- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [17 March 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.03.17.01+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three busts on pedestals under two pictures: Fox, very lifelike, without inscription, between 'Demosthenes against Æschines' (left) and 'Cicero against Cataline' (right), both of whom look straight before them, frowning severely, as if outraged at their new companion. Above Demosthenes is 'Justice': a picture of Catherine II, raising a dagger to stab to the heart the Sultan, who lies on his back, his sabre and a bag of '16000000 Roubles' beside him. On the right is 'Moderation': the Empress in back view stands facing a wall-map of 'Moldavia Bessarabia Wallachia' over which she stretches her stout arms with widespread greedy fingers. Between the pictures and above Fox is a circle surmounted by an imperial crown and inscribed 'Conjugal Love A Cure for the Haemerroidical Cholic'. It encloses a noose of rope, and another rightope is looped round the exterior of the circle, indicating Catherine's complicity in the murder of her husband Peter III (cf. BMSat 8124). ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Five columns of verse below image: The Grecian orator of old, with scorn rejected Philip's laws, indignant spurn'd at foreign gold, and triumph'd in his country's cause ..., Text at bottom of plate: --"and so far will I trust thee gentle Kate." Henry 4th part 1st., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: art galleries -- Busts -- Pictures amplifying subject: Catherine II threatening Selim III with a dagger -- Pictures amplifying subject: Catherine II viewing a map of the Turkish empire -- Allusion to murder of Peter III, 1762., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 29.8 x 33 cm., and Printed on wove paper, sheet trimmed to plate mark: 29.8 x 33 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 17th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cicero, Marcus Tullius, and Demosthenes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [17 March 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.03.17.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three busts on pedestals under two pictures: Fox, very lifelike, without inscription, between 'Demosthenes against Æschines' (left) and 'Cicero against Cataline' (right), both of whom look straight before them, frowning severely, as if outraged at their new companion. Above Demosthenes is 'Justice': a picture of Catherine II, raising a dagger to stab to the heart the Sultan, who lies on his back, his sabre and a bag of '16000000 Roubles' beside him. On the right is 'Moderation': the Empress in back view stands facing a wall-map of 'Moldavia Bessarabia Wallachia' over which she stretches her stout arms with widespread greedy fingers. Between the pictures and above Fox is a circle surmounted by an imperial crown and inscribed 'Conjugal Love A Cure for the Haemerroidical Cholic'. It encloses a noose of rope, and another rightope is looped round the exterior of the circle, indicating Catherine's complicity in the murder of her husband Peter III (cf. BMSat 8124). ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Five columns of verse below image: The Grecian orator of old, with scorn rejected Philip's laws, indignant spurn'd at foreign gold, and triumph'd in his country's cause ..., Text at bottom of plate: --"and so far will I trust thee gentle Kate." Henry 4th part 1st., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: art galleries -- Busts -- Pictures amplifying subject: Catherine II threatening Selim III with a dagger -- Pictures amplifying subject: Catherine II viewing a map of the Turkish empire -- Allusion to murder of Peter III, 1762., and Mounted to 34 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 17th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cicero, Marcus Tullius, and Demosthenes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 March 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.03.16.03.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A carriage (right) drives at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace; Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing the pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now, or never! - aha the Coast is clearing!------drive! drive! you dog!" He has a sly smile. The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Lansdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es] Geometriam'. The coachman and three footmen who stand behind have enormous feather-trimmed cocked hats in the French fashion, with bag-wigs. Running behind the carriage with outstretched arms are: Fox, saying, "Stop! stop! - & take me in, - Stop!"; Sheridan saying, "And me too! stop", and (very small) M. A. Taylor, saying, "And me". In the background a similar carriage is driving yet more rapidly out of the Palace gateway; the tiny figures are recognizable: Dundas, the coachman, has dropped the reins, the horses are running away; Pitt, terror-stricken, puts his arms through the windows. Both look up at a dove with an olive-branch which flies over their heads towards the gateway. In the background are part of the Palace and the houses at the SW. corner of St. James's Street."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coaches -- London: St. James's Palace -- Domestic service: footmen -- Coachmen -- Pavement -- Symbols: dove with an olive-branch -- Nicknames: Shelburne as Malagrida -- Allusion to Gabriel Malagrida, 1689-1761., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 16th by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Malagrida driving post [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [31 March 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.03.31.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A scene at a faro-table; part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground, players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she holds a pack of cards in one hand, a knave in the other, looking with a triumphantly rapacious smile at a stout lady (? Mrs. Hobart) who sits (right) clenching her fists and scowling back. All the others have expressions of alarm or concern, the least agitated being the Prince of Wales, seated on Lady Archer's left. On the extreme right and next Mrs. Hobart is Fox, turning up his eyes. The guests (except the Prince) are much caricatured; one of Gillray's witch-like hags sits between the Prince and Mrs. Hobart. On the table are heaps of coins, notes or bills, and rouleaux of guineas. Above the design is etched 'The Knave wins all'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Friendly party in high life and Knave wins all
