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1. Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim [sic], or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1791]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G41 no. 3 Box D300
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holding a long pike surmounted by a cap of 'Liberty' and holding out to John Bull, a yokel, a handful of 'Assignats'. Hissing serpents form her hair and serpents suck at the pendent breasts which her ragged garments do not cover. She has webbed wings, and wears a French cocked hat with a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'. She says: "Come on my brave Lad, take this bounty-money, & enter into my Company of Gentlemen Volunteers enlisted in the cause of Liberty - I'll find you present pay and free quarters, & I'll lead you where you shall fill your knapsack with Plunder; - nay Man, never talk about your old Master the Farmer, I'll find you Hundreds of Masters as good as he; Zounds I'll make you one of the Masters of England yourself: - come on, I say, keres riches for you, - come on; the glorious 14th of July is approaching, when Monarchs are to be crush'd like maggots, & brave men like yourself are to be put in their places - here hold your hand, enter boldly in the cause of Freedom, & cry Huzza - Vive la Nation! Huzza". John Bull stands on the left, scratching his head with a puzzled grin; he wears a smock and very wrinkled gaiters; his hat and a pitchfork are in his left hand. He answers: "Wounds, Measter Sarjeant, an I should enter into your sarvice, what'll Varmer-George say to I, for leaving of 'en without warning? - and yet I is half in love with the sound of your drum; & wishes to leave off Ploughing & dunging, & wear one of your vine cockades, & be a French Gentleman; - & yet, dangs it, it goes against ones heart to leave the Varmer; - ah Varmer George has been a rare good Measter to I! - but, am I to have all them fine paper Moneys - but to leave my old Measter! Ah me! I dozes'nt know what to do, not I!" -- British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution's Service, Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonium, and Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim, or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service
- Description:
- Title inscribed in brown ink below image., 'Imprint statement' inscribed in brown ink above title: Pub. July 4th, 1791 by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7889., Wright, T. Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 130., Wright, T. Description of published Gillray print in Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 56., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink from another print on verso of mount: The hopes of the party prior to July 14th.
- Subject (Name):
- Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Revolution Society (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Drums (Musical instruments), Demons, Witches, and Fire
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim [sic], or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service [art original].
2. The hopes of the party prior to July 14th from such wicked Crown & Anchor dreams, good Lord deliver us. [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1791]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G41 no. 1 Box D300
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scaffold extends across the foreground: Fox raises an axe to strike the neck of George III, whose head is held by Sheridan. The scaffold is surrounded by a dense and cheering mob. On the right is the gate of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern, and from two projecting lamp-brackets swing the bodies of Queen Charlotte and Pitt. The houses of the Strand recede in perspective and terminate in Temple Bar, with two heads on spikes; clouds of smoke appear to come from burning houses east of Temple Bar. On the clouds a meretricious Liberty sits enthroned and triumphant.--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption inscribed in brown ink below image., Title inscribed twice on sheet and struck out once., Imprint statement inscribed in brown ink below title: Pubd. July 19th, 1791 by S.W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7892., Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright. London : Chatto and Windus, [1873?], p. 130., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink appears on the verso of the mount from another print: A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the Revolution Society.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Decapitations, Hangings (Executions), Executioners, Axes, Kings, and Crowds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The hopes of the party prior to July 14th from such wicked Crown & Anchor dreams, good Lord deliver us. [art original]
3. An amusing state of uncertainty, peace or war!! [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [20 June 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.06.20.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fox hides under a four-poster bed hung with curtains, his hand resting on his chin with a speech balloon above his head: "They'll do nothing at last!" A bare-breasted woman [Catherine II of Russia] wearing a nightdress, a crown on her head, and pearls at her throat, holds a dagger in her hand as she addresses Pitt who stands before her: "Which you please, young man. If your instrument entered it would make no impression that I'd care a fig for." Pitt also in a nightdress and holding a dagger, asks, "Shall we or shall we not?"
- Description:
- Lewis Walpole Library card catalog.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 20, 1791, by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Bedrooms, Daggers & swords, Canopy beds, and Sleepwear
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An amusing state of uncertainty, peace or war!! [graphic].
4. Prince Pitt [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.12.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Either a copy or the original of British Museum satire no. 7388, in any event similar design except that Sydney, the coronet, and the tailor's goose are absent and inscriptions have been added; the satire alludes to taxes imposed by Pitt prior to 1788. The Prince says: "I appeal to the People of England to defend their own Rights and those of the House of Brunswick against this Banditti of Plunderers". Richmond says: "Tho' a Bastard of the Stuart Race, I have only 17,000£,per Ann: from the Poor, for my duty on Coals - make it 20,000 Prince Pitt, and I am yours for ever." (An allusion to the 'Richmond shilling', see BMSat 7393.) Grafton says: "I am as good a bastard as R------d, & yet I have only 6 or 7000£ a year upon the Excise on Wine & spiritous liquors - But Prince Pitt has promis'd me an additional Tax on Malt." Pitt says: "The Prince of Wales has no more right to the rightegency than I have." The paper in his hand is inscribed, not 'Dornford's Address', but 'Shop Tax Window Tax Candles Tax Horse Tax Hat Tax Westminster Scrutiny Irish Propositions Fortification Schemes Degradation of Naval Officers Excise Laws &c. &c. &c. &c.'"
- Alternative Title:
- Cut purse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole ...
- Description:
- Lewis Walpole Library: Local card
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Regency, Military uniforms, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Prince Pitt [graphic].
5. "Aside he turn'd for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyd them askance" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 December 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.12.12.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a woodland setting Shelburne and Pitt sit smiling behind a cloth-covered table on which are coins and bags of money. A glum-looking Fox stands several feet distant with hands in pockets. A reference to Fox's exclusion from office while Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Shelburne ministry. The title is a quotation from Paradise Lost
- Alternative Title:
- Aside he turned for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyed them askance
- Description:
- Title from text etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Dec. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Aside he turn'd for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyd them askance" [graphic]
6. "There's more ways than one" vide coalition expedients. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 February 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.02.18.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A fox (Fox) climbs up a signpost from which hangs the sign of the Crown. The gibbet-shaped post is wreathed with a vine with large bunches of grapes. Fox seizes a branch and gapes greedily for a bunch just within his reach. His left leg is supported on a pile of papers, one bundle of which is inscribed 'Libels'. The topmost paper is an open book: 'Review of the Charges against Warren Hasting[s] Publishd by Stockdale'. In the doorway of the Crown Inn (right) stands Pitt, grotesquely thin except for his head; he wears an apron over the legs of a skeleton. Alarmed at the fox, he drops a tankard of beer on which is a crown. Behind him appears Thurlow, in Chancellor's wig and gown, with an expression of gloomy apprehension."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Stockdale, 1749-1816 -- Alleged libel -- Libellous pamphlets -- Signs -- Signboards -- Inns: Crown -- Gibbet-shaped signpost -- Allusion to trial of Warren Hastings -- Political grapes -- Chequerboards -- Literary allusion to Aesop's fable: The fox and the grapes -- Allusion to John Logan's pamphlet, published by Stockdale: Review of the charges against Warren Hastings -- Allusion to Fox's February 14, 1788 speech -- Chancellor's wig and gown.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 18th, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "There's more ways than one" vide coalition expedients. [graphic]
7. "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.12.01.02 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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 (Ieft) and Pitt (right); he holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulder at the spectator, saying: ""Which two of them will you chuse \ "to hang up inyour Cabinets; \ "the Pitts, or the Foxes? - \ "Where, on your Conscience, \ "should the other two be hanged?" [Op. cit., final words.] Fox's left hand rests on a pedestal inscribed 'Deceit', on which the head of a fox holding a mask is just discernible. Pitt's right hand rests on a similar but rather higher pedestal inscribed 'Truth'; Truth's head and a hand holding a mirror are just discernible. Their expressions support the two inscriptions. From the painter's pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Sketches of Patriotic Views - a Pension, a Mouth Stopper a Place.' On the ground, resting against a table, is the other pair of portraits, juxtaposed, Lord Holland (left) and Chatham (right), bust portraits, in peer's robes, the family likenesses to their sons, especially in the case of the Foxes, being stressed. Each holds a document: Holland, 'Unaccounted Millions' (he had been styled the public defaulter of unaccounted millions in the City petition of 1769, see BMSat 4296, &c, and cf. BMSat 8622); Chatham, 'Rewards of a Grateful Nation'. On the table is a portfolio of 'Studies from French Masters' from which protrude sketches inscribed 'From Robertspierre, from Tallien, from Marat'. (Cf. BMSat 8437, &c.) The wall, which forms a background, is covered with prints, &c. (left to right): [1] (partly visible) a dagger about to be plunged into a prostrate figure, inscribed '3d Sept [1792]', see BMSat 8122. [2] 'A Sketch for an English Directory', four members of the London Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) seated at a table, the chairman a butcher holding a frothing tankard. (The figures are not quite the grotesque denizens of the underworld represented in BMSat 9202.) [3] A framed half length portrait of Wilkes, squinting violently and clasping two large money-bags: 'Mr Chamberlain Wilkes ci-devant', 'Wilkes & Liberty' (see BMSat 6568); it is labelled: 'The Effect in this Picture to be copied as exact as possible'. [4] A profile in silhouette: 'Shadow of the Abbe Seyes' (see BMSat 9509). [5] A framed picture: 'view of the Windmill at Wimbleton' (from Horne Tooke's house, near Caesar's Camp). The two upper sails are 'Divinity' and 'Politicks', the lower 'Treason' and 'Atheism'. [6] A placard: 'just publish'd The Art of Political Painting, extracted from the works of the most celebrated Jacobin Professors - Pro bono publico.' [7] A bust of 'Machiavel', looking reflectively towards Horne Tooke. [8] Part of a landscape with a small house: 'Parsonage of Brentford' (cf. BMSat 4866, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1798, v.1, opp. p. 574., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: painter's studio -- Paiting materials -- Paintings: portraits -- Busts -- Placards -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Windmills -- Containers: flagon -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Robespierre -- Reference to Tallien -- Reference to Marat., and Mounted to 31 x 35 cm.
- Publisher:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]
8. "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.12.01.02 Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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 (Ieft) and Pitt (right); he holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulder at the spectator, saying: ""Which two of them will you chuse \ "to hang up inyour Cabinets; \ "the Pitts, or the Foxes? - \ "Where, on your Conscience, \ "should the other two be hanged?" [Op. cit., final words.] Fox's left hand rests on a pedestal inscribed 'Deceit', on which the head of a fox holding a mask is just discernible. Pitt's right hand rests on a similar but rather higher pedestal inscribed 'Truth'; Truth's head and a hand holding a mirror are just discernible. Their expressions support the two inscriptions. From the painter's pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Sketches of Patriotic Views - a Pension, a Mouth Stopper a Place.' On the ground, resting against a table, is the other pair of portraits, juxtaposed, Lord Holland (left) and Chatham (right), bust portraits, in peer's robes, the family likenesses to their sons, especially in the case of the Foxes, being stressed. Each holds a document: Holland, 'Unaccounted Millions' (he had been styled the public defaulter of unaccounted millions in the City petition of 1769, see BMSat 4296, &c, and cf. BMSat 8622); Chatham, 'Rewards of a Grateful Nation'. On the table is a portfolio of 'Studies from French Masters' from which protrude sketches inscribed 'From Robertspierre, from Tallien, from Marat'. (Cf. BMSat 8437, &c.) The wall, which forms a background, is covered with prints, &c. (left to right): [1] (partly visible) a dagger about to be plunged into a prostrate figure, inscribed '3d Sept [1792]', see BMSat 8122. [2] 'A Sketch for an English Directory', four members of the London Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) seated at a table, the chairman a butcher holding a frothing tankard. (The figures are not quite the grotesque denizens of the underworld represented in BMSat 9202.) [3] A framed half length portrait of Wilkes, squinting violently and clasping two large money-bags: 'Mr Chamberlain Wilkes ci-devant', 'Wilkes & Liberty' (see BMSat 6568); it is labelled: 'The Effect in this Picture to be copied as exact as possible'. [4] A profile in silhouette: 'Shadow of the Abbe Seyes' (see BMSat 9509). [5] A framed picture: 'view of the Windmill at Wimbleton' (from Horne Tooke's house, near Caesar's Camp). The two upper sails are 'Divinity' and 'Politicks', the lower 'Treason' and 'Atheism'. [6] A placard: 'just publish'd The Art of Political Painting, extracted from the works of the most celebrated Jacobin Professors - Pro bono publico.' [7] A bust of 'Machiavel', looking reflectively towards Horne Tooke. [8] Part of a landscape with a small house: 'Parsonage of Brentford' (cf. BMSat 4866, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1798, v.1, opp. p. 574., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: painter's studio -- Paiting materials -- Paintings: portraits -- Busts -- Placards -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Windmills -- Containers: flagon -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Robespierre -- Reference to Tallien -- Reference to Marat., 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.4 x 26.2 cm., on sheet 25 x 36 cm., and Watermark: 1798.
- Publisher:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]
9. "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1824 and 1827]
- Call Number:
- 798.12.01.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate from: Caricatures of Gillray, London, John Miller, [ca. 1824-1827], opp. p. 65., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: painter's studio -- Painting materials -- Portraits -- Busts -- Placards -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Windmills -- Containers: flagon -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Robespierre -- Reference to Tallien -- Reference to Marat.
- Publisher:
- Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
- 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, approximately 1426-1500, and London Corresponding Society.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Two pair of portraits" presented to all the unbiased electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke / [graphic]