"Pitt, a colossal figure (cf. BMSat 8980), bestrides the Rotunda of the 'Bank of England'. His arms and legs are very thin, but his body is formed of a (transparent) sack distended with gold coins and inscribed '£'. His elbows are akimbo, his hands grasp the sides of the sack; from the little finger of his left hand hangs a key, 'Key of Public Property'. Round the mouth of the sack is a heavy chain clasped by a padlock inscribed 'Power of securing Public Credit'. From the sack emerges the pipe-like neck down which coins are passing. Pitt looks arrogantly to the right, a blast issues from his closed lips of many paper notes inscribed 'one'. Near his mouth are a few gold coins which he is presumably inhaling. He wears a crown formed of 'one' pound notes; through it project his ass's ears. The near side of the Rotunda is removed, showing a descending shower of paper and an ascending cluster of coins which are being drawn upwards to join those in the sack. Little figures in and around the rotunda, under Pitt's legs, hold up their hands in dismay at the shower of £1 notes. Among them is a John Bull wearing a smock. Two men hold papers inscribed 'Dividend'; a Jew walks off (left) with 'Scrip'. On the left, behind Pitt's right foot, is the sea-shore; large reeds at its edge blow towards him; among these are five heads wearing bonnets-rouges, each with a label issuing from his mouth: 'Midas has Ears'. They are Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, M. A. Taylor, and (?) Grey. They diminish in size from Fox to Taylor. Across the sea is 'Brest', from which a fleet is setting out. Behind it are black clouds, and an explosion rises from them in which are swarms of tiny figures holding daggers and wearing bonnets-rouges. This spreads behind Pitt's head who appears unconscious of it. He looks down towards three almost naked winged figures: Grenville (left) and Dundas (right) hold up between them a scroll: 'Prosperous state of British Finances. & the new Plan for diminishing the National Debt - with Hints on the increase of Commerce'. Between and above them is Windham, Secretary-at-War, a pen behind his ear. He waves his cocked hat, Grenville his coronet, and Dundas his Scots cap. Beneath the title: 'History of Midas, - The great Midas having dedicated himself to Bacchus [cf. BMSat 8651], obtained from that Deity, the Power of changing all he Touched - Apollo fixed Asses-Ears upon his head, for his Ignorance - & although he tried to hide his disgrace with a Regal Cap, yet the very Sedges which grew from the Mud of the Pactolus, whisper'd out his Infamy, whenever they were agitated by the Wind from the opposite Shore - Vide Ovid's Metamorposes.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Midas transmuting all into paper
Description:
Title etched below image. 'Gold' in title scored through., Three lines of text below title: History of Midas -- The great Midas having dedicated himself to Bacchus ..., Temporary local subject terms: Money: coins -- Bank notes -- Cupids -- Brest -- French fleet., and Mounted to 46 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 9th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Bank of England.
Fox and Sheridan sit with their feet in the stocks, each smoking a short pipe. Fox directs a fierce glare at Pitt, who stands (right) in profile to the (left), correct and impassive, holding a tall constable's staff. Pitt is grotesquely thin; he wears a large round hat over his bag-wig, and a long old-fashioned coat with wide cuffs
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd by W. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Stocks (Punishment), Law enforcement officers, Politicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., Printmaker tentatively identified in the Britihs Museum catalogue., Statement following imprint: ... of whom may be had the new prints of Trip and Return from Brighton, Jovial crew &c., 'Mentor' in the title written in ink over illegible word that has been burnished out., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary allusion to Homer's Odyssey -- Mythology: Elysian Fields -- Mythology: Telemachus -- Mythology: Mentor -- Travesties: The Odyssey -- City of London arms reversed -- Puns on artists' names -- Pugilism -- Courtesans -- Horse racing -- Knocker on door: Delicacy -- Gambling -- Playing cards -- Drinking: Champagne and claret -- Treasury door: Knock and it shall be opened.
Publisher:
Pub'd as the act directs for the proprietor, by E. Macklew, N. 9, Haymarket, and W. Dickie, No. 195 Strand
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Newnham, Nathaniel, approximately 1741-1809
A monkey wearing a military uniform and holding a sword and a flag "Volunteer cavalry" sits astride an ass. From a basket hanging from the saddle hang a portrait of Fox with the caption "In place" and a portrait of Fox with the words "Out of place"; below the portraits can be seen a papers, the top the words "Tantararara rogues all" . The ass stands in a trunk with bundles of newspapers and paper hanging off the sides or in the lid, identified with the words: Telegraph, Parliament speeches, Gazettes extraordinary, Fashionable occurrences, Independent [sic] elections, Law suits. On the ground around the trunk are papers with titles: Speech of Mr. Deputy Did[...], 20 s. notes, Examination of Faro's daughters before the Justice
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: I Taylor 1801.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10, 1797, 12 Charg. Cross
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Baskets, Donkeys, Military uniforms, Monkeys, and Newspapers
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 20, 1800.
