One of many satires on the morganatic marriage of George IV and Mrs. Fitzherbert. on the left Mrs. Fitzherbert as Dido sits on a funeral pyre made up of phallic-shaped logs and watches the Prince of Wales sail away in a small boat whose flag is inscribed with the word 'Windsor' [Castle]. The wind which fills the ragged sail of the boat appears to be produced by a blast from the mouths of Dundas and Pitt, whose profile heads are on the extreme left. It is directed at Dido's head, and has blown off a royal crown, an orb and sceptre, and a coronet decorated with the Prince of Wales's feathers. With a tragic gesture she holds out in her right hand a mutilated crucifix. Her breast is bare and her girdle of 'Chastity' is broken. At her feet lie emblems of Popery: a sharp-toothed harrow inscribed 'For the conversion of Heretics', shackles, a pair of birch-rods, an axe, a scourge, and a rosary and crucifix. The pyre seems to be made of money-bags. The boat is the 'Honor'; the Prince is seated between Fox, who holds the tiller, and Burke, who holds the sail; his arms are folded and he looks over his shoulder at Fox, saying, "I never saw her in my Life". Fox echoes "No, never in all his Life, Damme"; Burke, wearing a Jesuit's biretta, says "Never", and North, who sits beside him, apparently asleep, says "No, never". After the title is engraved: 'Sic transit gloria Reginae' (pardoy of "Sic transit gloria mundi"). See British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 274 x 371 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Virgil., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Folding plate (also issued separately) to 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 285, illustrating extracts from a pamphlet published by Wright: Considerable allowance to those who purchase Thousands and Tens of Thousands for distribution. A burlesque of the trial of O'Connor at Maidstone (22 May), parts of the court being hidden by the large labels which issue from the mouths of prisoner and witnesses. The presiding judge (Buller) looks down with horror at the witnesses, the other judges are hidden. O'Connor (not caricatured), wearing leg-irons, stands at the bar; his hands are clasped, and he bends forward in profile to the left, making a confession which, though condensed, does not differ substantially from that made by him, McNevin, and Emmet, and published in the Report of the Secret Committee made to the Irish House of Commons on 21 Aug. ('Lond. Chron.', 27 Aug.), ... 'I confess, that I became an United Irishman in 1796 & a Member of the National Executive, from 1796, to 1798. I knew the offer of French assistance was accepted at a meeting of the Executive in Summer 1796: I accompanied the Agent of the Executive (the late Lord Edward Fitzgerald) ...had an interview with General Hoche (who afterwards had the command of the expedition against Ireland) on which occasion every thing was settled between the parties with a view to the descent. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Caricatures of Gillray, London, John Miller, [ca. 1824-1827], opposite page 17., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland
Subject (Name):
O'Connor, Arthur, 1763-1852, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
Subject (Topic):
Emblems, Judges, Justice, Nooses, Scales, Traitors, Trials, litigation, etc, Witnesses, History, and Politics and government
Imperfect: plate [17] ("The key of the gates", known in two variations) wanting., Most of the plates are the same as in his "For children: The gates of Paradise" (engraved in 1793), but with alterations and additions., Some plates water-marked "J. Whatman 1826.", and The t.p. is of the variation with lines 5, 7-8 of the verses folowing the title reading: "Jehovahs finger Wrote the Law ... And the Dead Corpse from Sinais heat Buried beneath his Mercy Seat."
Castellini, Giovanni Zaratino Pers, D. P. (Dirck Pietersz.), ca. 1581-1662 Ripa, Cesare, 1560-1645
Published / Created:
in't jaer 1644.
Call Number:
1976 51
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
[Iconologia. Dutch]
Description:
Added engraved title page., Autograph of Jan Ameling Emmens., Colophon: t'Aemsteldam : Gedruckt by Iacob Lescaille, in 't jaer 1644., and Signatures: *6(*6 fold. over to form engr. t.p.) **2A-Llll4Mmmm2.
