- Published / Created:
- [5 July 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.07.05.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Two ladders placed against a tall brick wall signed, "Treasury," reach an open window at the top. In it stands a man, perhaps the Duke of Portland, with a yoke on his shoulders and bunches of grapes hanging from each end. At the top of the ladders are, from left, Fox and North, both reaching for the grapes while at the same time emptying their bowels. Their excrement falls into the mouths of those climbing immediately after them; on Fox's ladder it is Sheridan. This process is repeated down to the last climbers. Each ladder is supported by a group of men gaping toward its top with their mouths open in expectation of the spoils
- Alternative Title:
- Political gapers
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by E. Rich, July 5 1783, No. 55 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Ladders, Windows, Climbing, Grapes, Defecation, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Treasury ladders, or, Political gapers [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- April 16, 1783.
- Call Number:
- 783.04.16.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, surrounded by members of the present and former governments, stands on the British shore of the Atlantic Ocean. He holds out his arms in a gesture of uncertainty asking, "My Lords and Gentlemen, what should I do." Each of the statesmen gives his advice. In the background, "England's sun" is "setting" behind the hills at the foot of which sailors, soldiers and civilians are shown fighting, perhaps in allusion to the mutiny of sailors in Portsmouth in March 1783. Between both groups, on the extreme right, a smaller group of men with peg legs or on crutches, apparently veterans of the American war, is addressed by Lord Amherst who says, "Gentlemen we have no further occasion for you." On the extreme left, on the American shore of the Atlantic, a young girl in Indian dress sits between the kings of France and Spain, who each hold her hand. Benjamin Franklin places a wreath on top of her head-dress. Above in the sky, a witch flies away on a broomstick with a banner reading, "Peace -- Peace -- P-e-a-c" issuing from under her skirts
- Description:
- BEIN BrSides 2019 472: On sheet 29.5 x 36.8 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection., BEIN BrSides 2019 498: On sheet 38.7 x 43.8 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection., Title from caption below image., Attributed by George to Viscount Townshend., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On sheet 29 x 34 cm, mounted to 33 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, by M. Smith in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788., Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Nugent, Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl, 1702?-1788., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783., and Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Foreign relations, Fighting, Disabled veterans, Witches, Thistles, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The blessings of peace [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [18 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.02.18.02.1+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Pitt, in a dramatic pose, reaches up with his right hand for a sword presented to him by three cherubs encouraging him to defend King and country. With his other hand he indicates a volume inscribed, "Locke on the human understanding" on the table behind him. Above the table hangs a portrait of Lord Chatham. Members and supporters of the North-Fox coalition look on through an open window, gathered under a flag labeled "The Harmonic Society."
- Description:
- Title from item., Under title: "Third sketch"., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published Feby. 18, 1784, as the act directs by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Tables, Daggers & swords, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The vision of justice with a view of the Harmonic Society [graphic].
- Creator:
- Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an outdoor setting, a bare-chested Lord Thurlow, his judge's wig at his feet, faces a bare-chested Charles Fox in a boxing match over the proposed regulation of the fees of the Exchequer Officers. Rigby's, proposition to exempt him from this new regulation was opposed in Parliament by Fox. The contenders'seconds are Rigby for Thurlow and Sheridan for Fox
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by D. Archery, July th [sic] 1783, St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Boxing, Wigs, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > War establishment [graphic]