George IV, dressed as a jester, dances at the center of the design with Lady Conyngham, who is dressed similarly. The king wears a fools' cap that has bells at the end and two additional protrusions from the side that resemble horns; he holds a noisemaker in his left hand. Lady Conyngham likewise wears a fools' cap, and she holds a staff in her right hand. On the left are four men labeled "The Friends of his Youth"; Earl Grey is in the foreground, with two men in white robes behind him and a man in a barrister's wig and robe at the back. On the right is a musical ensemble consisting of the King's supporters, labeled "A Band-ditte": a bishop plays the drum, Liverpool the cello, Canning the flute, Sidmouth the violin, and Wellington the cymbals
Alternative Title:
Lady Cun-gh-m's favourite dance and Lady Cunnigham's favourite dance
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 39 x 58 cm., Mounted on leaf 37 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Grey," "Lady Conyngham," "Geo. IV," "Liverpool," "Canning," "Wellington," and "Sidmouth" identified in ink below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 27, 1820, by W. Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Canning, George, 1770-1827, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Dance, Fools' caps, Music ensembles, Musical instruments, Bishops, and Politicians
"An adaptation in reverse of No. 7508 by Sayers. The Prince's head, set in a star which is the head of the comet, is as in No. 7508 except for the addition of a stock between the wings of the coat-collar. In the comet's tail the first profile head is that of Moira, replacing Sheridan who is in the second place, between and in front of Erskine and a partly concealed profile perhaps intended for Ponsonby. Next are the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Derby. Behind them are (?) Tierney and a good-looking military officer. Next come three Grenvilles abreast: Lord Temple between Lord Grenville (on his right) and the spectacled Buckingham. Behind them are Whitbread, holding up a frothing tankard of his 'Entire', and Lansdowne. Behind these are Grey, and (partly obscured) Lord Carlisle. Two heads with faces hidden are on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Sometimes attributed to Gillray, who was lapsing into insanity. The heads in the comet's tail seem to be copied from heads by him in various prints."--British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on upper and lower edges., and Mounted on leaf 88 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1811 by T. Moon, Westminster
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Ponsonby, George, 1755-1817, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"The procession has advanced to the door of a church (r.) which a parson closes, dropping his prayer-book, open at the 'Burial Service'. Only his arms and robe are visible; he says: " - no Burial here, for Broad-Bottom: - he died a Roman; - besides, - 'tis a felo-de-se case; - take him to the next 4 cross-roads; & the Family has a large Stake always ready!" Only the acolyte at the head of the procession has realized this check: little Lord Henry Petty drops his bell and candle and capers in dismay. The three pall-bearers (a fourth is hidden behind the coffin) are (l. to r.) Sidmouth, Lord St. Vincent, and Windham. All wear mourning hats, scarves, and cloaks, and clutch handkerchiefs, weeping large tears. Below the coffin are seen the robes and bare sandalled feet of monks. On the top of the coffin is Grenville, face downwards, and showing the back of his wig, and a dome- shaped hump denoting his famous 'broad-bottom' (see BMSat 10530). At the four corners are ostrich plumes. On a placard on the side of the pall: 'Gul: Baro: de Broad-Bottom Obiit die Martis 24° A: D. 1807'. Behind the coffin walks the Pope, in his tiara and robes, weeping and supported between the Marquis of Buckingham and his son Lord Temple. Both weep with gestures of extravagant grief; both are dressed as priests. Behind, thin and ascetic, is Howick, a barefooted monk, holding up the Pope's long robes. Behind walk arm-in-arm, both shambling and dissipated, Sheridan clutching a bottle of 'Brandy' and General Fitzpatrick, from whose pocket hangs a paper: 'Tears of Hedge Lane' [a squalid resort of prostitutes in Westminster]. Both wear mourning hats, scarves, and cloaks. Next, Erskine and Ellenborough walk together; Erskine claps to his eye his beloved and discarded Chancellor's wig. At the end of the procession and on the extreme left. are Lauderdale and Moira wearing his cocked hat with a mourning scarf and cloak. All weep, registering deep distress. There is a landscape background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at top of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.5 x 62.7 cm, on sheet 26.4 x 67.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 6th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fitzpatrick, Richard, 1747-1813, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
