- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.00.00.11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man sits a tavern table facing left, his right arm raised as if making a strong point. On the table is tankard filled with a large head of froth; on the tankard are etched the words "Spotted Dog Holy Well sc." From his pocket a rolled document with the heading "Burke on oecon[omy]."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five lines of text below image: You may talk what you will of Mustor Pitt's wirtues, but I will maintain it, that Muster Burke Gemmen is the most wirtuous honest man in the King's dominions, if he had his won very Gemmem we shoud not be Burthern'd withe such vicked txes, but zounds, Mr. Burke Gemmen caunt carry the whole House of Commons in his belly., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Edmund Burke -- Allusion to Burke's speech on public economy, 11 February 1780 -- Allusion to William Pitt's tax proposals, 1784., and Ms. annotation in lower left, below image: John Nixon 1785.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation, Politics and government, Beer, Debates, Drinking vessels, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A red-hot politician [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.01.21.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, submerged in water, his head and hands raised in supplication above the waves, is being pulled out by four men standing in "Victory's Boat." They are, from left to right, Admiral Keppel, Lord Shelburne, John Dunning, and the Duke of Richmond. A "Diving Bell" with a head of a judge, possibly Thurlow, is attached to the boat by another rope. Watching from the shore are Charles James Fox, with a fox's head, and Edmund Burke. Fox comments that "As maligrida [Shelburne] now does reign / all their labour is in vain," to which Burke adds, "if boreas was here he would much swell / and prevent the efects of the Diving Bell." 'Boreas,' the fictitious designer of this print is Lord North. The printmaker Twitcher is Lord Sandwich. The title alludes to the loss of the warship "Royal George" during repairs in Portsmouth in 1782
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to John Nixon. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 21st. Jan. 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783., Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 1735-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., and Royal George (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- Diving bells, Shipwrecks, Boats, Ropes, Drowning, Crowns, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Raising the royal George [graphic]