"The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheelers being visible on the extreme right. These are trampling on Britannia who lies prostrate, her shield and broken spear beneath her. Four footmen in striped liveries stand behind, one holding the straps; the others hold each other's waists: Loughborough, the Lord Chancellor, wearing his wig, stands next the coach; behind him is Grenville, then Dundas, wearing a plaid and with a bottle projecting from his coat-pocket. Last is Pepper Arden wearing a judge's wig. All, like Pitt, wear jockey-caps. Lord Lansdowne (right), a sansculotte, composedly fires a blunderbuss point-blank through the coach window, aiming at the King. Fox and Sheridan, facing Lansdowne, run beside the coach, holding on to it. Both are tattered ruffians brandishing clubs, but wear breeches. The other three assailants cling to the spokes of the back wheel to stop the coach: (left to right) the Duke of Grafton, neatly dressed and wearing a cocked hat with tricolour cockade, Lord Stanhope, and little Lord Lauderdale, both wearing bonnets-rouges. Behind, a sea of heads indicates the mob; they carry a tricolour flag inscribed 'Peace and Bread' and a loaf draped with black and spiked on a pitchfork. A cat, stones, and eggs shower on the coach, the crown on the top of which is broken."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Mob -- Attack on George III's coach on October 29, 1795 -- Coaches: royal state coach -- Crowns: broken crown -- Guns: blunderbass -- Domestic service: footmen -- Hats: jockey caps -- Bonnets rouges., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
Subject (Topic):
Assassination attempts, Britannia (Symbolic character), Carriages & coaches, Cats, Coach drivers, Crowds, Riots, Sansculottes, and Servants
On the right, William Petty, Lord Shelburne, attacks Britannia pulling on her hair and petticoat while pushing her to the ground. She leans on her shield; her broken spear lies next to it. William Pitt, who stands behind her with his arms folded on his chest, looks down at her indifferently. On the left, Charles Fox, taking Lord North's hand in his, points to the distressed Britannia with an entreaty to join their forces in her defense and "Fox and North stand together in consultation (left). Fox, holding the right hand of North who stands on his right, points with his left hand towards Britannia (right), who has been thrown to the ground, and is being maltreated by Shelburne. Her shield and broken spear lie beside her. Shelburne has seized her by the hair and is tearing off her upper garments; he smiles saying, "I smile at the feeble efforts of them single". Britannia looking towards Fox and North cries, "Help! tis only your united strength can save me". Pitt, young and slim, stands beside Britannia, his arms folded, looking down at her and saying "I see her danger, yet, better she should perish than I join the Man I hate". Fox is saying to North, "Forgetting our former disputes Quick! let us join to save her". In the foreground lies a large scroll, inscribed, "BRITANIA rescue'd from the wicked designs of an artfull------", the last word hidden by a curl of the scroll."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Men of abilities call'd for and Men of abilities called for
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th, 1783, by I. Freeman, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, and Clothing & dress
Five pairs of implacable enemies are shown in the act of reconciliation. Britannia and America clasp hands on the left; behind them the Duke of Richmond takes the hand of Parson Bate ; in the center foreground Fox (with a fox's head) brings together Shelburne and Lord Denbigh, the latter having the body of a dog; behind them are Sir Hugh Palliser and Admiral Keppel, and on the far right John Wilkes and George III shake hands
Alternative Title:
Wonders wonders wonders and wonders
Description:
Title from item. and See no. 6162 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5 for another print with the same title, on a similar theme.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 9, 1782 by I. Langham print coulerer No. 84 Dorset Street Salisbury Court Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Denbigh, Basil Fielding, Earl of, 1719-1800, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824 (Henry Bate),, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Shaking hands, and Clothing & dress