"Leach (right), the Vice-Chancellor, dressed as a woman, with a trimmed bonnet over his wig, sits on a corded chest inscribed Commissio[n] ; against this leans a book: Justifia et honor. He grasps a moneybag inscribed 10,000, and holds the ear of a fox which crouches against his knee. He faces John Bull who is stripped to the waist, with a gigantic leech on his back. John, a countryman in patched breeches, registers angry terror and pain; he looks over his shoulder, exclaiming: "D--me what a monstrous Leech! it not only sucks blood but honor also!" Leach says: "I am not plain, Leech, Sir, but by vulgar denomination--I am called Miss Leech if you please--." Beside J. B., and pointing menacingly towards him, are the muzzle of a cannon, a sheaf of bayonets in a chest inscribed 'G R' and 'Steel Lozenges' [see British Museum Satires No. 13513]. Against this lie shackles inscribed 'Bandages', and cannon-balls inscribed 'Bolus' and 'Iron Pills'. On a hill behind a large cap of 'Liberty' dangles from a gibbet against which leans a ladder. Leach's fox turns its head towards John, saying: "In Law. what plea so tained [sic] and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Observes the evil? There is no Vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts Shak Mer of Ven--Act 3 Scene 2." Behind Leach, and on the extreme right, is a second chest inscribed 'French and Italian Monkey[s]'. A monkey wearing a fool's cap crouches on it, grinning at his reflection in a hand-mirror."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 39 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "John Bull" and "Sir John Leach" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "July 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of eight lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1820 by Smolky, 18 Rupert Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Leach, John, 1760-1834
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Cross dressing, Bonnets, Chests, Foxes, Worms, Parasites, Cannons, Cannon balls, Bayonets, Shackles, Ladders, Gallows, Liberty cap, Monkeys, Mirrors, and Fools' caps
"Canning stands on a platform (left) which is surrounded by a dense crowd of ruffianly looking Irishmen, some with pikes and banners. With his top-hat in his right hand, the (gloved) left hand extended, he says: Gentlemen, may I beg to know what it is you all want?--you may depend upon my firm support. One of the mob, raising a clenched fist, answers: Now dont you know what we want better than ourselves? so you do. O the devils in it but you have a bad memory. Well den we want our Rights my dear honey. Other shouts are: Yes and our Wrongs; And the Parliament; And the Union back again. A tattered ruffian with a cocked blunderbuss inscribed Redress says Musha--bad luck to you. Two shout O Connell for ever, and a third says: By the powers of Potteen we'll have O'Connell in Parliament to assist you my darling. Two men shout Erin go Bragh. A man holding a pike shouts Canning for ever well done my Jewel. Four others: Down with the Orangemen; Success to Captain Rock [see British Museum Satires No. 14675]; And the good old days of King James; Och! Spelspeen. A villainous-looking monk holds a large cross inscribed Religion; it is topped by a spike supporting a bonnet rouge. A crosier to which is tied a large money-bag inscribed Catholic Rent is held high. Banners are inscribed: O'Connell for ever; Six Millions of People [red] surmounted by a green pennant on which is an Irish harp; and Toleration. In the foreground a woman with two children gazes up at Canning; a few other women are among the crowd. A man seated on the shoulders of another plays a fiddle: a bottle is brandished and bludgeons, one spiked, are displayed. An enormous crowd with pikes, receding in perspective, is indicated in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paddy coming it strong!!
Description:
Title etched below image. and With circular ink stamp "Marks Collection" on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1825 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Canning, George, 1770-1827 and O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847.