"A travesty of Peters's 'An Angel carrying the Spirit of a Child to Paradise', exhibited R.A. 1783, in which the angel is a portrait of Isabella, Duchess of Rutland, and the figures have a background of clouds. Mrs. Fitzherbert, as the angel, flies upwards, her right arm caressingly round a little girl, her left pointing up to an irradiated and burlesqued altar, surrounded with cherub's heads, which recede in aerial perspective from the lower heads, which are fully characterized, to the upper ones, which are small. These angels are (left) Windham, Grenville, Grey, Erskine, Grattan, and a (tiny and unrecognizable) Lord Holland. On the right are Sheridan, Norfolk, Fox, Burdett, and Derby. [These identifications are by Lord Holland. They are self-evident, except Grattan who resembles Carlisle, or Jekyll, and has a profile completely unlike other portraits and caricatures. Wright and Evans give Stanhope for Windham and Carlisle for Grattan. Lord Holland is not characterized, and the identification can rest only on Gillray's statement.] The altar is lit by four large and guttering candles; over it, stiff and grotesque, are a Virgin and Child, 'La Sainte Veirge' [sic]. The head and hands of a demon emerge from a chalice which is flanked by vases of flowers. Three books surround the altar each open at a print: the Pope holding his cross and wearing a tiara; the many-headed Beast of Revelation (cf. British Museum Satires No. 5534, &c); and a grotesque rendering of the Saint-Esprit, or dove of Pentecost. The rays, which descend towards Mrs. Fitzherbert, are inscribed 'Indulgences', 'Absolutions', 'Luxuries', 'Absolutions', 'Dissipations'. Mrs. Fitzherbert is a stout figure, whose realism is burlesqued by outspread wings and floating draperies. In her hair are three large plumes, emblem of the Prince of Wales; a cross hangs from her neck, a rosary flies outward. A large pouch inscribed 'Play-Things' is attached to her waist: from this hang a lighted censer and a rosary; from it project the head of a saint (burlesqued), a calvary in a bottle, a book: 'Brighton Breviary', a monstrance, St. Andrew holding his cross, a bunch of leaves. Mrs. Fitzherbert registers determined fanaticism; the little girl, childish devotion. They ascend between dark douds. Immediately below them (left) is the Brighton Pavilion. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: The hint taken from the Revd. Mr. Peter's sublime idea of "an angel conducting the soul of a child to heaven.", and Mounted on leaf 5 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 22d, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Grattan, Henry, 1746-1820, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Volume 2, after page 340. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An altered copy of British Museum Satires No. 10389. The two principal figures are substantially the same, but Mrs. Fitzherbert's expression is less subtle; she looks down at her charge with an exulting smile. The feathers in her hair are set in a fillet inscribed 'Ich Dien', her breasts are almost bare, her drapery is more swirling. Her pouch is inscribed 'Amusements for Young Minds', its contents differ, and her book is a 'Missal'. Above them (left) ls inscribed: 'Angels ever bright and fair" Take, Oh Take me to thy Care,"'. The altar is larger and closer to the ascending figures. In place of the Virgin, the Prince of Wales (half length) stands behind it, looking down at the 'Guardian-Angel'. On the altar, which is inscribed 'Sanctum Sanctorum' is an irradiated chalice. The attendant cherubs are (left) Derby, (?) Grey, Grenville; and (right) Norfolk, Burdett, and Windham. Two cherubs have descended from the circle (right) and look fixedly at close range towards the child; they are Fox and Sheridan. The rays are inscribed: 'Bulls', 'Dispensations', 'Indulgences', 'Luxuries', 'Consecrations', 'Cannonizations', 'Remissions', 'Pardons', 'Beatifications', 'Permissions'. Below the ascending pair, in place of the Pavilion, is the roof of Carlton House."