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1. Paddy O Pitts triumphal exit [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [20 June 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.06.20.02.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Paddy O Pitt's triumphal exit
- Description:
- 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
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character) and Liberty cap
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Paddy O Pitts triumphal exit [graphic].
2. Sans-culottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 January 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.01.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- At the center of the sheet stands John Bull, hands clasped in prayer, as Sheridan and Fox force the bread of liberty into his wide open mouth as they pick his pocket. On either side of the three stands a gallows and the Temple Bar. In each of the four corners in similar scenes, labelled clockwise from upper left, Holland, Savoy, German & Prussia, red-capped French sansculottes try to force the bread of liberty down recognizable national stereotypes from these four nations as they loot the terrfied citizens
- Alternative Title:
- Sansculottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 12st [sic], 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Girondists, Sansculottes, Liberty, Liberty cap, Popes, History, and Foreign relations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sans-culottes feeding Europe with the bread of liberty [graphic].