Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "No. 1" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Musicians -- Ballrooms -- Dancers -- Couples., and Watermark: John Hall 1816.
"Bedroom scene. A powerfully built man in greatcoat and top-boots throws a dandified youth out of a window, with stern concentration. The houses opposite, lit by a full moon, show that the ground is far below. The victim's head and shoulders are outside; he desperately clutches sash and sill, kicking violently. A terrified woman stands by the bed. Her huge bonnet hangs on the wall. In the struggle the dressing-table glass has been thrown to the floor, where it lies, with lighted candle and watch and seals. Stick, hat, and gloves are on the floor, the victim's hat and coat on a chair."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption above and below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Cf. No. 14591 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Throne -- Bowing., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 8th, 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806
In a sitting room, a man sits on the sofa his arms around two woman who sit on his knees while he turns his head to kiss a third woman who has climbed on the sofa and thrown her arms around his neck. Standing before the sofa, a second man angrily pulls at the arm of one of the woman on the first man's knee, much to her annoyance. Behind the sofa on the wall, hang two pictures one entitled "Pluralist" and the other "Miser" both of which comment on the scene below
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Title from caption above and below image., Plate numbered "Pl. 1" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
Publisher:
Pubd. January, 1823, by S.W. Fores No. 41 Piccadilly
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print published originally by S.W. Fores in 1800., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by S.W. Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Place and date of publication from other prints in the series., Reduced copy. Cf. no. 9592, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds -- Fences -- Food: chicken -- Ginger bread -- Beverage: bottle of wine., and Watermark.
"Ministerial rats with human heads scamper about a barn, searching for food. John Bull, a yokel in a smock and holding a pitchfork, holds open one leaf of the door facing the spectator, to watch their antics with amusement. George III, in profile to the right., puts a hand his shoulder, and says: "What! What! looking for Grain, eh! looking for grain; it's all gone, all gone all gone, quite Empty." John answers: "Why, these Hungry Rats thought to have had some fine pickings, I warrant, but egad they'll he woundedly mistaken, tho'f they seem to want it nationly; but that dom'd Scotchman [Melville] carried off a rare lot of it & as to poor Billy the Butler [Pitt] why he was so fond of a drop of Black Snap, [Perjorative for thick, sweet port. Partridge, 'Slang Dict.', 1938.] that when he and his friends, not at it, d'ye see, the rest of the Servants did as they pleased, poor Rogues I'se afraid they'll Undermine the Barn they're so main Hungry." The rats are on a smaller scale. On the extreme left., Lord Derby peeps from a bin inscribed 'Treasury', saying, "Why I suppose the Old Rat Died because there was nothing to feed upon." Moira climbs down a tilted sieve, Grenville sniffs at an upturned '[T]reasury' tub on which Lord Ellenborough sulkily reposes. Grey scampers towards an empty lantern but Windham has dragged out its candle and is nibbling at it. Sheridan races towards the candle from the r. Behind him is Erskine, looking sly. A bulky animal wearing a garter ribbon, probably the Marquis of Buckingham, lies with its head inside an empty '[T]reasury' sack. Fox and Bedford nibble at a pile of tattered and folded sacks on which is Lord Spencer, looking down at them. In the background are three other rightats, whose heads are less characterized: those on the left may be Sidmouth and Lauderdale; one nibbling a bundle of straw (r.) resembles Burdett."--British Museum online catalogue
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Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm..
