A spoof?
53 D95 794
Acquired April 2018
74 762 Se457
Acquired April 2018
“Whole length caricature portrait of a man sitting on a four-legged stool in profile to the right. He has a large sharp nose. In his left hand he holds a paper inscribed “Newgate Contract”. On the ground are two papers, one inscribed “To Mr Nic”, the other, “Speech agt City Place Bill”. He is plainly and neatly dressed, his wig in a tight pigtail queue.”–British Museum online catalogue.
780.00.00.161
Acquired April 2018
“Standing whole length profile portrait of a man in an oval enclosed in a rectangle. He walks from left to right, his head thrown back, his stomach projecting. He wears spectacles, a looped hat, a large tie-wig, and holds a tasselled cane.”–British Museum online catalogue.
777.11.24.01
Acquired April 2018
A lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile sits at a table opposite a clergy man (Dr. Wilson) as she writes with a quill pen. The walls are lined with full bookshelves separated in the middle by a fireplace with a mantelpiece on which sits a bust of “Alfred rex”. Both figures wear the same enormous hair as in British Museum no. 5441.
777.05.01.08
Acquired April 2018
First lines: Albion! along they thousand hills, And through thy thousand cities, now, A spirit is abroad, that fills, The hearts of men with holiest vow …
763 820 Sa183
Acquired April 2018