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Altered copy of a print by Gillray, published 22 April 1805 by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 10389 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Text following title: The designer is particularly indebted to Mr. Peters for the hint for this subject., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Beneath imprint., Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F., Four figures identified at bottom of mounting sheet, their names written in ink: Princess Charlotte; Mrs. Fitzherbert; C. Fox; R.B. Sheridan., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 340 (leaf numbered '163' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 10th, 1805, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"A satire on the approaching election for the Chancellorship of Oxford University. Grenville, dressed as a cardinal, heads a small procession towards the Devil, who wears a robe on which is a large cross, and holds the bland mask with which he has been hiding his face. Grenville, bowing low, and deferentially holding his large hat, holds out a paper: Catholic Petition for the vacant Chancellorship with a Plan for Erecting a New Popish Sanhedrim on the ruins of old Alma-Mater, The Devil says: Well done my Children! This is all the Convocation I would have; in his left hand is a pitchfork. The Marquis of Buckingham, dressed as a Jesuit, stands behind him, one hand on his shoulder, the other holding his barbed tail. Beside him is Canning (unrecognizable) wearing a Jesuit's biretta. Beside the Devil is a greyhound with the head of Grey, its collar inscribed Popish Gray Hound. Immediately behind Grenville walks the Pope, wearing his tiara, and holding his cross; he holds up Grenville's robe on which is a large cross. Napoleon crouches behind the Pope, holding on to his robes and hiding under his mantle. He wears a crown, with uniform and spurred boots; his hand is on the hilt of his sword. Behind walk together Temple, enormously fat and dressed as a monk, and his brother, Lord George Grenville, similarly dressed. The former carries the Host, the latter a lighted candle. In the background rows of bishops and clergymen face the procession. Bishops in the front row, humbly sweeping the ground with their mitres, bow low, each clasping a Mass Book, while those behind cheer with raised mortar-board, hand, or Mass Book. On five of the books are the names of bishoprics: York [Vernon], St Asaph [Cleaver], London [Randolph], Oxford [Moss], Norwich [Bathurst]. Above the design (and the bishops): Golgotha, i.e: the place of Skulls."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Golgotha, i.e. the place of skulls
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 74 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street, London
Subject (Name):
University of Oxford., Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Religious processions, Clergy, Devil, and Petitions
"Cobbett, driving four ringed hogs, leads (r. to left.) a procession cheered by an enormous crowd. He sits on a 'Political Hog Trough' which rests on a low platform mounted on four solid wheels. Behind him stands Windham, wearing (ironically) a bonnet rouge, and holding up a large scroll inscribed: 'Loyal-Petition of ye Noble and truely Independent-Hogs of Hampshire - Humbly shewing, that the Convention with Junot, was a cursed Humbug upon Old-England! - & that the Three damn'd Convention-Signers ought to be Hanged Drawn & Quarterd without Judge or Jury'. Issues of Cobbett's paper fall to the ground from his seat, all headed 'Cobbett's Political Register' or 'Cobbett's Register' and continuing 'Ignorance of the Ministry', 'Ignorance of the British Command', 'Ignorance of the Admiralty', 'Letter to Sir Rd Phillips', 'Letter to the Duke of York', and 'State of the Army & Navy'. Cobbett is not caricatured and has a complacent expression. Three members of the Opposition push behind at his 'Hog Trough'. They are Grenville, dressed as a butcher, Grey with a handkerchief round his neck, and Sidmouth. Behind them walk hogs on their hind legs, wearing court dress, with sword or cane, and carrying small tricorne hats with tricolour cockades. From the pocket of one hangs a paper: 'To the Free and Indepent Hogs of Hampshire'. On the left. is Bosville with a large bag of coins inscribed 'Pigs-Meat'; from this he feeds the two leading hogs of Cobbett's team. Beside him stands Burdett flogging the hogs with a long whip. The middle distance and background are filled with a dense crowd cheering the procession. Those in the two front rows are butchers, banging marrow-bones on cleavers, as at a Westminster election. Three of these are (l. to r.) Sheridan, Lauderdale, and Petty, all wearing bonnets rouges. Four banners are held up, the first two being tricolour: [1] 'The Botley Patriot & his Hogs for ever. - no chevaliers du bain'; [2] 'Given up to Junot. All the Plunder All the Horses. All the Arms. - O Diable! Diable'; [3] a pictorial banner: 'Due D'Abrantes Ratifying ye Convention'; he signs on a drum-head; kneeling British officers kiss his bared posteriors, and attendant French soldiers hold huge money-bags; [4] 'Triumph in Portugal - a new Catch to be Sung by the Hampshire Hogs - to the Tune of Three Jolly Boys all in a Row'. From the crowd on the r. three gibbets are held up each with a figure hanging in effigy. They are inscribed: 'Sir Hugh [Dalrymple]', 'Sir Arthur [Wellesley]', 'Sir Harry [Burrard]'. In the foreground (r.) a terrier barks furiously at the procession, its collar inscribed 'Evening Post'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Procession of the Hampshire-hogs from Botley to St. James's
