The Gothamites in council [graphic] : humbly inscribed to the geese in disgrace sometime call'd the honest men of P-h.

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Feb. 21, 1751, by Dan Job, stationer in King Street, Covent Garden
[21 February 1751]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, on laid paper ; sheet 24 x 36 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Frederick George Stephens, v. 3, no. 3117

Notes:

Title etched above image.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
"Price one shilling."
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Two black geese of middle age, by some thought cunning, few thought sage ...
Caption in the lower left corner of plate: In the porch the emblems of disappointment, malice, envy ...
Caption in the lower right corner of plate: **A cuckow with an asse's head singing his own wise productions.
Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth: Municipal Council as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The farmer and the snake' -- Burgesses as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The dog and the shadow' -- Literature: The geese in disgrace, a tale. Portsmouth : printed by W. Horton, for J. Wilkinson, 1751 -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Gangs of sailors -- Taverns: 'The Hercules's Pillars', Portsmouth -- Shops: Agent for Prizes -- Navy: ships -- Ships: Centurion, at anchor in Portsmouth, 1751 -- Maps: map of Nova Scotia -- Map of Gibraltar -- Allusion to trade with Newfoundland -- Furniture: dining chairs -- Lancets -- Postillion blowing horn -- Gothamites -- Aldermen -- Birds: hen and chicks -- Storks -- Eagle grasping fulmen -- Cuckoo with ass's head -- Dining tables -- Trades: surgeon, as a goose -- Medicine: in bottles -- Wheelbarrows -- Emblems -- Trade with Lima, 1751 -- Personifications: Covetousness, Disappointment, Malice, Envy -- Medical procedures: bleeding.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-2-1.
Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Mounted to 30 x 47 cm.
Watermark.

Associated Names:

Job, Daniel, fl. 1750-1753 [Publisher]

Topics:

Boat & ship industry
Carpentry
Forts & fortifications
Harbours
Horseback riding
Light fixtures
Mortars & pestles
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns)

Topics:

Portsmouth (England)

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1751
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1751
Watermarks (Paper)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

751.02.21.01+

Orbis Record:

8617485

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr01501

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10714490

PID:

digcoll:553264