- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 May 1783] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 4. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The new ministry is depicted on a large carousel, erected in front of the "Crown and Royal Bob" Inn. The structure is supported by a center pole held in place by pegs labelled "Treasury," "Navy" and "Army" terminating at the top with the head of the King in the form of a wig block. Fox, with a fox's head and tail, leads the procession, holding a bag of money. Behind him, Lord North on a horse with its legs cut short, loses his wig; Burke in Jesuit's habit and on a similarly lame horse, has partially turned into a skeleton due to his economical reform; Admiral Keppel behind him is desperate to remain seated on his donkey. Lastly a Scotsman labelled "President" signifies Scottish influence over the Crown. Watching from a seat before the Inn, a complacent John Bull mouths slogans of liberty, unaware that his house is being plundered behind him
- Alternative Title:
- New state whirligig
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6227 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 48., and On leaf 4 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Taverns (Inns), Merry-go-rounds, Wigs, Flags, British, Robberies, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A block for the wigs, or, The new state whirligig [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 May 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.05.05.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The new ministry is depicted on a large carousel, erected in front of the "Crown and Royal Bob" Inn. The structure is supported by a center pole held in place by pegs labelled "Treasury," "Navy" and "Army" terminating at the top with the head of the King in the form of a wig block. Fox, with a fox's head and tail, leads the procession, holding a bag of money. Behind him, Lord North on a horse with its legs cut short, loses his wig; Burke in Jesuit's habit and on a similarly lame horse, has partially turned into a skeleton due to his economical reform; Admiral Keppel behind him is desperate to remain seated on his donkey. Lastly a Scotsman labelled "President" signifies Scottish influence over the Crown. Watching from a seat before the Inn, a complacent John Bull mouths slogans of liberty, unaware that his house is being plundered behind him
- Alternative Title:
- New state whirligig
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text above image in upper left: Poor John Bull's house plunder'd at noon day., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Taverns (Inns), Merry-go-rounds, Wigs, Flags, British, Robberies, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A block for the wigs, or, The new state whirligig [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.00.00.29
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the negotiations for the Peace of Paris. A lion and lioness (the King and Queen) look in alarm from the window of a coach (Great Britain) as it crashes against a large rock. Lord Bute, the driver, and Princess Augusta, who has been sitting beside him, fall headlong to the ground and the horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Bute cries out, "De'el dam that Havanna Snuff its all most blinded me". The postilion, Henry Fox, lies on the ground having hit his head on a rock labelled "Newfound Land"; a speech balloon lettered "Snugg" emerges from his mouth. Behind him Pitt, holding a whip, grasps the leading horse's reins; the Marquis of Granby gallops up to assist him, together with William Beckford (who was shortly to become Lord Mayor of London) and the Duke of Newcastle. In the foreground is a conflict involving a number of journalists: Bute's supporters, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett shoot their pistols at Pitt, and further to the right Charles Churchill, in clerical robes, fires a cannon labelled "North Briton" at them, causing another man to fall to the ground his arm resting on a copy of the Gazetteer (the fallen man must be either Charles Say, editor, or John Almon, contributor to the Gazetteer, an anti-Bute newspaper), with the headline, "A letter from Darlington" (a reference to Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, a relation of Bute's by marriage). The British lion beside Churchill urinates on the Scottish thistle. Behind this group, the Duke of Cumberland runs forward anxiously mopping his bald head, having lost his wig. In the background are Lord Mansfield and the Earl of Loudon, the latter suggesting that they retreat (a reference to his failure to capture Louisbourg from the French in 1757). To the right a group of Scotsmen are driven off by two Englishmen with whips; another Scot sits on the ground scratching himself."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Fall of Mortimer, Coach overturned, and Coach overturn'd
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Four columns of verse below image: With raptures Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney turn'd over by driving too fast ...
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330.
