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| 245 | 0 | 0 | $a Hints To J. Nollekens, Esq. R. A. On His Modelling A Bust Of Lord G******le. |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed For R. Spencer, No. 22, Great Ormond-Street. $c 1808. |
| 300 | # | # | $a 15, [1] p., frontis. (fold.); $c 236 mm. (Octavo.) |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [Frontis., t.p.] - [Text]; [colophon]. |
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$a The frontispiece is signed 'I.S. f. [i.e. James Sayers fecit]'. It carries the publisher's imprint of R. Spencer, and the date (19th July 1808). The printer is named on the t.p. verso and in the colophon: 'Printed by W. McDowall, Pemberton Row, Gough Square.' |
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$a On British caricature see R. Godfrey, ed., English caricature 1620 to the present [exhibition catalogue] (1984); M.D. George, English political caricature: a study of opinion and propaganda (2 vols., 1959). On Grenville see P. Jupp, Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 (1985); A.D. Harvey, Lord Grenville, 1759-1834: a bibliography (1989). On Nollekens M. Whinney, Sculpture in England 1530-1830 (rev. J. Physick, 1988), p.287-302; R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British sculptors 1660-1851 (forthcoming, 2005). |
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$a The text, here published anonymously, was by James Sayers. It is written in rhyming tetrameters. Under the title is a quotation, '"We understand that Mr Nollekens is now employed in modelling a Bust of Lord Grenville, as a Companion to those of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox." Daily Papers'. This identifies 'Lord G******le' as William Wyndham Grenville, baron Grenville (1759-1834), of whom Nollekens did indeed complete a marble bust in 1810 (now in the Royal Collection). Grenville had served as Foreign Secretary under his cousin William Pitt, and had been a supporter of Catholic emancipation. He afterwards made an alliance with C.J. Fox and in 1806-7 led the 'ministry of all the talents'. The frontispiece is a satiric cartoon, showing a bust being set among busts of Pitt, Fox and others. It is captioned, 'And now the point of dress adjusted / Methinks I see his Lordship busted / And with the Cross of Peter graced / Between his quondam Colleagues placed / Propose with theirs to join his pate / And form a Bust Triumvirate'. |
| 561 | # | # | $a The verso of the front free-endpaper is inscribed in pencil 'S: A: H', i.e. S. A. Hart RA, Librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81. Purchased for RA Library in 1871 (see 'Library Report for the Year 1871', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 7, p. 27). |
| 563 | # | # | $a 19th-century quarter red morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spine lettered, 'Hints To Nollekens.' |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Nollekens |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Grenville |
| 653 | # | # | $a Politicians - Sculptors - Artists - Portraitists - Great Britain - London - 19th century |
| 653 | # | # | $a Sculpture - Busts - Great Britain - London - 19th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a English poetry - Verse satire - Cartoon & satire - Satires - Political cartoons - Great Britain - 19th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Spencer $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a McDowall $e printer |