- Creator:
- Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1788?]
- Call Number:
- 788.04.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A reduced copy probably from a book and resembling the folding plates to the 'Hibernian Magazine'. The groups are arranged from left to right as in British Museum satire no. 7301, but each figure is reversed and the groups are in two rows, one above the other
- Alternative Title:
- Picture of the times
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Place of publication based earlier state. See British Museum catalogue., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Smith Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
- Subject (Topic):
- Slavery and Antislavery movements
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > English slavery, or, A picture of the times [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 1788.
- Call Number:
- 788.04.13.01+ Boxed
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Picture of the times
- Description:
- Title etched below image on 2nd plate., Two plates with additional imprint statements. Imprint on left-most plate: Pub. by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, April 3, 1788. Imprint on 3rd plate: Pub. by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, April 13, 1788., British Museum catalogue tentative identification of printmaker: "After F.G. Byron?", and Sheets trimmed to plate mark on sides, joined and stored rolled in a box.
- Publisher:
- Published by William Holland, Printseller, at Garrick's Richard, No. 50 Oxford Street, near Berner's Street ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Smith Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, and Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818
- Subject (Topic):
- Slavery and Antislavery movements
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > English slavery, or, A picture of the times [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [26 May 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.05.26.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Burke (left), a very thin 'lay porter', addresses Thurlow (right), who is very obese and holds in his left a heart inscribed 'Humanity', from which a piece has been broken. He is Father Paul in Sheridan's 'Duenna' (III. v). They face each other in profile. Burke is dressed as a monk (cf. BMSat 6026), a rosary with a cross inscribed 'Impeachment' hangs from his girdle. In his hand is a paper inscribed 'Account of expences attending a Trial. . . Esqr.' He says, "We ask no more than is needfull, and so little have we had, that we are almost starved". Thurlow answers, "It's false; you feast and Gormandize, whilst we are wasting". (The words are adapted from 'The Duenna'.) On his goblet, inscribed 'Pleasure', is a scene of persons being sabred, while a body hangs from a gibbet. Behind Burke and Thurlow is a curtain which cuts off part of the room. Above it (centre) is the top of a jewelled turban, as worn by Hastings in caricature, surmounted by feathers inscribed 'Treasury Warrants'. From it ascends vertically a sword to whose blade are attached horizontal bunches of leaves; from these hang four hats inscribed respectively 'Middlet[on]', 'Impey', 'Holt', 'Ben'. A man (? Burges) looks through the curtain at Burke; in his hand are two scrolls: 'Profus[ion]', 'Oeconomy'. On the wall (left) is a picture of a bull inscribed: 'Decided either way Poor John is sure to pay.' His blood gushes out in a copious fountain into a pit inscribed 'Private Defence', while from another wound it merely drips into a hole inscribed 'Public Prosecution'. The frame is inscribed 'John Bull. Paymaster'. On the right is a placard, inscribed 'Good Entertainment Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays' (cf. BMSats 7313, 7314) and surmounted by a crown."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Father Paul and the lay porter and Particular state of particular expences
- Description:
- Title from item., Text following title: Published according to act of parliament., Printmaker from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Altered quotation from literature: Richard Brinsley's The Duenna, Act III -- Richard Brinsley: 1751-1816 -- Debate on expenses -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd, as the act directs by W. Dent, May 26th, 1788 ; sold by W. Dickie, opposite Exeter change Strand & W. Morre, N. 48 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Father Paul & the lay porter, or, The particular state of particular expences [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 May 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.05.02.