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Octr. 4th, 1808., and Mounted on leaf 60 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 20th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863
"Napoleon and Talleyrand plant the genealogical tree of Lord Moira, inscribed 'Royal Pippin'. On the r. Grenville, Howick, and Buckingham ply their axes on the trunk of a huge oak-tree: 'The Royal-Oak'. In the background are rows of other 'Royal Pippins', just grafted on old stocks. Talleyrand digs the hole, placing his deformed foot on his spade. Napoleon, in profile to the right., is about to plant the pippin, whose root is a coroneted apple inscribed 'William the Norman Robber'; on its branches are other coroneted or crowned pippins. The main stem culminates in the whiskered face of Moira, wearing a royal crown. This is reached through a 'Plantagenet beheaded in 1415', and 'Henry de la Pole beheaded in 1538'. Collateral branches are 'Duchess of Clarence put to death in 1453', 'Hungerford Beheaded 1406', 'Crookback Richard killd at Bosworth', 'Edmund 4th Son of Henry 3d Beheaded', 'Countess Salisbury Beheaded in 1505.' Napoleon wears his large plumed bicorne, the peak on his neck, jack-boots, and a gardeners apron over his uniform. His long sabre is inscribed 'Corsican Grafting Knife.' Talleyrand wears a laced coat and cocked hat of the ancien régime, with bag-wig, sword, clerical bands, and rosary. From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Projet pour Agrandisser les Jardins Imperial'. In the foreground (l.) are three grafts ready to be joined to stocks; they lie against a basket labelled 'Grafts of King-Pippins for Brentford, Wimbleton, & Botley'. The centre and longest has the head of Cobbett, the others have the heads of Burdett and Horne Tooke. All wear royal crowns; Tooke has clerical bands. The 'Royal-Oak' (r.), an aged but still magnificent tree, whose trunk is gashed by the axes of the late Ministers, has a large royal crown in the centre of its branches, flanked by four giant acorns: 'Protestant Faith' (near a withered branch), 'Integrity of the Lords', 'Independence of the Commons', 'Liberty of the Press'. All the wood-cutters are in their shirt-sleeves. Grenville is back-to-back with Talleyrand; a cross dangling from a rosary hangs against his massive posterior, his waistcoat is striped in tricolour, his axe is a 'Catholic Cleaver'. Behind him the spectacled Buckingham raises a 'Broad-Bottom Hatchet' [see BMSat 10530]. Howick (r.), very thin and aggressive, plies a 'Whig Cleaver'. Funguses grow round the tree and on the lower part of the trunk. In the background is the Imperial nursery garden: rows of newly joined grafts the point of junction with the stock being an egg-shaped lump of 'Corsican Clay'. Crowned heads sprout from green leaves; they are (l. to r.): 'Eutrurian [sic] Pippin', 'Wirtemburg Pippin' [the face that of a plump woman, nd probably intended for the Queen, see BMSat 10440], 'Saxon Pippin', 'Holland Pippin', 'Itaian [sic] Pippin'. Many others, less defined, recede in perspective."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Little Corsican gardiner planting a royal-pippin-tree and Little Corsican gardener planting a royal-pippin-tree
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Vide, the Berlin Telegraph of May 21st, 1807, article: the Genealogy of the Royal Race of the King of Ballynahinch. See Morg. Post, June 17th., and Mounted on leaf 46 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 25th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, and Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
