- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1806]
- Call Number:
- 806.05.00.09+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A torrent of taxes gushes from the mouth of Lord Henry Petty, chancellor of the exchequer, emptying into the "Unfathomable Sea of Taxation" in which John Bull is drowning in full view of greedy cormorants representing members of the Grenville ministry which was formed after the death of William Pitt
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull swamped in the flood of new taxes
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Williams in the British Museum catalogue., A copy of a print by Gillray. Cf. No. 10564 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and With stamp of S.W. Fores in the lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxes, John Bull (Symbolic character), Fountains, Cormorants, and Rowboats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A great stream from a petty fountain, or, John Bull swamped in the flood of new-taxes cormorants fishing in the stream. [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 June 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.06.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Modern ms. annotations on mount identify several figures in the print; mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 26th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A nest of Billy biters lately discovered in an ancient chapel in the West Minster. [graphic]
3.
- Published / Created:
- [1807?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
- Collection Title:
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 8990 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 48 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, and Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bank notes, paper-money, French-alarmists, O the devil the devil! ah poor John Bull!!! [graphic].
4.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1797]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1387, Box 21 (Oversize), folder 372
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with which he sweeps up notes from the counter. John is the yokel of BMSat 8141, but no longer bewildered; he stands stolidly, holding out his left hand for the notes, his right hand in his coat pocket. Fox (right), who wears a high cocked hat with tricolour cockade, bag-wig, and laced suit, says to him: "Dont take his damn'd Paper, John! insist upon having Gold, to make your Peace with the French, when they come". Sheridan bends towards John, saying, "Dont take his Notes! nobody takes Notes now! - they'll not even take Mine!" John answers: "I wool take it! - a' may as well let my Measter Billy hold the Gold to keep away you Frenchmen, as save it, to gee it you, when ye come over, with your domn'd invasion." Behind (right) hands of other Foxites are raised in warning, and on the extreme right is the profile of Stanhope. Behind (left), men hasten towards Pitt with large sacks of notes on their heads. The first two, in judge's robes, are Loughborough with a sack of '20 Shilling Notes', and Kenyon with one of 'Five Pound Notes'. Behind is Grenville with a sack of '10 Shilling Notes'. Other sacks whose bearers are hidden are inscribed '5 Shilling No[tes], 2 Shillin No[tes]', and 'One Shilling'. Under Pitt's counter is a row of large sacks of gold, padlocked and inscribed '£'. On the end of the counter, facing the spectator, is posted a bill headed: 'Order of Council to the Bank of England'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Sacks of money -- Bank notes.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, and Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bank-notes, paper-money, French-alarmists, O, the devil, the devil! ah! poor John-Bull!!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1806]
- Call Number:
- 806.03.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Ministerial rats with human heads scamper about a barn, searching for food. John Bull, a yokel in a smock and holding a pitchfork, holds open one leaf of the door facing the spectator, to watch their antics with amusement. George III, in profile to the right., puts a hand his shoulder, and says: "What! What! looking for Grain, eh! looking for grain; it's all gone, all gone all gone, quite Empty." John answers: "Why, these Hungry Rats thought to have had some fine pickings, I warrant, but egad they'll he woundedly mistaken, tho'f they seem to want it nationly; but that dom'd Scotchman [Melville] carried off a rare lot of it & as to poor Billy the Butler [Pitt] why he was so fond of a drop of Black Snap, [Perjorative for thick, sweet port. Partridge, 'Slang Dict.', 1938.] that when he and his friends, not at it, d'ye see, the rest of the Servants did as they pleased, poor Rogues I'se afraid they'll Undermine the Barn they're so main Hungry." The rats are on a smaller scale. On the extreme left., Lord Derby peeps from a bin inscribed 'Treasury', saying, "Why I suppose the Old Rat Died because there was nothing to feed upon." Moira climbs down a tilted sieve, Grenville sniffs at an upturned '[T]reasury' tub on which Lord Ellenborough sulkily reposes. Grey scampers towards an empty lantern but Windham has dragged out its candle and is nibbling at it. Sheridan races towards the candle from the r. Behind him is Erskine, looking sly. A bulky animal wearing a garter ribbon, probably the Marquis of Buckingham, lies with its head inside an empty '[T]reasury' sack. Fox and Bedford nibble at a pile of tattered and folded sacks on which is Lord Spencer, looking down at them. In the background are three other rightats, whose heads are less characterized: those on the left may be Sidmouth and Lauderdale; one nibbling a bundle of straw (r.) resembles Burdett."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm..
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March, 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character) and Rats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hungry rats in an empty barn [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1800]
- Call Number:
- 800.03.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Reduced copy of a print of the same title by Cawse, published by Fores on January 1, 1800. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9508., Publication information from periodical for which the plate was etched., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1800, v. 5., p. 252., Numbered 'No. VIII' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Elections: Westminster election, 1800 -- Literature: allusion to Sheridan's Pizarro -- Lighting: watchman's lantern -- Animals: watchdog -- Thieves -- Bags of money -- Cap of liberty as bonnet rouge., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull's watchman neglecting his duty!!! [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cawse, John, 1779-1862, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Jany 1st, 1800.
