"Interior of the council chamber, in session; large paintings adorn walls below dome with skylight."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 42., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 116.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Novr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Guildhall (London, England) and City of London (England). Court of Common Council.
Roberts, P. (Piercy), active 1785-1824, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1803?]
Call Number:
803.00.00.53+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Lord Mayor sits (right) in profile to the left in a chair of state facing a city officer in a long gown holding a wand who leads in a file of five amused 'cits', three men and two women. The officer says: "Here are a number of People brought before your Honor, by your Honor's Order, for not keeping the pavement clean before their Houses in Frosty Weather - according to the Act of Parliament for that purpose; but the worst of all is - here is a Worthy Alderman, lays information, that the pavement before your Honor's Door is as much neglected as any of the rest - and moreover says that he himself had a fall there in the late Frost, which shook him so much, that he has been unable to digest Turtle or Venison ever since - A material injury to one of the Body Corporate." The alderman, who heads the file, clasps an enormous paunch. The Mayor answers, proffering a coin: "Well, Well, if that is the case, take my five Shillings, and say no more about the Business." The Mayor wears spectacles and a chain of office; he has not the plebeian appearance of the alderman and his companions. (Charles Price was Lord Mayor 1802-3.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Whimsical information
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Price, Charles, Sir, 1748-1818
Subject (Topic):
Mayors, Municipal officials, Queues, Chairs, Robes, Staffs (Sticks), Coins, and Eyeglasses
"A civic feast: men sit on each side of a table whose ends are cut off by the margins of the print. Four men sit on a bench on the near side of the table: a short man (left) in regimentals, his hair or wig in a long pigtail queue, probably an officer in the city militia, drinks from a tankard. Next him a man in bag-wig and laced coat is waggishly pouring the contents of a sauce-boat into the coat-pocket of the man on his right hand, who, quite unconscious of this, is stuffing into his other pocket provisions abstracted from the table. The man on the extreme left lifts his glass in his left hand, looking across to the man at the opposite corner of the table, who stands to return his toast. On the farther side of the table are six men. A waiter serves a stout man with wine. The wall of the room forms the background: in the centre is a chimney-piece, over which is the seated three quarter length portrait of a Lord Mayor wearing his civic chain and smoking a long pipe; his elbow rests on a table and on a document "Pro Magna Charta". An open book is "Lord Littleton on Co[ke]". On each side of the chimney-piece hang hats, one with a tasselled cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher dates from British Museum catalogue., See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, no. 6135 in v. 5 for later state which changes to imprint., and Partial watermark top center of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 21st, 1784, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 (opposite Salisbury Court) Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Banquets, Eating & drinking, Drinking vessels, Fireplaces, Dining rooms, Municipal officials, Pipes (Smoking), Tableware, and Waiters
Title from item., Design for this print attributed to Yarbury. See British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Bush(?), fi. 1763 -- Morton(?), fl. 1763 -- Laurence, fl. 1763 -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright , 1725-1794 -- Allusion to Richard Nash, 1674-1761 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d. 1776 -- Chapman, d. 1781(?) -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Walter Wiltshire, fl. 1763 -- Spurrier, fl. 1763 -- Attwood, fl. 1763 -- Axford, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Dallamore, fl. 1763 -- Corporation of Bath -- Literature: allusion to Life of Richard Nash of Bath, Esquire, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774 -- Literature: quotation from Henry IV, pt. 1, ii.4.153, by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Addresses: Bath citizens' address, May 28, 1763 -- Addresses: quotation from Allen's address, The gentleman's magazine, v. 33, p. 376-7, August 1763 -- Bath: Prior Park -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Magna Charta., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Leake, James, -1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Warburton, William, 1698-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clerks, Mayors, Medical equipment & supplies, Municipal officials, Occupations, Physicians, and Town criers
"The King, plainly dressed in black, tries to hide, ostrich-like, from the two Sheriffs of London, who kneel before him, holding their wands of office. The foremost, on both knees, his hand on his heart, says: We are deputed by the Corporation to wait upon your M----ty most humbly to know when it will be convenient to receive the dutiful address of your M----tys ancient and loyal City of London. The second sheriff, less obsequious, says: The Citizens are suprised at yr M----tys Backwardness, the Corporation looks blue, and the Lord Mayor is in a Brown Study. The King, poised on his toes, stoops over the throne, a plain arm-chair, as if to take cover, looking behind him from the corners of his averted eyes. He says: I'm not at home. An elderly Lord Chamberlain, also in black, leans forward on tiptoe, supporting himself on the back of the throne, one arm held out above the King's bent back with a gesture of negation to the Sheriffs and protection to the King, saying, He say's "he's not at home! The title is centred by two heraldic turtles and the City's motto: Domini Direge Nos [sic].."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher Thomas McLean was located at 26 Haymarket in 1827. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 31 x 46.4 cm.
"Stylised representation of the Lord Mayor's procession, framing a blank space in the centre of the sheet; two rows of figures at the top, 7 groups one above the other to either side, and the City Counsel on foot, the Aldermen and Lord Mayor on horseback forming the bottom of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., "No. 79"--Lower right corner., The 35 numbered sections of the procession zigzag doen the sheet beginning with the 1) Armourers, 2) Leathersellers, 3) Pioneers, 4) Granadiers [sic], [4] Artillery, 5-6) 2d Division, 7-8) 3d Division, 9-10) Salters, 11-12) Salters, 13-14) Slaters, 15-16) Coopers, 17-18) Coopers, 19-20) Band of Petitionsers, 21-22) Kings Trumpets &c., 23-24) Coopers, 25-26) Coopers, 27-28) City Musick, 29-30) Officers, 31-32) Officers, 33-34) City Counsel, Aldermen, Lord Mayor., and Blank space at center of print has been filled in with manuscript poetry given the heading 'Christmas' at top and signed and dated by "John Lewis, 1742" at bottom. The first of the three sections of verse is taken from the second and third cantos of Waller's Of divine love; the other quotations are from the Fourth Eclogue of John Ogilby's seventeenth-century translation of Virgil.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament Novemr. the 4th, 1742, and sold by James Cole engraver in Great Kirby Street, Hatton Garden
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Willimott, Robert, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, City council members, Coopers, Mayors, Municipal officials, Musicians, Occupations, Parades & processions, Soldiers, and British
