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1. A charm for a democracy reviewed, analysed & destroyed Jany. 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affiliated friends [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.02.01.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed: 'Eye of Straw & toe of Cade ... For the ingredients of our cauldron'. Facing them (right) sits the Devil enthroned, holding a trident, with a three-headed scaly monster beside him; he says: "Pour in Streams of Regal Blood Then the Charm is firm & good." Burning pamphlets feed the fire under the cauldron; they are being heaped up by Horne Tooke, from whose mouth issues a label: 'H - T. Tis time tis time tis time'. The next, stirring the contents, says "Thrice! and Twice King's Heads have fallen". The third (? Dr. Towers), [Perhaps Dr. Parr; Towers died 20 May 1799.] flourishing a broom-stick, says, "Thrice the Gallic Wolves have bayed"; he holds an open book: 'Lying Whore \ False Swearing'. Behind the wizards is a procession of the Opposition. The first three (abreast) are Bedford, Norfolk, and Lord Derby. They say respectively: "Where are they! - gone Pocketed the Church and Poorlands The Tythes next" ..."Oh fallen Sovereingty degraded Counseller" ...; "Poor joe is done No test or Corporation Acts" ... The next three are Fox, Erskine, and Tierney; they say respectively: "Where can I hide my secluded Head" ... "Ah woe is me - poor I" ... "Would I had never spoke of the Licentiousness of the Press". Behind them is Burdett, saying, "What can I report to my Friends at the Bastile" .... Behind there is an undifferentiated crowd entering the cave and headed by Thelwall holding a volume of 'Thelwalls Lectures' ... exclaiming, "Tm off to Monmouthshire". The procession is watched by a snaky monster (left). Above their heads and resting on clouds are small figures: the King, allegorically depicted, holding a serpent in each hand. Behind him are Pitt, saying, "Suspend their Bodies", (?) Grenville, (?) Windham, saying "Almighty God has been pleased to grant us a great Victory", and Kenyon, saying "Take them to the Kings Bench & Cold Bath fields" ... The divine ray is inscribed: 'Afflavit Deus et dissipantur \ Your Destruction cometh as a Whirlwind \ Vengeance is ripe.' Four winged demons fly off (right) in the smoke of the cauldron, three have collars on which their names are engraved: 'Robesp[ierre]', 'Voltaire', and 'Price'. An ape dressed as a newsboy, with 'Courier' on his cap (..., blows his horn towards the cauldron. Behind him, in the extreme right corner, is an open book: 'Analitical Review \ Fallen never to rise again.' The seditious papers which feed the fire are: 'Equali[ty]'; 'Blasphemy Sedition'; 'Sophims' [sic]; 'Heresy'; 'Atheism'; 'Resistance is Prudence'; 'Belshams History'; 'Whig Club'; 'The Vipers of Monarchy and Aristocracy will soon be strangled by the Infant Democracy' ... 'Fraud'; 'Third of September' [see BMSat 8122]; 'Rights of Nature' [by Thelwall, attacking Burke, 1796]; '21st of January' ... 'Frends Atheism'; 'Quigleys Dying Speech'... 'O'Connors Manifesto' ... 'Oakleys Pyrology'; 'Deism'; 'Kings can do good Joel Barlow'; 'Uritaranism' [sic]; 'Sedition'; 'France is free'; 'Duty of Insurrection'; 'Darwins topsy turvy Plants and Animals Destruction' [cf. BMSat 9240]; 'Kings are S------TS' [serpents, as in Barlow's 'Conspiracy of Kings', pub. J. Johnson, 1792]; 'Political Liberty'. 1 February 1799 Etching and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Press: attack on radical press -- Potions -- Allusion to the Whig Club -- Reference to Kosciuszko uprising, Poland, 1794 --Reference to Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450 -- Reference to Jack Straw and Wat Tyler -- Reference to the Great Rebellion, 1381 -- Reference to the Duke of Bedford's family
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Imprint altered: 'J. Wright, Piccadilly' after publication date burnished from plate., Frontispiece from: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. London, 1799, v. 2., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd February 1st, 1799, for the Anti Jacobin Review, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- Caves, Devil, Demons, Monkeys, Monsters, Vice, and Wizards
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A charm for a democracy reviewed, analysed & destroyed Jany. 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affiliated friends [graphic].
2. A peep into Friar Bacon's study [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.03.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a room reminiscent of a magician's study, the King, dressed in a cloak as Friar Bacon (a necromancer of popular fable), evokes visions of the royal power while the brazen head speaks. Each vision is represented by a large medallion inscribed, "Constitution," and shows a different balance of power between the king and both houses of Parliament. On the left, Fox, Burke, and North, peek in through an open door, appearing alarmed. On the right, a number of men walk down the "back stairs." The first of them, carrying a conspirator's lantern and led by the devil, is Lord Temple
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 41 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 3d, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Wizards, Magic, and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A peep into Friar Bacon's study [graphic].
