- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 December 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.12.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An officer wearing boots, plumed cocked hat, and an enormous sabre, stands full-face, with shoulders hunched, a porte-crayon in his mouth. Under his right arm is a portfolio of 'Caricatures', while crude caricature prints are pinned to the wall: 'Wit' is a squatting woman looking over her shoulder to say "Baiser!". 'Character' is a quasi-lion with an ass's head inscribed 'This is a Red Lion'. A print of a Jean-de-Bry coat and a boot is inscribed 'Classick Studies'. A clumsy Hottentot inscribed 'Venus de Medicis is Grace'. A goat painting a recumbent nude on a canvas inscribed 'Leith Harbour is Refined Sentiment'. On a table against the wall (right) is a bottle of 'Velno' (a quack remedy, see BMSat 7592), and two books: 'Aretine's Postures' and 'La Pucelle'. Under the table is a large portfolio: 'Hints from Bunbury'; 'Mat . . Darly - Lord Townshend &c &c.' A patterned carpet covers the floor. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted text below title: "His satires are as keen as the back of a rasor; and having but three ideas in the world, "two of them are borrow'd, & the third, nobody else would own.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Swords -- Medicine: Velno -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Furnishings: carpet -- Reference to George Townshend's (Marquis Townshend, 1724-1807) drawings -- Reference to Henry William Bunbury's (1750-1811) drawings -- Reference to Matthew DArly's (fl. 1754-1778) drawings.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Davies, Thomas, approximately 1737-1812
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The military caricaturist [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 September 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.09.08.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bonaparte (much caricatured), standing precariously on a 'Dutch Cheese', is attacked by the allies. Austria and Russia pull from his thin leg a large clumsy boot, consisting of a map of 'Italy'; coins (French plunder) pour from the boot, on which 'Naples', 'Rome', 'Florence', and other geographical divisions are indicated. Austria is a fierce hussar, smoking a pipe, on his cap is the Habsburg eagle; he tugs at the boot, the Russian bear (on the extreme left) assists him, its paws clasping his waist. A ferocious Turk holds Bonaparte by the nose and raises a scimitar whose blade, inscribed 'St Jean d'Acre', drips blood; across his shoulders are strung bleeding ears and noses to which Bonaparte's is to be added. A sailor (right), representing the British Navy, seizes Bonaparte from behind; in his hat are ribbons inscribed 'Nelson', 'Duncan', 'Bridport'. A fat Dutchman on the extreme right, with the blunt profile of the Prince of Orange, tugs at the cheese in order to dislodge Bonaparte; he kneels on a paper, 'Secret Expedition'. Bonaparte's uniform is ragged, his left foot is bare, but in each hand is a blood-stained dagger. In the background (right) tiny figures (probably Dutch) dance hand-in-hand round a bonfire in which burns a 'Tree of Liberty', a bonnet-rouge on a pole, cf. BMSat 9214."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched at top of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Dutch soldiers -- Holland -- Ships: English men-of-war -- Flags: The Hague -- Frogs -- Windmills.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Septr. 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The reception in Holland [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 May 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.05.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "French soldiers, puny simian creatures, are being destroyed or put to flight by the powers of the Second Coalition. In the foreground (right) the British Lion devours a heap of the little creatures; others flee. An ogre in Turkish costume (left), his profile set in a crescent, grips Bonaparte in his left hand, raising a blood-stained scimitar. Bonaparte attempts to strike with a dagger; he drops a paper: 'Organization of Egypt, & Triumph of Buonaparte'. The Russian bear sits grasping and crushing struggling French apes. On the right the Habsburg eagle, clasping a sheaf of thunderbolts, flies off to the right, tearing a bonnet-rouge in beak and claws. A French army is in flight with a tricolour flag inscribed 'Egalite'. Behind Turkey are Frenchmen impaled on spears."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Monkey-race in danger
