A satire ridiculing the first Nootka Convention in which Spain conceded England's right to maintain outposts in Nootka Sound and engage in whaling outside a "ten-league line" off the Northwest coast of North America. In a small row boat on the Pacific and facing the west coast of North American, Pitt stands fishing with a rod baited with a sack labelled "3 million genl. elc." Beside him in the boat is Henry Dundas holding another sack labelled "million gen. elec" and beside him in the back of the boat, a third sack also labelled "million gen elec." Selected points along the shore from the Sea of Kamtschatka and Bristol Bay (north) to New Mexico are identified with no attempt to convey a sense of scale: Nortons Sound, Alaska, Cooks River, Ps. William Sound, Spanish Land, Nootka or King Georges Sound, New Albion, California. Off the coast of Alaska are shown the islands Arako and Foxes Is. Whales surface above the water inside the buoys with flags reading "10 leagues." In the upper left is a galley "Convention." Pitt says "I fear Harry the fishing will never answer." Dundas replies, "Never mind tha Billy the gudgeons we have caught in England will pay for all."
Alternative Title:
Cheap way to catch whales
Description:
Title etched above image., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: The hostile nations view with glad surprise, the frugal plans of minsters so wise, but they the censure of the world despise, sure from their faithfull commons of suplies [sic], convinced that man must fame immortal gain, Who first dare fish with millions in the Spanish Main., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1791, by H. Humphries, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Great Britain., Great Britain, Spain., and North Pacific Ocean.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Whaling, Fishing, Galleys (Ships), Maps, Ships, and Whales
"A gaily-dressed young woman sculling a naval officer who sits in the stern, holding his cane in the water and looking through a single eye-glass at a swan accompanied by a cygnet. A King Charles dog puts its paws on the edge of the boat and looks at the swan. The admiral is in naval uniform with a pigtail queue. The lady wears a feathered hat tilted forward on her high-dressed hair and a low-cut bodice; on the stern of the boat is a design of a cupid riding on a dolphin. The water winds among lawns, trees, and bushes. In the middle distance two ladies are fishing; one holds a rod over the water, the other, seated beside her, holds up a fish."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Admiral Purblind just run a-ground by Peggy Pullaway
Description:
Title from item. and Publication date erased from plate. Date conjectured from another, smaller version. See no. 5819 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from street address., Sheet trimmed within platemark., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 5th. 1829. by S. Gans Southhampton Street
Manuscript on paper of The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle, attributed to Dame Juliana Berners
Description:
In Middle English., Watermarks: unidentified hand., Script: Written by a single scribe in a bold English secretary script., Simple flourishes and initial strokes, in red., Stains throughout, some obscuring text. Severe trimming has resulted in loss of marginalia., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Russia leather, gold-tooled, by C. Lewis in 1823. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Fishing, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Title from caption below images., Design composed of two panels separated by a space with text: Wide as the poles asunder., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to temperance -- Representation of evils -- Virtues., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 70.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and A. Ducotè lithog. 10, St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Families, Fish, Fishing, Gin, Vice, and Water
An album of amateur drawings, with scenes in Kent, East Sussex, Hertfordshire and Surrey. The artist, only identified with the initials 'S.G.L.', provides titles and dates for the majority of the drawings. The first group (thirteen in all) dated 1828 are views in Kent, Sussex, and Hertfordshire, including Leeds Castle, Hythe, Sandgate, Rye, Pevensey Castle, Tunbridge Wells, St. Albans, and Hatfield. The second, larger group of drawings are scenes in and round the village of Bletchingley (sometimes Bletchingly) in Surrey, depicting village life -- for example, the 'Church Yard', 'Parsonage', 'Farm Yard', landscapes with farm houses, country lanes, bridges, and people fishing, andc. -- and include both people and animals. Other views of places in the vicinity are scenes in Nutfield, London Road, Bletchingley from London Road, Rabbit Heath, et cetera All the drawings in or around Bletchingley (thirty-nine in total) are dated between August 14th and October 14th 1829. Several of the drawings are on blue paper and are highlighted with white chalk, conveying a nocturnal quality to the scene. A final group of ten undated, untitled drawings also depict rural scenes, presumably in southeastern England
Alternative Title:
Bletchingley S.G.L. 1828-1829
Description:
In English., Title from contemporary manuscript note on front cover., Album bound in three-quarter leather with marbled-paper boards, with the title written in black ink on front board: Bletchingly S.G.L. 1828 1829. Also with a dark-green morocco spine label gilt-stamped: S.G.L. Bletchingley 1828-29. On front pastedown: a label manuscript note "Laura" scored through and then "Alice" written above., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Bletchingley (England), East Sussex (England), Kent (England), Hertfordshire (England), Surrey (England), England, Surrey., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Country lif, Bridges, Castles & palaces, Fishing, City & town life, and Villages
