- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 January 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.01.04.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A giant two-faced statue has fallen from an overturned pedestal inscribed "Broad Bottom". The faces on the statue, which has severed head and hands, are those of Fox and North. In the background is shown Tower Hill with an execution in progress. A reference to the defeat of the India Bill and the fall of the Coalition
- Alternative Title:
- Rare news for Leadenhall Street
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: And behold Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord & the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cutt off upon the threshold.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 4, 1784, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Dagon, or, Rare news for Leadenhall Street [graphic].
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- 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].
- 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].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. January 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.01.01.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, his back to the viewer, supports one side of a scale containing the East India House with his left hand, while with a sword in the other, he severs the cords supporting the right hand scale, thus ejecting North and Fox. A reference to the King's action against the India Bill and to the fall of the Fox-North coalition
- Description:
- Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as [the] act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rise of India stock, & sinking fund of oppression [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 34. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., The Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., and Mounted on page 53 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- Published 29th May 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rise of the stocks [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 34. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., The Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 28.8 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 30.3 x 21.7 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 34 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- Published 29th May 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rise of the stocks [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.05.29.02.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Later state of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 6959.
- Publisher:
- Publ'd [...] 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews, Great Britain, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rise of the stocks [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.05.29.02.2 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Verso of leaf 34. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., The Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., and On verso in pen in comtemporary hand: Prints of Sayers.
- Publisher:
- Published 29th May 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rise of the stocks [graphic]