"A sequel to BMSat 10540. George III, as a farmer in a smock, drives his pigs, now very plump, out of his farmyard and down a cliff into a turbulent sea. They have burst through a rotten paling; the foremost are struggling in huge waves, the last, the reluctant Sheridan, is propelled by the farmer's boot. The King says: "O you cursed ungrateful Grunters! - what, after devouring more in a twelve-month, than the good old Litter did in twelve years, you turn round to kick and bite your old Master! but if the Devil or the Pope has got possession of you all - pray get out of my Farm yard! - out with you all - no hangers behind! - you're all of a cursed bad-breed; so out with you altogether!!!" Behind him is the old sow in front of a thatched hovel, backed by trees. Among pigs who have already reached the sea is Howick, on his back on a billowing wave; beside him floats a paper: 'Repeal of the Test Act'. Behind him the head of Lord Holland looks up wistfully. Lord Grenville is carried downwards, one forefoot on a paper: 'Emancipation of the Catholic Army and Navy', while the (torn) 'Catholic Bill' floats before him. His body is covered with a distended skin of guineas, in reference to his two highly paid offices, see BMSat 10543, &c. Next, the hind-legs and vast rump of Lord Temple project from the water; beside him is a paper: 'Last Stake of the Broad Bottom Family', see BMSat 10721. Beside him is an almost submerged barrel of 'Whitbread's Entire' [see BMSat 10421], from which project the hind-legs of the drowning Whitbread. Next behind these, and about to plunge into the waves, are Lord St. Vincent, wearing a naval coat, Buckingham in spectacles and Garter ribbon, Bedford (Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland), from whose neck falls a ribbon inscribed 'Erin-Go-Bragh'. Just behind St. Vincent and Buckingham are Windham, Fitzpatrick (on his back), and Petty; next above these: the Duke of Norfolk, Erskine wearing his Chancellor's wig, Lauderdale, his body covered with tartan, and Spencer, with Moira close behind Bedford. The latest pigs to leave the ground are Ellenborough in his wig, Courtenay, Sidmouth, Derby, Carlisle, and Tierney; a little apart from the others Sheridan (cf. BMSat 10697), his body covered with Harlequin's chequered coat (cf. BMSat 9916), still has his hind-legs on the edge of the cliff. Portions of six other pigs appear in the mélée. A rosary floats on a swirling wave in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Broad bottom'd litter running headlong into [the] sea of perdition
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title, in lower right: A supplement to More pigs than teats, 1806., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 18th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Fitzpatrick, Richard, 1747-1813, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, and Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818
"Conspirators prepare an explosion in the vaults of the House of Commons (or of a building symbolizing the Constitution). Massive triple pillars support Gothic arches, the inscription [used by George as a title] etched across the centre pillar round which barrels of gunpowder are piled. The scene is lit by a beam of light slanting from the huge eye of the King whose features emerge faintly from an illuminated patch in dark clouds in the upper right. corner of the design. This strikes the conspirators, all wearing cloaks and steeple-crowned hats reminiscent of Guy Fawkes. The foremost is Grenville who pours on to the paved floor a train of powder from a barrel which he holds, inscribed 'Jesuits Powder'. Next him (r.) Howick leans forward to tilt a barrel of 'True- Whig Gunpowder'. Behind is Lauderdale handling a barrel of 'Gunpowder a la Brissot'. On the extreme left. behind Grenville, Sidmouth crouches, clasping with senile impotence a barrel of 'Cathartic Gun Powder' [cf. BMSat 9849]. Behind stands Petty holding a barrel of 'Pop-Gun Powder'. The taller Windham is behind with a barrel of '[M]etaphysical Gu[n Powder]'. Ellenborough scowls over Windham's shoulder. The tall Moira (ex-Master of the Ordnance) has a barrel of 'Ordnance Powder'. Between Grenville and Petty is the upturned profile of the bulky Temple, clutching at a barrel of 'Broad-Bottom Gun Powder'. Behind him, his spectacled father, Buckingham, reaches for a barrel of 'Catholic Gunpowder'. In the foreground on the extreme left., a little aloof from the others, Sheridan kneels, tilting a barrel of 'Dramatic Gunpowder'; he wears his Harlequin suit (cf. BMSat 9916). Beside him are two barrels: 'Patriotic Gun-Powder', intact, and 'Democratic Gun-Powder', on its side its contents pouring out. In the background, behind Windham, three heads are faintly sketched, one with the profile of Tierney, another rightesembling St. Vincent. ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Description:
Title from text in image., Reissue of a print originally published with the imprint: Publish'd June 4th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street. Cf. No. 10738 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
