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19. The golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up [graphic]
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- March 11th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.03.11.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A sequel to British Museum satires no. 6438. George III, seated on a balloon, points downwards with his sceptre to an image of Pitt (right) as a naked child, on a column which is inscribed 'Family Presumption'. The king looks down at North, Fox, and Burke, saying, "I command you O Shadrach Mesech & Abednego!" The three stand (left) in attitudes expressing intense self-righteousness; they say: "Know O King we will not worship [the] Golden Image"; on each head rests a tongue of flame. They stand outside a dilapidated building on the extreme left inscribed 'St Stephens', shored up by a beam, whose base is at their feet, inscribed 'Resolutions Unrescinded'. From its coping-stone flies an ensign flag inscribed 'Firm S.P.Q.B.' The king's balloon is inscribed 'Prerogative'; its lower axis emits a blast inscribed 'Gracious Answer'. Behind the balloon and Pitt are clouds inscribed 'Breath of Popularity'. Pitt stands sucking his finger (cf. British Museum satires no. 6417); on his head is a sugar-loaf surmounted by a flag inscribed 'Feby 28', an emblem of the Grocers' Company which had entertained him on that day, see British Museum satires no. 6442. Kneeling figures do obeisance before the image of Pitt, those in the foreground representing the least reputable trades: a lamplighter (left), with his ladder and oil-can, kneels in profile to the right; a butcher prostrates himself; a chimney-sweep kneels with clasped hands; a ragged scavenger, his shovel and basket beside him, kneels in profile to the left, the basket stands on a paper inscribed '[Worshipfu]ll Company of Scavenger[s]'. In the foreground lie papers inscribed 'Garret Address' (an allusion to the mock elections of Garratt), 'Address', and 'The worshipfull Company of Chimney Sweepers'. A crowd of kneeling figures (left) is worshipping the idol; they hold standards, three of which are inscribed 'Bristol', 'Westminster', and 'London', representing the addresses to the king which had been compared by Fox to those made to Charles II, see British Museum Satires no. 6438, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Annibal Scratch" is the pseudonym of Samuel Collings., Only tentative attribution to Samuel Collings in the British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image, one column on either side of title: A gilded image & before it, a mob on marrow-bones adore it ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Traces of former blue mounting on verso., and British Museum duplicate (indicated by stamp on verso with initials JKR). With original 1[s] price in ink, with figures identified in ink in Hawkin's hand according to Andrew Edmunds.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by W. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Surrey.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Grocers' Company (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, Local elections, Adoration, Balloons (Aircraft), Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Crowds, Idols, Occuptations, and Scavenging
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up [graphic]
20. The infant Hercules [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 Feburary 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 14. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Pitt, shown as a child sitting on the "Shield of Chatham," grasps by the neck two serpents, one with the head of Fox, the other with that of North. Fox's tail is inscribed, "Bill East India" and is entwined with North's tail labeled "American war."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6402 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 115., Temporary local subject terms: American War -- Bills: East India Bill -- Serpents -- Shields: Chatham., and On leaf 14 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 3d, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Snakes, and Shields
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The infant Hercules [graphic].
21. The infant Hercules [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.02.03.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Pitt, shown as a child sitting on the "Shield of Chatham," grasps by the neck two serpents, one with the head of Fox, the other with that of North. Fox's tail is inscribed, "Bill East India" and is entwined with North's tail labeled "American war."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 3d, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Snakes, and Shields
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The infant Hercules [graphic].
