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• Title:A catalogue of the kitchin furniture of John Bull Esqr. leaving of house-keeping now selling by auction [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street, [1762]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 23.3 x 31 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 762.00.00.153
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Formerly mounted on blue paper with residue on back.
    
  • Provenance:Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books; April 2016.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:laid paper.
  
• Notes: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.
  
• Summary:"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.
  
• Variant and related titles:Catalogue of the kitchen furniture of John Bull Esqr. leaving of house-keeping now selling by auction
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 3990
  
• Subjects:Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Royal households--Great Britain--Accounting.
  Auctions.
  Cooks.
  Kitchens.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1762.
  Etchings--England--London--1762.
  Engravings--England--London--1762.
  
• Also listed under:O'Neale, Jefferyes Hamett, -1801, attributed name.
  Williams, John, active 1767-1772, publisher.