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Dedication following title: To those earthly-divinities who charmed 20 years ago this honorable method of banishing mortifying reflections is dedicated., One line of text below title: O Woman! Woman! Everlasting is your power over us, for in youth you charm our hearts, and in your after-years you charm away our purses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Gambling: faro -- Playing cards -- Furniture: faro table -- Money., and Window mounted.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 31st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Modern-hospitality, or, A friendly party in high life [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19 April 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.04.19.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox (right) kneels in profile to the left, firing point-blank from a blunderbuss at a post which roughly suggests George III in back view: it is surmounted by a short wig and a hunting-cap decorated with the royal arms; round a protuberance simulating posteriors a circle is drawn with a bull's-eye at which Fox is firing. He is much caricatured, with large head and short fat legs; he wears a slouch hat with the inscription 'Ca-Ira', and has a pleased and sinister smile. Behind him Priestley (left) and Sheridan (right) face each other in profile with conspiratorial smiles. Sheridan is ramming the barrel of a pistol, saying, "Well! this new Game is delightful! - O Heavens! if I could but once Pop the Post!!! then you and me, - Dear Brother P, - Would sing with glee, - Full merrily Ca-ira! Ca-ira! Ca-ira!" Priestley holds out to him two books: "on the Glory of Revolution and on the Folly of Religion & Order", saying, "Here's plenty of Wadding for to ram down the Charge with, to give it force, & to make a loud Report.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Swedes practising at a post
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the assassination of Gustavus III of Sweden, March 1792 -- Guns: blunderbuss -- Pistol -- Targets: George III as a shooting target -- Toadstools -- Arms: royal arms -- Literature: books by Joseph Priestley satirized -- Music: c̦a ira., and Watermark: Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 19th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Patriots amusing themselves, or, Swedes practising at a post [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 May 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.05.14.04 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox (right), capering with excitement, raises a dagger in his right hand, as if to strike a grotesquely stout and short lady, who faces him, throwing back her arms. Both faces, especially that of Fox, have the exaggerated expressions of ranting actors in melodrama."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- "Strike home! and I will bless thee for the blow!"
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Daggers -- Spouting., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Spouting [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 December 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.12.30.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A caricature of the famous scene in the House of Commons on 28 Dec. 1792. Burke (right) stands in profile to the left, his hands extended, having just thrown down the dagger, which lies at his feet; he looks with a contemptuous frown at Pitt and Dundas, who are seated on the Treasury Bench (left). On the extreme left the Speaker is represented by his hat, wig, and gown; his headlessness perhaps indicates Gillray's opinion of Addington. On the opposite side of the table Fox clutches his hat, looking at Burke out of the corners of his eyes with an alarmed expression; Sheridan, equally alarmed, clutches Fox's shoulder; behind them sits M. A. Taylor, clasping his hands. Burke, whose corpulence and a bag-wig suggest that he is now drawing funds from the Treasury, says: "There! that is what you are to gain by an alliance with France! - such are the Instruments with which they have determin'd the destruction of the Human race! - Three Thousand such Daggers are now manufacturing for this Country! - for where French principles are introduced, you must prepare your hearts for French Daggers! - Nineteen Assassins are already here, who aided & abbetted by wretches who do not believe in a God, are preparing to scour the filth from your Streets with the Blood of all who are Virtuous & Honorable!!" Pitt, seated in profile to the right, very thin, with his hair rising on his head in terror, says, "The blood of the Virtuous & Honorable ? then Lord have mercy upon Me!" Dundas, wearing a tartan plaid, adds, equally terrified, "And upon Me!" Fox says "Confusion! - one of Our daggers, by all thats bloody! how the devil did he come by that ? - ha! what's that ? Nineteen Assassins ? - O damnation! - we're found out & all our schemes ruin'd for ever!!!" Sheridan says: "O Charley, Charley! - farewell to all our hopes of Levelling Monarchs! - farewell to all our hopes of paying off my debts by a general Bankruptcy! - farewell to all hopes of plunder! - in a moment of Victory we're trap'd & undone!!!"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Plot discover'd and Plot discovered
