"A whole length satirical portrait of the Duke of Norfolk, directed to the right; in his left hand is the baton of Earl Marshal; his right hand is in his waistcoat pocket. He wears top-boots, a slouched hat, and his hair is closely cropped. Earlier caricatures show the Duke wearing his own hair without powder, hanging on his neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Norfolk dumpling
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Food: allusion to dumplings -- Hair fashion: cropped hair -- Obesity., and Mss. annotations below title.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Britannia, in profile to the right, kneels on the ground, bending forward with an expression of angry distress. She supports herself on her spear, the upper part of which rests against her right shoulder. Her shield, broken, lies on the ground, her knee resting on it. Behind her (left) are the two 'State Quacks', Fox and North, Fox, with a fox's head, sitting on the ground, lifts Britannia's petticoats in both hands. North, very stout and fat, stands (left) in profile to the right, holding a large syringe. A mountainous landscape, with clouds, forms the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
State quacks administring and State quacks administering
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: quacks -- Medical implements: syringe -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Britannia's shield., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Title page engraved., Attribution to James Gillray based on an inscription on the copy in The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University., Caricatures of Friedrich Rehberg's Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples (originally published 1794), with the figure of Emma Hamilton considerably enlarged., Plates printed on blue paper and mounted., BAC: British Art Center copy imperfect: title page wanting (title and imprint from British Museum Catalogue). Bound in full gilt-tooled long-grain morocco, with gilt edges. Bound by Rivere & Son. Armorial bookplates of Graham of Ardoch and Hampton of Anglesey. Has bound with it: Rehberg, F. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples ([London?: S.W. Fores?] 1794). The caricatures in the present volume are juxtaposed (on facing pages) with the corresponding originals in Rehberg's work. Also has bound with it, as frontispiece: Dido in despair! (London: H. Humphrey, 1801) [George 9572]., Lewis Walpole Library copy: With original brown wrappers, detached. Inscription in the hand of James Gillray on title page: "Lt. Col. Birch from the Author." Caricatures of the obese Emma Hamilton are on coral-colored paper., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published March 2nd 1807 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815 and Rehberg, Friedrich, 1758-1835.
"George III and Queen Charlotte stand before the open gate of the Treasury, from which Pitt has just wheeled a barrow laden with money-bags. Pitt, the straps of the barrow round his shoulders, his coat-pocket bulging with guineas, obsequiously hands the king a money-bag. George III stands full-face, legs astride, a money-bag inscribed '£100000' under his right arm, another in his right hand and all his pockets overflowing with guineas. Queen Charlotte (left) stands on his right taking a pinch of snuff, and looking up at him with a smile of greedy and satisfied cunning; in her apron is a heap of guineas. Military officers wearing high cocked hats with feather trimmings (in a French fashion), and long pigtail queues, stand round the King and Queen, in a semicircle, in front of the spiked gates of the Treasury, playing musical instruments: fifes, bassoons, a horn, &c. The pockets of the two in the foreground (left and right) are crammed with guineas, those of the others, presumably equally full, are concealed. They represent the placemen and Ministerialists of the Treasury Bench. The most prominent (right) is probably Lord Sydney. In the foreground (left) an old sailor, armless and with two wooden legs, sits on the ground, his empty hat before him. On the right the Prince of Wales, in rags, hesitates to take a paper inscribed 'Accept £200000 from your Friend Orleans', which a slim and foppish Frenchman, in bag-wig and 'chapeau-bras', standing on the extreme right, offers him, taking his hand. He is very different from the heavily built Due d'Orléans (who succeeded his father in Nov. 1785) who had recently presented his portrait by Reynolds (now at Hampton Court) to the Prince of Wales. He had adopted the English manner of dress and made it fashionable in France ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Treasury building entrance -- Civil list -- National debt -- Miserliness -- Wooden legs -- Amputees -- Sailors -- Allusion to prodigal son.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 21, 1786, by Willm. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, and Necker, Jacues, 1732-1804