Publisher:
By Dirck Pietersz Pers, boeckverkooper op't Water, recht over de Kooren-merckt,
"Justice stands on a small rocky plateau surrounded by waves. She holds up a pair of scales; on one scale (left) stands the Queen, noble and dignified, in royal robes, the crown at her feet. She far outweighs the other scale, on which is a huge green bag: 'Ev[ide]nce a[gainst] [t]he [Que]en'; Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Canning stand round it, with a serpent as pendant to the crown. The Queen holds out a scroll headed 'Righ[t] ... of ... Queen' and an open book: 'Liturgy'. Castlereagh holds out to her a scroll headed '50,000 pr An'; he says: "Another Bag (now almost ready) Will make the Balance firm & steady, And certain other pond'rous stuff Will make the Lady light enough." Sidmouth flourishes a clyster-pipe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9849). Canning stands behind the Bag on the extreme right; he says: "I wish to God that I was out Of this infernal mounting Scale, For plainly I percieve a rout, And that the Lady must prevail." The Queen: "Vipers Go! I can't endure you, You wrong me I assure you, Yet still I spurn the wrong, and view, With calmness all your Bag can do." Below the title : '"Do thou inspire the stroke "With prevalence divine - as thine the wrong, "Vengeance and punishment to thee belong; "The injur'd state of Innocece [sic] restore, "Crush the bold insults of aspiring pow'r, "Shine like thy radiant source, and mak the world adore.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The new bon ton magazine, or, Telescope of the times. London : Printed for J. Johnston ..., 1818-1821., and Mounted to 36 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Volume 2, page 382.2. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of thirteen heraldic devices, each identified with the associated family or person. In the first row are four knots, below which are three rows of cognizances and badges
Description:
Title written in ink above image., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., "Plate II"--Written in upper left corner or sheet., and Mounted on page 382.2 in volume 2 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Date 1612 at end of Author's conclusion, which promises another book., Part II has special t.p.: [Band] Minerva Britanna: The Second Part ... [Woodcut of the royal arms]., and Title within architectural border.
Publisher:
Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa. Dight,
Two politicians out of office sit shivering in a garret with very downcast expressions. The man on the left writes on a paper entitled 'Abusing Administration', with other similar papers scattered at his feet and those of his partner. Their landlady presents a unpaid bill for their lodging; a tattered print pinned to the wall behind, depicting an anchor inscribed 'Hope'. Both men are much thinner than in the companion print celebrating their corrupt practices: "In place. En emploi." A tattered curtain partially obscures the diamond-paned windows. On the right shelves hold dishes and a broken candle stuck in a bottle as a lamp; below the shelves is a chair and a nearby chamber pot
Alternative Title:
Hors d'emploi
Description:
Title from caption below image, in English and French., Numbered "540" in lower left corner., Companion print numbered "539" in lower left corner: In place. En emploi., Artist from Sotheby's catalog: Watercolours by Robert Dighton, 23 February 1978, lot 32., For an earlier version of this print see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, pt. II, no. 3773., and Also included in the design is a list of ways of obtaining places.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Chamber pots, Costumes, Prices, Interiors, Furniture, and Emblems
Two politicians out of office sit shivering in a garret with very downcast expressions. The man on the left writes on a paper entitled 'Abusing Administration', with other similar papers scattered at his feet and those of his partner. Their landlady presents a unpaid bill for their lodging; a tattered print pinned to the wall behind, depicting an anchor inscribed 'Hope'. Both men are much thinner than in the companion print celebrating their corrupt practices: "In place. En emploi." A tattered curtain partially obscures the diamond-paned windows. On the right shelves hold dishes and a broken candle stuck in a bottle as a lamp; below the shelves is a chair and a nearby chamber pot
Alternative Title:
Hors d'emploi
Description:
Title from caption below image, in English and French., Numbered "540" in lower left corner., Companion print numbered "539" in lower left corner: In place. En emploi., Artist from Sotheby's catalog: Watercolours by Robert Dighton, 23 February 1978, lot 32., For an earlier version of this print see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, pt. II, no. 3773., Also included in the design is a list of ways of obtaining places., No. 29 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., 1 print: mezzotint, on laid paper, sheet 35.2 x 25.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Chamber pots, Costumes, Prices, Interiors, Furniture, and Emblems
