- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.01.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt arrogantly bestrides the Speaker's chair, towering high above the galleries of the House. He plays cup (or rather spike) and ball with the globe, on which 'France' is disproportionately large, the British Isles small and obscure. His head is turned to the left towards his own followers, who crowd obsequiously towards his huge right foot which rests on the head of Wilberforce (papers inscribed 'Slave Trade' issuing from his pocket) and on the shoulder of the bulky and truculent Dundas, who wears Highland dress. Canning (the 'Trial of Betty Canning' projecting from his pocket) kneels to kiss the toe of his shoe. His left foot crushes the leaders of the Opposition: Erskine, Sheridan, Fox (all prostrate), and a fourth (? Grey) with upstretched arms. M. A. Taylor, a tiny figure, with the legs of a chicken (see BMSat 6777) and wearing a bonnet-rouge, sprawls on the floor near Fox. The rest of the party raise their arms in dismay. The Speaker (Addington) looks up (raising his hat), as do the Clerks. Pitt's coat-pockets bulge like sacks; in one (left) are papers: 'Volunteers, 200000 Seamen, 150000 Regulars, Militia'; the other is stuffed with guineas, on this his left hand rests, holding a paper 'Resources for supporting the War'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Parliamentary debates: House of Commons, 30 Dec. 1796 -- Reference to war with France -- Globes -- Games: cup and ball -- Reference to slave trade., and Mounted to 43 x 31 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jan. 21st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, and Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The giant-factotum amusing himself [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 February 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.02.02.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The fat and florid Lady Buckinghamshire, seated at the head of her faro-table, throws up her arms in dismay, turning towards her husband, who enters through a door (left), saying, "The Bank's stole! - we're ruin'd my Lady! - but I'll run to Bow Street & fix the Saddle upon the right horse, my Lady!" She exclaims: "The Bank stole, my Lord? - why I secur'd it in the Housekeepers-room myself! - this comes of admitting Jacobins into the house! - Ah! the Cheats! Seven Hundred gone smack; - without a single Cock of the Cards!" She fills the centre of the design, and is much larger than her husband. Her guests are crowded together on the right. A pretty young woman, Mrs. Concannon, seated on her left, clasps her hands, exclaiming, "Bank stole! - why I had a Gold snuffbox stole last night from my Table in Grafton Street." Lady Archer, on the extreme right, on the nearer side of the table, turns a corvine and angry profile towards Lord Buckinghamshire, saying, "Stole! - bless me why a Lady had her Pocket pick'd at my House last Monday." Opposite her sits Fox, wearing a hat and putting his hand over his mouth, saying, "Zounds! I hope they dont Smoke me." Sheridan looks over his shoulder, saying, "nor me". Behind Fox, Hanger stands in profile to the left, wearing a hat and holding his bludgeon; he says: "O! if they come to the Mount, if I don't tip them Shelalee" (see BMSat 8889). ... The door (left) resembles that of a strongroom, with two heavy locks and three bolts."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Rook's pigeon'd and Rook's pigeoned
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One line of quoted text following title: "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Literature: Quotation from Nathaniel Lee's The Rival Queens, iv. ii.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby 2d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hobart, Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1760-1816, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobins, Card games, Floor coverings, Gambling, Robberies, and Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The loss of the faro-bank, or, The rook's pigeon'd [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 February 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.02.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt, grotesquely thin and much caricatured, leads Eleanor Eden, a conventionally pretty woman, towards a bower (right) covered with a vine bearing many bunches of grapes interspersed with coronets. Within it are three large sacks inscribed '£'. His left hand is on her back, his right points to the bower. She advances demurely, a fan inscribed 'Treasury' held before her face. A Cupid with a torch flies before them. The Devil, a fat nude creature with webbed wings and the face of Fox, crouches behind the bower (right), impotently gnashing his teeth and clenching his fists. Ribbons with the jewels and star of an order are twined in the bower; more coronets and a star emerge from the ground. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- To the nuptial-bower he led her, blushing like the morn
- Description:
- Title etched at bottom of image., One line of quoted text to left of title: "To the nuptial-bower he led her, blushing like the morn.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Money: sacks of money -- Coronets -- Demons -- Cupids -- Female dress: fans -- William Pitt the Younger's debts -- Reference to Lord Auckland., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 13th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Buckinghamshire, Eleanor Hobart, Countess of, 1777-1851
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The nuptial-bower with the Evil-One peeping at the charms of Eden, from Milton / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19 February 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.02.19.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox as a colossal Hercules, hairy and savage, bestrides the English Channel, supporting between the toes of his right foot the flag of 'Libertas'; his left foot is planted near a castle on a cliff flying the Union Jack. He wears a fox's skin over his shoulders, the head forming a cap, with a ragged coat and breeches. His arms and legs are bare; the large brush of his fox's skin almost sweeps the Channel. He flourishes his 'Whig-Club' (cf. BMSat 8996) above his head, saying, "Invade the Country, hay? - let them come, - thats all! - Zounds, where are they? - I wish I could see 'em here, thats all! - ay! ay! only let them come, - that's all!!!" The channel is filled with a fleet of men-of-war with ship's boats in the foreground, all making from France to England, and drawn by strings which Fox holds in his left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Giants -- Ships: French fleet -- Flags: French flag -- Union Jack -- Puns: Whig club -- Foxes -- Clubs: reference to Whig Club -- Invasions.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 19th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The republican-Hercules defending his country [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 March 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.03.04.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A design in two compartments. [1] 'Billy, in the Devil's claws'. Fox as the Devil (left) grasps the thin and terrified Pitt round the waist, pointing with his left arm to a serried rank of French soldiers, landed from the boats of French men-of-war and marching up the steep coast. He is a grotesque hairy creature, short and heavy, with webbed wings attached to his ragged coat, a barbed tail and talons, and wearing a bonnet-rouge. He says, turning a glaring eye-ball on Pitt: "Ha! Traitor! - there's the French landed in Wales! what d'ye think of that, Traitor?" [2] 'Billy, sending the Devil packing'. Pitt kneels on one knee in profile to the right, holding up a paper: 'Gazette Defeat of the Spanish Fleet; by Sir John Jarvis.' He looks up at Fox with a contemptuous gesture and a subtly triumphant smile, saying: "Ha! Mr Devil! - we've Beat the Spanish Fleet what d'ye think of that Mr Devil?" Fox springs upwards with a terrified expression, his hands held up as if asking for mercy, his cap falls off and his tail is between his legs. On the right is the sea, with a naval battle in progress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Table's turned, Billy in the Devil's claws, and Billy sending the Devil packing
- Description:
- Title etched below image and enclosed within curly brackets. and Temporary local subject terms: Invasions: French landing in Wales -- Spain: Spanish Fleet -- Reference to the battle of Cape St. Vincent, February 14, 1797 -- Newspapers: Gazette Extraordinary.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 4th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The table's turn'd [graphic]