Lord North at a wash-tub, washing clothes, with women standing round him. He stands in profile to the left stooping over a tub resting on a square stool or table; he is in his shirt, with his sleeves tucked up, but wearing his garter ribbon. His coat, with its star, lies on a stool behind him. He says, "Oh Lord I wish that Fox at the Devil". In the foreground (left) a fox with playing-cards under its feet, is biting a sack inscribed "Budgett". One woman, in profile to the right, holds up her hands, saying "Poor man he must want a drop of comfort [i.e. gin]". A woman standing full face, behind the tub, says, "Look at him, see what he has got by his Taxation". The third woman stands behind North holding a cloth, and saying "He deserves this Clout pin'd to his tail". A small child with curly hair is looking over the edge of the wash-tub. Over North's head is suspended an axe, suggestive of the impeachment and capital punishment with which he had been threatened by the Opposition and Press, cf. BMSat 5660, 5661, 5964, 6046, &c. [Threats of impeachment and the block had been made by Burke and Fox, e.g. by Fox, 27 Nov. 1781, 'Parl. Hist.' xxii. 692: Ministers would he trusted expiate their measures "on the public scaffold".] The room is poverty-stricken, with plaster coming off the walls. On the table (left) is bottle and glass. In the foreground (right) is a barrel lying on its side inscribed "Gin". On the wall hangs a paper or broadside inscribed, "to praise Lord North i thirst it (?) no ten for he has [? illegible forborne] to tax our Dear Gin".--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1, 1782 by E. Dachery [sic] No. 11 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Laundresses, Wash tubs, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Fox, and Richmond on the left with Shelburne standing pensively between them, move away from the armored ghost of Cromwell who stands on a crushed crown and sceptre. Cromwell is saying "To obtain your end your measures are right, you arm the people, like me, you trample on prerogative...." A reference to Shelburne's plan after the Gordon Riots to arm the populace in preference to the use of troops
Alternative Title:
Malagrida and conspirators consulting the ghost of Oliver Cromwell
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue no. 6006, of which this appears to be an earlier state with date and publication line intact., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On left within border: "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 5.", and Mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 10th 1782 by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
Fox, and Richmond on the left with Shelburne standing pensively between them, move away from the armored ghost of Cromwell who stands on a crushed crown and sceptre. Cromwell is saying "To obtain your end your measures are right, you arm the people, like me, you trample on prerogative...." A reference to Shelburne's plan after the Gordon Riots to arm the populace in preference to the use of troops
Alternative Title:
Malagrida and conspirators, consulting the ghost of Oliver Cromwell
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imprint statement partly obscured by a line etched across it., Statement in upper left border, "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 5," has the year crossed out., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 10th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
"A girl standing in the middle of a circle of spectators in a village, wearing a veil and with her arms outstretched as if partaking in a game, the group including a figure in kilt in the left foreground and a shepherd behind, a church(?) tower visible above trees behind and landscape beyond at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Kate of Aberdeen and Scene in the Scottish Highlands
Description:
Title from text below image., "It is assumed that the inscribed engraver's name is a mistake, and should read 'P.W. Tomkins'"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed to a circular shape with loss of all text apart from the statements of responsibility. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1870,1008.36., Eight lines of verse below title, beginning: "Now Blithsom oer the dewy mead ...", and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 4, 1782, by T. Macklin, No. 30 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Villages, Country life, Celebrations, and Shepherds
Title from item., Sheet trimmed., and Originally published in 1780. Reissue of no. 5632 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 9th 1782 & sold at No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Privies, and Clothing & dress
A satire on the Prince of Wales's relations with Lady Salisbury, the pair shown holding hands on the right, while her husband, drawn as a block of stone, stamps angrily in the center. Between them is Mrs. Robinson, who had been deserted by the Prince, and on the left 5 figures are dancing in a circle
Alternative Title:
Monuments lately discovered on Salisbury Plain
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of explanatory text below title: The figures No. 1 & 2 are judged by conoiseurs [sic] to have lately been animated with the coelestial fire ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Salisbury Plain (England) and England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, and Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
A tall thin violinist stands under a tree on the left serenading a motley group of grotesque-looking individuals, one having a pegleg, as 2 dogs bark accompaniment. In the background is a high stone wall
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint., and Sheet extended to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as y act directs, Augst. 27, 1782 by Turner, Sno[w Hill]
Bute and North lie on the ground as Dunning steps from North's back to Butes. assisted by Fox. A Scot in highland dress attacks Dunning from behind with a sword while an Irishman and American look on.
Alternative Title:
Liberties triumph
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 30 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Publised Aprill 20, 1782 by E. Darchery St. Js' Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
Alternative Title:
Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and On left above design: Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, History, Naval, Admirals, French, British, Sailors, and Clothing & dress
Lord North, carrying a large sack labelled "budget, small beer, soap, tobacco, insurance, carriages, tea", references to his proposed taxes of 1782. The Devil stands behind helping support the sack, as North approaches an open window at which a fox (Charles James Fox) is standing
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Colley in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10th, 1782 by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Economic conditions, Lifting & carrying, Devil, and Clothing & dress