A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 83 with one other print.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 32.9 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 35.7 x 27.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 64 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 46 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool (identified as Lady Buckinghamshire, but (?) Duchess of Gordon), a little girl, and an elderly man (identified as Dr. Sneyd) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Lord Barrymore and his two brothers are represented as figurines on the shelf of a chimney-piece, along which the title is etched. Each stands on a circular pedestal inscribed: (left to right) 'A Hell-gate Blackguard', 'A Newgate Scrub', and 'A Cripplegate Monster', the three brothers being known as Newgate, Hellgate, and Cripplegate. In the centre Barrymore, as Scrub, is seated as in Act iii of Farquhar's play, when in conference with Archer: dressed in livery and wearing an apron, his hands on his knees (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6221). On the left Augustus Barry, stripped to the waist and wearing boxing-gloves with a high hat, stands in the attitude of a pugilist, which his extreme thinness makes ridiculous. On the right Henry Barry grins and capers, holding a toy whirligig. He wears the fashionable dress of the bloods of the moment: high hat, long tight breeches reaching almost to the ankle, short wrinkled top-boots with enormous spurs. His coat is slipping off his shoulders and fastened by one button (a caricature of the fashion); all have cropped hair, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c. Over Barrymore's head is the lower part of a bust-portrait of the Prince of Wales in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eighteen lines of verse etched below image: To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw ..., Temporary local subject terms: Mantelpieces -- Pugilism -- Toys: whirligig -- Spurs -- Literature: allusion to George Farquhar's The Beaux Stratagem, iii, 3 -- Barrymore, Richard, 7th Earl, 'Newgate' -- Barrymore, Henry, 8th Earl, 'Cripplegate' -- Barry, Augustus, 'Hellgate' -- Prince of Wales's circle -- Pictures amplifying subject: Prince of Wales'e portrait., and Mounted to 36 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793, Barrymore, Henry Barry, Earl of, 1770-1823, and Barry, Augustus, 1773-1818
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Chimneypieces, Figurines, Pedestals, Boxers (Sports), and Toys
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: The macaroni and theatrical magazine, or, Monthly register of the fashions and diversions of the times. London : John Williams, March 1773, p. 242.
Fox, and Richmond on the left with Shelburne standing pensively between them, move away from the armored ghost of Cromwell who stands on a crushed crown and sceptre. Cromwell is saying "To obtain your end your measures are right, you arm the people, like me, you trample on prerogative...." A reference to Shelburne's plan after the Gordon Riots to arm the populace in preference to the use of troops
Alternative Title:
Malagrida and conspirators, consulting the ghost of Oliver Cromwell
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imprint statement partly obscured by a line etched across it., Statement in upper left border, "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 5," has the year crossed out., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 10th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
A lady sits in an armchair, her head titled back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, giving the appearance of pregnancy, her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. Long locks of hair escaped from the turban, and she holds a fan in her right hand. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom edge., and Manuscript note below image identifies the sitter as Lady Charlotte Cambell.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
A satire on the Prince of Wales's relations with Lady Salisbury, the pair shown holding hands on the right, while her husband, drawn as a block of stone, stamps angrily in the center. Between them is Mrs. Robinson, who had been deserted by the Prince, and on the left 5 figures are dancing in a circle
Alternative Title:
Monuments lately discovered on Salisbury Plain
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of explanatory text below title: The figures No. 1 & 2 are judged by conoiseurs [sic] to have lately been animated with the coelestial fire ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Salisbury Plain (England) and England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, and Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800