Publisher:
Pubd. March, 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839
"Two designs, side by side, each with title. [1] John, a very fat and jovial 'cit', leans back in an arm-chair holding up a glass of port. On the table beside him (right) are a decanter of 'Port', round of beef (pushed aside), pipe, tobacco-box. An empty tankard lies on the floor. He says: "Well a glass of good Port cheers both Body and mind and enables one to gthrough [sic] the fatigues of Business. Here's a bumper to the great Chatham aye he was a statesman A greater in England there never was known, A friend to the People, a friend to the Throne." On the wall is a framed portrait (three-quarter length) of 'Good Queen Bess' above three broadside ballads: 'The Land we live in'; 'Oh the roast Beef of Old England'; 'May we Live all the days of our Lives'. A fat bull-dog (left) gnaws a large bone. On the floor are also papers: 'Orders for Russia'; 'Good [sic] ship'd for America'; 'Ord . . .'; 'Good shipd for Spain'. [2] John, lean, ragged and starving, sits in profile to the left, on a broken chair in a ruinous garret, contemplating suicide. The head and shoulders of a stout tax-collector appear outside a (broken) casement window; he says: "Oh there you are enjoying yourself! I have been kocking [sic] at the door this have hour. I want your property Tax I had a deal of trouble last time I thought you had run away." John: "Why there is very little of me left sure enough you need not trouble yourself to call any more, for that will be gone soon." He faces a table, with an open drawer, on which a razor lies on a book: 'Toughts [sic] on suicide by Danl Doleful'; there are also a broken pitcher, an onion, &c. A starving cat looks up at its master. On the floor is a torn and discarded 'Order Book'. A 'Gazette' with two columns headed respectively 'Bankrupts', 'Promo[tions', an attack on 'placemen'], lies on large papers headed 'Butchers Bill'. With these are an empty plate and spoon and burned-down candle. There is a miserable bed (right); laths show through the broken plaster. On the wall is a large half length print of 'Iohn Bellingham' above broadside-ballads: 'Oh Dear what can the matter be', and 'there's nae luck about the House'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull in clover, John Bulll done over, and Iohn Bulll done over
Description:
Title from caption below image., Two separately titled images on one plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Poverty., and In imprint, "12" is written in manuscript over "19."
Publisher:
Pub. Jany 9, 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
"John Bull, a plebeian, stout and dishevelled, lies on his back on a tangle of large roses with vicious thorns. These are on a heap of stones and under the stump of a decayed oak tree (left). He exclaims: "Oh Lord! Oh Lord! if this be the Bed of Roses they make such a noise about I'd sooner lye with the Old Sow and her Farrow in the Dog Days! - My Dame will roar woundidly when she comes to bed! Ecod it's as bad as lying on a Harrow upside down." The stones (left to right) are 'Expedition to Holland' [1799, see British Museum Satires No. 9412, &c], 'Expedition to Ferrol', 'Jobs and Contracts', 'Pension List', 'Indemnity for the past & Security for the Future', 'No Peace possible with the child and Champion of Jacobinism', 'Places', 'Subsidies'. The roses are: 'Candle Tax', 'Hair Powder Tax', 'Hat Tax', 'Paper Tax', 'Snuff Tax', 'Game Tax', 'Wine Tax', 'Property Tax', 'Salt Tax', 'Land Tax', 'Stamp Tax', 'Assessed Taxes', 'Income Tax', 'Table Beer Tax', 'House Tax', 'Window Tax', 'Excise Duty', 'Horse Tax', 'Tobacco Tax', 'Soap Tax', 'Servant Tax', 'Malt Tax', 'Hop Tax', 'Sugar Tax', 'Legacy Tax', 'Tea Tax', 'Cyder Tax'. On the two extremities of the 'bed' are clusters of thorny buds; these are inscribed '1807', '1808', and [once] '1809', those on the left being labelled 'National Debt'. In the distance St. Paul's is indicated. Bushes on the right are wind-swept."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull on a bed of roses
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark: 181[0?].
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1806 by Wm. Holland, Cockspur Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Roses, Thorns, and Taxes
John Bull's first visit to his old friend the new secretary
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Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Dogs -- Politics., Mounted to 29 x 40 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
"Pitt (r.), as a bare-footed monk with a large tonsure, sits in a high Gothic chair. Melville, in Highland dress and holding his feathered bonnet, kneels before him in profile to the right., saying, "Ye mun knaw - I have got into a little wee scrape, - and as ye knaw you and I ganarally rowd in the same boat - I want to ask your advice." Pitt looks agitated, and puts out his hands with a deprecating gesture; he says: "Dont implicate me I request - I that am compleatly Imacculate. Except laying a few trifling Taxes on Income, Births, Marriages, Burials, Houses, Windows, Tea, Coffee, Wine, Horses, Dogs, Carriages, Wills, Agreements, Servants, Hats, Receipts, News-Papers, Letters - Bricks, Tiles, Pepper, Salt, Cyder, Perry, Malt, Hops, - and such like iconsiderable things - , I dont think I ever did a paw - paw - action in all my Life. - however I'll endeavour to procure you absolution, for old acquaintance sake.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Johnny MacCree at confession
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Mounted to 49 x 30 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 29th, 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811