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1. Raising the royal George [graphic]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.01.21.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, submerged in water, his head and hands raised in supplication above the waves, is being pulled out by four men standing in "Victory's Boat." They are, from left to right, Admiral Keppel, Lord Shelburne, John Dunning, and the Duke of Richmond. A "Diving Bell" with a head of a judge, possibly Thurlow, is attached to the boat by another rope. Watching from the shore are Charles James Fox, with a fox's head, and Edmund Burke. Fox comments that "As maligrida [Shelburne] now does reign / all their labour is in vain," to which Burke adds, "if boreas was here he would much swell / and prevent the efects of the Diving Bell." 'Boreas,' the fictitious designer of this print is Lord North. The printmaker Twitcher is Lord Sandwich. The title alludes to the loss of the warship "Royal George" during repairs in Portsmouth in 1782
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to John Nixon. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 21st. Jan. 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783., Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 1735-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., and Royal George (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- Diving bells, Shipwrecks, Boats, Ropes, Drowning, Crowns, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Raising the royal George [graphic]
2. Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1868?]
- Call Number:
- 868.00.00.02 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."
- Alternative Title:
- Atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations"
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Plate from: Caricature history of the Georges ... / by Thomas Wright .... London : J.C. Hotten, [1868], p. 452., Reduced copy of a print with the same title by Gillray, published by H. Humphrey in 1790. See no. 7686 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Figure of Richard Price identified by ms. note in pencil below image.
- Publisher:
- J.C. Hotten?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience / [graphic]
3. Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 December 1790]
- Call Number:
- 790.12.03.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."
- Alternative Title:
- Atheistical revolutionist disturbed in his midnight calculations
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Smelling out a rat, or, The atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations" vide a troubled conscience. [graphic]