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The cattle-pens (right) of Smithfield Market are filled with cattle with the faces of peers and draped with ermine-trimmed robes. [The ermine is apparent only in the coloured impression] Thurlow, dressed as a farmer, the owner of the cattle, stands on guard with his back to the pens; he wears his Chancellor's wig and uses the mace as a walking-stick. He clutches a full purse in his right hand and looks fiercely at a smaller number of cattle who are being driven from the left towards the pens. One of these, with the head of Lord Derby, stands on his hind legs, saying, "I move an adjournment till after the next Newmarket Meeting". The cattle in the pens (right) have the heads of peers who were believed favourable to Hastings. In the front row are (left to right) Lord Sydney, the Duke of Grafton, and (between two unidentified peers) Lord Bathurst. An ox with the head of Lord Lansdowne, his horns tipped to prevent mischief, stands (right) outside the pen which he tries to enter, his eyes slyly fixed on Thurlow (cf. BMSat 7311). Others cannot be identified. The Opposition peers include the Duke of Portland (who glares fiercely at Sydney), the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Carlisle, and Lord Stormont. They are being driven by a fierce-looking drover (left); a dog wearing a peer's robe, his collar inscribed 'Mountford', barks at them. On the extreme left Hastings, dressed as a butcher but wearing a turban, riding (right to left) a miserable horse fit only for the knacker (the horse of Hanover), carries off a calf with the profile of George III, its forelegs tied together. He whips his horse ferociously. Behind him is a pawnbroker's shop-window, with three balls and the sign 'Money Lent'. In the middle of the cattle-pens (right) is a bell (that of the Market) on a post, a man (? George Rose) wearing a bag-wig pulls the bell-rope, looking round with a cynical smile. Undifferentiated ministerial cattle at the back of the pens push with their horns at a watchman's box which they are overturning. Three men dressed as watchmen, seated on the roof (which they have climbed to escape the cattle), drop staff, lantern, and rattle and are about to fall off; they are Fox, Burke, and Sheridan. The background is formed by buildings; the pawnshop (left) adjoins a large inn behind the cattle, a house at the corner of 'Smithfield' and 'Cow Lane', which diverges on the right. It is the sign of the Crown; in a balcony over the large gateway which leads to the courtyard sit Dundas (left) and Pitt (right), much at their ease, facing each other in profile, regardless of the turmoil below. They are smoking and have foaming tankards marked with a crown; Dundas is in Highland dress, Pitt is dressed as an English farmer or drover. On the balcony is: 'Good Entertainment for Man and Beast'. Beneath the design is etched: '"Every Man has his Price", Sir Rt Walpole', and '"Sic itur ad astra"'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quotation inscribed on either side of title. On the left: "Every man has his price," Sir Robert Walpole. On the right: "Sic itur ad astra.", and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 2d, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- India. and England
- Subject (Name):
- Smithfield Market., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Montfort, Thomas Bromley, Baron, 1733-1799, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment, Influence, Bribery, Cattle, Ceremonial objects, City & town life, Clock & watch making, Equipment, Taverns (Inns), Usury, Signs (Notices), Stockyards, and Stores & shops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Market-day [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 May 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.05.16.01.1+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt, Hastings, and Thurlow, the State Jugglers, are on a platform outside the gate of St. James's Palace. Above the gate projects the sign of the Crown inn, across which rests a plank forming a see-saw; on this the King (right) as Punch sits facing Queen Charlotte, dressed as Judy or Mother Shipton; she takes a pinch of snuff, the King holds out his hands as if in disapproval. A crowd of suppliants surrounds the platform. Pitt, bending towards them, pulls ribbons from his mouth; three men on the extreme left hold out their arms eagerly: one is a naval officer, a 'Log Book' under his arm shows that he is Sir Alexander Hood, see BMSat 5536, K.B. elect, see BMSat 7318. The second is Wilkes; the third cannot be identified. Hastings kneels between Pitt and Thurlow, his hands crossed humbly on his breast, a copious stream of coins issues from his mouth. Dundas, Lansdowne, Sydney, a bishop, and a fifth suppliant hold out their hats eagerly to catch the coins. Thurlow stands erect, his hands on his hips, flames and smoke issuing from his mouth inscribed "Hell-Fire, my Soul, Dam, Blast, Eyes, Heaven, Curse, Limbs, Blood". A little chimney-sweep [The sweep is said to represent Frederick Montagu, one of the Commissioners in Fox's India Bill. Wright and Evans.] and a ragged fishwife, a basket of fish on her head, stand gazing at him with wonder and admiration. On the extreme right, at the side of the platform, Fox, supported on the shoulders of Burke, slyly holds out his hat behind Thurlow; Sheridan (?) [Identified by Wright and Evans as the Duke of Norfolk] supports them. