"A theatre seen diagonally from the pit, with the stage on the right, two side boxes forming a background. On the stage a man in quasi-classical dress holds a dripping dagger, a woman lies at his feet; through an open door the prompter is seen. The audience is much disturbed: in the foreground a stout citizen holds a smelling-bottle to the nose of his (apparently) fainting young wife; she takes a note from a young man on the bench behind her. Behind stands a bearded Jew. In the stage-box two seated figures resemble the King and Queen, a man standing behind resembles Pitt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., One of a series of Drolls., Plate numbered '163' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Theatrical performances -- Reference to adultery -- Medicine: salts., Watermark., and Publication year corrected in manuscript from '5' to '6.'
Publisher:
Publish'd 12 Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Interiors, Theaters, and Theatrical productions
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Pigs - Taxes: reference to hair powder tax, May 1795 -- Snuff-boxes -- Expressions of speech: "no grumbling" -- Slogans: '45' -- Farmers -- Male dress: farmer's smock.
Publisher:
Pub. July 27, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Statement following imprint: NB. Folios of caricatures, &cc lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Whips -- Spears -- Military uniforms: St. James's Volunteers., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Text following publisher's statement: Folios of careatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: Dog Tax, April 1796 -- Excise: duty on sherry and port -- Budgets: Pitt's budget, 1796 -- Gibbets., Watermark: Strasburg bend; initials below obscured by coloring in the design., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. May 10, 1796, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Title from item., Attribution to Cruikshank from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's announcement following imprint: Where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures in the kingdom, also the head and hand of Count Struenzee. Admitt. 1 s., Temporary local subject terms: John Jeffries, fl. 1790 -- Elizabeth Jeffries, fl. 1790 -- Monsters: George Hanger, Baron Coleraine as 'The Monster'., Watermark., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 18, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Newsboy's horns -- Symbols: bonnet rouge -- Uniforms: Windsor uniform -- Newspapers: True Britton -- Morning Chronicle -- Reference to Frederick Augustus, Duke of York -- Walking staves -- George III as John Bull., Bookseller's stamp: S.W.F., in lower right of plate., and Mounted to 28 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom., Publisher's statement following imprint: ... wher [sic] may be had compleat sets of caracatars [sic] on the French Revolution., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Holland -- Barrels -- Pipes -- Guns: bayoneted muskets -- Cartouche boxes -- Swords -- Rivers: Scheldt -- Dutch towns -- Ships -- Military: sentry -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Dutchmen.
"John Bull (left) capers clumsily to a tune played by Pitt, Dundas, and two others. He has a drink-bloated profile, wears a round hat and old-fashioned buckled shoes. He says: "Lord love ye my good Masters - do give us something new - I be tired of all the old Jigs - I knows the March to Paris by heart, - and as for Indemnity for the Past, and Security for the future, they are as easy to me as my A-B-C - I want something stilish, and grand." Pitt, seated, plays a large 'cello incorrectly drawn and having a rose under the strings which suggests the viol da gamba. He looks up at John Bull jauntily, saying, "I will endeavour to please you if I can, what do you think of this - it is a grand serious-movement called the Deliverance of Europe or Union with Ireland". Dundas (right), wearing kilt and feathered bonnet with legal wig and bands, stands in profile to the left, impassively playing the bagpipes. Two background figures dejectedly play wind-instruments; one is probably Grenville."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from Krumbhaar. Attributed to Sansom in the British Museum Catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Pub March 21, 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Dance, Musical instruments, and Violoncellos
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: hair powder tax -- Debts: Prince of Wales's debts -- Allusion to Mrs. Fitzherbert -- Allusion to Mrs. Robinson -- Allusion to Mrs. Crouch -- Tankards -- Barbers' shops., and Mounted to 35 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 6, alias Hair Powder Day, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons and John Bull (Symbolic character)