- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 August 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.12.02.2+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene with a 22 member parliamentary committee examining the conduct of Christopher Atkinson (a.k.a. Savile), employed by the Navy Victualling Board and accused of malfeasance. All the figures are numbered, and Atkinson stands at the right. Other identifiable figures include the chairman Samuel Whitbread (no. 1), Bamber Gascoyne and Montague Burgoyne
- Alternative Title:
- V Committee framing a report and Victualling Committee framing a report
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with the undescore line following V removed from title., and This impression printed on pale blue paper.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to Act of Parliament Augt. 12th, 1782, by C. Atkinson, and sold in Mark Lane ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Savile, Christopher, approximately 1739-1819, Whitbread, Samuel, 1720-1796, Gascoyne, Bamber, 1725-1791, and Burgoyne, Montagu, 1750-1836
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The V Committe framing a report [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 August 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.12.02.1++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Image depicts a 22-member parliamentary committee examining the conduct of Christopher Atkinson (a.k.a. Savile), employed by the Navy Victualling Board and accused of malfeasance. All the figures are numbered, and Atkinson stands at the right. Other identifiable figures include the chairman Samuel Whitbread (no. 1), Bamber Gascoyne and Montague Burgoyne
- Alternative Title:
- Victualling Committee framing a report
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from description in the British Museum catalogue of a later state., On one sheet with letterpress broadside song, The committee : a new song for the year 1782. First line: I. All you, who would guess at the word call'd committee ..., Probably an early state, with underscore line following V present in title, of a plate from which this line was later removed. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6021., and Watermark with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to Act of Parliament Augt. 12th, 1782, by C. Atkinson, and sold in Mark Lane ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Savile, Christopher, ca. 1739-1819, Whitbread, Samuel, 1720-1796, Gascoyne, Bamber, 1725-1791, and Burgoyne, Montagu, 1750-1836
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The V- Committe framing a report [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 August 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.26.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An E.O. or roulette table lies broken in the street as four men attack it with mallets and other tools. Two attackers, the Bow Street magistrates Addington and Wright, are depicted with donkey's heads. Three constables are also shown, one attempting to stop the violence, the other two joining in the attack. A commentary on the enforcement of anti-gaming laws
- Alternative Title:
- Westminster just-asses a braying and Downfall of the E.O. table
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: NB. The jack-asses are to be indemnified for all the mischief they do, by the bulls & bears of the city.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Augt. 26th, 1782, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- Addington, William, Sir, -1811, Wright, Sampson, Sir, -1793, and Bond, John, active 1782
- Subject (Topic):
- Vandalism, Donkeys, Judges, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The W-st-r just-asses a braying, or, The downfall of the E.O. table [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 August 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.12.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an oval. Fox with a very melancholy expression, standing with folded arms facing three quarter to left outside a closed and padlocked gate repeating Wolsey's soliloquy from Henry the Eighth. The gate fills an archway, its top being of iron spikes, the padlock is inscribed Fast. The stone arch over the gate is inscribed Treasury. On the stone wall of the Treasury building (left) are torn placards. One is a broadside, 'Last Dying Speech' headed by a print of a man hanging from a gibbet; another is headed "Gamester". Beneath the title is inscribed: "Farewell, a long Farewell to all my Greatness! this is the state of Man, to Day he puts forth the tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow Blossoms & bears all his blushing Honours thick upon him: the Third Day comes a Frost a killing Froast [sic], & when he thinks good easy Man full surely his Greatness is a Ripening, nips his Root & then befalls as I do!"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Augt. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Gates, Locks (Hardware), and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The soliloquy [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 August 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Outside a tavern called The Whirligig, Col. Tarleton brandishes his sword while making a boastful speech about his military exploits. Behind him stands the Prince of Wales, headless, but identifiable by the ostrich plumes which replace his features. Above the tavern door the figure of a prostitute serves as the sign of the house
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide: Every man in his humour, alter'd from Ben Johnson., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Augt. 20th, 1782, by Eh. D'Achery, St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Tarleton, Lieutenant-General 1754-1833 (Banastre), and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Taverns (Inns), Courtesans, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The thunderer [graphic].