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title: "Who wrought such wonders as might make, Egyptian sorcerers forsake ..." Churchll., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotations: Charles Churchill, 1731-1764 -- Jugglers -- See-saws -- Naval logs -- Allusion to Mother Shipton -- Gate of St. James's Palace -- Fishwives -- Punch -- Coins -- Chimney sweeps -- Trials: Warren Hastings's trial -- Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport, 1727-1814., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 34.8 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 40.5 x 27.3 cm., and Mounted to 43 x 30 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 16th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Stages (Platforms), Gates, Crowns, Seesaws, Crowds, Snuff, Coins, and Chimney sweeps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > State-jugglers [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.06.04.01++ Framed, shelved in Object Room B:B
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A fantastic representation of the supper at the ball given by the eleven Knights of the Bath installed on 19 May in Westminster Abbey, see BMSat 7318. Full accounts appeared in the newspapers, and the scene depicted appears intended for 'the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, and a select party of their friends' who 'supped privately in the cotillon room'. 'London Chronicle', 27 May 1788. The guests sit on each side of a long narrow table, scantily provided with food, the bench on the near side of the table showing legs and feet in characteristic attitudes. The design, long as it is, shows only a section of the table, the ends not appearing. [Pl. 1.] On the extreme left, on the near side two elderly and ugly ladies lean ingratiatingly towards Major Topham, the seat of whose breeches is decorated with Prince of Wales's feathers. On the opposite side, on the extreme left, is a couple identified as Sir J. Johnstone and lady. He is very unlike the herculean uncouth figure described by Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, iv. 404. Next (opposite Topham) Lord Bathurst takes wine with Lord Stormont who grasps a decanter of French Wine. Burke, seated next Topham, on whom he turns his back, holds out an empty plate towards Hastings on the opposite side of the table who keeps to himself a whole ham; they regard each other with wary suspicion. On Hastings's left sits Mrs. Hastings, also looking warily at Burke. She is decked with jewels and wears a small crowned turban as a head-dress. Next her is a man wearing a ribbon and star, drinking, who is identified as the Marquis of Buckingham (K.G.). Opposite Mrs. Hastings sits a very fat lady talking to a lean man wearing epaulettes. They are identified as Mrs. Hobart [Whom she does not resemble] (actually Miss Jefferies) and Col. Jekyll. Next Jekyll, Lord Sandwich and an ugly (unidentified) man share the same jelly-glass, holding between them the plate on which it stands. On the extreme right, on the farther end of the table, a man of plebeian appearance drinks from a tankard; he is identified as Dr. Parr. The man between him and Buckingham is identified as the Duke of Portland, whom he does not resemble. [Pl. 2.] On the extreme left the Duke of Grafton turns towards the fat Mrs. Hobart (identified as Miss Jefferies). Opposite him a stout man drinking from a jelly-glass has been identified as Lord Nugent (whom he does not resemble). Next him Cornwallis, wearing ear-rings, puts his arm round the shoulder of a lady, identified as Lady Clive, who looks languishingly at him as she takes a (?) peach. Next her is Lord North. Opposite him is a man identified as Sir George Shuckburgh [He is unlike the Shuckburgh of Gillray's 'French Habits' (1798)] who takes his neighbour by the arm offering her a glass of wine; she demurs deprecatingly. On the farther side of the table, with no one seated opposite him, is the Prince of Wales, a fork held to his mouth (as in BMSat 8111), sitting impassively between Lady Archer and Lady Cecilia Johnston, two bedizened harridans, who ogle him, putting their hands on his shoulders. Next Lady Cecilia (right) is Mrs. Fitzherbert, ogling Wilkes, who sits next her, squinting and leering. On the near side of the table is a man in back view wearing a ribbon and (right) Lord Carlisle talking to Lord Heathfield who sits behind a sirloin of beef. Opposite him and on the extreme right is a pretty young lady identified as Miss Bingham. [Pl. 3.] On the extreme left, on