- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 April 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.04.12.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An opera-dancer, Mme Rose Didelot, is poised on her right toe, her head turned in (sharp-featured) profile to the left, holding up a long garland of roses. She wears a pseudo-classical costume, defining her person, the edge of the skirt bordered with roses, a wreath of roses in her hair which is almost short. The scenery is of trees with a landscape background."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Didelot, Marie Rose Paul, -1803
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballet, Dance, Dancers, and Performances
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "No flower that blows is like this rose" [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 February 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.02.25.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Burke (left) as a shambling beggar, holds out his hat towards the Duke of Bedford who looks between the folding gates of Bedford House, holding one side to keep them almost closed. Their words float upwards from their mouths: Burke says: ""Pity the Sorrows of a poor old Man, add a trifle to what has been bestowed by Ministry to stop my Complaints: - O give me opportunity of recanting once more! - Ah! remember me in your Golden Dreams! - great Leviathan of liberty, let me but play & frolick in the Ocean of your royal Bounty, & I will be for ever your Creature; - my Hands, - Brains, - my Soul & Body, - the very Pen through which I have spouted a torrent of Gall against my original Friends, and cover'd you all over with the Spray, every thing of me, & about me, shall be yours - dispence but a little of your Golden store to a desolate Old Man". Bedford says: "Hark'ee, old double Face, - its no use use [sic] for you to stand Jawing there, if you gull other people, you won't bother us out a single Shilling, with all your canting-rant, - no, no, it wo'nt do, old Humbug! - let them bribe you, who are afraid of you, or want your help, - your Gossip wont do here: -" Burke wears the red and blue of the Windsor uniform, his dress is tattered, one foot protrudes through his shoe. In his right hand is a sheaf of broadsides: 'Last Dying Speech of Old Honesty the Jesuit' [cf. BMSat 6026, &c.]. On his back is a sack inscribed '£4000 pr Annum' indicating his two pensions. From his back protrudes a book inscribed 'Reflections upon Political Apostacy'. The design is framed by the stone gateway of Bedford House, each side surmounted by a sphinx (cf. BMSat 8639)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Bedford House, London -- Architectural details: stone gateways -- Sphinxes -- Pensioners: Burke as a pensioner -- Military uniforms: Windsor uniform -- Begging -- Allusion to Burke's pensions -- Allusion to Burke's Letter to a Noble Lord, 1796., and Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man" vide scene in Bloomsbury Square / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.02.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The two members for Middlesex simultaneously address a meeting of freeholders from a hustings against a building (The Mermaid, at Hackney) which forms a background. Both lean forward in profile to the right. Byng (left), thin and elegant, gesticulates with clenched fist, right arm above his head. He frowns, while Mainwaring (right) grimaces insinuatingly, his hands held out deprecatingly. From Byng's pocket issues a paper: 'Treatise on the use of Cocoa'. On the extreme left, behind Byng, stands Fox, holding Byng's hat. The other men on the platform, all wearing hats, are freely sketched. On the wooden barrier of the hustings are two bills, the lower part of which is concealed by the heads of the spectators, which reach across the lower edge of the design: 'Mermaid Hackney Meeting of the Freeholders for obtaining a Repeal of the odious, detestable, obnoxious, unconstitutional oppressive treasonable . . .' and 'Address to his Majesty by the Freeholders.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Hustings -- Reference to Treasonable Activities and Seditious Meetings bills., Possibly an impression from a worn plate; publisher's street address is lightly printed and barely legible., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Byng, George, 1764-1847, and Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Hackney meeting [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 September 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.09.24.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Miss Farren and Lord Derby, both in profile to the right, walk together inspecting pictures. She, very thin and tall, looks over his head through a glass at a picture in the second row of 'Zenocrates & Phryne'. He looks at the picture immediately below, 'The Death', a huntsman holding up a fox to the hounds. The frame is decorated by an earl's coronet with horses, cf. BMSat 9074, &c. Lord Derby, much caricatured, very short and obese, wears riding-dress with spurred boots and holds a whip. Miss Farren wears no hat, a dress hanging from the shoulders and trailing behind her, short sleeves and gloves. Both hold an open 'Catalogue'. Behind, a man (left) and two ladies in back view and arm-in-arm inspect a picture of 'Susan[nah and the] Elders'. The lady in the centre wears a high, twisted turban (cf. BMSat 8755) with an enormous feather, the other wears a round hat."