Title from item., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the London Corresponding Society's meetings near Copenhagen House in Islington, October-November 1795 -- Reference to the Convention Bill -- Crowns: royal crown -- Bonnet rouge., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. No. 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title from item., Printmaker identified in British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: reference to William Shakespeare's Macbeth -- Politicians -- Opposition to Treasonable Practices and Seditious Meetings bills.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 21st, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Sheridan and Fox walk (left to right) one behind the other, bending under the weight of huge bundles of petitions which they carry on their heads. Both wear bonnets-rouges; Fox is dressed in a tattered shirt and breeches. Smaller petitions project from their pockets. Sheridan's petitions are: 'House of Correction', 'Petition in Favor of Sedition', 'for Sedition', 'Girls Petition', 'Boys Petition', 'Washerwomens Pn', 'Pickpocket from Newgate', 'Drunkards', 'Marshalsea', 'Burow Clink' [the Clink prison in the Borough of Southwark], 'Bridwell'. He says: "These will serve for a few hours Jaw, & if we can but procrastinate the Bill a few days we may be able to Effect something in that Time." Fox's petitions: 'St Lukes from Thelwal with an Essay on Deism' [cf. BMSat 9286], 'Gamblers Peti[ti]on Dustmens', 'an adress from that oppresed body of Men on Board the Hulks [convicts]', 'Bankrupts P [above Banker's, scored through]', 'Nightmen', 'Scavengers', 'Card & Dice Makers', 'an adress', 'Fish Women'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of imprint., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for evening., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: Treasonable Practices bill -- Seditious Meetings bill., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28 x 34 cm., and Trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom. Watermark: countermak E & P.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 26, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Catherine II, seated on the throne, eagerly receives the heads of Poles offered to her by a ferocious-looking officer. Three attendants advance behind him with baskets filled with heads of young women and children; the foremost kneels, holding out his basket, the next carries a basket on his shoulders; above it flies a demon. On the extreme right, on a pedestal, is the bust of Fox by Nollekens (see BMSat 7902), looking wryly over his right shoulder at the Empress. The officer, Suvóroff, holds out by the hair to the Empress three heads, one of which she touches with a finger. His sleeves are rolled up; in his left hand is a bunch of heads, under his left arm a long bloody sword and a document: 'Articles of Capitulation Warsaw'. On his short top-boots are enormous spurs. He says: "Thus my Royal Mistress have I fulfilled in the fullest extent your Tender Affectionate & Maternal Commission to those Deluded People of Poland, & have brought you the Pickings of Ten Thousand Heads tenderly detached from their deluded bodies the Day after Capitulation." The Empress answers: "My Dear General you have well Executed your Commission; but could not you prevail on any of the Polish Women to Poison their Husbands?" (An allusion to the murder of Peter III, cf. BMSat 8072.) To the demon she says: "Go my little Ariel & prepare our Altars for these pretty Sacrifices, we must have te Deum on the Occasion." The demon, a nude bat-winged creature, says: "Bravo this outdoes the Poison Scene." The Empress wears ermine-trimmed robes and holds a sceptre, but does not (as usual) wear a crown. Beside her (left) lies a bear, only the head and forepaws being visible."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Earlier state before addition of letter 's' in 'heads' in Suvorov's speech balloon., Earlier state. Cf. No. 8607 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the Battle of Warsaw, November 1794.
Publisher:
Pub. January 7, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Praga (Warsaw, Poland) and Russia
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilʹevich, kni︠a︡zʹ Italiĭskiĭ, 1730-1800, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"Catherine II, seated on the throne, eagerly receives the heads of Poles offered to her by a ferocious-looking officer. Three attendants advance behind him with baskets filled with heads of young women and children; the foremost kneels, holding out his basket, the next carries a basket on his shoulders; above it flies a demon. On the extreme right, on a pedestal, is the bust of Fox by Nollekens (see BMSat 7902), looking wryly over his right shoulder at the Empress. The officer, Suvóroff, holds out by the hair to the Empress three heads, one of which she touches with a finger. His sleeves are rolled up; in his left hand is a bunch of heads, under his left arm a long bloody sword and a document: 'Articles of Capitulation Warsaw'. On his short top-boots are enormous spurs. He says: "Thus my Royal Mistress have I fulfilled in the fullest extent your Tender Affectionate & Maternal Commission to those Deluded People of Poland, & have brought you the Pickings of Ten Thousand Heads tenderly detached from their deluded bodies the Day after Capitulation." The Empress answers: "My Dear General you have well Executed your Commission; but could not you prevail on any of the Polish Women to Poison their Husbands?" (An allusion to the murder of Peter III, cf. BMSat 8072.) To the demon she says: "Go my little Ariel & prepare our Altars for these pretty Sacrifices, we must have te Deum on the Occasion." The demon, a nude bat-winged creature, says: "Bravo this outdoes the Poison Scene." The Empress wears ermine-trimmed robes and holds a sceptre, but does not (as usual) wear a crown. Beside her (left) lies a bear, only the head and forepaws being visible."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Later state with addition of letter 's' in 'heads' in Suvorov's speech balloon., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the Battle of Warsaw, November 1794., Matted to 47 x 63 cm.; printmaker's and subjects' names printed on mat below image., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. January 7, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Praga (Warsaw, Poland) and Russia
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilʹevich, kni︠a︡zʹ Italiĭskiĭ, 1730-1800, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Title from item., Publisher's announcement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his caracature [sic] exhibition in an entirely novel stile [sic], admittance one shilling. NB folios lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Treasury -- Orbs and scepters -- Maces -- Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tempest., 1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 29 x 45 cm., and Sheet trimmed witihin plate mark on right.
