"The young man sitting on a sofa with his arm around the shoulders of a prostitute, clinking glasses with her and another prostitute wearing a plumed hat who sits on the right; at a table set with decanters of wine and dishes of fruit."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prodigal son reveling with harlots
Description:
Title from item., One line of text below title: He wasted his substance with riotous living., Numbered 'Plate 2' in lower right of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture -- Glass: liquor bottles -- Food -- Bible: quotation from Luke, 15.V.13.
Publisher:
Published 12th April, 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Prodigal son (Parable) in art, Tables, Chairs, Wallpapers, Eating & drinking, Fruit, Alcoholic beverages, Bottles, and Jewelry
"George IV (three-quarter length), surrounded by admiring Ministers, holds up a big extinguisher made of paper and inscribed 'Speech from the Throne', which he is about to place over a crowd of tiny Jacobins who surround the Queen and Alderman Wood. All these 'Lilliputians' are on a round table, whose top forms the base of the design except on the right. The terrified Jacobins fall on to papers inscribed 'Libels', 'Address' [twice], 'Sedition'. Alderman Wood steps on the back of one in a frantic effort to escape with the Queen whom he holds in his arms. She is a fat virago, holding up a fire-brand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13895) inscribed 'Sedition', whose smoke rises into the extinguisher, and a large money-bag, '50 000 per Ann', labelled 'Crumbs of Consolation'. Other Jacobins flee to left and right, escaping the extinguisher, but either falling calamitously from the table, or about to be grasped by the hand of Eldon who sits at the table (left). They have banners and caps of Liberty on poles (or pikes). Among the fugitives is a Don Quixote (left) in armour, wearing Mambrino's helmet, galloping off on horseback, holding a banner. A terrified Jacobin (right) drops a 'Tailors Adress'. Ministers watch the approaching extinction with pleasure: Eldon has a grim smile, Sidmouth and Castlereagh behind him register, one eager delight, the other bland satisfaction. Wellington (right), close behind the King, smiles triumphantly, Liverpool beside him, is in profile, surprised, pleased, and imbecile. The King, three-quarter length, is a cynical Adonis, in military uniform. Behind his head is a framed picture: an irradiated sun containing features dispels dark clouds, putting bats, serpent, owl, &c., to flight; beside it is a dark disk containing the features of the Queen, in eclipse (reversing the situation in British Museum Satires No. 14012)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians and King of Brobdingnag and the Lilliputians
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of quoted text below title: "Confound their politick's, frustrate their knavish tricks." "God save the king"!, Text above image: Ah! ha! Madam Q-!, Monsr. W! Messrs. Radicals, Addressers, & Co.!! Where are you now?!!! Ah ha! ha! ha! ha!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 33 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 7th, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Fire extinguishers, Tables, Crowds, Documents, Torches, Money, Banners, Liberty cap, and Military uniforms
Satirical view of London life, with a riotous wedding party at the Tavern at Rederiff: for full description see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum
Description:
Title from item., John June identified as the printmaker in the British Museum catalogue,, Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: Jack, rich in prizes, now the knot is ty'd, sits pleas'd by her he thinks his maiden bride ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Officer's uniform -- Sailor's uniform -- Pictures amplifying subject: Skimmington procession -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of the Duke of Cumberland -- Pictures: portraits -- Creditors.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, November [the] 10, 1747, by M. Cooper
Title from item., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: Jack, rich in prizes, now the knot is ty'd, sits pleas'd by her he thinks his maiden bride ..., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: Skimmington procession -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of the Duke of Cumberland -- Creditors., and Loose impression removed from the Kinnaird Coll.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, November [the] 10, 1747, by M. Cooper
Subject (Topic):
Amputees, Bailiffs, Black people, Bowls (Tableware), Candlesticks, Clergy, Dance, Military uniforms, British, Mirrors, Musical instruments, Pipes (Smoking), Portratis, Prostitutes, Sconces, Servants, Tables, Violins, and Weddings
Leaf 106. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A portly man sits in a chair at a small round table, a baluster glass in his right hand and another on the table. The spoon or ladle held in his left hand rests within the bowl in front of him. He wears a large coat and a tricorne
Alternative Title:
Tippling squire
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Squires -- Posset-cup and spoon -- Posset glasses -- Tipling -- Furniture: Small round table with pedestal -- Male costume: Large buttons on coat cuff., and Third of three plates on leaf 106.
"Satire on the professions of medicine, law and the church with three practitioners in a well furnished interior disputing which is the superior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document; the clergyman a book letterd "Bals. Soul" and the physicial a phial lettered, "Bals. Life". Pictures on the wall show, men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tythes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside. Verses below with scrolling calligraphic decoration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., and Sixteen lines of verse in two columns below title: Law, physick, and divinity, contend which shall superior be ...
William Pitt, in a dramatic pose, reaches up with his right hand for a sword presented to him by three cherubs encouraging him to defend King and country. With his other hand he indicates a volume inscribed, "Locke on the human understanding" on the table behind him. Above the table hangs a portrait of Lord Chatham. Members and supporters of the North-Fox coalition look on through an open window, gathered under a flag labeled "The Harmonic Society."
Description:
Title from item., Under title: "Third sketch"., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 18, 1784, as the act directs by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Tables, Daggers & swords, and Clothing & dress
Volume 2, page 92. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Kitchen scene with a woman standing over a table at left with knife in hand, displaying a diamond in her palm to a man and young boy, a figure at right seen from behind leaving the room, above a bird-cage hangs; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image, enclosed within parentheses., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 92 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Pub'd April 10th, 1795, by W. Dickinson, No. 53 next York House, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Kitchens, Tables, Knives, Fish, Diamonds, Fireplaces, Birdcages, and Boys