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801 -- Coalitions -- Frenchmen as monkeys -- Sansculottes -- Emblems: Russian bear -- Habsburg eagle -- British Lion -- Turks -- Male costume: Turkish dress -- Impalement.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 20th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The state of the war, or, The monkey-race in danger [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 May 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.05.07.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two corpulent men, with arms interlaced, trip through space, their heads turned in profile to the right, naked except for a piece of floating drapery. One (left) holds up a frothing tankard of Berkley Ale, the other a foaming goblet, tankard and goblet being the centre of a pointed star. The heads are well characterized, and alike only in fatness, short hair, and side-whisker."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Twin stars, Castor and Pollux
- Description:
- Title etched below image., No. 5 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Castor & Pollux -- Brewers: George Barclay, fl. 1799 -- Charles Sturt -- Dishes: tankards -- Glass: goblets -- Beverages: ale., Mounted., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mills.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str
- Subject (Name):
- Sturt, Charles, 1763-1812
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The twin stars, Castor & Pollux [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 March 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.03.12.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A terrified French civilian is about to be impaled on a spike planted in the desert. He is carried by two Turks, in a sitting posture, one supporting his legs, and clasps in the left hand a paper: 'Le Prophete demasqué', while in the right is raised a large volume: 'L'Imposture de Mahomet'. A Mohammedan priest follows the group, declaiming from his open 'ALKORAN'. A stout Turk with a long spear stands (left) facing the victim and directing operations. In the background is a Frenchman holding on his head a large turban, his discarded hat lying on the ground. He looks over his shoulder with a grin at the impending execution."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One of seven plates on the French Expedition to Egypt by Gillray, purported to have been drawn by a fellow expedition member., Temporary local subject terms: Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801-- Military: French soldiers -- Frenchmen: civilian Frenchman -- Turks -- Mohamedan priests -- Executions: impalement -- Weapons: spears -- Guns: rifles -- Books: Koran -- Allusion to Copies of Original Letters From the Army of General Bonapart in Egypt, Intercepted by the Fleet., and Watermark: 1794 J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 12th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Théologie á la Turque the pale of the Church of Mahomet / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [November 1799?]
- Call Number:
- 799.11.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A sculptured monument to Sir George Savile against a stone wall. A life-like half length figure of Savile looking to the right is set in an alcove with inscriptions above and below. Above: 'The Guardian Genius of that Good Man and Upright Senator \ Sir George Saville Bart \ Hovers with anxiety over The Tomb; not without Hopes, that his Countrymen \ may e're it be too late, see the Necessity of Peace, - the Improbability of \ the Present Ministers making it, - & the Benefit which would result, from a Temperate Reformation of those Abuses, "from which {to use his own memorable words) \ it was notorious, that all our Calamities Sprung."!!!' Below: 'Fuimus Troes, fuet [sic] Ilium et ingens Gloria Teucrorum. Virgil Here lie the Remains of the \ - Requisition, - \ The last Hopes of the Independent Gentlemen of Yorkshire; \ in full Confidence \ that when Corruption shall have ceased to prey upon the \ Human Frame, that it will rise again to \ - Immortal Glory.- \ Reader, \ You will no longer doubt the just Cause or upright \ Intention of this Requisition, when you learn, that \ the Merchants of Leeds, its greatest Enemies, have \ Thought that an Elegant Monument should be dedicated \ to it's \ Memory. \ "Your Cause of Sorrow must not be measured by his \ "Worth, for then it hath no End." Shakespere Mackbeth \ "Quis Desiderio sit Pudor aut Modus \ "Tam chari Capitis." Horace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Probably commissioned by the Yorkshire Reform movement. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Monuments: sepulchral monument to George Savile, 8th Bt. -- Literature: Shakespeare's Macbeth, v.8.44 -- Literature: Virgil, Aeneid.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Savile, George, Sir, 1726-1784
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Tomb of Sir George Savile] [graphic].