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons -- Treasury bench -- Bland Burgess papers -- Weapons: daggers -- Legislation: Alien bill -- Speaker of the House., and Mounted.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 30th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The dagger scene, or, The plot discover'd [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 December 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.12.10.01++ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Another version, reversed, of BMSat 8132. Paine (right) lies as before, but his legs and feet, which were hidden by straw and by cloud, project from under his coat, and the crisping of his toes indicates agitation caused by his dream. The three headless judges (left) with dependent scrolls are as before, with the addition of a cloud-shaped scroll ascending from the central wig, inscribed: 'Know Villain, when such paltry slaves presume To mix in Treason, if the Plot succeeds They're thrown neglected by - but if it fails Theyre sure to die like dogs! as you shall do.' In place of the prison wall is a glory of rays issuing from a sun in the centre of which are the scales of Justice. This is surmounted by shackles and by a scroll inscribed "The Scourge inexorable, and the tort'ring hour, awaits thee". Beneath are, as before, a gibbet (with the addition of a ladder) and a pillory. Between them are a scourge and birch-rod tied together. The inscriptions on the three scrolls are as before except that in 'Charges' 'Falshoods' takes the place of 'Lies', and to 'Punishments' is added 'Extinction from Society'. The inscriptions on Paine's book, &c, are as before except that the alternative title of 'Common Sense is or convincing Reasons for Britons turning Sans Culottes.' The fleurs-de-lis on the tattered curtain are larger and more conspicuous. Above the bed, in place of the crumbling wall, is an open casement window out of which flies a terrified demon with his tail between his legs; he holds a fiddle, but drops his bow and a sheet of music inscribed 'Ca-ira'. Through the window appear clouds and a full moon."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reversed version, with some different and some additional elements in the image, of a print with the same title published in November 1792. Cf. No. 8132 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Poverty -- allusion to Paine's Common Sense -- Guardian angels -- Vermin: rats -- Writing supplies -- Architectural details: casement windows -- Furniture: straw beds -- Pillories -- Gibbets -- Shackles -- Torture: scourge -- Wigs: judges' wigs -- Trials: pleas -- Charges -- Punishments -- Liberty cap as a nightcap -- Literature: allusion to Paine's Rights of Man -- Symbols: fleur de lis -- Symbols: striped pillow as pro-American sentiment -- Symbols: scales of Justice -- Music: c̦a ira -- Demons., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 29.4 x 36.6 cm, on sheet 37 x 50 cm, mounted to 37 x 56 cm., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1811.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tom Paine's nightly pest [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 November 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.11.26.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Poverty -- Literature -- Allusion to Paine's Common Sense -- Guardian angels -- Vermin: rats -- Writing supplies -- Interiors: dungeons -- Pillories -- Gibbets -- Shackles -- Judges' wigs -- Trials: pleas -- Charges -- Liberty cap as a nightcap -- Allusion to Paine's Rights of Man., and Mounted.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 26th Novr 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tom Paine's nightly pest [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 December 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.12.10.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Another version, reversed, of BMSat 8132. Paine (right) lies as before, but his legs and feet, which were hidden by straw and by cloud, project from under his coat, and the crisping of his toes indicates agitation caused by his dream. The three headless judges (left) with dependent scrolls are as before, with the addition of a cloud-shaped scroll ascending from the central wig, inscribed: 'Know Villain, when such paltry slaves presume To mix in Treason, if the Plot succeeds They're thrown neglected by - but if it fails Theyre sure to die like dogs! as you shall do.' In place of the prison wall is a glory of rays issuing from a sun in the centre of which are the scales of Justice. This is surmounted by shackles and by a scroll inscribed "The Scourge inexorable, and the tort'ring hour, awaits thee". Beneath are, as before, a gibbet (with the addition of a ladder) and a pillory. Between them are a scourge and birch-rod tied together. The inscriptions on the three scrolls are as before except that in 'Charges' 'Falshoods' takes the place of 'Lies', and to 'Punishments' is added 'Extinction from Society'. The inscriptions on Paine's book, &c, are as before except that the alternative title of 'Common Sense is or convincing Reasons for Britons turning Sans Culottes.' The fleurs-de-lis on the tattered curtain are larger and more conspicuous. Above the bed, in place of the crumbling wall, is an open casement window out of which flies a terrified demon with his tail between his legs; he holds a fiddle, but drops his bow and a sheet of music inscribed 'Ca-ira'. Through the window appear clouds and a full moon."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reversed version, with some different and some additional elements in the image, of a print with the same title published in November 1792. Cf. No. 8132 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Poverty -- allusion to Paine's Common Sense -- Guardian angels -- Vermin: rats -- Writing supplies -- Architectural details: casement windows -- Furniture: straw beds -- Pillories -- Gibbets -- Shackles -- Torture: scourge -- Wigs: judges' wigs -- Trials: pleas -- Charges -- Punishments -- Liberty cap as a nightcap -- Literature: allusion to Paine's Rights of Man -- Symbols: fleur de lis -- Symbols: striped pillow as pro-American sentiment -- Symbols: scales of Justice -- Music: c̦a ira -- Demons., and Mounted to 35 x 42 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tom Paine's nightly pest [graphic]