A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
Description:
Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., and Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
Description:
Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it., and Sheet trimmed to 346 x 248 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
An etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
M-n-st-l Monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy and Ministrial monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy
Description:
Title from text etched at top of second plate. and On page 295 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint: 18.8 x 25.2 cm.
An etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
M-n-st-l Monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy and Ministrial monster address'd to the friends of Old England' by Sybilla Prophecy
A prosperous farmer, who leans on his walking stick as he stands over his chubby, young worker who is caught resting under a tree; he scratches his head as he leans up on his elbow. His scythe is half-hidden in the left foreground. On the right in the distance, a woman and two other young men rake the hayfield. The farmer's dog sniffs the ground, right foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '351' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: Farmer. You lazy rascal what do you do here, why don't you work? such a fellow as you does not deserve the sun to shine on him. Haymaker. Indeed Master I thought so, therefore I've lain myself down in the shade., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Farmers, Hay, Laziness, and Raking (Sweeping)
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1771]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 34.8 x 24.2 cm, folded to 31 x 24.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 49 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1771]
Call Number:
771.10.01.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1771]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., On leaf 26., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.4 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
"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
