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1. Copenhagen House [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 November 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.11.16.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A large and plebeian crowd is being addressed from three roughly made platforms, one being in the middle distance, another in the background. In the foreground (right) a man, supposed to be Thelwall, leans from his rostrum in profile to the left, shouting, with clenched fists, and raised right arm. Behind him stands a ragged barber, a comb in his lank hair, holding out a paper: 'Resolutions of the London Corresponding Society'. Next him, a man with the high-crowned hat and bands of a dissenting minister holds a tattered umbrella over the orator. A man on the steps leading to the platform, wearing a bonnet-rouge (the only one in the crowd) has a vague resemblance to Fox. From the next platform (left) a butcher, supposed to be Gale Jones, bawls at the crowd with raised right arm. Beside him stand a man holding a scroll inscribed 'Rights of Citizens'. The third orator is a tiny figure (Hodgson) with both arms raised. All the platforms are surrounded by crowds, and hats and arms are being waved by those addressed by the butcher. In the foreground (left) a man sits holding out for signature a document which is supported on a barrel of 'Real Democratic Gin by Thelwal & Co.' Three little chimney-sweepers stand round it, one of whom, holding a pen, has just made his mark on the 'Remonstrance', below the signatures of 'Jack Cade', 'Wat Tyler', 'Jack Straw'. All wear caps with the name of their master on a brass plate (according to the Chimney-Sweepers' Act of 1788); this is 'Thelwall'. A fat woman sells a dram to one of the crowd. Another presides over a portable roulette or E.O. table, a 'teetotum', inscribed 'Equality & no Sedition Bill'; three barefooted urchins are staking their pence. The heads in general do not appear to be portraits, but in the centre of the design, with his back to the woman selling drams, is Priestley, caricatured, standing with folded arms facing Thelwall. There is a landscape background with trees up which spectators have climbed. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One line of quoted text, running on both sides of title: "I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap upon it." Shakspeare., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 16th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Jones, John Gale, 1769-1838, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Hodgson, Richard, 1760-1816, and London Corresponding Society.
- Subject (Topic):
- Freedom of the press, Meetings, Petition, Right of., Sedition, Political crimes and offenses, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Crowds, Podiums, Political parades & rallies, and Working class
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Copenhagen House [graphic]
2. Impeachment ticket for the trial of W-rr-n H-st-ngs, Esqr. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. February 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.02.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Impeachment ticket for the trial of Warren Hastings
- Description:
- Title from etched text at top of image., Date and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Law -- Satire on Heraldry -- Westminster Hall interior -- Horace Walpole's copy of this print in NYPL.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- India.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, and Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Impeachment ticket for the trial of W-rr-n H-st-ngs, Esqr. [graphic]
3. Judge Thumb, or, Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 November 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.11.27.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Judge Buller of King's Bench, is shown walking towards the right in his judicial robes, carrying two bundles of sticks, each terminating in the shape of a thumb. To the rear and on a smaller scale is a man beating his wife with one of the judge's implements. Buller was reputed to have ruled that a wife could legitimately be beaten provided the stick used by her husband was no thicker than his thumb
- Alternative Title:
- Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- Buller, Francis, 1746-1800.
- Subject (Topic):
- Wife abuse, Judges, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Judge Thumb, or, Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful [graphic].
4. Judge Thumb, or, Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful! [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 November 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.11.27.01.2+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Judge Buller of King's Bench, is shown walking towards the right in his judicial robes, carrying two bundles of sticks, each terminating in the shape of a thumb. To the rear and on a smaller scale is a man beating his wife with one of the judge's implements. Buller was reputed to have ruled that a wife could legitimately be beaten provided the stick used by her husband was no thicker than his thumb
- Alternative Title:
- Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally published with the imprint: Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Sticks: fascines -- Laws: wife-beating ruled lawful., 1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 34 x 25 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1782, by W. Humphry [sic], No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- Buller, Francis, 1746-1800
- Subject (Topic):
- Wife abuse and Judges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Judge Thumb, or, Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful! [graphic].
5. Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 December 1790]
- Call Number:
- 790.12.03.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."
- Alternative Title:
- Atheistical revolutionist disturbed in his midnight calculations
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience. [graphic]
