"A satire on King Louis XV of France accusing him of treachery showing him sitting on a throne under a canopy, his crown is held over his head by Pride on his left, a peacock in front of her, and two-faced Treachery on his right, behind whom the devil flies waving a firebrand and a Jesuit stands holding up a candle and scroll lettered “Persecution”. The king wears a black mask and the costume of a Roman general, a cloth adorned with fleur-de-lis round his legs and his sandaled feet rest on two books lettered “T[reatie]s”, a paper with the same lettering lies beside these and an open book. An obsequious courtier, a chain round his ankle attached to a book, kneels at the king’s feet as the king hands him a yoke. On the king’s other side another elegant courtier, his ankle chained to a log, exclaims “Oh! Wh(a)t a great Monarch”, a scene of “The [St Bartholomew's Day] massacre of Paris” hangs on the curtain behind the king. To the left of the canopy is an obelisk bearing the image of a weeping “Europa” with her bull and above this a medallion of the “Cat & monkey”. Around the obelisk are a Spaniard holding a rosary and kneeling in prayer before a statue, a Genoese man and a Bavarian (identified in the verses below); at their feet are the words “Here we stand for ye Glory of France”. In the sky above the Eye of Providence looks down on a pair of scales in which the British lion outweighs the French fleur-de-lis. On the right demon is about to hang Justice as a Cardinal (Tencin?) holds up a cross; beside this a man wearing a wig wooden shoes sits astride a braying donkey waves his hat and cries “Vive le Roy”. At the bottom are three scenes: [at left] three men “Burning of Treaties” and the “Pr[agmati]c S[anctio]n”; ... ; [at right] scenes of executions, torture, a village burning and a monk leading a band of troops while another holding up a cross says “one K[in]g one R[e]l[igio]n”). "--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition
Alternative Title:
Funiral ticket for Lord Lovet and Funeral ticket for Lord Lovat
Description:
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., 'Price 6d.'--Following imprint., An earlier state of the plate was used by D. Fournier on Feb. 14, 1747 to illustrate a broadside entitled "The glory of France"; see no. 2849 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3. In addition to the added title and altered imprint statement, this later state also differs in the replacement the previous image of a custom house and ships in the bottom center with a new image of Simon Lord Lovat in a chair, with women to the left of him and severed heads to the right., Temporary local subject terms: France: Louis XV masked and dressed as a Roman -- Burning of treaties -- Literature: Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, ii, 143: The monkey and the cat -- Hand of Justice -- Personifications: Persecution -- Pride as a peacock -- Winged Death -- Two-faced Deceipt -- Europa -- Pictures amplifying subject: massacre of Paris -- Beheaded heads -- Eye of Providence -- Torch-bearing demon -- Animals: ass -- Yoke -- Whip -- Torture rack -- Reference to Leaden Hall -- Reference to Westminster Hall -- Wooden shoes -- Emblems: lion -- Balance -- French crown -- Tickets: invitation to an execution., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
Publish'd in May's Buildings
Subject (Name):
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667?-1747, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, and Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Leaf 3. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle
Description:
Title etched above image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6205 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all.", Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 47., and On leaf 3 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Dance, Priests, Demons, Owls, and Violins
Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle
Description:
Title from text above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all.", 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.6 x 34.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 58 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Dance, Priests, Demons, Owls, and Violins
Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle
Description:
Title from text above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all.", and Mounted to 32 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Dance, Priests, Demons, Owls, and Violins
Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle
Description:
Title from text above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all.", 1 print on laid paper : uncolored., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Dance, Priests, Demons, Owls, and Violins
A Cardinal-Legate with attendant clergy gives absolution to Lyndhurst, Peel, and Wellington who kneel before a throne on a dais, their hands in prayer. Lyndhurst has the Purse of the Great Seal under his knees and the mace on the floor beside him. Attendant clergy include two obese monks or friars, one of whom holds a candle, the other a grotesque image of the Virgin. Also in attendance is a Jesuit who holds a triple cross and claps a rosary and a thin, sly-looking priest who also holds a candle
Description:
Title etched below image., The figure with hat and cane is a device of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and "Pl. 2"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Relations, Catholic Church, Catholic Emancipation, Cardinals, Monks, Podiums, and Priests
"O'Connell (unrecognizable) marches jauntily to a door on the extreme right, over which is a board inscribed 'St Ste[phens] To Trespassers Men-Traps--Constantly Set--Beware'; he is followed by an Irish mob, yelling and flourishing shillelaghs. He wears barrister's wig and gown with a mitre-shaped cap decorated with a cross, shamrock, and bells (emblem of folly). Under his right arm is a large book inscribed '1 & 2'; his left hand rests on a stout stick. His gown is held up by a ragamuffin and the procession is headed by a bloated priest who holds up on a bludgeon a placard: 'Unconditional Emancipation O C For Ever'; this is surmounted with shamrock. The crowd are evidently from St. Giles and similar Irish slums in London; two carry hods, emblem of the Irish builder's labourer or hodman. On the extreme left in the foreground is an Irish basket-woman, holding her basket, smoking a short pipe; she shouts 'Stop wid ye now--are ye goin to lave the ladies behind--ye blackguards.' She is barefooted, very ragged, and wears a soldier's jacket (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15721). See British Museum Satires No. 15759, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... wher [sic] political and other caricaturs [sic] are daily pub., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 and St. Stephen's Chapel (Westminster, London, England),
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Published in Puck, 7 September 1887., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
J. Ottmann lith. Puck Building N.Y.
Subject (Geographic):
United States and New York (State)
Subject (Name):
McGlynn, Edward, 1837-1900 and George, Henry, 1839-1897
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Drugs, Medicine shows, Working class, Priests, Newspaper vendors, and Politics and government
"Custine stands on the scaffold beside the guillotine (left). Four ragged ruffians are about to bind him to the plank on which he is to lie; one says, "By Gar so we will serve all de Generals who do not conquer de whole World, and give them de Libertè". Custine says, "Pardon me Heaven for having been leagued with such a set of Blood hounds". A stout soldier pushes a weeping priest, who says "Let us Pray", down the steps (right) which lead up to the scaffold, saying, "Go to de diable & Your Prayers both". Below (right) stand republican soldiers with fixed bayonets much caricatured. On the extreme left a man kneels at the guillotine holding his hat in place of the usual basket; he says, "Begar I will have a Drink of de blood.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French gratitude and Republican rewards for past services
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 'N' in 'Custine' reversed., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pub. Sepr. 16, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Custine, Adam Philippe, comte de, 1740-1793
Subject (Topic):
Executions, Guillotines (Punishment), Priests, Soldiers, French, and Sansculottes