22. The sad and dark effects of the taxes of 1784 [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sparrow, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [June 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.06.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on the taxes on windows, coal, soap, &c. In the foreground a small cart laden with coals is drawn (right to left) by an ass harnessed in front of an ox. A carter stands by the ox, wearing a cap inscribed 'No tax upon Caps'; he says: "I hope we shall sheam Measter P------t and meak him to blush for want of more wit." The ass says, "The tax upon Horses is enough to make a Dumb Ass speak." Behind the coal-cart is a woman standing outside a cottage door (right), her hands in a wash-tub. She says: "Is that Mr P------t I wish he was nigh for instead of the Soap he makes me use Lie." A large three-storied house stands at right angles with the cottage, it has a gabled pediment. Out of thirty-two windows all but seven have been blocked up. A visitor stands, one foot on the doorstep, pointing to a man who stands behind him, saying, "The Honble Mr P------t desires to know whether Esqr Blockup is at home...". A servant in livery at the door holds a lighted candle, saying, "I hope His Honour will excuse our darkness it is to save Taxes". Pitt (left) stands holding a tasselled cane and saying, "I must overlook it all for necessity has no Law". A woman looks out of the centre window of the top floor, saying, "We have got seven windows left now so we are not in total darkness.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., State with price burnished., and Temporary local subject terms: Window tax -- Coal tax -- Allusion to hat tax -- Soap tax -- Commutation Tax, 1784 -- Country houses: exterior -- Buildings: outbuildings -- Trades: washerwomen -- Carters -- Coal carts -- Wash-tubs -- Asses -- Mules -- Servants -- Lighting: candlesticks.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by S. Sparrow, No. 17 Rosoman's Street, Clerkenwell
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sad and dark effects of the taxes of 1784 [graphic].
23. The state auction [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 March] 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.03.26.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- William Pitt, acting as an auctioneer in the dissoluted Parliament, sells from the rostrum decorated with Royal Arms "useless valuables," such as "Magna Charta." Cornwall, the Speaker sitting below the rostrum, records bids in the "Sundry acts." In front of him stands Thurlow in Chancellor's robes making dismissive comment on "nonsensical bidings of those common fellows," i.e. members of the House of Commons who leave through the door on the left. Last of them, Fox, turns back vowing to bid "with spirit" for lot 1, "rights of the people in 558 vol." held on display by Henry Dundas. A reference to the dissolution of the Parliament by the King on March 25.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 26th by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Auctions, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The state auction [graphic].
24. The triumph of virtue [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 14th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.06.14.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Quotation from John Dryden, 1631-1700, King Arthur or the British worthy -- General elections -- Defeat of Fox -- Allusion to the defeat of the East India Bill, 1783 -- Crowns -- Devil -- Laurel wreaths -- Chains -- Pitchforks -- Angels., Partial watermark: initials L V G under shield., and Mounted to 29 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The triumph of virtue [graphic]
25. [Fox and Pitt as a collier and a fuller] [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- June 12th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.06.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Colliers -- Fullers -- Coal pits -- Shovels -- Literature: Aesop's fables, no. 88., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- Sold at No. 34 King Street, St. Ann's, Soho
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Coal, Devil, Horses, and Strip mining
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Fox and Pitt as a collier and a fuller] [graphic]
26. [Fox, Pitt and Thurlow] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs July 24, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.07.24.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Thurlow as Balaam, riding (right to left) on an ass with the head of Pitt, is confronted by Fox (left) holding a sword with a serpentine blade and the shield of Britannia. The ass says, "Am not I thy Pitt=ifull Ass; upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine". Thurlow, on a larger scale than Fox and the ass, which is much overweighted, wears his Chancellor's wig and gown and holds his mace against his right shoulder; he looks fixedly at Fox. A low and irregular stone wall forms a background. Beneath the design is etched: 'And they came unto Balaam and said unto him, thus saith Balak the Templeite, let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me, for I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore I pray thee, curse me this People. Balaam rose up in the Morning and saddled his Ass, and went with the Lords of the Bed-Chamber, now the Man of the People stood in the way for an adversary against him, and when the Ass saw the Man of the People, he fell down under Balaam and Balaam's anger was kindled; and he smote the Ass with the Mace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G R., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Donkeys, Stone walls, and Swords & daggers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Fox, Pitt and Thurlow] [graphic].
27. [The state of the nation] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.07.01.02 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue, Temporary local subject terms: Toppling buildings -- Staff of Liberty -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Allusion to many politicians of the day -- Allusion to Gustavus III, King of Sweden., Watermark: fleur-de-lis with initials G R below., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs July 1, by J. Wjsen [sic] Walbrooke
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Columns, Liberty cap, Rats, Emblems, Shields, and Thrones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The state of the nation] [graphic].