- Creator:
- Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 5 January 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.01.05.01.2+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a possible burlesque of West's Death of Wolfe, a "wounded" Fox lies supported by his followers. He is held in the arms of Admiral Keppel, as Burke in monk's habit offers him a glass, and Mary (Perdita) Robinson applies smelling salts. North is to the right, swooning with grief and supported by Portland, while Sheridan kneels to the right in front of John Cavendish. Behind Fox at the far left the Prince of Wales kneels to kiss Perdita's unoccupied hand. A satire on the defeat of Fox's India Bill
- Description:
- Title from item., Print signed I.B. (i.e. John Boyne) in lower right of image., Probably a later state, with imprint removed, of a plate published by E. Hedges. Cf. No. 6367 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Date of publication based on that of probable earlier state. See British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > General Blackbeard wounded at the Battle of Leadenhall [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.07.02.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Gaetan Vestris (right) giving a dancing lesson to a gigantic goose with a human head and long pigtail queue. They face each other in profile. Vestris stands with his legs together, chest thrown out, his arms curved. "Regardez-moi" was his characteristic admonition. On a stool behind the goose is an open book inscribed "Electrical E. E. L."; on the ground at its feet is another inscribed "The Torpedo. Dedicated to Ld------C------. My Lord, I take the Liberty------ The greatness of whose Parts are known. . ." . This indicates that the goose is Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827), "The Torpedo, a Poem to the Electrical Eel addressed to Mr John Hunter Surgeon" and "Dedicated to . . . Lord Cholmondeley," 4th ed. 1777, was a coarse and scurrilous poem, three lines of which are, "What tho' Lord Ch--lm--d--ly may conceal A most enormous length of Eel Admir'd for Size and bone:"In the wall which forms the background are two sash-windows and a door (left) round which a grinning youth, probably a servant, is looking. On the wall are half length portraits: three in ovals of elderly ladies in profile, one of a clergyman, full-face, wearing a biretta, his left hand on a book. There is also a picture of Fox, with a fox's head, seated opposite Cholmondeley; they are throwing dice. Fox appears satisfied, the other clenches his fist and exclaims in anger. A devil is climbing on the top of the frame and holds out a claw to grab the head of Fox. On the picture are the words "A Nick by God". Like Fox, see BMSat 5972, Cholmondeley held a faro bank at Brooks's. G.E.C., 'Complete Peerage'."-- British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text at bottom of image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Vestris, Gaëtan, 1729-1808, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Geese, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Regardèz moi [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1 October 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.10.01.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The Bow Street magistrate and campaigner against gambling, Sampson Wright, is shown seated at a table being assailed by a man who has entered the door on the right. On the left another man (probably meant to be John Bond, Wright's clerk) expresses alarm, and on the right a dismayed youth wipes away a tear
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 44 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by Bonde at the Thieftakers Office, Bow Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- Wright, Sampson, Sir, -1793 and Bond, John, active 1782
- Subject (Topic):
- Threats, Judges, Gambling, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sampson overcome by a Philistian [graphic]