3. Great cry and little wool [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 December 1783] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 13. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, dressed only in breeches, tries to flee from the Devil who caught him by the leg and is shearing off the hair from his chest. On the left, in front of the "India House" a group of elated men dance around a burning stake to which is tied a fox. A reference to the rejection of the India Bill in the House of Lords and the demise of the Coalition government
- Description:
- Title etched below image; the letter "a" in the word "and" is etched backwards., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6283 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Several letters in imprint statement, as well as the digit "7" in "1783," are etched backwards., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 109-10., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: Defeat of India Bill -- India House., and On leaf 13 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Published 22 Decr. 1783 by Humphrys, Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil, Foxes, Burning at the stake, and Scissors & shears
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Great cry and little wool [graphic].
4. Great cry and little wool [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 December 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.12.22.04+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, dressed only in breeches, tries to flee from the Devil who caught him by the leg and is shearing off the hair from his chest. On the left, in front of the "India House" a group of elated men dance around a burning stake to which is tied a fox. A reference to the rejection of the India Bill in the House of Lords and the demise of the Coalition government
- Description:
- Title etched below image; the letter "a" in the word "and" is etched backwards., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Several letters in imprint statement, as well as the digit "7" in "1783," are etched backwards., and Mounted to 37 x 57 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published 22 Decr. 1783 by Humphrys, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil, Foxes, and Burning at the stake
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Great cry and little wool [graphic].
5. S. Alan Gardiner. Covent Garden [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. June 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.06.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sir Alan Gardner (left) in naval uniform, bends forward to cut off, with a sickle inscribed 'Loyalty', the head of Fox, which is planted in the ground like some monstrous vegetable, the hair terminating in leaves. One of these Gardner holds, saying, "My Life and Services are ever devoted to my King & Country". Fox says: "I was always a Staunch Friend to the Crops and Sans Culottes but this damn'd Crop is quite unexpected". Gardner stands on 'Constitutional Ground'. Behind him stands Britannia, towering above him, and holding a laurel wreath over his head; she says: "Go on, Britain approves and will protect you!" On her spear is the cap of Liberty. More 'venemous' democrats are being drawn towards flames by the Devil (right), a figure like that of BMSat 6283. He puts his trident-like rake in the neck of Horne Tooke, who has a reptilian body with a barbed tail and feline claws, saying, "Long look'd for come at last Welcome thou Staunch Friend and faithful Servant, enter thou onto the Hot-bed prepared for thee." Tooke, his head in profile to the right, says, "Now will no prospering Virtue gall my jaundiced Eye - nor people foster'd by a belov'd Sovereign and defended by the Wisdom of his Counsellors. - To Anarchy & Confusion I will blow my Horne, and wallow in every thing that's damnable". The Devil clutches in the talons of his right foot the head of Thelwall, who says, "This will not Tell well." His left foot tramples the neck of Hardy, who says, "I was Fool Hardy". In the background is a man-of-war, Queen, her flag inscribed 'June Ist'. Below the title: 'Weeds carefully eradicated, & Venemous Reptiles destroy'd \ by Royal Patent \ God save the King.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Sir Alan Gardiner, Covent Garden
- Description:
- Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Royal Navy: "Queen"., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 31 x 49 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament, Gardner, Alan Gardner, Baron, 1742-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, and Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1796, First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Trials (Treason), Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty cap, Devil, and Wreaths
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > S. Alan Gardiner. Covent Garden [graphic].
6. The loves of the fox and the badger, or, The coalition wedding [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 January 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 25. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design with nine compartments depicting Charles James Fox and Lord North, (as a fox and badger respectively), in a series of scenes beginning with the fox beating the badger in a fight, and culminating in their wedding dance in the last compartment. The Devil is present in several frames, encouraging the union, meant to satirize the coalition
- Alternative Title:
- Coalition wedding
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 112-4., and On leaf 25 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Iany. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Foxes, Badgers, and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The loves of the fox and the badger, or, The coalition wedding [graphic].
7. The loves of the fox and the badger, or, The coalition wedding [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.01.07.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design with nine compartments depicting Charles James Fox and Lord North, (as a fox and badger respectively), in a series of scenes beginning with the fox beating the badger in a fight, and culminating in their wedding dance in the last compartment. The Devil is present in several frames, encouraging the union, meant to satirize the coalition
- Alternative Title:
- Coalition wedding
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Iany. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Foxes, Badgers, and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The loves of the fox and the badger, or, The coalition wedding [graphic].