- Call Number:
- 800.01.01.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: where folios of caricatures are lent for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Elections: Westminster election, 1800 -- Literature: allusion to Sheridan's Pizarro -- Lighting: watchman's lantern -- Animals: watchdog -- Thieves -- Bags of money -- Cap of liberty as bonnet rouge.
- Publisher:
- Publishd by S.W. Fores, Piccad
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Bulls watchman neglecting his duty!!! [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 February 1806]
- Call Number:
- 806.02.08.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox, as the Devil, has sprung into the air, supported by small feathered wings inscribed 'Honesty' and 'Humility' and by two stout crutches, which rest upon dark clouds. He has a heavy hairy body with cloven hoofs, and wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade and the triple plume of the Prince of Wales. The two crutches have the heads, respectively, of Sidmouth (left) and Grenville. He wears a long narrow cloak with a tricolour collar; it is inscribed 'Loyalty, Independence & Public-Good'. The end of this is clutched by John Bull, a fat 'cit' (resembling John Gilpin, see BMSat 6886, &c), who is drawn up into the air, losing hat and wig. Fox says, looking over his right shoulder with a sinister grin: "Come along Johnny! - take fast hold of my Cloak, & I'll bring you to the land of Milk & Honey!!!" The terrified John answers: " - O yes, I will try to holdfast! - but I'm damnably afraid that your Cloak may slip off before we get there, & I may chance to break my Neck!" Below John's feet and at the base of the design (left), are the roofs of London, including the top of the gateway of St. James's Palace and the dome of St. Paul's. Fox is flying towards the façade of Carlton House, which emerges from clouds; over its roof rises a sun emitting rays, the disk inscribed 'New Constitution'. Above the colonnade is the inscription 'Carolus. II. Redimmus'. Resting on the clouds below Carlton House are three tiny scenes: 'Liberty': two gamblers throwing dice, one Sheridan the other the Prince; men watch them. 'Chastity', the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert, indicated by feathers in her hair, embrace on a sofa. 'Temperance', men carouse at a round table; one sprawls on the floor. Fox, as the Devil (cf. BMSat 6383, &c), under the cloak of patriotism, is carried to power by two props, Sidmouth and Grenville, on whose coalition with the Foxites the new Ministry, see BMSat 10531, &c, is. based. This relies not on St. James's but on Carlton House, the secrets of which, as in Le Sage's story, are revealed in three scenes satirizing the life of the Prince. The allegation that the new Ministry was subservient to Carlton House was natural, see BMSat 10252, &c, and recurs, see (e.g.) BMSats 10530, &c, 10543, 10697, but proved unfounded, see G. M. Trevelyan, 'Lord Grey of the Reform Bill', p. 153 f., and cf. BMSat 10526, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attribution following title: Vide le Sage., and Mounted to 45 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Feby. 8th, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le Diable-boiteux, or, The devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 8 February 1806]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
- Collection Title:
- V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date based on publication date of the original print by Gillray, of which this is a reduced copy. Cf. No. 10525 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Attribution following title: Vide le Sage., Plate numbered "110" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 89 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le Diable-boiteux, or, The devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 November 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.11.17.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt (right) stands stiffly in profile to the left, holding open a large sack-like wallet inscribed 'Requisition Budget'. He addresses John Bull, the central figure, a stout yokel, who holds out his breeches in his left hand to Pitt, while he touches his hat. The budget and the breeches pockets are full of guineas. Pitt says: "More Money, John! - more Money! to defend you from the Bloody, the Cannibal French - They're a coming! - why they'll Strip you to the very Skin - more Money. John! - They're a coming - They're a coming." Dundas, Grenville, and Burke kneel on the right, bending towards the 'Budget', each with his left hand in an opening in a vertical seam, eagerly grabbing guineas. Behind them is the stone archway of the 'Treasury', with its high spiked gate. Dundas, the most prominent, wears Highland dress and holds a Scots cap full of coins. Grenville wears a peer's robe; Burke is behind. They echo Pitt: Dundas says "Ay! Ay! They're a coming! They're a coming!" Grenville: "Yes! Yes, They're a coming." Burke: "Ay They're a coming." John says: " - a coming? - are they? - nay then, take all I've got, at once, Measter Billy! - vor its much better for I to ge ye all I have in the World to save my Bacon, - than to stay & be Strip'd stark naked by Charley, & the plundering French Invasioners, as you say". His coat and waistcoat are sound, but the pockets hang inside out, empty. His lank hair, knotted kerchief, and wrinkled gaiters denote the small farmer. Behind (left), on the shore, stands Fox looking across the water towards the fortress of 'Brest' flying a tricolour flag. He hails it with upraised arms, shouting: "What! more Money ? - O the Aristocrat Plunderer! - Vite Citoyens! - vite! - vite! depechez vous! - or we shall be too late to come inn for any Snacks of the I'argant! - vite Citoyens! vite! vite!""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull giving his breeches to save his bacon
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Yokels -- Money: guineas -- Treasury -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Budgets: Pitt's speech, Dec. 7, 1796
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 7th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Opening of the budget, or, John Bull giving his breeches to save his bacon [graphic]