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[Frontispiece to ode to the hero of Finsbury Square;...]
Description
English: From the 'Ode ['ut supra'] . . ., by Peregrine Pindar'. James Lackington climbs into a coach, looking over his right shoulder at a group of jeering bystanders (right). His right foot rests on a pile of three large books: 'Bible', 'Tillotson', 'Common Prayer'. Under his right arm is a large volume, 'My Own Memoirs'. From his pocket protrudes a paper: 'Puffs & Lies for my Book'. On the coach are the letters 'J L'. The coachman, on the extreme left, looks down at his master with amusement, his hammer-cloth is inscribed: 'Small Profits do great Things'. In the foreground is an open book, on one page an oval portrait, on the other: 'The first 40 years of the Life of I L'. This a dog is befouling. The spectators are a barber's boy holding a wig, a butcher, an old woman, and three men. Behind them is a large corner house, Lackington's 'Temple of the Muses' in Finsbury Square. Across it runs the inscription '5000 Pr Ct cheaper than any Bookseller in the World'. From three open sash-windows amused spectators look down on Lackington. Others stand on the flat roof, from which rises a tower with a large flag. 12 August 1795
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Depicted people Associated with: Lackington & Co
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 243 millimetres
Width: 190 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6460
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Lackington (1746-1815) published in 1791 the 'Memoirs', which are satirized in the 'Ode' (B.M.L. 644. k. 24/12); they describe his successful career as a bookseller by means of selling cheaply for cash, and his pleasure at setting up a country house and coach (on which the motto was 'Small profits do great things', op. cit., p. 234). His shop, 'The Temple of the Muses', at the corner of Finsbury Square, was one of the sights of London. Charles Knight, 'Shadows of the Old Booksellers', 1865, pp. 282-3. Cf. BMSat 9085.
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