"Members of the Opposition, arranged in two horizontal rows, receive the news of Aboukir. [1] In the upper left corner Burdett sits, directed to the right, intently reading the 'Extraordinary Gazette' on 'Nelson's Victory'; his shock of hair covers his eyes, and he says, left hand raised in alarm: "sure I cannot see clear?" On the wall (left) is a print, a profile head of 'Buonaparte'. [2] Jekyll stands beside Lansdowne, who reclines in an arm-chair in dressing-gown and bonnet-rouge, a gouty leg resting on a cushion. He holds out a paper headed 'Captured IX French Ships of War'; under his arm is a paper: '2 Burnt'; he holds up two fingers. Lansdowne puts his hands over his ears, saying, "I can't hear! I can't hear." (For Jekyll and Lansdowne cf. BMSat 9179, &c.) [3] Bedford, sitting on a large treasure-chest, sourly tears in half a paper: 'complete Destruction of Buonaparte's Fleet - ', saying, "It's all a damn'd Lye". Behind his chest are padlocked sacks inscribed '£', indicating his wealth; on the wall hang jockey-cap, boots, and riding-whip. [4] Erskine lies back in his chair holding a smelling-bottle to his nose, from his dangling right hand have dropped papers: 'Capture of Buonaparte's Dispatches'. He says "I shall Faint, I.I.I." He sits by a table on which are writing-materials and 'Republican Briefs'. (For Erskine's fainting in court, and egotism, see BMSats 7956, 9246, &c.) [5] Norfolk sits in an arm-chair beside a table on which are signs of a debauch: overturned decanters and a candle guttering in its socket. Wine pours from his mouth and from a glass in his right hand. At his feet is a broken tobacco-pipe, in his left hand a paper: 'Nelson & the British Fleet'. He says "what a sickening Toast!" (cf. BMSat 9168, &c). [6 and 7] Tierney and Sheridan sit looking at each other across a table, Tierney (left) clutching his knee, on which lies a paper: 'End of the French Navy - Britannia Rules the Waves'. From his pocket issues a paper: 'End of the Irish Rebellion'. He says: "ah! our hopes are all lost". Sheridan, elbows on the table, his chin in his hands, says "I must lock up my Jaw!" Before him are papers: 'List of the Republican Ships Taken and Destroy[ed]'. [8] Fox, in the lower right corner, hangs by a noose, having just kicked a stool from under his feet; his crisped fingers have dropped a paper: 'Farewell to the Whig Club'. He says: "and I, - end with Éclat!" He wears a bonnet-rouge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Good-news operating upon loyal-feelings
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Victories: reference to Nelson's victory in the battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 -- Opposition -- Allusion to the Whig Club -- Furniture: chairs -- Spirits: port -- Glass: wine bottles -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Writing materials: ink stands -- Suicides -- Smelling salts -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Buonaparte., and Mounted to 33 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3d, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Two sketches of soldiers wearing helmets, one drawing on each side of a single sheet with the titles written below, one in Latin and the other in Greek
Alternative Title:
Kunegerha, Profile of a Roman soldier, and Profile of a Greek soldier
Description:
Title from item., "Kunegerha" appears in Greek letters., Possibly a juvenile work by Horace Walpole, with the title in Latin., and For further information, consult library staff.
"George IV, seated in an armchair, plays a 'cello. Bloomfield stands behind, playing a flute; in his pocket is a paper: 'Farmer's Boy' [for this identification cf. (e.g.) that of Orger in No. 11940]. Lady Conyngham stands beside the King, saying blandly: "Play Here we go Up Up Up." On the right is a dancing bear, facing a stout jovial man (identified, A. de R. xviii. 4 as Sir L. Neagle, i.e. Sir E. Nagle, appointed Groom of the Bedchamber on George IV's accession). No one notices John Bull (wearing top-hat and top-boots) who enters, shouting: "Rome's on fire, Haste Haste Help Help the People 's Roused, Perjurys allowed Conspirators are suffered to Escape, the Directors are impeached-- the World's in Arms." Behind the King hangs a large placard: Estimate of Expenses at the Chinese Temple One Million--Building Repairing & Furnishing Mark Anthonys State Barges Building two New ones . . . £150,000 Cottage seat Como [Countess Cowper (25 Sept. 1820): 'They say the story is really true of blundering Sir E. Nagel saying in the boat on the Lake near the New Cottage, "We have also got our little Lake of Como"--the King and Ly C present.' Airlie, 'Lady Palmerston', 1922, i. 67; 'The King laughed very much...' 'Journal of H. E. Fox', 1923, p. 38; cf. No. 13857] formerly called V-g-o [sic] Water . . . 40,000 New Cottage at O-P Q . . . 20,000. Presents to Cleopatra. Horse 150 Diamond Necklace . . . 30,000. Pearl Ditto . . . to Cleo's Daughter 15000. Sinecure to Cleo's Boy Pr Anm 3000.' Above Lady Conyngham's head is a painting of a nude woman in bed; below this is an unframed print, a bust portrait of 'Caroline' with the head torn off."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: 1820 -- Bloomfield, Benjamin, 1st baron Bloomfield, 1768-1846 -- Nagle, Sir Edmund, 1757-1830., Watermark: J. Whatman 1820., and Manuscript "265" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 11th, 1820 by S.W. Fores 41 Picadilli
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, consort of George IV, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and Musical instruments
Nero fiddling, Rome burning, Poppaea and Agrippina smiling
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 193., and Temporary local subject terms: Petitions: presentation of City address by Beckford, 14 March 1770 -- History: the burning of Rome, AD 64 -- Violin -- Costume: Roman costume.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68, Poppaea Sabina, Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, d. 65, and Agrippina, Minor, 15-59
This sketch is humbly inscribed to George Lockup ...
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Elections -- Electors -- Prisons: allusion to Bastille -- Asylums -- Buildings: brick houses -- Architectural details: high garden walls., and Watermark: countermark W.
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England). and Bridewell Hospital.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Jails, Architecture, Buildings, and Hospitals
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title engraved below image., Date derived from printmaker's active dates., Place of publication derived from language of text and subject., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain.
"Interior of Smirke's replacement for Holland's burnt-out theatre; the stage set, and audience seated in the four tiers of galleries and pit, but the actors not yet on stage."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 100., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 263.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand