thirty lines of engraved verse in two columns, containing a dialogue between the soldier and the pluralist
Description:
Caption title below image., All engraved., Copy of a print by Tim Bobbin, published by Darly in 1762. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Print is an enlarged copy of no. 3994 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. by M. Darly, facing New Round Court, the Strand
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1759, Beggars, Clergy, Military uniforms, Pluralism (Social sciences), and Veterans
Caption title below image, above verses., All engraved., Originally published by Darly in 1762. See Stephens., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered '30' in upper left corner., Later state, with plate number added. Cf. No. 3994 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: countermark W.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. by M. Darly, facing New Round Court, the Strand
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1759, Beggars, Clergy, Military uniforms, Pluralism (Social sciences), and Veterans
"Satire on Samuel Martin's duel with Wilkes. On the left, two Scotsmen support Lord Sandwich who is holding up a copy of Wilkes's Essay on Woman saying, "This will do for him I warrant ye". In front of them the diminutive figure of Samuel Martin fires a shot at a mouse representing Wilkes. In the centre, behind Martin, a group of four men express their horror at the Essay: Kidgell proclaiming, "I'll publish a Narrative about it", Bishop Warburton holding up a copy and condemning it as blasphemy, and Lord Lyttleton crying, "O 'tis so shocking I can't bear it." In the centre, a Scot (Bute?) wearing a bonnet with a feather draws his sword at the mouse. To the right, Britannia, naked to the waist, swoons as a rat representing Bute attacks her heart; she is attended by Newcastle, Temple, Pitt and Cumberland. Engraved inscriptions and speech-balloons, letterpress title and verses in two columns, and one vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great ***** in an uproar and Great house in an uproar
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below image plate mark (17.5 x 23.5 cm)., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title, separated vertically with an ornamental border. When a certain great ***** was alarm'd at a mouse, they vow'd that they'd quickly ***** him ..., and Publisher's advertisement below verses, following imprint: ... where may be had, The British antidote to Caledonian poison, 2 vols. Price 5s.
Publisher:
Sold by E. Sumpter, three doors from Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Martin, Samuel, -1788., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, and Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773
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
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse in three parts: "Of all the merry frolicks"., In five columns with the title above the first two; one woodcut is above the first column depicting a man and the second depicting a demon is above the fourth column; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 17. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed by M. Bowley, No. 96 Aldersgate Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Fathers and daughters, Parent and child, Courtship, Lifestyle, Deception, Man-woman relationships, Clergy, Love, and Demons
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Two lines of verse below title: Remote from towns he ran his godly race, nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place. Goldsmith., and Window mounted to 24 x 35 cm.
A pretty young woman sits in a chair as an older clergy man with spectacles kneels seduces her, slipping a gold purse on her lap
Description:
Title from caption below image., Verse in two columns below title begins: "Struggling 'twixt virtue and desire, accosted by a rev'rend sire, behold the pretty maid. How young the lass, how old the man. What then to win by gold's his plan and so she's not afraid. To beauty av'rice lends its key, and law dispenses with its fee, if beauty but consent; then cease, ye lovers, to despair, since a purse melts the stubborn fair, and gains the argument.", Numbered "78" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of imprint., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., No. 53 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, engravers & printsellers, at the Kings Arms Cornhill
Title etched below image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of the book., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.), v. i., and Numbered in lower right of plate: 29.
"Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of office, can be discerned behind the screen reflected in the glass. From the left side of the screen an electoral candidate walks towards a voter grasping him by his right hand and with his left slipping a purse into the man's pocket. The voter is identified in the verses as a member of a corporation in a borough where only such members could vote; his leg is shackled by a chain. His wife listens to a clergyman who stands in a doorway assuring her "bribery no sin". The devil hovers over the candidate touching the voter on the shoulder and holding a blank scroll. Two boys in the foreground point to the transaction, one holding a wooden shoe, symbol of the oppressive French regime. The screen itself is adorned with little stars, at the top the years 1715-1722 are marked on the seven folds and the names of various acts passed by the previous government, "Quarantine Act .../South Sea Act/Act to indemnify S.S. V[illai]ns/Part of ye Succession Act repeal'd/Septennial Act".--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Election carried by bribery and the devil
Description:
Title from caption in ribbon above image., Questionable attribution to Hogarth in unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four stanzas of verse below image: Here's a minion sent down to a corporate town, in hopes to be newly elected ... That betrays the whole kingdom to slav'ry.", Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 33 x 44 cm., and Dated '1722' in unknown contemporary hand after title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
"Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of office, can be discerned behind the screen reflected in the glass. From the left side of the screen an electoral candidate walks towards a voter grasping him by his right hand and with his left slipping a purse into the man's pocket. The voter is identified in the verses as a member of a corporation in a borough where only such members could vote; his leg is shackled by a chain. His wife listens to a clergyman who stands in a doorway assuring her "bribery no sin". The devil hovers over the candidate touching the voter on the shoulder and holding a blank scroll. Two boys in the foreground point to the transaction, one holding a wooden shoe, symbol of the oppressive French regime. The screen itself is adorned with little stars, at the top the years 1715-1722 are marked on the seven folds and the names of various acts passed by the previous government, "Quarantine Act .../South Sea Act/Act to indemnify S.S. V[illai]ns/Part of ye Succession Act repeal'd/Septennial Act".--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Election carried by bribery and the devil
Description:
Title from caption in ribbon above image., Questionable attribution to Hogarth in unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four stanzas of verse below image: Here's a minion sent down to a corporate town, in hopes to be newly elected ... That betrays the whole kingdom to slav'ry.", and Imperfect impression: sheet trimmed to 162 x 175 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections