"A squarely built young man walks, with an unseeing stare, diagonally towards the spectator and to the left, on a pavement. He wears a round hat, high coat-collar over swathed neckcloth; his double-breasted 'Jean de Bry' coat, see BMSat 9425, is strai...
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Pubd. May 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across t...
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Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
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Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
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 Cha...
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Aside he turned for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyed them askance
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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
The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his no...
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Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
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publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Gambling, Catholicism, and Clothing & dress
"Lord Wycombe, scarcely caricatured, walks to the left, his head in profile, left hand on hip, right on a club-like walking-stick. His coat is curiously cut, his (striped) waistcoat longer and breeches shorter than the contemporary fashion. He wears a...
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Pubd. July 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, John Henry Petty, Marquess of, 1765-1809
"General Manners walks in profile to the left, with knees flexed, bending forward, his hands clasped behind his back, a cane under his arm. He wears a round hat, small pigtail, and plain, old-fashioned dress."--British Museum online catalogue
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Pubd. Novr. 4th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Fox (left), with a fox's head and brush, directs the rays from the dark-lantern of a conspirator upon Shelburne (right), who is wrapped in a cloak, and carries a small sack inscribed "Treasury". Fox, who is out at elbows, his breeches unbuttoned at t...
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Guy Vaux and Judas Iscariot
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E. D'Achery?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Lanterns, Foxes, and Clothing & dress
"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
Print comments on the issue of the annexation of Texas by the United States in the 1844 U.S. Presidential election. President Tyler is depicted uncomfortably astride a Democratic "Tex-ass" with Democratic candidate James Polk who has annoyed Tyler by ...
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Title from caption below image.
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H.R. Robinson, 142 Nassau Street, E.W.C. (signed on stone, E. Clay)
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., Texas, and Texas.
Subject (Name):
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Tyler, John, 1790-1862, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Equal Rights Party (N.Y.), Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.), Whig Party (U.S.), and Democratic Party (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, Caricatures and cartoons, History, Animals, Symbolic aspects, Public buildings, and Annexation to the United States
