A giant, half-nude female figure of Britannia swings terror-stricken diminutive figures of Charles Fox and Lord North in the air. Holding Fox by the ankle, she raises him above her head while North dangles by his neck from her other hand. Her shield and the liberty cap are beside her
Alternative Title:
Britannia roused, or, The coalition monsters destroyed and Coalition monsters destroyed
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from Grego., and Mounted to 40 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"Satire on the affair of Admiral Byng, showing his ghost appearing to Newcastle, Anson and Hardwicke who are seen through a transparent screen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: One night to indulge their vile thoughts tete a tete ..., Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings -- Pictures amplifying subject: French rooster carrying off a map of Minorca -- Furniture., and Mounted to 30 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of the print "Kaw Jack, have Canada or to the Tower", with a new title etched above image and the verses below image omitted. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Imps -- Pets: feeding stick for birds -- Literature: allusion to Ossian, by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Allusion to Temora by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Allusion to the governorship of Canada., and Mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
"Two groups of persons who are candidates for the place of hangman. Inscribed labels issue from the persons of four of them. Two men sit side by side on a settee, wearing curiously shaped crowns or coronets, one (left) shaped like a wall. The former holds a paper inscribed "To J------e G------m" showing that he is Justice Gillam, who ordered the soldiers to fire on the Wilkite mob outside the King's Bench Prison on 10 May 1768 (see British Museum Satires No. 4201). He says: "Everyone knows my abilities as a Man-killer". His companion says: "Let the Place be held by Commission and let the two Kennedies & my self, be Lords Commissioners of the Rope". Behind, and to the left of the settee three persons stand together: A rough-looking man, flourishing a stick says: "I wont accept of ye Office without a Peerage to Support its Dignity". Next him is a Judge in wig and robes. On the right., their backs to a window, stand three men; Sir Fletcher Norton in his Speaker's robes, and the horns which indicate that he is 'Sir Bullface Double Fee', see British Museum Satires No. 4238, 4462, and index, says: "B------n S------h has spoil'd ye Trade, if Murderers were to be hang'd ye Place might be worth acceptce". He stands between the two Kennedy brothers and is alluding to the reprieve (for transportation) of one of them, the other having been acquitted. "B------n S------h" may be intended for Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, a baron of the Exchequer. This reprieve was for the murder of a watchman in a drunken brawl, and was believed to be due to the influence of the young men's sister, Polly or Kitty Kennedy, see 1935,0522.2.2 and British Museum Satires No., 4463. It was made a political question by Parson Horne and others, see Walpole, 'Memoirs of the Reign of George IV', 1845, iv. 110-11; Stephens, 'Memoirs of Horne Tooke', i. 185. 1770."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Probably an illustration in The Oxford magazine, v. 4, page 113., Temporary local subject terms: Law: judge -- Law: speaker -- Emblems: crown of the City of London -- Furnishings: settee -- Paddle -- Hangmen: Tom Turlis -- Kennedy Brothers' reprieve -- Matthew Kennedy -- Patrick Kennedy -- Justice Samuel Gillam, Magistrate of Surrey, 1715-1793? -- Nicknames: Sir Bullface Double-fee (i.e., Sir Fletcher Norton)., and Mounted to 13 x 18 cm.
Title etched at top of plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer. London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
Title from item., Printmaker, place and date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Soap tax -- Tax on lights -- Tax on windows -- Signs: sign-posts -- Trades: washerwomen -- Vehicles: tumbrels -- Windows -- Pitt's speech -- Gallow ropes., and Partial watermark in upper right of plate: fleur-de-lis on shield with initials L V G.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
according to act of Parliament, March [the] 6 [1744]
Call Number:
744.03.06.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Tentatively attributed to George Bickham the younger(?) on an unverified card catalog record., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Throne Room -- Furniture: throne -- Pictures amplifying subject: English bull dogs -- Pictures amplifying subject: papal Bull against English bulldogs -- Col. William Cecil -- Jacobites -- Jacobite Revellion, 1745-46.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from item., Plate numbered '67' in upper right corner., and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bilson-Legge, Henry, 1708-1764, and Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764
Title from item., At the bottom of design: 'Price 6d.', and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Mars -- Mythology: Neptune -- Personifications: figure of Justice -- Devil.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sketch of the life of Buonaparte
Description:
Title etched below images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs arranged horizontally on one plate, with a single collective below; each design is individually titled, has an explanatory caption below the title, and has a double border surrounding the image and text., Caption for leftmost design entitled "Democratic innocence": The young Buonaparte & his wretched relatives, in their native poverty, while free booters in the island of Corsica., Caption for rightmost design entitled "Democratic humility": Buonaparte when a boy recieved [sic] thro the Kings bounty into the Ecole Militaire at Paris., A copy of a print by Gillray of the same title that was published 12 May 1800. Cf. No. 9534 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., "Pl. 1" etched above left design, outside double border; "Pl. 2" etched above right design, outside double border., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 45 in volume 1.