"Cobbett, astride the neck of a diabolical monster, and followed by demons, is about to land on the English coast, where a crowd hails his return. Below is the sea, and on the right the American shore. Cobbett (a good portrait) holds out a pen in his right hand; the left hand grasps vertebrae supporting a skull and projecting from a box which rests on the monster's back and is inscribed: 'Cobbett's long hidden Treasures or the Relicts of Paine'. The skull wears a bonnet rouge, Cobbett a top-hat with tricolour cockade; he says: "How to delude the Populace.--An advantageous distribution of the Words Liberty, Tyranny, Slavery &c does wonders with the populace Cobb Vol 2. p. 114--I now say Water Water-Water!!!" The monster breathes fiery smoke, and grips Cobbett's gaitered legs with its talons; it has webbed and barbed wings and a long scaly barbed tail. The two demons immediately behind Cobbett carry large papers inscribed respectively: 'Paines [Age of] Reason' [see British Museum Satires No. 13274] and 'Cobbetts Pol. Reg'. The third carries a sheaf of spears and excretes fire inscribed 'Revolution', and smoke inscribed 'Corruption'. The last, a bird-like creature, has a body inscribed 'Plague'; other monsters are advancing from a distance. The ragged and disreputable crowd wave bonnets rouges to the approaching Champion, shouting "Welcome Welcome." They have banners, each topped by a cap of Liberty: a large red flag inscribed 'Hunt and Cobbett' is held by a knock-kneed fellow. A butcher holds on his shoulders a little black boy representing Wooler (see No. 12928, &c.) who holds up a board inscribed 'Black Dwarfe'. He shouts: "Welcome, Welcome, Brother Scribe all our differrences are ended." On another flag, in large letters, 'Riot Deb . . .', another is inscribed '[Liber]ty'. Behind are pikes. On the opposite (American) shore three quakers and a quakeress dance in a ring round a stars and stripes flag. One chants: "Yea, Verily, Friends we rejoice, that the Evil spirit hath departed from us!--" The others answer: "Yea Yea Yea." On the shore dismantled cannon lie pointing seawards; there are also pyramids of cannon-balls. On the horizon, midway between the two countries, Napoleon stands with folded arms on the rocky mountains of St. Helena, watching the scene in England; he says: "Ah! Ça ira." British ships surround the island."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Out of thy own mouth will I condemn thee., Text in lower right corner of plate, following a curly bracket: I am well assured that Paine was guided by villany, and not misguided by ignorance or error. Cobbett, vol. 4, p. 320., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1819 by E. King, No. 25 Chancery Lane, a few Doors from Cursitor Street
Subject (Name):
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835., and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Monsters, Demons, Liberty cap, Flags, and Cannons
"An elaborate symbolical clock has a dial on which the hands are represented by the arms of the Queen, who kneels within it. Canning stands within the smaller disk of the pendulum. The dial and pendulum hang from a curved bar supported on two uprights, one (left) representing the forces of the Army and Navy, the Crown and the Church, and the other the Radicals and their pikes. A fat and carbuncled John Bull, much larger in scale than the other figures, and wearing a huge judge's wig, sits astride the dial where it is surmounted by a crown; he holds a paper: 'Chief justice Bull--Jurisdiction--ad Infinitum'. On the rim of the dial: (left) 'King', 'Lords', (right) 'Commons'. The Queen kneels in profile to the right, her left arm pointing to the crown, her right towards the 'Commons'. The supports of the dial are (left) a cornucopia filled with sovereigns, and (right) a giant cap of Liberty, shaped like the cornucopia, from which project the heads of men wearing bonnets-rouges. On the cornucopia are Liverpool, holding out the 'Green Bag', see British Museum Satires No. 13735, Eldon, Sidmouth with his clyster-pipe, and a fourth Minister. On the bonnet rouge stand four of the Queen's supporters, one (apparently Wood) holding out to her a cap of Liberty. A small scene is inset below the dial, flanked by cornucopia and cap of Liberty. The Green Bag lies on a table, across which Castlereagh (left) and Brougham (right), both wearing boxing-gloves, are fighting, the former on the defensive. Each has a second, Brougham's is a second barrister (? Denman). Below this appear seven vertical rods to which the disk of the pendulum is attached. The centre one is 'Unhappy Medium'. On the left, held by cross-bands inscribed 'Golden Argument' and 'Valuable ties', are 'Royal Sunshine', 'Sinecure', and 'Tangible etcetrias'. On the right, held by 'Magnanimity' [tricolour], are 'Quixotism', 'Public Champion', and 'Radical Celebrity'. Canning stands within the disk of the pendulum, both hands held up, looking in gloomy perplexity to the left. He hesitates between the contrasted lures of the pendulum bars. He is standing between a crown and a cap of Liberty. On the left a winged infant flies off with a money-bag, inscribed '1000', saying, "Adieu!" A similar infant (right) proffers a cap of Liberty, saying, "See here Glory waits thee." Above the disk: 'The Uncertainty of all Sublunary Honors'. The design is bordered, left and right, by the two supports of the beam. On the left a jovial sailor and a handsome soldier stand on a base formed of a 'Treasury Iron Chest'. The corresponding figures on the right are two ragged ruffians with linked arms, each holding a spiked bludgeon and a dagger, who stand on a similar chest: 'Pandora's Box'. Flags are draped above the heads of both: the Royal Arms and Union Jack with a crown (left), and a tricolour flag and a (piratical) black flag (right). Above these are (left) a mitre resting on a Bible, crossed swords, and bayonets, supporting a block on which is a crown. On the opposite side are three caps of Liberty, crossed bludgeon and dagger, and pikes, supporting a block on which is yet another cap of Liberty."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Time piece! & Canning Jack o' both sides, Time piece! and cunning Jack o' both sides, and Time piece! and Canning Jack o' both sides
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "u" in "cunning" is etched above a scored-through letter "a", altering the name "Canning"., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 39.1 x 25.8 cm, on sheet 40.3 x 26.7 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman 1820"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 28 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and With manuscript annotations within image that identify several of the persons depicted. The figures of "Sidmouth," "Liverpool," and "Caroline" are identified in red ink; "Londondery [sic]" and "Brougham" in black ink; and "Canning" in pencil. Date "June 1820" added in black in ink lower right. Typed extract of forty lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1820 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Clocks & watches, Soldiers, Sailors, Spears, Wigs, Crowns, Cornucopias, Liberty cap, Bags, Medical equipment & supplies, Boxing, Lawyers, Money, and Putti
"An elaborate symbolical clock has a dial on which the hands are represented by the arms of the Queen, who kneels within it. Canning stands within the smaller disk of the pendulum. The dial and pendulum hang from a curved bar supported on two uprights, one (left) representing the forces of the Army and Navy, the Crown and the Church, and the other the Radicals and their pikes. A fat and carbuncled John Bull, much larger in scale than the other figures, and wearing a huge judge's wig, sits astride the dial where it is surmounted by a crown; he holds a paper: 'Chief justice Bull--Jurisdiction--ad Infinitum'. On the rim of the dial: (left) 'King', 'Lords', (right) 'Commons'. The Queen kneels in profile to the right, her left arm pointing to the crown, her right towards the 'Commons'. The supports of the dial are (left) a cornucopia filled with sovereigns, and (right) a giant cap of Liberty, shaped like the cornucopia, from which project the heads of men wearing bonnets-rouges. On the cornucopia are Liverpool, holding out the 'Green Bag', see British Museum Satires No. 13735, Eldon, Sidmouth with his clyster-pipe, and a fourth Minister. On the bonnet rouge stand four of the Queen's supporters, one (apparently Wood) holding out to her a cap of Liberty. A small scene is inset below the dial, flanked by cornucopia and cap of Liberty. The Green Bag lies on a table, across which Castlereagh (left) and Brougham (right), both wearing boxing-gloves, are fighting, the former on the defensive. Each has a second, Brougham's is a second barrister (? Denman). Below this appear seven vertical rods to which the disk of the pendulum is attached. The centre one is 'Unhappy Medium'. On the left, held by cross-bands inscribed 'Golden Argument' and 'Valuable ties', are 'Royal Sunshine', 'Sinecure', and 'Tangible etcetrias'. On the right, held by 'Magnanimity' [tricolour], are 'Quixotism', 'Public Champion', and 'Radical Celebrity'. Canning stands within the disk of the pendulum, both hands held up, looking in gloomy perplexity to the left. He hesitates between the contrasted lures of the pendulum bars. He is standing between a crown and a cap of Liberty. On the left a winged infant flies off with a money-bag, inscribed '1000', saying, "Adieu!" A similar infant (right) proffers a cap of Liberty, saying, "See here Glory waits thee." Above the disk: 'The Uncertainty of all Sublunary Honors'. The design is bordered, left and right, by the two supports of the beam. On the left a jovial sailor and a handsome soldier stand on a base formed of a 'Treasury Iron Chest'. The corresponding figures on the right are two ragged ruffians with linked arms, each holding a spiked bludgeon and a dagger, who stand on a similar chest: 'Pandora's Box'. Flags are draped above the heads of both: the Royal Arms and Union Jack with a crown (left), and a tricolour flag and a (piratical) black flag (right). Above these are (left) a mitre resting on a Bible, crossed swords, and bayonets, supporting a block on which is a crown. On the opposite side are three caps of Liberty, crossed bludgeon and dagger, and pikes, supporting a block on which is yet another cap of Liberty."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Time piece! & Canning Jack o' both sides, Time piece! and cunning Jack o' both sides, and Time piece! and Canning Jack o' both sides
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "u" in "cunning" is etched above a scored-through letter "a", altering the name "Canning". and Mounted on page 34 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1820 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Clocks & watches, Soldiers, Sailors, Spears, Wigs, Crowns, Cornucopias, Liberty cap, Bags, Medical equipment & supplies, Boxing, Lawyers, Money, and Putti
