- 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].
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- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.00.00.11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man sits a tavern table facing left, his right arm raised as if making a strong point. On the table is tankard filled with a large head of froth; on the tankard are etched the words "Spotted Dog Holy Well sc." From his pocket a rolled document with the heading "Burke on oecon[omy]."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five lines of text below image: You may talk what you will of Mustor Pitt's wirtues, but I will maintain it, that Muster Burke Gemmen is the most wirtuous honest man in the King's dominions, if he had his won very Gemmem we shoud not be Burthern'd withe such vicked txes, but zounds, Mr. Burke Gemmen caunt carry the whole House of Commons in his belly., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Edmund Burke -- Allusion to Burke's speech on public economy, 11 February 1780 -- Allusion to William Pitt's tax proposals, 1784., and Ms. annotation in lower left, below image: John Nixon 1785.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation, Politics and government, Beer, Debates, Drinking vessels, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A red-hot politician [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Aug. 9, 1783.
- Call Number:
- 783.08.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- In a churchyard, tombstones, adorned on top with the heads of prominent politicians, are engraved with epitaphs in their memory
- Alternative Title:
- Political churchyard
- Description:
- Title from caption etched above image. and Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub according t [sic] Act by B. Pownall. No. 6 Pallmall
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Churches, and Cemeteries
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > All alive, or, The political churchyard [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [20 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Pitt, leaning on a large anchor, holds his left hand over the diminutive figures of Charles Fox and Lord North who are shown as 'nobodies,' with their heads resting on top of their breeches. From a cloud over Pitt's irradiated head extends a hand holding a star on a ribbon signifying a "reward of virtue." Above Fox's and North's heads, a grouping of oriental-looking "air castles on an improved plan" floats on another cloud, as a reminder of the defeat of Fox's East India bill
- Alternative Title:
- Political nobodies
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published 20th March 1784, by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Anchors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britain's hope, or, The political nobodies [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [24 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left, Charles Fox, dressed as an Oriental prince, lies on the ground having fallen off an elephant who has the face of Lord North; Fox's dice and dice box are scattered on the pavement. In the speech bubble above his head: "Perdition, take thee for the chanse is thing." To his right, William Pitt sits astride the elephant who stands facing the entrance to the East India House; Pitt holds offers in his left hand a "New India Bill" and holds three others under his arm and in his pocket: "Stamp [...] act", "Sup ... lies", and "Military Act ...". In the background there is a gap between the two buildings
- Alternative Title:
- Billy's triumph and Carlo Khan dethroned
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs March 24th 1784 by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- East India Company, Politics and government, Costumes, Indian, and Elephants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Carlo Khan dethron'd, or, Billy's triumph [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [6 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.02.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, seated in an open car pushed across the clouds by Pitt, Thurlow, the Duke of Richmond, and Lord Sydney, aims a "thunder of dissolution" at the Coalition ministers represented by Fox, Lord North, and Burke, who fall backwards into the abyss and flames below the clouds
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 41 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as [the] act directs, Feby. 6, 1784 by B. Walwyn No. 9 Pedlars Acre West Bridge
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800., and Zeus (Greek deity)
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Carriages & coaches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dissolution [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [2 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.02.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, in an armor with shield and spear and a barber's basin for a helmet, marches towards the "Treasurey" building that has windmill sails on it with Pitt's head at their center. Fox is encouraged in his endeavor by a timid-looking Lord North who pats his posterior
- Alternative Title:
- Don Quixote and his squire Sancho attacking a windmill
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 33 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, March 2d 1784 by S. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., and Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Windmills, Armor, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Don Quixote & his squire Sancho attacking a windmill [graphic].
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 Ferburary 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.02.26.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Pitt, riding a rocking horse, contemplates the locked gate to the "Treasury" in front of him. In his left hand he holds a whip inscribed, "prerogative," followed by the words, "pro me." Under his right arm is a "Royal primer" and the horse's rockers are inscribed, "despotism" and "aristocracy." A blast of foul air from his buttocks, signed, "my honor," is directed at the face of Charles Fox behind him. Pointing to the Treasury building, Fox proclaims service for the country to be his motivation
- Alternative Title:
- His triumphal entry into Downing Street
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Feb. 26, 1784, by W. Welles, No. 132 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Hobby horses, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Master Billy's hobby-horse, or, His triumphal entry into Downing Street [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- File 53 P68 P691++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- A satire on Pitt's government suggesting his adminstration was a theatre. The layout of the sheet mimics that of a contemporary playbill., "Price one penny."--Following imprint., With a oval vignette of a ship surrounded a floral border, between first two words of the title., and For further information, consult library staff (object file: File 763 795 M991 pt. 1-3++)
- Publisher:
- Printed for and sold by J. Bullock
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, English and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Pittpatche's Requisition!? Proclamation extraordinary? Given at our Court of Pandaemonium, the seventeenth day of February, in the year of our lords, Old Nick and the King. ...
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.04.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- At the top of a ladder placed against the House of Commons and inscribed, "back stairs," stands a female figure of Folly in a fool's cap, with a flag signed "aristocracy." Below her, a man attempts to pull down a stone from the frieze with a grappling hook. Behind him, a smiling Pitt with one foot on a rung, "new mi[nister]," encourages his supporters to follow. Next climbs Lord Temple carrying a conspirator's lantern and a flag, "omnipot[ent] anarc[hy]." Under the ladder, others demolish the wall. On the left, Lord North and Charles Fox try to support the loosened "SPQB" frieze with a beam inscribed, "constitutional advice." An indignant-looking female figure of Wisdom advises Pitt and his followers to reconsider their action."
- Alternative Title:
- Demolition of St. Stephs. Chapel and Demolition of St. Stephen's Chapel
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 4, 1784, by W. Wells, N. 132 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Fools' caps, Liberty cap, Ladders, Demolition, and Cobblestone streets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Popular frenzy, or, The demolition of St. Stephs. Chapel [graphic]