- Subject (Topic):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Politics and government, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Journalists, National emblems, British, Scottish, and Newspapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A prophecy. The coach overturn'd, or, The fall of Mortimer [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Go-cart
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Coffee-houses -- Male dress: Roman armor -- Emblems: jack boot (Lord Bute) -- Buildings: warehouse -- Reference to the peace negotiation in Paris, 1762: territorial concessions -- Reference to the East India Company -- Excise -- Whigs -- Chancellors -- Vehicles: go-cart -- Buildings: hospital., and On page 296 in volume 3. Sheet: 7.1 x 10.3 cm.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), National emblems, Scottish, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A wonderful sight, or, The go-cart [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 762.08.00.06.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Go-cart
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Coffee-houses -- Male dress: Roman armor -- Emblems: jack boot (Lord Bute) -- Buildings: warehouse -- Reference to the peace negotiation in Paris, 1762: territorial concessions -- Reference to the East India Company -- Excise -- Whigs -- Chancellors -- Vehicles: go-cart -- Buildings: hospital., and Mounted to 31 x 33 cm.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), National emblems, Scottish, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A wonderful sight, or, The go-cart [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 June 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.06.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George III, half length, stands in profile to the left, a holding a tiny Napoleon on the palm of his right hand, and inspecting him through a spy-glass. He says: "My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable \ "panegyric upon Yourself and Country, but from what I can \ "gather from your own relation & the answers I have with \ "much pains wringed & extorted from you, I cannot but con- \ "-clude you to be one of the most pernicious, little - odious \ "-reptiles, that nature ever suffer'd to crawl upon the surface of the Earth." He wears military uniform with a bag-wig. The only background is a dark cloud-like shadow across the lower part of the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Artist identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1802.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 26th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adaptations, parodies, etc, Telescopes, Military uniforms, British, and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.06.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Surrendred March 22, 1770 and Surrendered March 22, 1770
- Description:
- Two designs within one plate, each titled separately., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of statement of responsibility., Publication place, date and statement of responsibility from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon [1767-1772], v. 6 (1770), p. 309., Temporary local subject terms: Magna Charta -- Petitions: City Petition, March 14, 1770 -- Cross -- Male costume: king's robes., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- John, King of England, 1167-1216 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, British, and Thrones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The birthright of Englishmen ascertained, 1216 Surrendred [sic] March 22, 1770 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.07.00.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An election mob in which Townshend and his supporters, as butchers, are violently attacking the populace with cleavers and marrow-bones. They wear aprons with butchers' steels dangling from the waist. George Hanger (right), his hat decorated with three ostrich feathers and the coronet of the Prince of Wales, raises a cleaver in both hands and threatens two constables with staves who fall backwards, wounded or terrified. He is in violent action, one foot rests on the unconscious body of a sailor whose face is gashed and bleeding. In the sailor's hand is a flag with a ship and the words 'Royal Navy'; on this Townshend, who uses his marrow-bone and cleaver as a musical instrument, not as weapons, is trampling. Behind Hanger, Fox, climbing above the crowd, is violently smashing the sign of 'The King's Head' (a bust portrait of the King) which is over a door inscribed 'Martin'. In the foreground a woman half-lying on the ground tries to protect her screaming infant from a cleaver and bone brandished by Sheridan. On the extreme left Lord Derby attacks a kneeling sailor with a wooden leg. Behind Sheridan, Burke raises a cleaver in both hands, and behind him the Duke of Norfolk waves a flag inscribed 'Townsend and Liberty'. Behind is a dense crowd brandishing cleavers and bones, while others attempt to escape. On the right are houses inscribed 'James Str[eet]', the houses of Covent Garden are indicated on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text right of title: Price 1 s., and Mounted to 32 x 44 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July [...]th. by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Coleraine, George Hanger, Baron, 1751?-1824, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1788, Axes, Butchers, Crowds, Political elections, Riots, Sailors, British, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The butchers of freedom [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 762.00.00.30
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the negotiations for the Peace of Paris. A lion and lioness (the King and Queen) look in alarm from the window of a coach (Great Britain) as it crashes against a large rock. Lord Bute, the driver, and Princess Augusta, who has been sitting beside him, fall headlong to the ground and the horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Bute cries out, "De'el dam that Havanna Snuff its all most blinded me". The postilion, Henry Fox, lies on the ground having hit his head on a rock labelled "Newfound Land"; a speech balloon lettered "Snugg" emerges from his mouth. Behind him Pitt, holding a whip, grasps the leading horse's reins; the Marquis of Granby gallops up to assist him, together with William Beckford (who was shortly to become Lord Mayor of London) and the Duke of Newcastle. In the foreground is a conflict involving a number of journalists: Bute's supporters, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett shoot their pistols at Pitt, and further to the right Charles Churchill, in clerical robes, fires a cannon labelled "North Briton" at them, causing another man to fall to the ground his arm resting on a copy of the Gazetteer (the fallen man must be either Charles Say, editor, or John Almon, contributor to the Gazetteer, an anti-Bute newspaper), with the headline, "A letter from Darlington" (a reference to Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, a relation of Bute's by marriage). The British lion beside Churchill urinates on the Scottish thistle. Behind this group, the Duke of Cumberland runs forward anxiously mopping his bald head, having lost his wig. In the background are Lord Mansfield and the Earl of Loudon, the latter suggesting that they retreat (a reference to his failure to capture Louisbourg from the French in 1757). To the right a group of Scotsmen are driven off by two Englishmen with whips; another Scot sits on the ground scratching himself."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Fall of Mortimer and Coach overturned
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Two columns of verse below image: With raptures, Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney's turn'd over by driving too fast ..., Plate numbered '31' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's, [1763]., and Mounted to 29 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330.
- Subject (Topic):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Politics and government, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Journalists, National emblems, British, Scottish, and Newspapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coach overturn'd, or, The fall of Mortimer [graphic].
- Creator:
- Kingsbury, Henry, active 1776-1798, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 April 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.04.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A farm-yard scene with Windsor Castle in the distance (right). In the centre four pigs feed at a trough; George III (right) and Queen Charlotte (left) stand on each side of it facing each other in profile, both slightly caricatured. At the King's feet are a bucket and a young pig. The Queen scatters grain to chickens and ducks. On the right a guardsman walks off carrying a bundle of turnips across his shoulder (see BMSat 6946). In the background (left) are haystacks and farm buildings; from one projects the sign of a royal crown inverted. A young woman (probably one of the princesses) advances with a basket (cf. BMSat 7897). On the right is a large placard on a post, 'Mantraps & Spring Guns'. Behind it are sheep."--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attributed to Kingsbury in Angelo's Reminiscences, 1904, v. i, p.326., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Queen Charlotte and George III identified by ms. note in a contemporary hand.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Aprll [sic] 29, 1786 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Windsor Castle,
- Subject (Topic):
- Farms, Farmers, Poultry, Sheep, Haystacks, Military uniforms, British, Signs (Notices), Swine, and Troughs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The farm yard [graphic].