- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.02.01.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed: 'Eye of Straw & toe of Cade ... For the ingredients of our cauldron'. Facing them (right) sits the Devil enthroned, holding a trident, with a three-headed scaly monster beside him; he says: "Pour in Streams of Regal Blood Then the Charm is firm & good." Burning pamphlets feed the fire under the cauldron; they are being heaped up by Horne Tooke, from whose mouth issues a label: 'H - T. Tis time tis time tis time'. The next, stirring the contents, says "Thrice! and Twice King's Heads have fallen". The third (? Dr. Towers), [Perhaps Dr. Parr; Towers died 20 May 1799.] flourishing a broom-stick, says, "Thrice the Gallic Wolves have bayed"; he holds an open book: 'Lying Whore \ False Swearing'. Behind the wizards is a procession of the Opposition. The first three (abreast) are Bedford, Norfolk, and Lord Derby. They say respectively: "Where are they! - gone Pocketed the Church and Poorlands The Tythes next" ..."Oh fallen Sovereingty degraded Counseller" ...; "Poor joe is done No test or Corporation Acts" ... The next three are Fox, Erskine, and Tierney; they say respectively: "Where can I hide my secluded Head" ... "Ah woe is me - poor I" ... "Would I had never spoke of the Licentiousness of the Press". Behind them is Burdett, saying, "What can I report to my Friends at the Bastile" .... Behind there is an undifferentiated crowd entering the cave and headed by Thelwall holding a volume of 'Thelwalls Lectures' ... exclaiming, "Tm off to Monmouthshire". The procession is watched by a snaky monster (left). Above their heads and resting on clouds are small figures: the King, allegorically depicted, holding a serpent in each hand. Behind him are Pitt, saying, "Suspend their Bodies", (?) Grenville, (?) Windham, saying "Almighty God has been pleased to grant us a great Victory", and Kenyon, saying "Take them to the Kings Bench & Cold Bath fields" ... The divine ray is inscribed: 'Afflavit Deus et dissipantur \ Your Destruction cometh as a Whirlwind \ Vengeance is ripe.' Four winged demons fly off (right) in the smoke of the cauldron, three have collars on which their names are engraved: 'Robesp[ierre]', 'Voltaire', and 'Price'. An ape dressed as a newsboy, with 'Courier' on his cap (..., blows his horn towards the cauldron. Behind him, in the extreme right corner, is an open book: 'Analitical Review \ Fallen never to rise again.' The seditious papers which feed the fire are: 'Equali[ty]'; 'Blasphemy Sedition'; 'Sophims' [sic]; 'Heresy'; 'Atheism'; 'Resistance is Prudence'; 'Belshams History'; 'Whig Club'; 'The Vipers of Monarchy and Aristocracy will soon be strangled by the Infant Democracy' ... 'Fraud'; 'Third of September' [see BMSat 8122]; 'Rights of Nature' [by Thelwall, attacking Burke, 1796]; '21st of January' ... 'Frends Atheism'; 'Quigleys Dying Speech'... 'O'Connors Manifesto' ... 'Oakleys Pyrology'; 'Deism'; 'Kings can do good Joel Barlow'; 'Uritaranism' [sic]; 'Sedition'; 'France is free'; 'Duty of Insurrection'; 'Darwins topsy turvy Plants and Animals Destruction' [cf. BMSat 9240]; 'Kings are S------TS' [serpents, as in Barlow's 'Conspiracy of Kings', pub. J. Johnson, 1792]; 'Political Liberty'. 1 February 1799 Etching and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Press: attack on radical press -- Potions -- Allusion to the Whig Club -- Reference to Kosciuszko uprising, Poland, 1794 --Reference to Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450 -- Reference to Jack Straw and Wat Tyler -- Reference to the Great Rebellion, 1381 -- Reference to the Duke of Bedford's family
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Imprint altered: 'J. Wright, Piccadilly' after publication date burnished from plate., Frontispiece from: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. London, 1799, v. 2., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd February 1st, 1799, for the Anti Jacobin Review, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- Caves, Devil, Demons, Monkeys, Monsters, Vice, and Wizards
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A charm for a democracy reviewed, analysed & destroyed Jany. 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affiliated friends [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.03.01.04+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Plate from the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', ii. 233: On the extreme right the Devil holds up a canvas, 'le Tableau Parlant', which terrifies twelve Irishmen grouped round an oblong table. In their alarm the heavy table has been overturned, some are on the ground, others (left) flee in terror. The Devil, who looks round the edge of his picture, wears a bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Anarchy'; labels hang from his horn: 'Blasph[emy]' and 'Parracide'. He says "Stew it well - It cannot be Overdone for you and me". In the picture, 'Irish Stew I A Favourite Disk for French Palates', two French soldiers superintend the boiling of a Revolutionary Pot, in which stand three naked Irishmen shrieking for mercy; one says: "Liberty