- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.07.00.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An election mob in which Townshend and his supporters, as butchers, are violently attacking the populace with cleavers and marrow-bones. They wear aprons with butchers' steels dangling from the waist. George Hanger (right), his hat decorated with three ostrich feathers and the coronet of the Prince of Wales, raises a cleaver in both hands and threatens two constables with staves who fall backwards, wounded or terrified. He is in violent action, one foot rests on the unconscious body of a sailor whose face is gashed and bleeding. In the sailor's hand is a flag with a ship and the words 'Royal Navy'; on this Townshend, who uses his marrow-bone and cleaver as a musical instrument, not as weapons, is trampling. Behind Hanger, Fox, climbing above the crowd, is violently smashing the sign of 'The King's Head' (a bust portrait of the King) which is over a door inscribed 'Martin'. In the foreground a woman half-lying on the ground tries to protect her screaming infant from a cleaver and bone brandished by Sheridan. On the extreme left Lord Derby attacks a kneeling sailor with a wooden leg. Behind Sheridan, Burke raises a cleaver in both hands, and behind him the Duke of Norfolk waves a flag inscribed 'Townsend and Liberty'. Behind is a dense crowd brandishing cleavers and bones, while others attempt to escape. On the right are houses inscribed 'James Str[eet]', the houses of Covent Garden are indicated on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text right of title: Price 1 s., and Mounted to 32 x 44 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July [...]th. by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Coleraine, George Hanger, Baron, 1751?-1824, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1788, Axes, Butchers, Crowds, Political elections, Riots, Sailors, British, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The butchers of freedom [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [2 October 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.10.02.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, plainly dressed and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, stands in profile to the right, addressing a pretty young woman (Hannah Lightfoot?) seated on a stile, a bucker at her feet. They are under a large tree on whose trunk is fixed a sign pointing 'To Cheltenham Spa'. A path from the stile leads to the village of Cheltenham in the background. Behind the tree Queen Charlotte watches the conversation, her hand pointing near her cheek. On a hill (left) is a pavilion on wheels
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of verse inscribed in two columns on either side of title: Did you know the Lad that Courts you He not long need sue in Vain Prince of Songs of Dance of Sports: You Scarce will meet his like again. Midas., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Oct. 2 1788 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadily [sic]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Cheltenham (England)
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Lightfoot, Hannah, 1730-
- Subject (Topic):
- Quakers and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fair Quaker of Cheltenham [graphic].
- Creator:
- Barlow, J., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 July 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.07.26.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- King George III and his wife Queen Charlotte are shown as a farmer and his wife riding on a tired-looking horse on the road to the spa Cheltenham as indicated by the milestone. In the distance is a castle
- Alternative Title:
- Visit to Cheltenham
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verses printed in letterpress below image, entitled: The royal ramble, or, A visit to Cheltenham spa., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, July 26 1788, by E. Rich, No. 55, Fleet-Street
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The happy couple, or, A visit to Cheltenham [graphic]
- Creator:
- Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 March 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.03.18.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Hastings stands holding one end of a large pie in his left hand; in his right he raises a knife to cut the pie. On the left are Managers of his impeachment; on the right are Thurlow and the Devil: both drag at Hastings and at the pie, but the latter party appear to be gaining. Small demons or imps emerge from the pie which personifies Impey. Burke clutches Hastings's coat and right arm; a scroll issuing from his mouth extends above his assistants and is inscribed 'For the sake of Injured Millions, I and my worthy Friends and Colleagues demand these Wretches as Victims to Publick Justice'. Fox clutches Burke, another man (? Sheridan) clutches Fox, his arm being linked in that of the man (? Windham) on the extreme left. A fifth man in back view clutches with both hands at the pie; a paper protrudes from his pocket inscribed 'Sr Elijah's Impeachment', showing that he is Sir Gilbert Elliot who was entrusted with the case against Impey. Thurlow drags at Hastings's left arm and clutches two large money-bags; a scroll issues from his mouth, forming a pendant to that of Burke: 'And - for the sake of Consigned Millions, I - with the assistance of my old Friend and Colleague here am resolved to protect these worthy Gentlemen'. He wears his Chancellor's wig and gown; one hairy leg terminates in a cloven hoof. The Devil clutches Hastings's wrist and the pie; he is a ferocious muscular creature with webbed wings and scaly barbed tail. Hastings as usual wears oriental dress with a jewelled turban."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Struggle for a Bengal butcher and an Impey
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Law -- Horace Walpole refers to subject of print., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 18 1788 for J. Doughty and Co., No. 19 Holborn, London
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Minto, Gilbert Elliot, Earl of, 1751-1814, and Windham, William, 1750-1810
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment, Demons, Lawyers, and Tug of war
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The struggle for a Bengal butcher and an Imp-Pie [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 17th 1788.
- Call Number:
- 788.03.17.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Earlier version of no. 7287 which has a later date and added verses. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.6., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horace Walpole refers to subject of print -- Uniforms: Windsor -- Alleged bribery of Hastings supporters -- Stone-eaters -- Bulse -- Warren Hastings in oriental dress -- Image of George III on a playing card.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. for the proprietor by W. Moore, Bond Street & W. Dickie, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- India.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The surprising stone eater [graphic].
- Creator:
- Hook, Mr. (James), 1746-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.05.17.01++ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- JH identified as monogram for James Hook. See British Museum catalogue., Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: iii.3.21; iv.1.206 -- Trials of Warren Hastings -- India.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 17th 1788 by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Plumer, Thomas, Sir, 1753-1824, Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The trial vide Merchant of Venice / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hook, Mr. (James), 1746-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.05.17.01++ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- JH identified as monogram for James Hook. See British Museum catalogue., Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: iii.3.21; iv.1.206 -- Trials of Warren Hastings -- India., 1 print on laid paper : etching ; sheet 40 x 56 cm., folded and mounted to 37 x 56 cm., and Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 17th 1788 by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Plumer, Thomas, Sir, 1753-1824, Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The trial vide Merchant of Venice / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.00.00.04 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The King (right), standing in profile to the left, holds out to Peter a rolled document inscribed 'Pension'. Peter, a thin elderly man, turns away, holding out both hands to ward off the gift. From his pocket projects a paper inscribed 'Odes'. Both wear bag-wigs, and old-fashioned dress with flapped waistcoats; the King wears a sword."-- British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Ah! let me Sire refuse it, I implore, ought not to be rich whilst you are poor
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue, Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Peter's pension. London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788], and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Wolcot, John, 1738-1819
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Peter's pension] [graphic].