"Pitt lies prone on a whipping-block; Fox (left) holds up his coat-tails in his left hand, while he raises a birch-rod in his right, Pitt's bare posteriors being much scarred. Pitt says, "This is a question of feeling not Argumt"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Successful opposition -- Scrutiny begun on April 23, 1784 -- Allusion to Irish propositions -- Birch rods -- Whipping blocks., Watermark in center of sheet: Portal & Bridges., and Mounted to 27 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by E. Jackson, Mary le bone Street
Subject (Geographic):
England) and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
"A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., and Mounted on page 41.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., 1 print : etching with drypoint and stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 34.3 x 28.5 cm, on sheet 36.7 x 29.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 26 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., and Mounted to 47 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., Printmaker, place and date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Soap tax -- Tax on lights -- Tax on windows -- Signs: sign-posts -- Trades: washerwomen -- Vehicles: tumbrels -- Windows -- Pitt's speech -- Gallow ropes., and Partial watermark in upper right of plate: fleur-de-lis on shield with initials L V G.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Satire on ministerialists, 1785 -- Barber's blocks -- Allusion to Irish Propositions, 1785 -- Allusion to Edward, Baron Hawke, 1705-1781 -- Earl of Mulgrave, 1755-1831 -- 3rd Duke of Montrose, 1755-1836., Watermark (partial): initials LVG below shield., and Mounted to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by Moore, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Jenkinson, Charles, 1727-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Galloway, John Stewart, Earl of, 1736-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826, Rose, George, 1744-1818, and Carrington, Robert Smith, Baron, 1752-1838
"Design in an oval. half length portrait of Pitt in the House of Commons, standing at the table on which are books and two documents inscribed 'Parliamentary Reform' and 'Commutation Act'. Three shadowy seated figures watch him: Fox (left) says, "Oh that I had him at Brooks's! I'd Reform him". Next, a man wearing a hat says, "If I had him at Deal I'd soon Smuggle him - Oh that poor Charley had continued in, He'd never suppress our trade". The third says, "He has made a Bankrupt of me. Oh that I could Adulterate". (The smuggled tea had been much adulterated.) Above the design is etched, 'Save, oh Save my Country!!! My Fathers' dying words I never can forget.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Tax: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Parliamentary reform, 1785 -- Allusion to Pitt's suppression of smuggling -- Allusion to Pitt's suppression of tea adulteration -- Literature: quotation from William Pitt, 1708-1778., and Mounted to 26 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 18, 1785, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Title from item., Variant state of No. 6799 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Second state, with alterations to design., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: allusion to tax on maidservants -- Allusion to tax on shops -- Allusion to window tax -- Petitions: trampled London petition -- Trampled Manchester petition -- Trampled Westminster petition -- Westminster riots -- Signs: sign-posts -- Propaganda -- Butchers' cleavers -- Dogs -- Cats -- Shops to let -- Irish Propositions -- Staff of Liberty -- Allusion to the custom of riding the black ram --Expressions of speech: "I'll darken his daylights.", Watermark: Fleur-de-lis, partially obscured by image., and Mounted to 23 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, June 20, 1785, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title etched below image., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Proposed abolition of Chelsea Hospital -- Allusion to Chelsea pensioners -- Westminster electors as geese -- Allusion to the House of Commons -- Signs: sign-posts -- Asses -- Election scrutiny -- Taxes: small beer tax., and Partial watermark top center of sheet: Fleur-de-lis on shield, with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, Chelsea Hospital for Women (London, England), and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, Weavers, and Political elections