Publisher:
Pub. Febry 19, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Title from item., Publisher's announcement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his caracature [sic] exhibition in an entirely novel stile [sic], admittance one shilling. NB folios lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Treasury -- Orbs and scepters -- Maces -- Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tempest., Publisher's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Matted to 47 x 63 cm.; subjects numbered on mat below and above image and identified in a key on the right.
Publisher:
Pub. Febry 19, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
"Fox, as a quack doctor, addresses a mob from the front of a platform which rests upon five beer-barrels inscribed 'Whitbreads entire' (cf. BMSat 8638). Four other mountebanks are performing. Fox wears the full wig and old-fashioned laced coat and waistcoat of a doctor; he points to a young man (Bedford) behind him (left) who stands on his head, coins pouring from his pocket into a box. A Pierrot (Grey) stands behind the platform holding a trumpet and saying: "Turn me Grey Gemmen if I dont read you the particulars of his curing 30,000 Patients in one day; when Brother cit. has done tumbling". On a slack-rope stretching across the left part of the platform is little Lord Lauderdale, holding a balancing pole. He and Bedford are dressed as acrobats. On the right is the doctor's zany, Sheridan, wearing a fool's cap and a tunic and trousers dotted with representations of the Devil. He scatters, and kicks towards the spectators below him, a shower of paper scrolls inscribed: 'An Infaliable cure for a bad constitution'; 'Aether for Arguments'; 'Caustics for Crimps' [cf. BMSat 8484]; 'Mercury for Ministers'; 'Preparations against Prosecution'; 'Powder [cf. BMSat 8629] for Placemen' [twice]; 'Pain for the Poor' [cf. BMSat 8146]; 'A Rope for Reeves' [cf. BMSat 8699]; 'Gibets for Justices' [cf. BMSat 8686]; 'Aqua Regis for Royalists'. The crowd (right), who are three-quarter length, eagerly hold out their hands to catch the papers. Next the platform is a well-dressed man resembling Grafton. The man on the extreme right is a butcher wearing a bonnet-rouge. Fox says: "Dis is de first Tumbler in de Vorld Gemmen, dat is Citoyen de Bedforado, who vas stand so long upon his head dat all de money vas Tumble out of his pockets; de Next is Citoyen Van Lathertalo, who's trick upon de slack rope are delightfull it is expected he vil von Day dance on de Tight Rope ha ha!!" The men and women composing the crowd on the left all raise a hand in affirmation; all are shouting. A man dressed as a militiaman, standing prominently beside the platform, raises a hand from which two fingers are missing; he shouts "All. All." Perhaps Edward Hall, 'Liberty Hall'."--British Museum online catalogues
Alternative Title:
Palace yard pranks
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks' zanies -- Acrobats -- Pierrot -- Rope-walking -- Musical instruments: trumpet -- Reference to the meeting in Palace Yard, November 16, 1795 -- Bills: reference to Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices bills -- Fool's cap - Money: coins -- Allusion to Samuel Whitbread, 1764-1815., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials E & P 1794 below., and Mounted on top and bottom to 32 cm.
Publisher:
Published No. 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Medicine shows, Quacks & quackery, Politicians, Acrobats, Aerialists, Clowns, Money, Barrels, and Spectators
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Pigs -- Guillotines -- Interiors: clubs -- Gambling -- Debts: Charles James Fox's indebtness., 1 print on laid paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet (trimmed to plate mark) 25 x 37.8 cm., mounted to 31 x 48 cm., Watermark: Elgar & Son., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 the corner of Sackville St., Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806