Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., and Mounted to 42 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., and Mounted on page 31 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 31.1 x 22.8 cm, on sheet 33.3 x 24.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 19 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark: E & P 1801.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier proof state
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date from description of proof state in the British Museum catalogue., For a proof state before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image, see no. 7188 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Personification -- Mythology -- Pindar's Ode for a new year.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Proof state, before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image., Lettered state of this plate is the frontispiece to: Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], and Mounted on verso of leaf 13 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Proof state, before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image., Lettered state of this plate is the frontispiece to: Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 20.0 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 20.8 x 25.7 cm., Alerternative title written in ink in a contemporary hand below image: Pindars Pegasus., Statement of responsibility, "T. Rowlandson fecit," written in later hand below image in lower left; identifications of the figures written below plate mark in the same hand., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Proof state, before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image., Lettered state of this plate is the frontispiece to: Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17.1 x 22.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
Volume 2, page 44. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"During a meal, a man falls back from his stool with arms waving and eyes wide with terror, a black servant behind leans towards him with bared teeth and hands raised to echo his actions, the choking watched with barely concealed delight by a man sitting on the edge of a bed at right, a woman standing beside him clearing the table; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Petit bossu en dinant avec le tailleur s'etoufe en avalant une arrête : Les contes arabs
Description:
Titles from text in English and French below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 44 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1787, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Falling, and Servants