"The two members for Middlesex simultaneously address a meeting of freeholders from a hustings against a building (The Mermaid, at Hackney) which forms a background. Both lean forward in profile to the right. Byng (left), thin and elegant, gesticulates with clenched fist, right arm above his head. He frowns, while Mainwaring (right) grimaces insinuatingly, his hands held out deprecatingly. From Byng's pocket issues a paper: 'Treatise on the use of Cocoa'. On the extreme left, behind Byng, stands Fox, holding Byng's hat. The other men on the platform, all wearing hats, are freely sketched. On the wooden barrier of the hustings are two bills, the lower part of which is concealed by the heads of the spectators, which reach across the lower edge of the design: 'Mermaid Hackney Meeting of the Freeholders for obtaining a Repeal of the odious, detestable, obnoxious, unconstitutional oppressive treasonable . . .' and 'Address to his Majesty by the Freeholders.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Byng, George,--1764-1847--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Mainwaring, William,--1735-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Design in an irregular oval. A Frenchman (bust) glares to the right, showing his teeth fiercely. He has long unkempt hair, a bristly beard, and wears a bonnet rouge with a tricolour cockade, and an ear-ring; his sleeve is splashed with blood. Above the design: 'Vive la Republique! que tous les Tyrans mordent la poussière! - Point de Religion' (cf. BMSat 8350)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "A Paris belle.", and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"Design in an irregular oval. A woman (bust) glares fiercely to the left, her mouth closed and drawn down. Her cap and fichu are decked with tricolour ribbons, and in her cap is a dagger, point upward and dripping blood. Above the design: 'Des Tetes! - du Sang! - la Mort! - à la Lanterne! - à la Guillotine. - point de Reine! - Je suis la Dèesse de la Libertè [cf. BMSat 8350] - l'egalité! - que Londres soit brulê! - que Paris soit Libre!! - Vive la Guillotine! - '."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "A Paris beau.", and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"Lord Galloway, short, bulky, and ugly, rides in profile to the left. He wears a wrinkled Jean-de-Bry coat (see BMSat 9425), with a star, round hat, and top-boots, and uses a gold-headed cane as a riding-switch."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Scotch poney commonly called a Galloway and Scotch pony commonly call'd a Galloway
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Galloway, John Stewart,--Earl of,--1736-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A woman standing to left, wearing a long gown with a decorated hem, right arm at her side, left on the edge of the gown and a shawl enveloping her head, leaving only her eyes visible."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker identified as Gillray. See Briitsh Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.695. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A woman standing to right, wearing a burka leaving only her eyes visible, her arms folded at her waist and covered by her shawl, the edge of her pantaloons glimpsed at the base of her gown."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker identified as Gillray. See Briitsh Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.694. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A fashionably dressed man stands in back view, a round hat in his hand, a bludgeon under his left arm. He wears a tail-coat with a large cape-like collar with revers. Above this appears the high stiff collar at the back of his waistcoat. His hair falls on his coat collar and his shoulders are frosted with hair-powder (a fashion of the day), cf. BMSats 7537, 8192. He wears half-boots and breeches tied below the knee with a bunch of strings."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Companion print to: "Neck or nothing.", Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Keate, Georgiana Jane, 1770-1850, artist.
"An elderly lady sits very upright in a glass-fronted coupé, the side window forming a frame. She has simply-dressed powdered hair on which is a turban-like drapery; a fichu covers her neck. Her dress, in front of which is a large bouquet of flowers, is shaped to the waist in a way very different from the fashion of the day. On the carriage door ls a baron's coronet above the initial 'D'. On the left is seen part of the coachman's back, and an elaborate hammer-cloth trimmed with gold fringe. Below the design: '-'t'was thus, heretofore, honest Dames shew'd their Faces, When Ball Nights & Birth Nights, call'd forth all their Graces! - But now, (-las-a-day!) what with Wigs and with Vails, Our Fair Ones, hide Faces, and all, - but their Tails! - '."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched at top of image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"Mrs. Billington, directed to the right, sings with head thrown back, right hand on her breast, left arm extended. She is stout and majestic, wears many jewels and quasi-contemporary dress, with four tall feathers and jewelled aigrette in her hair, from which hangs a long drapery."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Mandane
Description:
Title etched at top of image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Billington, Elizabeth,--1765-1818--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.