Burke (centre) and Fox (right) raise above their heads cleavers and marrow-bones with which they appear about to smite a woman and child who have fallen to the ground. A man stoops, stretching out his hands in an attempt to protect them. George Hanger (left) stands holding up his cleaver in both hands, leaving no doubt that his intention is to strike. The attitude of Burke and Fox, though threatening, may indicate a vigorous performance of the traditional election music of the butchers
Alternative Title:
Freedom of election
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Axes, Butchers, Political elections, and Riots
"The upper part of a telegraph, not the usual screen in one plane (cf. BMSat 8837), but two screens at right angles to each other, the point of junction in the centre of the design. This is supported on a rectangular structure the upper part of which is open, with an aperture below each telegraph. From each of these Jekyll looks out in profile to the left and right, respectively. The telegraph, which is in the foreground, the lower part cut off by the lower margin of the design, overlooks from a height two views of the mouth of the Bruges Canal, flowing from an undulating landscape with a small town and distant windmills. Each Jekyll pulls strings which are attached to circular disks (for letters) in the upper part of the apparatus. On the left he looks through a rolled paper inscribed 'Morning Chronicle' over the intact sluice at the mouth of the canal, outside which are a few boats. From the disks above floats a label: "Ay, now let us see what are the fruits of this miserable Ostend Expedition! - ay, I see that the intelligence I had from Bruges, was of undoubted authority! - yes, yes, our Informations are always to be depended upon! - ay! sure enough there's the great Sluice of Sluykens, which was blown up! - the damages have all been repaired in a Week, & the Canal is now as full as at any former period! - O Lord! O Lord! - this is the way that poor John Bull's money goes!" Above each telegraph floats a tricolour flag surmounted by a bonnet-rouge; on the left the flag is inscribed 'June 20 1798', on the right it is 'June 21. 1798'. On the right Jekyll looks through a rolled paper: 'Capt Pop'em's Information from Capn Winter'. The landscape below shows a block of masonry exploding in the middle of a turbulent flood in which are carried down timbers and wrecked boats. His telegraph signals: 'Why what the devil do I see? - sounds, why here's incontestable evidence that the Sluices are all destroyed! - the Masonry all blown up! - and the Navigation of the Canal at an end! O Lord! what damages they have done!- why it can't be repaird by any effort, in less than 12 Months! - Mercy upon me, what will my Lord Malagrida say when I tell him about the business?' Jekyll's two profiles are identical; both smile waggishly. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Little second-sighted lawyer gving a true specimen of patriotic information
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of text below title: "After so candid & honorable a statement, no man can suspect the Honble. Gentleman of wilful misreprentation [sic]." - Mr. Ds remark., One line of text above image: "I trust the world will not regard me as a person ready to bring before them any matter which does not rest on a proper foundation!", and Temporary local subject terms: Military expeditions: Ostend expedition, May 1798 --Telegraphs -- Newspapers: Morning Chronicle -- Reference to taxation -- Reference to John Bull -- Reference to Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham, 1762-1820 -- Reference to the Marquis of Lansdowne.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Little second-sighted lawyer gving a true specimen on patriotic information
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of text below title: "After so candid & honorable a statement, no man can suspect the Honble. gentleman of wilful misinterpretation" - Mr. D's remark., Publication information extrapolated from the place and date of publication of the periodical for which the plate was etched., Numbered 'No. IX' in upper right corner., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1798, v. 1, opp. p.304., Temporary local subject terms:Military expeditions: Ostend expedition, May 1798 --Telegraphs -- Newspapers: Morning Chronicle -- Reference to taxation -- Reference to John Bull -- Reference to Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham, 1762-1820 -- Reference to the Marquis of Lansdowne., and Plate number erased from sheet.
"Fox, Sheridan, and Powys are engaged in opening a large rectangular tomb inscribed '[H]ere lie [t]he Remains [of] Mr F------s India Bill'. On the front of the tomb are two winged heads of cherubs and a scroll inscribed 'India Bill'. Fox (left), facing the inscribed end of the tomb, lifts the covering slab with both hands; the head of a skeleton looks out, holding out a crown in one hand, the other grasps the edge of the tomb and a cere-cloth inscribed 'Patronage'. Sheridan (right) stands in back view blowing a trumpet from which issues a scroll inscribed 'it was opposed by a sencless Yell'; on the banner of the trumpet are the words 'Compare the two'. Powys stands behind the tomb, leaning forward and blowing a trumpet, from which issues a scroll inscribed 'a bold Measure characteristic of the Movers Mind'. On the extreme left, above Fox, is a bell inscribed 'Vox Populi', tilted at an angle which shows that it is ringing; from it issues a long scroll which falls into the tomb, inscribed: 'Lie still if youre wise youll be d if you rise'. In the foreground are skulls and bones."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Different version of no. 7283 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. The slight differences in text include the addition of an apostrophe in "Opposition's" in title and the abbreviation "Pubd." instead of "Pub." at beginning of imprint statement. The two versions are nearly identical in their design, differing only slightly in the details of the image and in the text within the image., Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., and Mounted on page 54 with one other print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Great Britain. Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India., India, and East India Company.