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Tally-ho & his Nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge and Tally-ho and his Nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: art exhibitions -- Literature: reference to Burgoyne's The Heiress -- Lorgnettes., and Mounted.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Sept. 24th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834 and Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A peep at Christies, or, Tally-ho & his Nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.03.28.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly man displays scientific experiments. He stoops forward, in profile to the left, holding a rod horizontally between his fingers, in the left hand is a glass. A small still, phials, &c, and an elaborate appliance (right) are on the long table behind which he stands. On the wall are two medallion profile-portraits, one (left) being that of Priestley. A serpent, a scroll with cabalistic signs, a terrestrial globe on a bracket, are also on the wall, which is lit by a single candle with a curiously shaped reflector."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Philosophers -- Scientific lectures -- Maps: globes -- Cabalistic signs -- Phials.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 28th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Walker, A. 1730 or 1731-1821 (Adam), and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A philosopher Conduit Street / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.05.12.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sir David Dundas on horseback, in profile to the left, drills a line of cavalry at some distance. He holds a gold-headed cane in place of a whip and sits his horse in the manner of a bad rider. His foot is thrust forward so that his boot projects beyond the animal's chest (cf. Nos. 7233, 7242); he holds the curb rein only, and this is merely placed between his hand and the cane; the snaffle lies on the horse's neck. The animal is clumsy, with shaggy fetlocks. Under the saddle is a leopard-skin. Dundas is on rising ground above the level of the soldiers who are drawn up facing some tents."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Earlier state of No. 11256 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature and imprint. Printmaker and imprint from impression in the New York Historical Society collection., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Military camps -- Military manoeuvres: cavalry drill -- Military uniforms: Quartermaster general, Horse Guards., and Mounted to 40 x 48 cm., matted to 44 x 50 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Dundas, David, Sir, 1735-1820
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A portrait [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 December 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.12.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "John Bull (left), a stout countryman wearing jack-boots, rides (right to left) through a wood on a wretched hack, ready to fall under his weight. Pitt kneels on the ground (right) in profile to the left, aiming a blunderbuss (which is supported on crossed sticks) point-blank at John; it is inscribed 'Standing Army'. He masquerades as a beggar: his dress is tattered, on the ground is his hat, containing coins; he says: "Good Sir, for Charity's sake \ "have Pity upon a poor ruin'd Man; - \ "drop if you please, a few bits of \ "Money into the Hat, & you shall \ "be rewarded hereafter -" From his coat-pocket project a cocked pistol and a paper: 'Forced Loan in reserve'. He points to a document on the ground beside him: 'Humble Petition, for Voluntary - Contribution Subscriptions & new Taxes, to save the Distres'd from taking worse Courses.' John Bull has dropped his righteins and holds his hat, full of guineas; he looks with melancholy distrust at Pitt, but drops guineas into his hat. His horse, disfigured with sores, is evidently the white horse of Hanover, its head-band is red and blue, the Windsor uniform (cf. BMSat 8691, &c). From the bushes behind Pitt emerge the heads and shoulders of (right to left) Dundas, Grenville, and Burke, each with a pistol levelled at John Bull. Dundas wears Highland dress, Grenville peer's robes and a grenadier's cap with the letters 'Wm R' (cf. BMSats 7479, 7494, &c.): he looks down reflectively at Pitt instead of at his victim, implying that he is his cousin's henchman; Burke has a pen in his hat. On the left is a signpost pointing (right) 'From Constitution Hill' (cf. BMSat 8287) and (left) 'To Slavery Slough by Beggary Corner.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull escaping a forced loan
