"Satire on Bute's alleged sale of public positions paralleled with Earl Talbot's introduction of economies into the royal household. An auction is taking place in a large kitchen where, in the centre, Talbot, Lord Steward of the Household, instructs the auctioneer's clerk at a table beneath the podium. On the left, three cooks, one a Frenchman planning to leave for Calais to work for "Monsr. Grandsire", are mocked by a Scot for not being able to make haggis; another cook brandishing a gridiron and two ladles stands in front of the fireplace in which stands only a cracked pot filled with thistles. On the right, a poor man plans to bid for "old rags or broken glass", and a stout middle-class woman plans to purchase a ladle to beat her husband, while Princess Augusta and Lord Bute converse intimately; the Princess points suggestively to a large pot resting with other utensils on the floor. In the background, a chaplain laments the lack both "of victuals and of grace"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Catalogue of the kitchen furniture of John Bull Esqr. leaving of house-keeping now selling by auction
Description:
Title etched above image., Questionable artist attribution to Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,1.48., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Eighteen lines of verse in three columns below image: When Housekeeping fails which at present is true ..., "Price 6d"--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly mounted on blue paper with residue on back.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Royal households, Accounting, Auctions, Cooks, and Kitchens
Manuscript in a single hand with a room-by-room inventory of the contents of Castle Hill Lodge which was owned by Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent. The inventory was taken presumably shortly after his marriage, and the contents listed reflect the high Regency taste of the owner. The Duke had purchased the Lodge in 1801 from his sister-in-law Mrs. FitzHerbert and had spent thousands of pounds for improvements commissioned from James (?) Wyatt. In addition to the detailed listing of the Duke's private rooms and the formal rooms, the inventory includes servants' quarters, outhouses, barracks, and concludes with an inventory "of sundry articles not comprised in the foregoing inventory."
Description:
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, was the fourth son of Great Britain's King George III and Queen Charlotte and father of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). He married Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld on 29 May 1818., The firm Tatham & Baily was founded in the 1780s and had premises at 14 Mount Street. The original parnership was between George Elward and William Marsh with Edward Baily joining the firm in 1793 and Thomas Tatham in 1798., In English., Title from item., Some blank pages and numbering irregularities., Binding: reversed calf., Paper watermarked: C. Ball 1816., Stationer's label on inside front cover: Robert Hoffman, Stationer to the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Middlesex (England)
Subject (Name):
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, Wyatt, James, 1746-1813., and Castle Hill Lodge (Middlesex, England)
Manuscript, in primarily one hand, of a collection of several hundred documents related to the office of the Master of the Revels, including printed matter, engravings, and handwritten notes. The volume contains historical information pertaining to the office, including engravings of the armorial insignia of the office of master of revels; a printed history of the word "revel"; and salaries of the Master, his assistants, and numerous musicians. The manuscript also contains numerous notes, biographies, and other documents related to individual Masters, including an original letter the Lord High Chancellor and Lord Chamberlain of H. M. Household, 1662 by Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels to Charles I and Charles II; a list of names in his hand; a genealogy of the family of George Buck, Master of the Revels to James I; newspaper clippings about Thomas Killigrew; an engraved bookplate which is signed "Charles Killigrew his Book"; and a colored engraving of Sir Henry Guildford, Lord Chamberlain to King Henry VIII. Pasted into the front of the manuscript is the printed auction catalogue from Sotheby's, containing an entry for this volume
Description:
Partial finding aid available., In English., Title from p. 7., Binding: half morocco over marbled boards. On spine: Historical collections relative to the office of the Master of Revels. J. H. Burn., and Marbled endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, and England
Subject (Name):
Buck, George, Sir, 1560-1622., Burn, Jacob Henry, -1869., Herbert, Henry, Sir, 1595-1673., Killigrew, Charles, 1655-1724 or 1725., and Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683.
Subject (Topic):
English drama, History, Royal households, Theater, Women authors, and Officials and employees
Manuscript, in a single hand, providing charts, summaries, and personal observations on French finances during the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War. The volume includes a list of the ordinary revenues and expenses of the king; ordinary military expenses; and an extensive section addressing war finance, including yearly summaries of money raised in France between 1756 and 1762, with notes of royal edicts, such as a lottery in 1756, and other edicts levying extraordinary taxes to pay for the war. The volume also contains sections on the finances of the clergy and the court of Rome; and occasional references to the American colonies and the Compagnie des Indes
Description:
In French., Table of contents at beginning of manuscript., On title page: Etat actuel des affaires Generalles Concernant les finances du Royaume de france. Qui constate Les Revenues et Deperses ordinaires du Roy avec Les affaires extraodinaires faittes en france depuis et comprisant 1756 jusqu'a la fin de 1762 au sujet de la guerre..., Binding: full calf. In gilt on spine: Mss. Finances de France., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
France and United States
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774. and France. Sovereign (1715-1774 : Louis XV)
Subject (Topic):
Appropriations and expenditures, Finance, History, Royal households, Economic aspects, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, and Politics and government
