Collection Items

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    A council 1 print : engraving ; 14.1 x 21.3 cm (mount) | "An engraving showing the Privy Council, or that portion of it which was known to include "the King's Friends", seated round a table, on which lie rolls of paper, being petitions presented to the King from "Middlesex", "Buckingham", "Westminster", "Southwark", "Devonshire", "Worcester", "Exeter", "Essex", and "Kent"..." (Source: Stephens)
    • Date: 1770-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The fate of city Rem- - -ces 1 print : engraving. | "An engraving showing George III. seated at a table approached by his son, the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., who, taking off his plumed coronet, says to his father:---"Papa, I want some Paper to make a Kite"..." (Source: Stephens)
    • Date: 1770-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The courtiers assembled, on hearing the news of the death of the Rt. Honble. Wm. Beckford 1 print : etching. | Print shows a group of ministers seated around a table commenting on the news of William Beckford's death. Depicted are Jeremiah Dyson, John Montagu Sandwich, William Murray Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, Augustus Henry Grafton, John Russell Bedford, Henry Fox Holland, Lord Hillsborough (Wills Hill, Marquis of Downshire), John Stuart Bute, and possibly Thomas Thynne Bath (Viscount Weymouth).
    • Date: 1770-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the year 1770 1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows a variety of scenes relating to the politics and government of England and how their actions at home and abroad may result in the loss of the American colonies; scene numbered 24 depicts Boston, Massachusetts, as a European city and shows the industriousness of the Americans.
    • Date: 1770-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the year 1770 1 print : engraving. | Detail showing convicts consisting of lords, esquires, and attorneys, in chains, boarding ship, for transport from England to Georgia, under the reign of King George III.
    • Date: 1770-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Jefferies, in the character of Atropos, cutting the thread of English Liberty Print shows King John seated at a small table outside his tent, signing Magna Carta, behind him stand by two bishops. Four men are pulling a rope, the "thread of English Liberty", which is attached to King John's chest and passes through their hands to a spinning wheel operated by William III and beyond where it binds scrolls labeled "Habeas Corpus Act", "Free Elections",…
    • Date: 1770-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Irish peg in a rage. Make good the damage you dog, or I'll cut away your parsnip 1 print : engraving and mezzotint. | A macaroni, or an exquisite of c. 1770, walking past a burly and irate old Irish vegetable seller, upsets her mug of beer on the pavement. On this she seized him by the monstrous tail attached to his toupée, and threatens to cut it off.
    • Date: 1773-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The macarony shoe maker 1 print : engraving. | Woman seated with her leg on a stool, holding up her skirt, as a shoemaker kneels before her, about to adjust a very little shoe to her foot. She wears an enormous headdress and holds a book, The Whole Duty of Man. The shoemaker is dressed in the extreme of the macaroni fashion.
    • Date: 1770-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The village barber. L.M. (Licentiate of Medicine). L'inghilterra 1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.9 x 17.1 cm. | "An etching, representing a village barber holding a lancet in one hand, a razor in the other, and carrying a shaving dish under one arm..." (Source: Stephens)
    • Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William
    • Date: 1772
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The Auction; or modern conoisseurs 1 print : engraving. | Print depicts a group of fashionable ladies and gentleman attending an an auction. The two porters exhibit a picture turned upside down, but the audience does not notice.
    • Date: 1770-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Out of fashion. In fashion 1 print : etching. | Two gentlemen in contrasted costumes starting back amazed at each other; one wars the fashionable dress of ca. 1750, the other a large laced hat of the Kevenhuller style, a loose, wide-skirted, large cuffed coat, and a bag attached to his wig.
