The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed: 'Eye of Straw & toe of Cade ... For the ingredients of our cauldron'. Facing them (right) sits the Devil enthroned, holding a trident, with a three-headed scaly monster beside him; he says: "Pour in Streams of Regal Blood Then the Charm is firm & good." Burning pamphlets feed the fire under the cauldron; they are being heaped up by Horne Tooke, from whose mouth issues a label: 'H - T. Tis time tis time tis time'. The next, stirring the contents, says "Thrice! and Twice King's Heads have fallen". The third (? Dr. Towers), [Perhaps Dr. Parr; Towers died 20 May 1799.] flourishing a broom-stick, says, "Thrice the Gallic Wolves have bayed"; he holds an open book: 'Lying Whore \ False Swearing'. Behind the wizards is a procession of the Opposition. The first three (abreast) are Bedford, Norfolk, and Lord Derby. They say respectively: "Where are they! - gone Pocketed the Church and Poorlands The Tythes next" ..."Oh fallen Sovereingty degraded Counseller" ...; "Poor joe is done No test or Corporation Acts" ... The next three are Fox, Erskine, and Tierney; they say respectively: "Where can I hide my secluded Head" ... "Ah woe is me - poor I" ... "Would I had never spoke of the Licentiousness of the Press". Behind them is Burdett, saying, "What can I report to my Friends at the Bastile" .... Behind there is an undifferentiated crowd entering the cave and headed by Thelwall holding a volume of 'Thelwalls Lectures' ... exclaiming, "Tm off to Monmouthshire". The procession is watched by a snaky monster (left). Above their heads and resting on clouds are small figures: the King, allegorically depicted, holding a serpent in each hand. Behind him are Pitt, saying, "Suspend their Bodies", (?) Grenville, (?) Windham, saying "Almighty God has been pleased to grant us a great Victory", and Kenyon, saying "Take them to the Kings Bench & Cold Bath fields" ... The divine ray is inscribed: 'Afflavit Deus et dissipantur \ Your Destruction cometh as a Whirlwind \ Vengeance is ripe.' Four winged demons fly off (right) in the smoke of the cauldron, three have collars on which their names are engraved: 'Robesp[ierre]', 'Voltaire', and 'Price'. An ape dressed as a newsboy, with 'Courier' on his cap (..., blows his horn towards the cauldron. Behind him, in the extreme right corner, is an open book: 'Analitical Review \ Fallen never to rise again.' The seditious papers which feed the fire are: 'Equali[ty]'; 'Blasphemy Sedition'; 'Sophims' [sic]; 'Heresy'; 'Atheism'; 'Resistance is Prudence'; 'Belshams History'; 'Whig Club'; 'The Vipers of Monarchy and Aristocracy will soon be strangled by the Infant Democracy' ... 'Fraud'; 'Third of September' [see BMSat 8122]; 'Rights of Nature' [by Thelwall, attacking Burke, 1796]; '21st of January' ... 'Frends Atheism'; 'Quigleys Dying Speech'... 'O'Connors Manifesto' ... 'Oakleys Pyrology'; 'Deism'; 'Kings can do good Joel Barlow'; 'Uritaranism' [sic]; 'Sedition'; 'France is free'; 'Duty of Insurrection'; 'Darwins topsy turvy Plants and Animals Destruction' [cf. BMSat 9240]; 'Kings are S------TS' [serpents, as in Barlow's 'Conspiracy of Kings', pub. J. Johnson, 1792]; 'Political Liberty'. 1 February 1799 Etching and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Press: attack on radical press -- Potions -- Allusion to the Whig Club -- Reference to Kosciuszko uprising, Poland, 1794 --Reference to Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450 -- Reference to Jack Straw and Wat Tyler -- Reference to the Great Rebellion, 1381 -- Reference to the Duke of Bedford's family
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Title etched below image., Imprint altered: 'J. Wright, Piccadilly' after publication date burnished from plate., Frontispiece from: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. London, 1799, v. 2., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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Publish'd February 1st, 1799, for the Anti Jacobin Review, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Subject (Topic):
Caves, Devil, Demons, Monkeys, Monsters, Vice, and Wizards
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Temporary local subject terms: Weeping Britannia -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: English rose -- Lightning bolts., and Mounted to 28 x 26 cm.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors ... v. 7 (1771), p. 177., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: January 1, 1772., and Temporary local subject terms: Politics -- Personifications: angel of peace -- Emblems: scepter of peace -- Personifications: Fury -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Literature: Reference to Samuel Johnson's The False Alarm, 1770 -- Literature: reference to Address to the King by Junius, 1770 -- Newspapers: Public Advertiser.
"Half length portraits of Dr. Willis and Sheridan in close proximity, repeated twice, the doctor being on the extreme left and right, the two Sheridans in the middle. One couple (left) is inscribed 'Sunday', the other (right) 'Saturday'. The doctor in both cases answers a question in a label which projects into the design from an unseen inquirer: 'Doctor, how is your Patient to Day'. On the left he answers with a contented expression: "Better thank God"; his neighbour angrily shouts "Damnation". On the right he has an expression of melancholy anxiety, the head of his cane held to his lip; he answers: "Rather worse - Sir - ". Sheridan, with a satisfied and cunning smile, says, "Ha - ha - rare news"."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Possibly by Rowlandson. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Francis Willis, 1718-1807 -- Allusion to regency crisis -- Blue and buff.
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Pub. Decr. 31, 1788 by S. Fores N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Title from caption below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), p. 49., and Temporary local subject terms: Kew Gardens -- Furniture: garden bench -- Trees: palm tree -- Literature: allusion to Hamlet, I.3, by William Shakespeare.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Three lines of text below image: Mortimer / Is a great lord of late, and a new thing: a prince, an earl, and cousin to the King. Ben Johnson [sic]., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p. 274., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: allusion to The fall of Mortimer, by Ben Jonson, 1573?-1637., 1 print : ethcing ; plate mark 19.1 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 22 x 14 cm mounted to 31 x 37 cm., and With Bowditch's annotations on mount.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377, Isabella, Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England, 1292-1358, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Dated in British Museum catalogue: 1 October 1771., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 6 (1771), p. 88., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: nursery -- Toys: rocking horse -- Pets: monkey -- Cat -- King Charles spaniel -- Telescopes -- Books -- Remonstrances -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Lord Bute -- Male dress: dressing gown and nightcap.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Nero fiddling, Rome burning, Poppaea and Agrippina smiling
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Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 193., and Temporary local subject terms: Petitions: presentation of City address by Beckford, 14 March 1770 -- History: the burning of Rome, AD 64 -- Violin -- Costume: Roman costume.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68, Poppaea Sabina, Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, d. 65, and Agrippina, Minor, 15-59
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 88., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: satyr -- Mirrors -- Costume: masquerade., and Mounted to 28 x 42 cm.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in Stephens: June 13, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 7 (1770), p. 121., Temporary local subject terms: Containers: large tub -- Magna Charta -- Reference to persecution of printers for libel -- Allusion to the letters of Junius -- Reference to J. Almon -- Reference to G. Woodfall -- Allusion to Macbeth -- Throne on a dais., and Imperfect: losses at bottom of sheet resulting in partial loss of title.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and De Grey, William, Baron Walsingham, 1719-1781