the near side of the table, a middle-aged couple, holding knives and forks, turn to each other with animated smiles. Opposite them sits a good-looking young man wearing a ribbon and star (perhaps Lord Mornington). On his left the Duke of Richmond turns with an expression of pained surprise to Lord Rawdon. Opposite this pair two stout men turn to each other, both drinking. The central group of this plate, a pendant to that of the Prince of Wales on pl. 2, is the Duke of York sitting between two pretty young women, his right arm is round the shoulder of one, probably Lady Tyrconnel, the other holds his left arm and shoulder; both look languishingly at him. On the near side of the table are two more couples: Lord Amherst (caricatured) puts an arm round the waist of a lean and ugly old woman wearing the fashionable false 'derrière' in an exaggerated form. On the extreme right Lord Derby, his hand on his breast, drinks wine with the witch-like Lady Mount Edgcumbe. On the farther side of the table are two unidentified men, one of whom drinks from his plate; next him is a pretty young woman. On the extreme right Dundas turns to speak to his left-hand neighbour; he grasps a decanter and glass, spilling his wine. [Pl. 4.] On the farther side of the table Philip Francis turns to speak to Dundas. Opposite him, and on the extreme left, a stout lady, identified as Lady Salisbury (see BMSat 6115), sits in back view, her petticoats enormously inflated behind. She speaks to no one: Pitt, her right hand neighbour, leans behind the back of the Speaker (alternatively identified as Thurlow) to touch glasses with Fox, who smiles amiably, holding a decanter in his right hand. Cornwall bends avidly over his plate; he wears his Speaker's wig, the mace lies across his knees. Four figures sit opposite this group: the ugly Pepper Arden who gazes admiringly at a pretty young woman on his left; she appears displeased at her position between Arden and a fat woman who puts both knife and fork to her mouth. Next the latter is Lord Lansdowne, who seizes affectionately the hand of Lord Sydney who turns towards him with a smile; they drink to each other. Next Fox on the near side of the table a plain and elderly couple drink to each other; both are thin. They are identified as Lady Powlett and Sir H. Powlett. Opposite them, and, like the lady on his left, intent on his plate, is a military officer identified as General Bligh. His neighbour is old and haggard, her hair elaborately dressed. Next her and on the extreme right two men carouse together, both wear stars; one is identified as the Duke of Bedford, the other (right) as the Duke of Norfolk (neither had an order). Opposite, a man wearing a ribbon pours out wine for an elderly and ugly lady who receives the attention with a gesture of satisfaction. They are identified as Sir George and Lady Yonge. He is identical with the ass whose profile is shown on the extreme right in BMSat 7318, who can hardly be Yonge who appears elsewhere in that print."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower right corner of plate 4: All the works of Bunbury, & Gillray, to be had of S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly., A design on four plates, the prints to be pasted together to form a long strip; the imprint is on plate 1, the title on plate 2 and plate 3, the inscription relating to Bunbury, &c, on plate 4., and Several of the figures are identified in different hands below design. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd June 4th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Hastings, Anna Maria Apollonia von Chapuset, 1747-1837, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797, Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807., Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The installation-supper as given at the Pantheon, by the Knights of the Bath, on the 26th of May, 1788. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [22 December 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.12.22.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Pitt and Fox stand square-off, fists raised in the House of Commons at the height of the Regency Crisis, just before the passage of the Regency Bill, 1789
- Alternative Title:
- Humphreys & Mendoza fighting for a crown and Humphreys and Mendoza fighting for a crown
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 27 x 38 cm., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd by W. Dent December 22 1788 and Sold by W. Moore, Oxford Street
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Humphries, Richard, d. 1827, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, and Great Britain. House of Commons,
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Spectators, and Fighting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The meeting of parties, or, Humphreys & Mendoza fighting for a crown [graphic].