Call Number:
800.03.20.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Well-known men ride (left to right) horses with the heads of old women which they scourge mercilessly. There is a background of craggy mountains silhouetted against flames in which demons fly. The central and most prominent figure is Fox, before him rides Pitt, and on the extreme right is the Duke of Bedford wearing a star. In the foreground (left) is George Hanger with his club, whose mount has fallen and looks round at him despairingly. Behind him is the Duke of Queensberry wearing a star; on the extreme left is the stiff Lord Moira."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print: Old bachelors in the next world chang'd into post horses ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 20, 1800.
Call Number:
800.03.20.01+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Well-known men ride (left to right) horses with the heads of old women which they scourge mercilessly. There is a background of craggy mountains silhouetted against flames in which demons fly. The central and most prominent figure is Fox, before him rides Pitt, and on the extreme right is the Duke of Bedford wearing a star. In the foreground (left) is George Hanger with his club, whose mount has fallen and looks round at him despairingly. Behind him is the Duke of Queensberry wearing a star; on the extreme left is the stiff Lord Moira."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print: Old bachelors in the next world chang'd into post horses ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., and 1 print : aquatint, soft ground etching & etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 33 x 46.2 cm, on sheet 35 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pub by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
"Pitt (right) stands stiffly in profile to the left, holding open a large sack-like wallet inscribed 'Requisition Budget'. He addresses John Bull, the central figure, a stout yokel, who holds out his breeches in his left hand to Pitt, while he touches his hat. The budget and the breeches pockets are full of guineas. Pitt says: "More Money, John! - more Money! to defend you from the Bloody, the Cannibal French - They're a coming! - why they'll Strip you to the very Skin - more Money. John! - They're a coming - They're a coming." Dundas, Grenville, and Burke kneel on the right, bending towards the 'Budget', each with his left hand in an opening in a vertical seam, eagerly grabbing guineas. Behind them is the stone archway of the 'Treasury', with its high spiked gate. Dundas, the most prominent, wears Highland dress and holds a Scots cap full of coins. Grenville wears a peer's robe; Burke is behind. They echo Pitt: Dundas says "Ay! Ay! They're a coming! They're a coming!" Grenville: "Yes! Yes, They're a coming." Burke: "Ay They're a coming." John says: " - a coming? - are they? - nay then, take all I've got, at once, Measter Billy! - vor its much better for I to ge ye all I have in the World to save my Bacon, - than to stay & be Strip'd stark naked by Charley, & the plundering French Invasioners, as you say". His coat and waistcoat are sound, but the pockets hang inside out, empty. His lank hair, knotted kerchief, and wrinkled gaiters denote the small farmer. Behind (left), on the shore, stands Fox looking across the water towards the fortress of 'Brest' flying a tricolour flag. He hails it with upraised arms, shouting: "What! more Money ? - O the Aristocrat Plunderer! - Vite Citoyens! - vite! - vite! depechez vous! - or we shall be too late to come inn for any Snacks of the I'argant! - vite Citoyens! vite! vite!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull giving his breeches to save his bacon
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Yokels -- Money: guineas -- Treasury -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Budgets: Pitt's speech, Dec. 7, 1796
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 7th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
John Bull giving his breeches to save his bacon
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 8836 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., 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 50 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Title from item., Variant state of No. 6799 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Second state, with alterations to design., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: allusion to tax on maidservants -- Allusion to tax on shops -- Allusion to window tax -- Petitions: trampled London petition -- Trampled Manchester petition -- Trampled Westminster petition -- Westminster riots -- Signs: sign-posts -- Propaganda -- Butchers' cleavers -- Dogs -- Cats -- Shops to let -- Irish Propositions -- Staff of Liberty -- Allusion to the custom of riding the black ram --Expressions of speech: "I'll darken his daylights.", Watermark: Fleur-de-lis, partially obscured by image., and Mounted to 23 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, June 20, 1785, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806