"Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three document...
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"Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
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Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Burke (left) as a shambling beggar, holds out his hat towards the Duke of Bedford who looks between the folding gates of Bedford House, holding one side to keep them almost closed. Their words float upwards from their mouths: Burke says: ""Pity the S...
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Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
"Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length [Horne Tooke described his portraits as 'not whole lengths, and left for some younger hand hereafter to finish . . .', p. 7.] portraits of Fox (...
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Publishd. December 1s [sic], 1798, by J. Wright, Piccadilly, for [the] Anti Jacobin review
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Machiavelli, Bernardo, ca. 1426-1500, and London Corresponding Society.
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Machiavelli, Bernardo, approximately 1426-1500, and London Corresponding Society.
"The two members for Middlesex simultaneously address a meeting of freeholders from a hustings against a building (The Mermaid, at Hackney) which forms a background. Both lean forward in profile to the right. Byng (left), thin and elegant, gesticulate...
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Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Byng, George, 1764-1847, and Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821
"'Truth', fully draped, her name on her belt, hurries forward, holding up an irradiated torch which directs darts of lightning at creatures in the mouth of a cave (left). This is formed by an arch of rocks, from which 'The Lethean Stream' emerges. Jac...
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Pubd. Septr. 1st, 1798, by J. Wright, 169 Piccadilly, for the Anti Jacobin review
"Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with which he sweeps up notes from the counter. J...
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Pub. March 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, and Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802
"John Bull (left), a stout countryman wearing jack-boots, rides (right to left) through a wood on a wretched hack, ready to fall under his weight. Pitt kneels on the ground (right) in profile to the left, aiming a blunderbuss (which is supported on cr...
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John Bull escaping a forced loan
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Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"Bonaparte, burlesqued, stands, swaggering, with legs astride, head in profile to the left. In his right hand is a sabre, dripping blood, inscribed 'Egalité'; he holds out the scabbard (chained to his waist) in his left hand. Under his right foot is ...
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Pubd. Decr. 8th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
"Under the title: 'Description. - A Guillotine, which is placed on the Throne; the royal Chairs being removed, pour accomoder les Etrangers, (in English) To accommodate the Strangers. Two Turkish Mutes, with strangling Bowstrings, each his hand on his...
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We explain de rights of man to de noblesse. Scene, the House of Lords
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Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by Js. Gillray, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Felton, John, 1595?-1628., Damiens, Robert François, 1715-1757., and Ravaillac, François, 1578-1610.
