"Thurlow, seated on the Woolsack, and George III who stands on the extreme left, tug at the bag of the Great Seal, while Pitt and Grenville (right) attempt to dislodge the Chancellor. The King, in profile to the right, tugs with both hands, saying, "What! What! What! - pull against me Neddy? pull against me? - no! no! no! - 'twont do! Neddy! 'twont do! leave go! leave go! Neddy - dont put me in a passion Neddy - but leave go Neddy - " Thurlow, holding one tassel, says: "Take it ingrate! - and then farewell, - O damnation I've touched the highest point of all my greatness - damnation And from that full meridian of my glory - damnation I haste now to my setting - I shall fall - damnation Like a bright exhalation in the evening - damnation And no man see me more - Damnation! O damnation" Pitt, kneeling on one knee, tugs with both hands at the back of the woolsack, saying, "Yeo! Yeo! - this one pull more Billy-Ranger, and we shall secure every thing into our own Family, and then leave me alone to take a pull at Old Nobbs [the King], & John Bull." Grenville, also on one knee, pulls with both hands at the Chancellor's wig; he says, "Bravo! Cousin Billy! - pull away! - now again! - I have a mighty fancy for this Wig! I think it would add dignity to my Ranger, & Secretaryship!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher and date of publication from those of the volume in which the plate was issued., Plate numbered "112[?]" in upper right corner., Plate from: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn by C. Whiting, [1849?]., For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 8096 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and With an impression on the verso of a reprint of James Gillray's, with number in upper right '80': Vices overlook'd in the new proclamation. [London] : Pubd. May 24th 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18, Old Bond Street, [24 May 1792].
Publisher:
Pubd. May 24th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street [i.e. H.G. Bohn]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
"Thurlow, seated on the Woolsack, and George III who stands on the extreme left, tug at the bag of the Great Seal, while Pitt and Grenville (right) attempt to dislodge the Chancellor. The King, in profile to the right, tugs with both hands, saying, "What! What! What! - pull against me Neddy? pull against me? - no! no! no! - 'twont do! Neddy! 'twont do! leave go! leave go! Neddy - dont put me in a passion Neddy - but leave go Neddy - " Thurlow, holding one tassel, says: "Take it ingrate! - and then farewell, - O damnation I've touched the highest point of all my greatness - damnation And from that full meridian of my glory - damnation I haste now to my setting - I shall fall - damnation Like a bright exhalation in the evening - damnation And no man see me more - Damnation! O damnation" Pitt, kneeling on one knee, tugs with both hands at the back of the woolsack, saying, "Yeo! Yeo! - this one pull more Billy-Ranger, and we shall secure every thing into our own Family, and then leave me alone to take a pull at Old Nobbs [the King], & John Bull." Grenville, also on one knee, pulls with both hands at the Chancellor's wig; he says, "Bravo! Cousin Billy! - pull away! - now again! - I have a mighty fancy for this Wig! I think it would add dignity to my Ranger, & Secretaryship!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, 1475-1530 -- Nicknames: 'Old Nobbs' (George III) -- Expressions of speech: George III's 'what, what, what' -- Government officials: chancellor -- Dismissals: Thurlow's dismissal from Chancery, 1792 -- Great Seal -- Tug-of-war -- Containers: woolsack., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 24th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from similar print. Cf. British Museum catalogue no. 6387., Original publication statement burnished from the plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, 1713-1792 -- Personifications: Rumor blowing trumpet -- Brookes's Club, London -- Demon wearing tartan -- Charters -- East India Bill, 1783 -- Gambling: Dice and dice-box -- Crown -- Thistle -- Allusion to Fox-North Coalition, 1783 -- Satire on Pitt's ministry -- King's Prerogative -- Tax-receipt -- Signs: Sign-post -- 'Secret Influence'., and Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12 Apr. 1784 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Nugent, Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl, 1702?-1788, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, and Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802
Pitt and Fox stand square-off, fists raised in the House of Commons at the height of the Regency Crisis, just before the passage of the Regency Bill, 1789
Alternative Title:
Humphreys & Mendoza fighting for a crown and Humphreys and Mendoza fighting for a crown
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 27 x 38 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub'd by W. Dent December 22 1788 and Sold by W. Moore, Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Humphries, Richard, d. 1827, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, and Great Britain. House of Commons,
