"Mrs. Siddons stands on the stage, her head turned in profile to the left, her left hand outstretched to take a heavy purse which hangs on a pitchfork emerging from clouds. To take it she has dropped a dagger which falls to the ground. In her left hand is a cup whose contents she is pouring on the ground. The panniers of her dress fly backwards revealing two bulging pockets, one full of guineas, the other of notes or cheques inscribed '£1000, £300', &c. She is saying: "Famish'd & spent relieving others woe, Your poor devoted Suppliant only begs, This morsel for to buy a bit of Bread." The black clouds of smoke from which the pitchfork projects rise in a pillar of cloud from the pit of the theatre where flames are indicated, from which come the words 'Encore! Encore!' In the background a temple of Fame on a mountain-top is collapsing, the pillars shattered; the figure of Fame falls backward, dropping his trumpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology -- Melpomene (Mythological character) -- Purses of money -- Falling figure of Fame -- Temple of Fame -- Symbols: daggers -- Symbols: goblets -- Theater stage., and Counter watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1784, by J. Ridgeway, No. 196 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Subject (Topic):
Purses, Coins, Pitchforks, Temples, Drinking vessels, and Daggers & swords
Leaf 25. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on the debts of the Prince of Wales. A handsome young man in a riding costume (a star on his coat suggesting he is the Prince of Wales) sits in a relaxed manner at a table set with a coffee service. Opposite him are two elderly money-lenders, one of whom is wearing spectacles and is drawn with the stereotype profile and beard of a Jew sits reading a long parchment with seal. His partner looks on with a grin of satisfaction
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6717 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 148-9., and On leaf 25 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novemr. 8th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
A satire on the debts of the Prince of Wales. A handsome young man in a riding costume (a star on his coat suggesting he is the Prince of Wales) sits in a relaxed manner at a table set with a coffee service. Opposite him are two elderly money-lenders, one of whom is wearing spectacles and is drawn with the stereotype profile and beard of a Jew sits reading a long parchment with seal. His partner looks on with a grin of satisfaction
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novemr. 8th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Title from item., Proof with penciled imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Prophets -- Temples: Sacred to Liberty -- Cap of Liberty -- Britannia -- Wands -- Defeat of Fox-North Coalition -- Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Staff of Maintenance -- Prophecies., Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G R., and Mounted to 42 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by H. McPhail, N 68 High Holborn
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Shipton, Mother (Ursula)
Charles James Fox is depicted half length, scowling, in the center of a crowd of his political colleagues, who include on the left Portland, Keppel, Lord Carlisle, and on the right Lord Derby, Lord Stormont, Cavendish, Burke, and in the foreground North. At the top of the image is a lozenge containing the arms of Rockingham. A satire on Fox's fall from power, comparing the event with Lucifer's expulsion from Paradise
Alternative Title:
Pand monium and Pandemonium
Description:
Title from text at top of image. The coat of arms obscures the letter 'e'., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 4th., Nine lines of text from Milton's Paradise lost etched below image: All these and more came flocking, but with looks downcast and damp ..., and Mounted on page 31 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782.
Charles James Fox is depicted half length, scowling, in the center of a crowd of his political colleagues, who include on the left Portland, Keppel, Lord Carlisle, and on the right Lord Derby, Lord Stormont, Cavendish, Burke, and in the foreground North. At the top of the image is a lozenge containing the arms of Rockingham. A satire on Fox's fall from power, comparing the event with Lucifer's expulsion from Paradise
Alternative Title:
Pand monium and Pandemonium
Description:
Title from text at top of image. The coat of arms obscures the letter 'e'., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 4th., Nine lines of text from Milton's Paradise lost etched below image: All these and more came flocking, but with looks downcast and damp ..., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30.2 x 23.1 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 25 cm., and Mounted on leaf 17 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782.
Charles James Fox is depicted half length, scowling, in the center of a crowd of his political colleagues, who include on the left Portland, Keppel, Lord Carlisle, and on the right Lord Derby, Lord Stormont, Cavendish, Burke, and in the foreground North. At the top of the image is a lozenge containing the arms of Rockingham. A satire on Fox's fall from power, comparing the event with Lucifer's expulsion from Paradise
Alternative Title:
Pand monium and Pandemonium
Description:
Title from text at top of image. The coat of arms obscures the letter 'e'., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 4th., Nine lines of text from Milton's Paradise lost etched below image: All these and more came flocking, but with looks downcast and damp ..., and Mounted to 44 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782.
"The Duchess of Devonshire (right), wearing very wide hooped petticoats, shelters a fox beneath them. Its head projects from a slit which she holds open with her hands, its tail shows between her feet. She says:"Here my dear Reynard when all trouble's past, You'll find a Borrough open at the last."Her hat is trimmed with the usual ostrich plumes and fox's brush, cf. BMSat 6530, &c. North stands facing her, saying "He's IN for a Borrough". Beneath the design is inscribed:"In vain may Wits reprove, and Criticks blame, Nor shall concealment in this cause defame, Reynard in gratitude of such protection, Now pays the devoirs of his Election.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Parliment scrutiny, or, A borrough in reserve, Borough in reserve, and Parliament scrutiny
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Satire alludes to the Orkney boroughs., and Watermark top center of sheet: [...] R . Countermark in center of sheet: IV.
Publisher:
Pubd by E. Rich, April 28, 1784, No. 55 opposite Anderson's Coffee house, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Great Britain. Parliament
Title etched above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to St. Paul, d. 62 -- Allusion to Felix, fl. 51-58 -- Literature: Bible, Acts: 24.27-25-27 -- St. Ann's Church, Soho: Vestry room, scene of Westminster election scrutiny, 1784 -- High Bailiff of Westminster -- Scrutiny -- Pens: quills -- Lawyers -- Corbett, Thomas H., d. 1792.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Great Britain. Parliament