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[John Nichols.]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[John Nichols.]
Description
English: Frontispiece from Wolcot's 'Benevolent Epistle to Sylvanus Urban alias Master John Nichols, Printer, . . . 1790'. Nichols (left) has just risen in anger from his chair and looks to the left, resting his clenched fists on two large volumes placed on a small roughly made table, on which is also an ink-pot with pens. These are 'Q. Eliz: Prog:' and 'Anecdotes of Mr B.' [Bowyer]. In the background is Parnassus, with the Temple of Fame, on which is poised a figure of Fame blowing a trumpet. Against the mountain rests a tall ladder up which a dog has scrambled, but is still far from the summit. A man on stilts advances towards the mountain, an 'Essay on Old Maids' projects from his pocket, showing that he is William Hayley; a paper inscribed 'Eudora' falls from him. On the ground are: a letter 'ToMr.N--c--ll'; a book: 'Gentlemans Magazine', and papers; 'Charade', 'Conundrum Riddle', 'Rebus', 'Mr Badcocks Letters'. Beneath the design is engraved:



'With anger foaming and of vengeance full,
Why belloweth John Nichols like a bull?' [op. cit., p. 5.] [1790]


Etching
Depicted people Associated with: Samuel Badcock
Date circa 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 257 millimetres
Width: 203 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1873,0712.850
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Wolcot attacks Nichols for his literary works and for his management of the 'Gentleman's Magazine'; he mentions 'the Life of old Bowyer' (1782) and 'the Progress of Queen Elizabeth' (1788) as books which 'would not sell', p. 18 and n. He speaks of 'Hayley's tinsel stuff' (p. 14), Hayley being 'a constant contributor' to the 'Gentleman's Magazine' 'in the way of ingenious rhyme and liberal criticism' (p. 4, n.). Samuel Badcock (1747-88) was also a contributor to the 'Gentleman's Magazine'.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 281.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-0712-850
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