Title etched above image., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '23' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to George II -- Reference to Lord Anson -- Reference to British lion., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 29, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Strand
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778
Iohn Bull and his sister Peg and John Bull and his sister Peg
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy, without verse, of No. 3904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Scots., and Window mounted to 25 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Treaty of Paris, Emblems, Apes, Foxes, Geese, and Shoemakers
Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are fighting. On each is a flag large out of all proportion to the soldiers. There are also a train of artillery, and a number of tents. All the men in the redoubts are dressed as British soldiers but are firing point-blank at each other; their three flags are decorated respectively with an ape, with two women holding darts of lightning, and with a goose."--British Museum online catalogue and "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5335. Evidently intended to satirize the fighting at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. For similar satires on hair-dressing see British Museum Satires No. 5378, apparently a parody of this print."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
America's head dress and America's headdress
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Second of two plates on leaf 56.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and England
Subject (Topic):
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, History > Revolution, 1775-1783, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Muffs, Soldiers, British, Flags, Apes, and Geese
Charles Fox, with a fox's body, sits on the ground facing a building inscribed, "The Treasury," with the entrance signed, "Back door." He laments the loss of power and his inability to "get oer this mighty Pit [i.e., William Pitt]" shown as a large oval hole in the ground in front of him. Six geese stand on the other side of the 'pit' ridiculing him. A reference to the struggle between Pitt and Fox in Parliament prior to its dissolution
Alternative Title:
Fox in the dumps
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 26th, 1784 as the act directs by S. Neele, 352 near Exeter Change Strand
"A stout farmer rides (left to right) past an inn on a cow. The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Ho[rses]'. The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn, and snaps his fingers, saying, "Pitt be D------d". A basket containing poultry hangs from the saddle. Part of the inn is on the left of the design, its sign is a stout man holding a foaming tankard gazing at three sacks, inscribed 'Joe Jolly 1784' (a '7' appears to have been etched over the '4'). Five amused spectators stand by the door; from a window above two men applaud the farmer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue of a print originally published in 1784., Pitt's budget of 1784 imposed an annual tax of 10s. on saddle- and carriage-horses, exempting those used for trade and agriculture. On 27 November 1784 one Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to and from the market of Stockport in protest against the horse-tax. See Chambers, 'Book of Days', ii. 627, where there is a copy of a similar print., and For a variant state, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Volume 2, page 68. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man rides (right to left) a violently shying horse, passing on the near side a two-wheeled farmer's cart, driving left to right, in which are seated a man and woman, the backs of their heads being visible. The front part of the cart is cut off by the right edge of the design. The horseman wears a naval uniform, his hat flies off, he tugs at his rein with both hands. He is attempting to pass between the cart and a steep bank. At the back of the cart a goose puts its head through a basket to hiss at the horse. A dog barks at the bird."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Gambado, G. Academy for grown horsemen. London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., and Mounted on page 68 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Military uniforms, Carriages & coaches, Geese, and Dogs
"Lord Amherst in profile to the right in general's uniform rides a prancing horse, holding up a large sword, dripping with the blood of two geese, one of which lies dead beside him, the other staggers, with its neck slashed. Beneath the design is engraved: "If I had Power, Id kill 20 in an Hour."Behind, red-coats on horses with drawn swords are indicated among clouds of smoke. Behind and on the left a large square house is on fire, flames coming from the windows."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord Amherst on duty
Description:
Title etched above image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. accg to act June 12. 1780 by M Darly 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Military uniforms, British, and Geese
"A woman, elderly, short, and broad, with swarthy Jewish features, stands, her head turned in profile to the right, holding a goose perched on her forefinger. In her right hand is the end of a ribbon attached to its leg. She says: "Say little foolish Fluttering thing". Her head is covered with dark curls in which are flowers and a ribbon. She wears a short-waisted dress, with the slashed and vandyked bodice associated with the stage or (in caricature) with Spain. The background, with cast shadows, suggests the stage."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Printseller's identification mark located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Leaf 62. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An old Parson, of Dr. Syntax type, falls into the water from his horse which rolls in the stream. His hat, wig, and 'Funeral Sermon' are in the water, where a dog chases geese. On a rustic bridge (right) two women and a child are watching in alarm, a milk-pail falls from the head of one of them. In the background (left) two horses gallop up a slope pursued by a dog, one rider loses his seat, the other his hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling and Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him on the road, proceeds very coolly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your remonstrances., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10837 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 121., and On leaf 62 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Falling, Accidents, Bodies of water, Horses, Dogs, Geese, Pedestrian bridges, and Pails