"Pitt as the modern Egbert (king of the West Saxons, d. 839) is rowed by four kings, and tows behind him a small boat in which the Prince of Wales is seated, his wrists and ankles chained. Pitt, who steers, is seated high in the stern of the 'Treasury Barge', he wears a combined coronet and mitre, and says to his four oarsmen, 'Pull together Boys'. They are Thurlow (stroke), Buckingham, Dundas, and Richmond (bow). All wear crowns on their heads and badges like those of watermen on their sleeves. Thurlow, stripped to the waist, his badge a rose, says, "Damme! I've got precedence of the Young Lion"; he rows with the Chancellor's mace. Buckingham (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), an Irish harp on his coat-sleeve, rows with a shillelagh, saying, "I'll answer for the Shelalagh without Authority". Dundas, wearing a thistle badge, rows with a long spoon, saying, "He shall remember old Nemo impune". Richmond, wearing a fleur-de-lis badge (he was due d'Aubigny), rows with a cannon (emblem of the ordnance, cf. BMSat 6921, &c), saying, "We'll shew him Gallic Faith." They row on one side of the boat only. A large flag in the stern of Pitt's boat has his crest (reversed), a stork grasping an anchor, with the motto: 'Devil take the Right P.W. [Prince William]'. The Prince wears a coronet with three feathers; he says, "I feel not for myself but for my country". His boat flies a flag with Pitt's crest above a flag with the royal arms. In the background is the river bank with trees, a church (the House of Commons) flying a (blank) flag (right), and (left) the dome of St. Paul's."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King of kings
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego., State with additions to the plate., Watermark: L Taylor., and Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Charles Bronwn [sic], Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
"Pitt runs forward (left to right) to the waterside, a large sabre raised above his head, saying, "The Russian trade down the first"; he threatens a number of stranded ships with broken masts. The blade of his sabre is inscribed: 'General War in Europe. Hartzberg Cutler Berlin'. In his left hand he holds up a paper: 'Responsibility Unpd Debts £20,00000 Ditto 3000000 New Taxes . . . Taxes'. Above him is a scroll inscribed: 'Under the Protection of the Commercial Treaty with France [see British Museum satires no. 6995], or by the Armed Neutrality improved Trade of Russia carried by French bottoms'. On the right a man stands on a quay inscribed 'Company of Russia Kay to be let'; he raises in both hands a headsman's axe, inscribed 'Hard Steel badly temper'd, to smite the masts of the ships below him', saying, "Down with it [ ? or its] Poland its as well Vengeance". Above his head, rays issuing from the upper right corner of the design, inscribed 'Remote fate, no more wars M--rs [Ministers] ultimatum', impinge on a semi-circle of cloud inscribed Confidence. On this stand five tiny gibbets, each with its pendent body. On the horizon is the open sea, on which are four French ships in full sail, the nearest flying a tricolour flag inscribed 'la Nation la loi le Roi'. On the left, next Pitt, stands Thurlow, holding against his left shoulder the mace, which is labelled 'Prerogative' and 'by G--d' (cf. British Museum satires no. 7320). In his right hand is a paper: 'Law Authorities for rendering defensive treatys ofensive'. His Chancellor's wig, over which is inscribed 'Geographical Knowledge', is divided into small sections, each inscribed with the name of a place: immediately surrounding his face are six portions each inscribed 'Russia'; on his nose is 'Poland'; above his forehead is 'England'. Other places in juxtaposition are 'Oczakow', 'Isle of Dogs', 'Botany Bay', 'Persia', 'Jordaine', 'Terras incognitas', 'Turin', 'Constantinople', and 'Antwerp', 'China', 'Swisserland', 'Africa', 'Nootka', 'Germany', 'Jerusalem', 'Paris', 'Pekin', 'Patagonia', 'France'. In the background on the extreme left is a building: 'National Assembly', with the cap of Liberty surmounting a tricolour flag inscribed 'French liberty benefitted by the blunders from the English M--r'. From the door issues a label inscribed 'oui oui une adresse de tanks a Mr P--t'. From the Assembly walk two kings, France and Spain; they say (pointing to Pitt): "How he plays our game" and "Bravo! bravo! bravo!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker identified as Frederick George Byron in dealer's description., Text below image: Inscribed to The Russian Company by their customers, the ship builders, sail makers, rope makers and other contemptible trades that contribute to the prosperity of Old England., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of plate: In Hollands Exhibition Rooms may be seen the larges [sic] collection in Europe of caricatures, admitce. one shilling., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Mounted in modern matte: 36 x 49 cm., and Watermark: J. Taylor.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Russia
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, and Hertzberg, Ewald Friedrich, Graf von, 1725-1795
"The Prince of Wales stands outside the gate of Carlton House, turning away and covering his eyes to avoid seeing the scaffolding which is being pulled down by Pitt, Richmond, and Dundas, who strain at ropes. A long cloak hangs from his shoulders and he holds a coronet decorated with three feathers. Thurlow with a broom and Dundas with a whip chase away a terrified crowd of artisans (left) who have been employed at Carlton House. Beside the Prince stand his friends, who look towards a rising sun appearing over the roof of Carlton House; m the disk stands Liberty, beckoning to them. Fox holds out a roll inscribed 'Magna Chart[a]'; Burke stands with his hand on North's shoulder; Sheridan holds the 'Bill of Rights'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Etched on one plate with companion print: The prince in clover., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Pitt's attitude toward Prince's debts -- Artisans expelled -- Figure of Liberty -- Carlton House -- Magna Carta -- Bill of Rights., and Printed on bottom half of same sheet is companion print "The prince in clover", assigned the second call number: 787.06.02.02 Impression 1.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
"The Prince of Wales stands outside the gate of Carlton House, turning away and covering his eyes to avoid seeing the scaffolding which is being pulled down by Pitt, Richmond, and Dundas, who strain at ropes. A long cloak hangs from his shoulders and he holds a coronet decorated with three feathers. Thurlow with a broom and Dundas with a whip chase away a terrified crowd of artisans (left) who have been employed at Carlton House. Beside the Prince stand his friends, who look towards a rising sun appearing over the roof of Carlton House; m the disk stands Liberty, beckoning to them. Fox holds out a roll inscribed 'Magna Chart[a]'; Burke stands with his hand on North's shoulder; Sheridan holds the 'Bill of Rights'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Etched on one plate with companion print: The prince in clover., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Pitt's attitude toward Prince's debts -- Artisans expelled -- Figure of Liberty -- Carlton House -- Magna Carta -- Bill of Rights., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 12.9 x 18.9 cm., and Window mounted to 15 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
"The Prince stands outside the gate of Carlton House as in BMSat 7167, but receives in a lordly manner two purses from two obsequiously bowing Treasury Secretaries (Rose and Steele). He is dressed as in BMSat 7167, but wears his coronet. Pitt, Sydney, and Dundas kneel in a grovelling manner behind the Prince, whose posteriors Pitt is about to kiss. Fox, North, Burke, and Sheridan stand behind, with gestures and expressions of pleased surprise. A tiny figure, the Duke of Richmond, is at work with a trowel on the replaced scaffolding (right), while Thurlow mounts a ladder carrying a hod. On the left a crowd of workmen wave their hats and tools in delight. In the foreground (left) sits a one-legged and one-armed sailor clasping a purse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Etched on one plate with companion print: The prince at grass., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Payment of Prince's debts -- Carlton House., and Printed on top half of same sheet is companion print "The prince at grass", assigned the second call number: 787.06.02.01 Impression 1.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Steele, Thomas, 1753-1823, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Rose, George, 1744-1818
"The Prince stands outside the gate of Carlton House as in BMSat 7167, but receives in a lordly manner two purses from two obsequiously bowing Treasury Secretaries (Rose and Steele). He is dressed as in BMSat 7167, but wears his coronet. Pitt, Sydney, and Dundas kneel in a grovelling manner behind the Prince, whose posteriors Pitt is about to kiss. Fox, North, Burke, and Sheridan stand behind, with gestures and expressions of pleased surprise. A tiny figure, the Duke of Richmond, is at work with a trowel on the replaced scaffolding (right), while Thurlow mounts a ladder carrying a hod. On the left a crowd of workmen wave their hats and tools in delight. In the foreground (left) sits a one-legged and one-armed sailor clasping a purse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Etched on one plate with companion print: The prince at grass., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Payment of Prince's debts -- Carlton House., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 12.7 x 18.9 cm., and Window mounted to 14 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Steele, Thomas, 1753-1823, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Rose, George, 1744-1818