"A carriage (right) drives at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace; Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing the pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now, or never! - aha the Coast is clearing!------drive! drive! you dog!" He has a sly smile. The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Lansdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es] Geometriam'. The coachman and three footmen who stand behind have enormous feather-trimmed cocked hats in the French fashion, with bag-wigs. Running behind the carriage with outstretched arms are: Fox, saying, "Stop! stop! - & take me in, - Stop!"; Sheridan saying, "And me too! stop", and (very small) M. A. Taylor, saying, "And me". In the background a similar carriage is driving yet more rapidly out of the Palace gateway; the tiny figures are recognizable: Dundas, the coachman, has dropped the reins, the horses are running away; Pitt, terror-stricken, puts his arms through the windows. Both look up at a dove with an olive-branch which flies over their heads towards the gateway. In the background are part of the Palace and the houses at the SW. corner of St. James's Street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coaches -- London: St. James's Palace -- Domestic service: footmen -- Coachmen -- Pavement -- Symbols: dove with an olive-branch -- Nicknames: Shelburne as Malagrida -- Allusion to Gabriel Malagrida, 1689-1761., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. March 16th by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
"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
From a sign on the back wall, a scene in the 'Grand Imperial Lodge of Odd Fellows" in which Burke, Norfolk, Sheridan, and Fox smoke and dance amongst the other club members some of whom wear swords. One man plays the fiddle. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling. In the corner is a dais under a canopy. A dog sits on his hind legs in the foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: Attic miscellany, v. 1., and Mounted to 28 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Bentley and Co.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Pitt, a colossal figure (cf. BMSat 8980), bestrides the Rotunda of the 'Bank of England'. His arms and legs are very thin, but his body is formed of a (transparent) sack distended with gold coins and inscribed '£'. His elbows are akimbo, his hands grasp the sides of the sack; from the little finger of his left hand hangs a key, 'Key of Public Property'. Round the mouth of the sack is a heavy chain clasped by a padlock inscribed 'Power of securing Public Credit'. From the sack emerges the pipe-like neck down which coins are passing. Pitt looks arrogantly to the right, a blast issues from his closed lips of many paper notes inscribed 'one'. Near his mouth are a few gold coins which he is presumably inhaling. He wears a crown formed of 'one' pound notes; through it project his ass's ears. The near side of the Rotunda is removed, showing a descending shower of paper and an ascending cluster of coins which are being drawn upwards to join those in the sack. Little figures in and around the rotunda, under Pitt's legs, hold up their hands in dismay at the shower of £1 notes. Among them is a John Bull wearing a smock. Two men hold papers inscribed 'Dividend'; a Jew walks off (left) with 'Scrip'. On the left, behind Pitt's right foot, is the sea-shore; large reeds at its edge blow towards him; among these are five heads wearing bonnets-rouges, each with a label issuing from his mouth: 'Midas has Ears'. They are Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, M. A. Taylor, and (?) Grey. They diminish in size from Fox to Taylor. Across the sea is 'Brest', from which a fleet is setting out. Behind it are black clouds, and an explosion rises from them in which are swarms of tiny figures holding daggers and wearing bonnets-rouges. This spreads behind Pitt's head who appears unconscious of it. He looks down towards three almost naked winged figures: Grenville (left) and Dundas (right) hold up between them a scroll: 'Prosperous state of British Finances. & the new Plan for diminishing the National Debt - with Hints on the increase of Commerce'. Between and above them is Windham, Secretary-at-War, a pen behind his ear. He waves his cocked hat, Grenville his coronet, and Dundas his Scots cap. Beneath the title: 'History of Midas, - The great Midas having dedicated himself to Bacchus [cf. BMSat 8651], obtained from that Deity, the Power of changing all he Touched - Apollo fixed Asses-Ears upon his head, for his Ignorance - & although he tried to hide his disgrace with a Regal Cap, yet the very Sedges which grew from the Mud of the Pactolus, whisper'd out his Infamy, whenever they were agitated by the Wind from the opposite Shore - Vide Ovid's Metamorposes.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Midas transmuting all into paper
Description:
Title etched below image. 'Gold' in title scored through., Three lines of text below title: History of Midas -- The great Midas having dedicated himself to Bacchus ..., Temporary local subject terms: Money: coins -- Bank notes -- Cupids -- Brest -- French fleet., and Mounted to 46 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 9th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Bank of England.
"The globe is the 'State of the Nation', a parliamentary phrase implying a vote of censure on the conduct of the Ministry. It is covered with islands in a 'Sea of Tribulation'. These are: '10.000 Pr An for an Apostate intended Princess'; 'Large Grants to relatives of decased [sic] Hero's'; 'Large Sums voted to Younger [The word has been etched over 'relatives'.] Branches of large Families'; 'Taxation Island'; 'Property Tax Assess'd Taxes Tax upon Tax' [twice], with smaller islands inscribed [four times] 'Tax upon Tax'. For the property-tax and budget see BMSats 10557,10564, &c. The 'Apostate Princess' is Mrs. Fitzherbert, in the public eye through Jefferys's pamphlet, see BMSat 10589, and the final decision of the House of Lords in the Seymour case (14 June 1806), see BMSat 10389. The 'deceased hero's' are Nelson and Rodney, Nelson's (collateral) heirs obtaining an annuity of £5,000 and a capital sum of £120,000. 'Parl. Debates', vii. 141-5 (13 May). The pension of £1,000 to Lord Rodney's son was continued to his grandson. Ibid., p. 902 (3 July). By the Royal Family Annuities Bill large additions were made to the incomes of the Duke of Clarence and his younger brothers, of the princesses, and their niece Princess Charlotte of Wales, and of the widow, son, and daughter of the Duke of Gloucester, the King's brother who died in 1805. Ibid., pp. 875, 923, 968, 1103 (2-11 July). The grants were attacked by Cobbett, see 'Pol. Reg.' x. 33 ff., 65 ff. (12, 19 July). Cf. BMSats 10697, 10704. The features of the 'Opposition Winds' are distorted, but they seem to be (r.) Canning and Castlereagh, and (l.) Perceval and Hawkesbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark: A. Stace., and Mounted to 30 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 30th, 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813
Fox and Sheridan sit with their feet in the stocks, each smoking a short pipe. Fox directs a fierce glare at Pitt, who stands (right) in profile to the (left), correct and impassive, holding a tall constable's staff. Pitt is grotesquely thin; he wears a large round hat over his bag-wig, and a long old-fashioned coat with wide cuffs
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd by W. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Stocks (Punishment), Law enforcement officers, Politicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., and Mounted on page 74.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 26.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons