Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Text following publisher's statement: Folios of careatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: Dog Tax, April 1796 -- Excise: duty on sherry and port -- Budgets: Pitt's budget, 1796 -- Gibbets., Watermark: Strasburg bend; initials below obscured by coloring in the design., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. May 10, 1796, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image., Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 33 x 46 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint; mounted to 34 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal shows, Leopards, and Lions
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image., and Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal shows, Leopards, and Lions
John Bull frightened out of his money and John Bull frightened out of his wits
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The word "money" in the title has been scored through and replaced by the word "wits"., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Telegraphs -- Coins: guineas -- Reference to French invasion., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Title from item., Advertisement by the printseller following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: wine duty, 1796 -- Mythology: Bacchus -- Windsor uniforms -- Containers: wine casks., Watermark: 1794., Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Collector's stamp on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below.
Publisher:
Pub. April 26, 1796, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812