"The King, Queen, and three princesses are seated at a small dinner-table, on which is a soup-tureen, &c. The King holds a plate on which is an insect, turning round to address angrily a cook (right), who stands trembling beside him. Two alarmed servants stand behind the King's chair. The Queen and princesses make gestures of alarm; one princess (left) has risen from her chair in horror. On the extreme left stands a beefeater holding a jug, who lets glasses fall from a salver in his consternation. A draped window forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; source of the title "Lousiad canto 1st" as indicated., Printmaker from Grego., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides., and Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto I. London, G. Kearsley, 1787.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Newsboy's horns -- Symbols: bonnet rouge -- Uniforms: Windsor uniform -- Newspapers: True Britton -- Morning Chronicle -- Reference to Frederick Augustus, Duke of York -- Walking staves -- George III as John Bull., Bookseller's stamp: S.W.F., in lower right of plate., and Mounted to 28 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: Things are now at such a pass, that every fool must have his ass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Coalitions: France and Spain, 1762 -- Lawyers: barrister as an owl., and Mounted to 32 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
"George III, in profile to the right., has risen from the throne to receive the new Ministry whom he inspects through his glass (as in BMSat 10019). The head and halberd of a beefeater appear behind the throne. All bend low; Fox, the foremost, makes the lowest and most obsequious bow. His court suit, with flowered waistcoat, and coat with too much gold lace, is worn with his old buff breeches. Grenville, beside him, makes a gesture of introduction. Crowded behind these two are the others: Windham with his hand on his heart, Sheridan looking eager but apprehensive, Moira and Sidmouth more impassive; Erskine, in Chancellor's wig and gown, smiles with complacent egotism (cf. BMSat 9246, &c); on the extreme right. is (?) Lord Henry Petty. The King says: "Gentlemen I am very happy to see you here, in such Talents my People must have the most Implicit Confidence, & well as myself - Hum, don't like the Mixture. - " The new Ministers say simultaneously (dotted lines rising from each head to the inscription): 'We assure your M-----of our most confirmed Integrity, & are determined to make the - the the most of our places."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Strangers at court and Promising scene
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Descriptive phrase following title: A promising scene., and Mounted to 30 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Down with the devil, pope, French King and Pretender
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Another George has fled this weeping ball , being summon'd hence by Heavens mighty call ..., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Satan -- Popes -- Angels -- Emblems: scales of justice., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Clement XIII, Pope, 1693-1769, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist identified by the cataloger based on his other works in the collection., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Louis XVI, King of France -- Allusion to Mrs. Schwellenberg, ca. 1728-1797 -- Miserliness of George III and Queen Charlotte -- Fear of invasion -- Allusion to fortune-telling., and Watermark: Countermark E & P.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 16, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Margaret Nicholson is restrained by two Beefeaters after her attempted assassination of King George IV as he stands next to his Royal carriage at the garden entrance of St. James's Palace
Alternative Title:
Attentat de Marguerite Nicholson contre Son Majesté le roi George III
Description:
Title etched below image, English on the left, French on the right., Date conjectured from date of the event depicted., Plate numbered: 576., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37.3 x 29.7 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,, and Nicholson, Margaret, 1750?-1828,
"The cattle-pens (right) of Smithfield Market are filled with cattle with the faces of peers and draped with ermine-trimmed robes. [The ermine is apparent only in the coloured impression] Thurlow, dressed as a farmer, the owner of the cattle, stands on guard with his back to the pens; he wears his Chancellor's wig and uses the mace as a walking-stick. He clutches a full purse in his right hand and looks fiercely at a smaller number of cattle who are being driven from the left towards the pens. One of these, with the head of Lord Derby, stands on his hind legs, saying, "I move an adjournment till after the next Newmarket Meeting". The cattle in the pens (right) have the heads of peers who were believed favourable to Hastings. In the front row are (left to right) Lord Sydney, the Duke of Grafton, and (between two unidentified peers) Lord Bathurst. An ox with the head of Lord Lansdowne, his horns tipped to prevent mischief, stands (right) outside the pen which he tries to enter, his eyes slyly fixed on Thurlow (cf. BMSat 7311). Others cannot be identified. The Opposition peers include the Duke of Portland (who glares fiercely at Sydney), the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Carlisle, and Lord Stormont. They are being driven by a fierce-looking drover (left); a dog wearing a peer's robe, his collar inscribed 'Mountford', barks at them. On the extreme left Hastings, dressed as a butcher but wearing a turban, riding (right to left) a miserable horse fit only for the knacker (the horse of Hanover), carries off a calf with the profile of George III, its forelegs tied together. He whips his horse ferociously. Behind him is a pawnbroker's shop-window, with three balls and the sign 'Money Lent'. In the middle of the cattle-pens (right) is a bell (that of the Market) on a post, a man (? George Rose) wearing a bag-wig pulls the bell-rope, looking round with a cynical smile. Undifferentiated ministerial cattle at the back of the pens push with their horns at a watchman's box which they are overturning. Three men dressed as watchmen, seated on the roof (which they have climbed to escape the cattle), drop staff, lantern, and rattle and are about to fall off; they are Fox, Burke, and Sheridan. The background is formed by buildings; the pawnshop (left) adjoins a large inn behind the cattle, a house at the corner of 'Smithfield' and 'Cow Lane', which diverges on the right. It is the sign of the Crown; in a balcony over the large gateway which leads to the courtyard sit Dundas (left) and Pitt (right), much at their ease, facing each other in profile, regardless of the turmoil below. They are smoking and have foaming tankards marked with a crown; Dundas is in Highland dress, Pitt is dressed as an English farmer or drover. On the balcony is: 'Good Entertainment for Man and Beast'. Beneath the design is etched: '"Every Man has his Price", Sir Rt Walpole', and '"Sic itur ad astra"'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quotation inscribed on either side of title. On the left: "Every man has his price," Sir Robert Walpole. On the right: "Sic itur ad astra.", and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 2d, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India. and England
Subject (Name):
Smithfield Market., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Montfort, Thomas Bromley, Baron, 1733-1799, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Influence, Bribery, Cattle, Ceremonial objects, City & town life, Clock & watch making, Equipment, Taverns (Inns), Usury, Signs (Notices), Stockyards, and Stores & shops
Truth triumphant against the reapers being a most beautiful contrast
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d'., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: William Pitt the Elder's resignation, 1761 -- Personifications: Fame -- Medallions --Pensions -- Trades: sailors -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards -- British Lion -- Emblems: gallic cock -- Money: bribes -- Addresses: William Pitt's letter to William Beckford, 1761., Watermark: Vryheyt on the right side of sheet; counternark on the left., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
J. Britton
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bussy, François de, 1699-1780, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Devils, and Thrones