    • Date: 1772-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The convention makers 1 print : engraving ; 12 x 19 cm (sheet) | "The interior of a room; a picture called A Convention, depicting the Convention between England and Spain on the Falkland Islands, is falling from a broken cornice inscribed National Honour, onto four prostrate figures ... Londinia (l.) ... points out the catastrophe to the Lord Mayor and two other men. Britannia and Justice…
    • Date: 1771-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The politician 1 print : engraving. | A caricature portrait of Lord North with a gaping toothless mouth, sitting draped in a sheet, while a French hairdresser applies tongs to his hair, and appears to be whispering in his ear. The politician starts in alarm as he holds the Speaker's Warrant dated 27 Mar. 1771, to the Lieutenant of the Tower to receive the Lord Mayor…
    • Date: 1771-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Hibernia in distress] 1 print : engraving. | Print shows Hibernia, a woman representing Ireland, lying on the floor holding a broken harp, Lord Townshend is holding her down with his left foot; on the left, Lord North reaches into a money bag labeled with a harp, while Jeremiah Dyson, standing at center in the background and caricatured as a negro wearing a striped suit, says to…
    • Date: 1772-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Picture of Europe for July 1772 1 print : etching ; plate 11.3 x 17.7 cm, sheet 12.2 x 19 cm, on mount 12.9 x 19.7 cm. | Cartoon shows Catherine II, Joseph II, and Frederick II seated at table on which rests a map of Poland; standing behind them and looking over their shoulders are Charles III and Louis XV, still further back, asleep on a throne is George…
    • Date: 1772-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Venison & Claret, or Sr. Humpy. Haunch, Bart. of Glutton Hall 1 print : etching. | "A W.L. figure standing towards the left looking over his left shoulder. He is stout with an enormously protruding stomach..." (Source: George)
    • Date: 1772-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Roast beef & port or Bully Bramble Esqr., Justice of Peace in Wasp Town 1 print : etching. | "Portrait, W.L., of a stout man facing T.Q. to right, looking to left over his right shoulder. His left hand is thrust under his buttoned coat; his right (gloved) rests on a cane..." (Source: George)
    • Date: 1772-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    A macaroni French cook 1 print : engraving. | "A man dressed macaroni-fashion with an enormous looped club but wearing an apron and a conical cap approaches a cooking-stove holding a saucepan in his right hand; with his left he appears to be taking snuff..." (Source: George)
    • Date: 1772-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The cub's frolic at Holland-House or The pig basted 1 print : engraving. | "The interior of a kitchen. A pig is roasting on a spit (left) in front of a large open fire..." (Source: George)
    • Date: 1771-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Shah Allum in distress 1 print : engraving. | "A design in two compartments illustrating an article in Biblical phraseology, 'The First Chapter of the Book of Kings' and 'The Lamentations'. In the upper part is depicted a meeting of the General Court of the East India Company; the directors seated at a table on which are writing materials, a book, and a hammer. In the foreground a…
    • Date: 1773-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [The Duchess of Queensberry and Soubise] 1 print : engraving. | A fencing match between a Black man and the Duchess whose face is concealed by a fencing mask.
    • Contributor: Austin, William
    • Date: 1773-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The operation 1 print : engraving ; sheet 18.5 x 11.4 cm. | "Britannia sinks to the ground, one knee on her shield, her broken spear beside her, while blood gushes from wounds in her breast..." (Source: George)
    • Date: 1773
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    To be sold to the best bidder 1 print : engraving. | "An auctioneer holding up his hammer in his left hand, stands in his rostrum, a box supported on four legs, and reached by a ladder (left)..." (Source: George)
    • Date: 1773-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The siege of Namur by Captn. Shandy & Corporal Trim. Tris: Shan. 1 print : engraving. | One of a series of illustrations to Sterne's Tristram Shandy showing Uncle Toby marching, with crutch under his left arm, pointing with his right crutch towards the fortifications built on the bowling green, where the gate of St. Nicolas is flanked on each side by a jack-boot. In his left hand he holds the London Gazette. Trim, holding up…
    • Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William
    • Date: 1773
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The damnation of Obadiah 1 print : engraving. | One of a series of illustrations to Tristram Shandy showing Dr. Slop holding book containing the form of excommunication, and pointing at Obadiah who is disappearing, one leg and his back alone being visible. Behind Dr. Slop stands Mr. Shandy and Uncle Toby, with crutch under his left arm, pointing at map of Flanders and speaking to Corporal Trim.…
    • Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William
    • Date: 1773-01-01