"Fox, Sheridan, and Powys are engaged in opening a large rectangular tomb inscribed '[H]ere lie [t]he Remains [of] Mr F------s India Bill'. On the front of the tomb are two winged heads of cherubs and a scroll inscribed 'India Bill'. Fox (left), facing the inscribed end of the tomb, lifts the covering slab with both hands; the head of a skeleton looks out, holding out a crown in one hand, the other grasps the edge of the tomb and a cere-cloth inscribed 'Patronage'. Sheridan (right) stands in back view blowing a trumpet from which issues a scroll inscribed 'it was opposed by a sencless Yell'; on the banner of the trumpet are the words 'Compare the two'. Powys stands behind the tomb, leaning forward and blowing a trumpet, from which issues a scroll inscribed 'a bold Measure characteristic of the Movers Mind'. On the extreme left, above Fox, is a bell inscribed 'Vox Populi', tilted at an angle which shows that it is ringing; from it issues a long scroll which falls into the tomb, inscribed: 'Lie still if youre wise youll be d if you rise'. In the foreground are skulls and bones."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Different version of no. 7283 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. The slight differences in text include the addition of an apostrophe in "Opposition's" in title and the abbreviation "Pubd." instead of "Pub." at beginning of imprint statement. The two versions are nearly identical in their design, differing only slightly in the details of the image and in the text within the image., and Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Great Britain. Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India., India, and East India Company.
"Fox, Sheridan, and Powys are engaged in opening a large rectangular tomb inscribed '[H]ere lie [t]he Remains [of] Mr F------s India Bill'. On the front of the tomb are two winged heads of cherubs and a scroll inscribed 'India Bill'. Fox (left), facing the inscribed end of the tomb, lifts the covering slab with both hands; the head of a skeleton looks out, holding out a crown in one hand, the other grasps the edge of the tomb and a cere-cloth inscribed 'Patronage'. Sheridan (right) stands in back view blowing a trumpet from which issues a scroll inscribed 'it was opposed by a sencless Yell'; on the banner of the trumpet are the words 'Compare the two'. Powys stands behind the tomb, leaning forward and blowing a trumpet, from which issues a scroll inscribed 'a bold Measure characteristic of the Movers Mind'. On the extreme left, above Fox, is a bell inscribed 'Vox Populi', tilted at an angle which shows that it is ringing; from it issues a long scroll which falls into the tomb, inscribed: 'Lie still if youre wise youll be d if you rise'. In the foreground are skulls and bones."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., For a slightly different version of the same design, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 788.03.17.02., and Mounted with one other print on verso of leaf 35 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Great Britain. Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India., India, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Skeletons, Trumpets, and Bells
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of text below image: Chairman, a solicitor refusing to drink King George's health. He leaning on the chair is Jackey of York, an attorney his hackney fool ..., Temporary local subject terms: Nicknames: Jackey of York -- Ghosts: independent rump -- Imps carrying dust basket -- Containers: dust basket -- Jacobites -- Tools: butcher's steel -- Wine bottles -- Executioner's axe -- Lighting: candlestick -- Smoking: clay tobacco pipes -- Food: marrowbone -- Furniture: chair -- Executions: Kennington Common, July 30 1746 -- Trades: bill man -- Executioner -- Butchers -- Woolen draper -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Wine glasses with sign -- Clubs: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Law: rebel barrister -- Elections: Westminster -- Designs: design copied from 'The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver' by William Hogarth, 1697-1764 -- George Fletcher, d. 1746 -- Thomas de Viel, 1684-1746 -- John Smith 'Buckhorse', fl. 1732-1746 -- Mr. Charlton (butcher), fl. 1746., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746, Henley, John, 1692-1756, Morgan, David Thomas, ca. 1695-1746, and Towneley, Francis, 1709-1746
Orator Henley christening a child, after an oil sketch by Hogarth; the cleric stands holding the infant over a large, empty baptismal font, with the mother beside him to left. To his right stand a man who holds his hat and a stout woman, while in front a child, wearing a plumed hat and standing on tiptoe, reaches into the font, tipping the shallow bowl and spilling the water
Description:
Title engraved below image., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.) for note about a related work by Sympson, p. 310., and On page 217 in volume 3. Sheet: 20.5 x 13 cm.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subject (Topic):
Baptisms, Children, Clergy, Fonts, Infants, and Women
Orator Henley christening a child, after an oil sketch by Hogarth; the cleric stands holding the infant over a large, empty baptismal font, with the mother beside him to left. To his right stand a man who holds his hat and a stout woman, while in front a child, wearing a plumed hat and standing on tiptoe, reaches into the font, tipping the shallow bowl and spilling the water
Description:
Title engraved below image., Also signed below image: Hogarth pinxt ; S. Ireland fecit 1785., Dedication etched below title: To Francis Grose Esq. F.A.S. an encourager & promoter of the arts, this etching from his favorite Hogarth is inscribed by his obliged friend & servant, Saml. Ireland., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For related work by Sympson see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), p. 310., See no. 2837 for original painting in reverse in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 217 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to plate mark: 37.9 x 28.8 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st 1786, by W. Dickenson, No. 158 New Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subject (Topic):
Baptisms, Children, Clergy, Fonts, Infants, and Women