- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1799 January 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- 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. and 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
- Description:
- Frontispiece from: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. London, 1799, v. 2., Imprint altered: 'J. Wright, Piccadilly' after publication date burnished from plate., and Title etched below image.
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bedford, Francis Russell,--Duke of,--1765-1802--Caricatures and cartoons., Burdett, Francis,--1770-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., Derby, Edward Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1752-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Erskine, Thomas Erskine,--Baron,--1750-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon,--Baron,--1732-1802--Caricatures and cartoons., Laurie & Whittle, publisher., Norfolk, Charles Howard,--Duke of,--1746-1815--Caricatures and cartoons., Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Price, Richard,--1723-1791--Caricatures and cartoons., Robespierre, Maximilien,--1758-1794--Caricatures and cartoons., Thelwall, John,--1764-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Tierney, George,--1761-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., and Voltaire,--1694-1778--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Subject (Topic):
- Caves., Demons. , Devil., Monkeys. , Monsters., Vice., and Wizards.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript 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:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
- Collection Title:
- The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-49
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, in an armor and holding the "Shield of Truth," raises broken sword to fight a many-headed monster representing William Pitt and his supporters. In the background, a party of armed "English" and "Irish" gathered under the "Standard of Universal Liberty" decorated with an image of Britannia, watches with approval. Behind the monster, four men representing foreign powers caper with joy around the "Standard of sedition."
- Description:
- Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 120., CtY-LW, Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. March 11, 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand." Cf. No. 6444 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with alterations to the text and design; beginning of imprint statement, part of the sword's blade, and the word "Justice" on the sword have been burnished from plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- W. Humphry, no. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., and Riviere & Son Binding.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Monsters., Political elections--England--Westminster--1784., and Shields.
- Collection Created:
- London
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The champion of the people [graphic].