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19. The tottering pyramid [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.04.11.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark ., Temporary local subject terms: Animals: Badger -- Fox -- Laurel wreaths -- Clergy -- Bishop's mitres -- Tottering coalition -- Coronet of Prince of Wales -- Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Hinchcliffe, John, 1731-1794 -- Shipley, Jonathan, 1714-1788 -- Watson, Richard, 1737-1816., Partial watermark left side of sheet., and Mounted to 35 x 32 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd April [the] 11, 1784, by G. Humphrey print seller, No. 48 Long Acre, London
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tottering pyramid [graphic].
20. [Fox and Burke as Hudibras and Ralpho] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- April 17, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.04.17.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox and Burke (half length) seen through the barred window of a brick building in which they are imprisoned. They are Hudibras and his squire as in British Museum Satires No. 6361, but in a prison instead of in the stocks. Above the barred aperture is inscribed 'Bailiffs for Middlesex' showing that it is a sponging-house for debtors (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6483, &c). Outside stands the Duchess of Devonshire looking at them over her right shoulder. She wears a hat with a 'Fox' favour, trimmed with feathers and fox's tails as in the canvassing caricatures, but wears a plain riding-dress of masculine cut [Cf. 'Her Grace sometimes rides about in a black riding habit, which is very convenient in case she should be obliged to enter into contact with a Chimneysweeper'. A newspaper paragraph quoted in 'Westminster Election', p. 246.] instead of the usual voluminous petticoats. Her left hand rests on a tasselled cane. She is Hudibras's Lady who visited the pair in prison and released them; her words are etched beneath the design: 'O heavens! quoth she, can this be true? I do begin to fear 'tis you: Not by your individual whiskers, But by your dialect and discourse. That never spoke to man or beast In notions vulgarly exprest: But what malignant star alas! Has brought you both to this sad pass? Hudibras, canto I mo.' [i.e. Part II, canto 1]. On the brick wall of the prison bills are posted: 'Several Pouting lips to be hired by the day by Deven'; [ One of the advertisements for Hood and Wray ran: 'To be hired for the day, several pair of ruby pouting lips, of the first quality, [etc. etc.].' 'Westminster Election', p. 99.] Hood Ray Fox; 'Hood and Wray for ever; Leakes justly famous pills for curing the veneral . . . [cf. British Museum Satires No. 6530]; No Coalition No Bribery'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Sir Cecil Wray, 1734-1805 -- Allusion to Samuel Hood, 1724-1816 -- Allusion to Walter Leake, fl. 1772- -- Literature: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, Hudibras, part II, canto 1 -- Medicine: Leake's pills for curing venereal disease -- Signs: 'Bailiffs for Middlesex' above prison window -- Placards on prison walls -- Coalitions: Allusion to Fox-North coalition, 1783 -- Female costume -- Election favors -- Debtors' prisons -- Sponging houses -- Walking staves -- Quackery: Leake, Walter, fl. 1772-., and Partial watermark in lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by I. Notice, Oxford Road
- Subject (Geographic):
- England) and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Political elections, Prisons, and Riding habits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Fox and Burke as Hudibras and Ralpho] [graphic].