- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.02.03.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Pitt, shown as a child sitting on the "Shield of Chatham," grasps by the neck two serpents, one with the head of Fox, the other with that of North. Fox's tail is inscribed, "Bill East India" and is entwined with North's tail labeled "American war."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 3d, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Snakes, and Shields
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The infant Hercules [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Sparrow, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [June 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.06.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on the taxes on windows, coal, soap, &c. In the foreground a small cart laden with coals is drawn (right to left) by an ass harnessed in front of an ox. A carter stands by the ox, wearing a cap inscribed 'No tax upon Caps'; he says: "I hope we shall sheam Measter P------t and meak him to blush for want of more wit." The ass says, "The tax upon Horses is enough to make a Dumb Ass speak." Behind the coal-cart is a woman standing outside a cottage door (right), her hands in a wash-tub. She says: "Is that Mr P------t I wish he was nigh for instead of the Soap he makes me use Lie." A large three-storied house stands at right angles with the cottage, it has a gabled pediment. Out of thirty-two windows all but seven have been blocked up. A visitor stands, one foot on the doorstep, pointing to a man who stands behind him, saying, "The Honble Mr P------t desires to know whether Esqr Blockup is at home...". A servant in livery at the door holds a lighted candle, saying, "I hope His Honour will excuse our darkness it is to save Taxes". Pitt (left) stands holding a tasselled cane and saying, "I must overlook it all for necessity has no Law". A woman looks out of the centre window of the top floor, saying, "We have got seven windows left now so we are not in total darkness.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., State with price burnished., and Temporary local subject terms: Window tax -- Coal tax -- Allusion to hat tax -- Soap tax -- Commutation Tax, 1784 -- Country houses: exterior -- Buildings: outbuildings -- Trades: washerwomen -- Carters -- Coal carts -- Wash-tubs -- Asses -- Mules -- Servants -- Lighting: candlesticks.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by S. Sparrow, No. 17 Rosoman's Street, Clerkenwell
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sad and dark effects of the taxes of 1784 [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 March] 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.03.26.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Pitt, acting as an auctioneer in the dissoluted Parliament, sells from the rostrum decorated with Royal Arms "useless valuables," such as "Magna Charta." Cornwall, the Speaker sitting below the rostrum, records bids in the "Sundry acts." In front of him stands Thurlow in Chancellor's robes making dismissive comment on "nonsensical bidings of those common fellows," i.e. members of the House of Commons who leave through the door on the left. Last of them, Fox, turns back vowing to bid "with spirit" for lot 1, "rights of the people in 558 vol." held on display by Henry Dundas. A reference to the dissolution of the Parliament by the King on March 25.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 26th by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Auctions, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The state auction [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 14th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.06.14.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Quotation from John Dryden, 1631-1700, King Arthur or the British worthy -- General elections -- Defeat of Fox -- Allusion to the defeat of the East India Bill, 1783 -- Crowns -- Devil -- Laurel wreaths -- Chains -- Pitchforks -- Angels., Partial watermark: initials L V G under shield., and Mounted to 29 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The triumph of virtue [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- June 12th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.06.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Colliers -- Fullers -- Coal pits -- Shovels -- Literature: Aesop's fables, no. 88., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- Sold at No. 34 King Street, St. Ann's, Soho
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Coal, Devil, Horses, and Strip mining
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Fox and Pitt as a collier and a fuller] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs July 24, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.07.24.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Thurlow as Balaam, riding (right to left) on an ass with the head of Pitt, is confronted by Fox (left) holding a sword with a serpentine blade and the shield of Britannia. The ass says, "Am not I thy Pitt=ifull Ass; upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine". Thurlow, on a larger scale than Fox and the ass, which is much overweighted, wears his Chancellor's wig and gown and holds his mace against his right shoulder; he looks fixedly at Fox. A low and irregular stone wall forms a background. Beneath the design is etched: 'And they came unto Balaam and said unto him, thus saith Balak the Templeite, let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me, for I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore I pray thee, curse me this People. Balaam rose up in the Morning and saddled his Ass, and went with the Lords of the Bed-Chamber, now the Man of the People stood in the way for an adversary against him, and when the Ass saw the Man of the People, he fell down under Balaam and Balaam's anger was kindled; and he smote the Ass with the Mace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G R., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Donkeys, Stone walls, and Swords & daggers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Fox, Pitt and Thurlow] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.07.01.02 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue, Temporary local subject terms: Toppling buildings -- Staff of Liberty -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Allusion to many politicians of the day -- Allusion to Gustavus III, King of Sweden., Watermark: fleur-de-lis with initials G R below., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs July 1, by J. Wjsen [sic] Walbrooke
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Columns, Liberty cap, Rats, Emblems, Shields, and Thrones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The state of the nation] [graphic].