Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Mrs. Jordan as Priscilla in Lloyd's The Romp -- Literature: allusion to Mrs. Jordan as Pickle in Bickerstaffe's The Spoil'd Child -- Morganatic marriages., and Watermark: I Taylor.
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 7 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Bull stands defiantly in the center of a crowd of angry men -- military officers, gentlemen of various ages, tradesmen, and an amputee -- most of whom hold out bills ranging between £50 and £5000; the speech bubbles above their heads read: "King's taxes"; "Police rate"; "Parish rates"; "Excise duties"; "Tithes church rates pew rents & Easter doos [sic]"; "Sundres &c." John Bull's response reads, "Damme ye had better devour me., ye voratious crew. Am I never to have my hands out of my pocket again, but 't wont last long lads. I shall soon be in the Gazette & then ye lazy drones ye must work hard for you own livings." The man with a large belly on the lower right carries a little dog under his arm
Description:
Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Paper watermarked: J.R. 1828., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation, Anger, Crowds, Demonstrations, Dogs, Men, Military officers, and Obesity
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 June 1832]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 832 no. 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The head and fore-paws of a bull-dog, its Collar inscribed 'John Bull', extends into the design from the right. Its left paw presses down a rat with the head of Wellington, who looks up in anguish at the dog's angry jowl. Behind are other frightened rats with human heads: a bloated bishop, Peel, Wetherell, Eldon, Cumberland, and two others. The rats have been robbing the barn of ears of wheat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image; series statement at top of image., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Text following series statement: Political, satirical, and humourous. Price one penny., Text below title: Reform yourselves, or my method may not suit you., Publisher's advertisement in a panel below title: Chubb's edition of the Reform Bill is just printed, price 3d., containing every clause and schedule as in the original edition ..., Additional publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: All the numbers of John Bull's picture gallery will be re-printed next week and may be had at the publisher's, W. Chubb, 48 Holywell Street, Strand, London., and A copy after of no. 16647 in v. 11 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
W. Chubb
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, George V, King of Hanover, 1819-1878, and Tory Party (Great Britain)
"A smaller copy of a satire on the repeal of the Stamp Act and the administration of George Grenville (First Lord of the Treasury, April 1763-July 1765)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Publication date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of The repeal by Benjamin Wilson, with several alterations and a key to persons numbered within image added below the design., "Price only six pence"--Following imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Merchant ships -- Skulls of the rebels of 1715 and 1745 -- Bible: burial service -- Stamps upon black flags -- Child's coffin -- Cargoes: bales and boxes -- Bank of Thames -- Boats: lighter -- House of Lords: votes on repeal of Stamp Act, 1766 -- Allusion to America -- Lawyers' briefs -- American trade -- Scotch appeals -- Weepers: Bute wearing a weeper -- Catches: funeral anthem -- Mottoes: semper eadem., and Design attributed to Wilson and subjects identified in contemporary hand below print on mounting sheet. Mounted to 38 x 51 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Scott, James, 1733-1814, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771
"Mrs. Clarke (left) and Mrs. Carey (right) (see British Museum Satires No. 11050) berate each other; both wear evening dress, with feathers in their hair, those of Mrs. Carey being the taller. The Duke, wearing regimentals, watches the quarrel, equally distant from both. Mrs. Clarke, arms akimbo, says: "Why how now Madam Carey, although you are so Warey In saveing of your cash, John Bull and I we both will try, And settle all your hash." [see 1803 Isaac Cruikshank print for an earlier use of this phrase, BM impression 1868,0808.7141/ PPA108823] Mrs. Carey retorts: "Why how now Madam Clarke------ Why since you thus can chatter------ And thus betray your spark------ I wonder whats the matter with, you, Madam Clarke!!" The Duke looks at Mrs. Clarke, stopping his ears, a leg raised in angry protest; he says: "Zounds! the thunder of Valencienes was Music to this". Behind Mrs. Clarke is a cockatoo on a high perch, screaming: "go it! go it"; a chair has been overturned, and a mastiff, its collar inscribed 'John Bull', barks at the Duke. A small dog behind Mrs. Carey also barks. She stands with her back to the fire. On the chimney-piece a china Cupid aims his arrow at a heart on the trunk of a tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rival queens, or, A scene in The beggars opera and Scene in The beggars opera
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1809 by Walker, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Mistresses, Quarreling, Headdresses, Cockatoos, Dogs, and Fireplaces
Title from caption below image., Above the image: Attic miscellany., and Temporary local subject terms: Mastiffs -- Weapons: bludgeons -- Ruffians -- Orders: Star of the Thistle -- Norfolk.
Title etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy., Plate numbered '40' in upper right corner., Two lines of verse below image: "So Pug began to turn his brain (like other folks in place) on gain." Gay., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Peace, Dogs, Peddlers, Pillories, and Street vendors
A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
Description:
Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit, p. 454. Spurious., and On page 185 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 34.7 x 23.1 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
Description:
Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it., and Sheet trimmed to 346 x 248 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
Description:
Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., and Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759