View of Brighton, the town with numerous houses and other buildings, St. Nicholas's Church on the hill above the town to the right, the coast stretching away in the distance, windmills in the fields to the left with haywains drawn by oxen and reapers at their work amongst the crops to the right, elegant ladies and gentlemen strolling through the scene with a man sketching to the left, several boats and ships on the calm sea beyond, gulls amongst the clouds above. The Royal Arms below
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Titled 'A Perspective View of Brighthelmstone, and of the Sea coast as far as the Isle of Wight: by Jas. Lambert, engraved by Canot.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, & sold by Jas. Lambert, painter, at Lewes in Sussex, and Robert Sayer, map and printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England), England., England, and Brighton.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Cityscapes, Churches, Coastlines, Meadows, Windmills, and Church buildings
Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image., Verses continue: ... what if by conquest we possess thy shore, thy savages reveng'd should less repine, since we're the slaves of thy corrupting ore., Second state, with altered imprint statement; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.570., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, Asia, and Europe., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge and with thin margins on the other three edges.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Title engraved below image., With a separately titled plate on same sheet: Arcade & inscription against the tower at Cotes. [London : Published by Richd. Bigland?, January 9th, 1790?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '19' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
"The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearng a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left. towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointing towards the comet. Napoleon looks up at the King, who gazes fixedly above his head. He has ascended from a small piece of land rising from the narrow Channel separating it from John's wider fragment. Up this a frog clambers. On the open sea ships are strung out along the horizon. John says: "Aye - Aye - Master Comet - you may attempt your Periheliums - or your Devil heliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend upon it"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of variant state
Alternative Title:
John Bull making observations on the comet
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '274' in upper right corner., and Variant state. Cf. no. 10769, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of the plate with different series number.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Coastlines, Comets, Ships, Sun, and Telescopes
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from that of book; see British Museum catalogue., One of 14 plates from: Something concerning nobody / edited by Somebody. London : R. Scholey, 1814., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered "12".
Title etched below images., Four designs on one plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Title from text below images., Four designs on one plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Coastlines, Carriages & coaches, Donkeys, and Ships
publish'd according to act of Parliament 25 March 1740 [that is 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 33. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the jockeying for position of the European powers in early 1740. A race-course on the sea-shore with a variety of animals and riders representing different countries: first comes Cardinal Fleury (France) falling from his fox which has stumbled at the winning post on "[Baron] Sinclair's papers". Behind the fox stands the devil holding a sheet of paper with a picture of five ships, lettered "Baltic Sea", an allusion to the French failure to form an alliance in that region. The devil pulls down one of the scales hanging from the umpire stand; the heavier scale represents the Imperial allies with swords, coins, a picture of the Imperial eagle and a note reading "ballance of power", while the lighter one holds objects connected with France and Spain, a cardinal's hat, mask, fox, and notes of "50,000 livers" and "10,000 pistoles" as well as a paper lettered "Mediation". On the umpire stand, America is in conversation with Africa while Europe embraces Asia for the sake of "Protection [of]Trade". Further to the left stands Captain Jenkins holding out his severed ear. Behind Fleury's fox runs the Spanish wolf, its rider unseated by the British lion's lashing tail, lettered "No Search Free Trade". The Russian bear, ridden by a man with a scimitar, follows; the bear kicks its hind legs at the Turkish elephant that is draped with a cloth lettered "Belgrade" in reference to the recent ceding of that city to Turkey. The sultan stands behind the elephant, offering a bag of money to a Frenchman wearing a bag-wig; a monkey also wearing a bag-wig, representing France, crouches in front of the bear. A Dutchman, smoking a pipe, stands beside a distance post having abandoned the race; his boar is laden with trade goods. Behind, on the left, the devil and a fool lead a group of Roman Catholic bishops, roped together, towards a closed building labelled "Conclave" where they will elect a successor to Pope Clement XII. In front of them seven men representing the European powers are seated at a round table with papers lettered "Alliance" and "Sinclair"; Cardinal Fleury turns aside towards another devil asking, "Extricute me now & I'm yours for ever". Further forward, a British herald, supported by classical female soldiers, blows a trumpet; beside them Fleury raises the front of his robe attempting to catch billowing smoke, lettered "Universal Monarchy". In the foreground, Time sits on his hour-glass holding a paper with a picture of a wolf dressed as a cardinal; rats chew at the bottom of the sheet; Fortune looses her grasp of Theodore of Corsica who throws his orb after his crown as it flies off on outspread wings; a British bulldog savages a Spanish wolf while a French fox runs off behind a bush; Captain Coram shows the plan of the Foundling Hospital to a woman and child seated on the ground; a Catholic ecclesiastic wrings his hands saying, "Ye have taking away my Gods, what have I more"; a man bends down to lift a chest full of "10000 pieces of Eight"; Emperor Charles VI rides on an eagle towards the finishing post, holding a shield with the British coat of arms in front of him while a shield with the fleur-de-lis falls to the ground; he is preceded by Charles Albert of Bavaria, fully armed on horseback, and carrying a shield with the motto, "Never conquered"; in front of him, a French ambassador kneels pleading with the British lion who tramples on a shield with the fleur-de-lis and prepares to fire a cannon. At lower right, Britannia pushes aside France (a woman in classical dress with a helmet, and a cock at her side holding out a paper lettered "Mediation") and points to a map showing the island of Cuba offered by a British herald and a sailor. In the background, to left, is the bay of Cadiz in which the Spanish fleet is shut up, British ships sail freely on the sea; a nymph holding a pennant lettered, "Quatuor Maria Vindico" (I claim the four seas), rides a dolphin; beyond are the island of Cuba and distant mountains. Lettering beneath on either side of a medal of a fighting cock which is itself lettereed "Aut Mors Aut Victoria" (Death or Victory)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 2449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 33 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751
Title etched below image., Figures and landmarks in this print are lettered in plate with key beneath title: A. Upnor Castle. B. The River Medway. C. Mr. Thornhill. D. Mr. Hogarth. E. Mr. Forrest. F. Mr. Tothall. G. Mr. Scott., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate for: Gosling, W. Account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons ..., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., and On page 211in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 27th 1781 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Scott, Samuel, approximately 1710-1772,, and Upnor Castle (Kent, England)
An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, drawings of ruins, rural scenes with livestock, and a pencil portrait of a girl aged about 10.
Description:
Charles Mordaunt (1771-1823), 8th Baronet, was a member of Parliament representing the constituency of Warwickshire. A Catholic and Whig, he married Marianne, daughter of William Holbech of Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire in 1807; the couple lived at Walton where they raised one son and two daughters: John Mordaunt (1808-1845), Mary Mordaunt Acland (ca. 1811-ca. 1851), and Emma Acland (1813-)., Title devised by cataloger., Drawings are dated from 1815 to 1829 and laid on 29 leaves of various colored paper. Two undated watercolors are signed by Lady Marianne Mordaunt; two other illustrations are initialled S.C.E., possibly Susan Caroline Eliot who was born in 1801. The pencil portrait is signed "M.E. by Miss Masters, 1824." A pencil sketch of a ruin on a cliff is signed F.J. as are two other watercolors with another three unsigned views. Other drawings are signed C.E.W (1824 and 1828) or C.W. Another drawing is signed "M.H. 1829"., Signed and dated drawings include: the William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, and Bound in original dark blue grained calf, initialled ‘T.[or C.]S.M.’ on front board, dated 1833 at foot of spine. Armorial bookplate initialled C.J., 1919, on front pastedown; later pencil book label of J.D. Derry, 1947, on first leaf.