"Lord Lansdowne sits at a small writing-table, pen in hand, a number of papers before him. Three Jews (left) stand obsequiously on his right, but he turns with his enigmatic smile towards a French post-boy (right), a grotesque dwarfish man with long queue and jack-boots holding his whip and hat, who holds out to him with a cunning smile a paper inscribed: 'My dear Lord Paris 7th Jany 1783 I am happy to hear you have so nearly concluded your Alley Arrangements. The Preliminaries shall be signed coute que coute by the Time you desire, & you may rely on the Courier's arrival on the Eve of the 23d yours truly Billy Paradice [William Eden.]' Under Lansdowne's elbow is a paper inscribed 'Memorandums Pay off the Mortgage on Jesuits Colledge in Berkeley Square - Pay off Solomons any for 500£ pr Annm Inquire what Tayt will take for my Bond for 3000£ given for furniture sold at Christyes'. The foremost Jew holds out to Lansdowne a paper ... On a shelf, inscribed 'Waste Paper', in the upper right corner of the design, are three large bundles of papers: 'Ordnance Estimates', 'State of the National Debt', and 'Civil List'; two piles of documents hang from the shelf. On the wall above Lansdowne's head are two bust portraits: 'John Calvin', wearing a steeple-crowned hat, gown, and bands, and 'Ignatius Loyola', a profile portrait of Burke wearing a Jesuit's biretta as in British Museum Satires No. 6026, &c. 12."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Counterfeit signature; print by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to within thread margins of plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Treaties -- Commerical Treaty with France -- National debt -- Civil list -- Military Ordinance -- Allusion to J. Bond -- Allusion to St. Ignatious Loyola -- Allusion to John Calvin -- French post-boy -- Jesuits -- Allusion to William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, 1744-1814.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1787, by R. Phillips, Southwke., London
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Ethnic stereotypes, Tables, Writing materials, Boots, and Whips
"Two heads emerge from the highly-polished boots of their respective owners, which face each other. They are finished portraits of Skeffington and Montagu Mathew, inseparables, see BMSat 9699. Skeffington's boot (left) is a tasselled Hessian; its pointed toe rests on the foot of Mathew's spurred top-boot. Both wear round hats of slightly differing shapes. Skeffington's dark hair is short, falling over his forehead; he has a large whisker. Mathew's fair hair is long and powdered, and tied by a ribbon at the tips; he has a small whisker. Round the two boots are grouped blacking materials. A large open book (left) is 'Essay on Blacking'; by it are bottles labelled 'Mr Broomhills Recipe' and 'The Princes Recipe', and a mixing-pot. Two volumes (right) are 'Chemistry'; on them are bottles labelled 'Pine Apple' and 'Spirit of Salt'. There are also two brushes, a polishing pad, a cake of 'Holdsworth's' blacking, and a broken bottle of 'Royal Blacking'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 56 x 37 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850 and Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
"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
"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
"Four men, their feet cut off by the lower margin, play whist at a rectangular table; each has one card in his hand and is about to play the last trick, the tricks piled on the table show that each side has six tricks. Sir Joseph Mawbey (left) looks at his partner (right), a very stout man wearing a legal wig, both hold court cards (diamonds). The man seated on the farther side of the table looks sideways at Mawbey, saying, "O---h! you've brought your Pigs to a fine Market!" His partner, in back view, is a very thin man whose hair extends grotesquely on each side of his head; he holds the five of diamonds. From Mawbey's pocket projects a document, 'Surrey Commission', and a book, 'Burn Justice' (Burn's well-known 'Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer', used by all acting J.P.s, not an exhortation to incendiarism as Evans supposes). Above his head is a picture of a pig feeding from a trough."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Stevenson, fl. 1788 -- Allusion to "Account of Elections for Survey" by Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1730-1798 in Gentleman's Magazine: 1788.ii.975, 1052-3 -- Allusion to "Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by John Burns[?], 1743-1839 -- Quarrels: Allusion to Mawbey vs. his steward -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Feeding pigs -- Gaming tables -- Whist.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"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