of being Stewed"; the other, "Equality - all to be stewed en Masse". Above the table five harpies fly off with a tattered cloth inscribed 'Map of Ireland'. They are intended for the Directors, three having belts inscribed 'Tallien' (not a Director), 'Barras', and 'Le Paux'. On the table is a paper, 'United Irishmen'. The Irishmen make gestures of terror or despair. Most look at the picture, one looks upwards, saying: "Poor Erin How thourt torn to pieces by these five Harpies." A fugitive looks round to say "What your own A. O Connor too!" A lawyer (? Curran): "So much for Republicani[sm] and glorious Independence! No Money! No Lawyer." A monk: "By St Patrick a complete Catholic Emancipation." Three others say: "I now howl in Vain - We are all gone to Pot"; "Brother John [Bull] would not have treated us so -" ; "My Merits with the Republic should have saved me, but I find we must all stew together" [he is perhaps Grattan]; "A Radical Reform by Jasus". Beside the last speaker, a ragged peasant, lies a bundle of pikes, &c.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1799, v. 2, page 233, Temporary local subject terms: United Irishmen -- Maps: map of Ireland torn by demons -- Reference to the French Revolution -- Allusion to the Directory -- Allusion to anarchy -- Pictures: le tableau parlant., and Mounted to 31 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 1st, 1799, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, for the Anti Jacobin Review
- Subject (Name):
- Barras, Paul, vicomte de, 1755-1829 and Tallien, Jean-Lambert, 1767-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Demons, Devil, Lawyers, and Monks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An Irish howl [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.04.00.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Lord B-te & M-n-----d in the horrors, Lord Bute & Mansfield in the horrors, and Lord Bute and Mansfield in the horrors
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 145., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to prerogatives -- Allusion to the Royal Marriage Bill.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Struensee, Johann Friedrich, greve, 1737-1772
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil and Ghosts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Struensee's ghost, or, Lord B-te & M-n-----d in the horrors [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.12.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A devil (demon) holds an executioner's axe on the right as Bute, Bedford, and Holland sit round a table settling Lord Holland's accounts
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, v. 1 (1769), page 641., and Numbered 'No. XXXVI' in upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Devil, Axes, and Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The ever-memorable peace-makers settling their accounts [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.05.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An engraving representing Lord Holland as an old fox, seated at a table and starting back in horror from a book which is presented to him by an angel who cries: -- "This is the black Catalogue of thy Misdeeds". The book is inscribed: -- " Sins which L d H nd has committed against God his K his Country & himself"; it comprises two columns of imperfect, unconnected, and reversed words and scribble, and one legible word "Ayliff". To this word the finger of the angel is directed. For this name of a steward to the Fox family, who was alleged to have been wrongfully hanged by means of Lord Holland, see "Ayliffe's Ghost", British Museum Satires No. 4038. At the front of the table is a book inscribed, besides illegible scribble, with: -- " Accompts to be Settled in the other World"; this is an allusion to the charges of vast peculation which were brought against Lord Holland, the so-called "notorious defaulter of unaccounted millions"; see "Frontispiece to the Middlesex Petition", British Museum Satires No. 4289, and "Renard Stating his Accounts", British Museum Satires No. 4299. An imp sits at the table and acts as Lord Holland's secretary; a second imp crouches behind his chair and niches gold from a large bag."--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), page 168., Temporary local subject terms: Records: catalog of misdeeds., and Mounted to 32 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Angels, Devil, and Money
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fox in the horrors a vision. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.07.00.05 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 18., and Temporary local subject terms: Elizabeth Wrottesley, Duchess of Grafton -- Gertrude Russell, Duchess of Bedford -- Allusion to adultery.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15, Upper Ossory, John Fitzpatrick, Earl of, 1745-1818, and Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick, Countess of, d.1804
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, British, Devil, and Weddings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The political wedding [graphic].