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Highwaymen -- Beggars -- Weapons: blunderbuss -- Pistols -- Petitions -- Reference to Loyaly Loan -- Symbols: White Horse of Hanover -- Coins: guineas -- Signposts., and Mounted to 32 x 48 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Begging no robbery, i.e., voluntary contribution, or, John Bull escaping a forced loan a hint from Gil Blas / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.03.04.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox and Sheridan officiate at the wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope and an apothecary who is made up of medical implements. The bride is a pretty girl wearing a feathered hat from which a transparent veil falls over her face. Stanhope (left), without breeches, and wearing a bonnet-rouge, stooping in profile to the right, pushes her towards the bridegroom who is placing a ring on her finger; from his coat-pocket protrudes a three-masted vessel flying a tricolour flag (see BMSat 8640). The bridegroom, Taylor, is also a sansculotte; his posteriors are formed of a syringe, his body is a mortar, from which issues a pestle supporting a bonnet-rouge. His arm is made of two medicine-phials. Fox stands full-face behind the altar balustrade holding open Paine's 'Rights of Man' (see BMSat 7867, &c). He wears surplice and bands. Sheridan stands (right) in profile to the left, reading from 'Thelwal's Lectures' (cf. BMSat 8685), he wears a lay coat with bands; both wear bonnets-rouges. On the wall which forms a background, and immediately above Fox, is a large picture, 'Shrine of Equality': three men wearing bonnets-rouges officiate at a guillotine; the blade is about to fall on a man wearing a ducal coronet; other peers stand (right) waiting their turn. On the ground by the guillotine lie coronets which have just been chopped off."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Union of the coronet & clyster pipe, Alliance a la Franc̦aise, and Union of the coronet and clyster pipe
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Marriage ceremonies -- Rings: wedding rings -- Marriages: misalliance -- Medical implements -- Bonnets rouges -- Allusion to sansculottes -- Reference to Paine's The Rights of Man -- Reference to John Thelwall's Tribune -- Pictures amplifying subject: guillotining of peers -- Architectural details: balustrades -- Lady Lucy Rachel Stanhope -- Thomas Taylor of Sevenoaks.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 4th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Democratic leveling, alliance a la Franc̦oise, or, The union of the coronet & clyster-pipe [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 June 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.06.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "On a small plateau on the top of a mountain the Princess of Wales (left) reaches up to kiss the Prince of Wales (right), who has the body, horns, and beard of a fat goat. He kneels on one knee, his forelegs round her waist; her arms are round his neck. A star and ribbon are indicated on his body. She wears her coronet with three tall feathers, and her draperies swirl about her. In the middle distance are two rocky pinnacles; on one (left) three men dance hand in hand: Loughborough in back view wearing his Chancellor's wig and gown, the Duke of York wearing a cocked hat and his star, and Lord Cholmondeley. From the other, Lady Jersey (with the arms and legs of a goat) staggers backwards, she has horns, and three feathers fall from her head. Lord Jersey, with the body of a goat and long horns, is about to fall. They are being hurled from the rock by thunderbolts inscribed with the words 'What? - What? - What?' (the King's well-known phrase) which issue from heavy clouds, showing that it is the King who has overthrown them. Behind them is the sea with a small island flying a flag inscribed 'Jersey'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Shon-ap-Morgan's reconcilement to the fairy princess
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Orders: Order of the Garter -- Islands: Jersey -- Thunderbolts -- Reference to George III -- Cuckolds -- Kissing -- Emblems: Prince's of Wales's feathers -- Coronets -- Symbols: goat as a symbol of Wales.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 30th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805, Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, and Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Enchantments lately seen upon the mountains of Wales, or, Shon-ap-Morgan's reconcilement to the fairy princess [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.05.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Lady Buckinghamshire (left) and Lady Archer (right) stand side by side in the pillory, heads and hands closely confined, their heads in profile to the right, weeping angrily. Both wear tall feathers in their hair and large pendent ear-rings. Lady Buckinghamshire is forced to stand painfully on tip-toe, a short petticoat exposes her fat legs. On the front of the platform is a placard: 'Cure for Gambling Publish'd by Lord Kenyon in the Court of Kings Bench on May 9th 1796'. This is raised above the (freely sketched) heads of the crowd, with grinning upturned faces in the foreground. Eggs, a cat, &c. fly through the air; the pillory and the dresses of the victims are bespattered. On the right is a house with spectators in the windows."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Pillories -- Jewelry: earrings -- Allusion to 'faro-banks' -- Cards: faro -- Reference to Lloyd Kenyon, Baron Kenyon, 1732-1802.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Exaltation of Faro's daughters [graphic].