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1. Banco to the knave [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 April 1782]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Twenty-six members of the old and new ministries sit around a card table; North and Fox (the latter with a fox's head) appearing most prominently, together with Thurlow, Grey Cooper, the Duke of Richmond, John Dunning, Wilkes, Barré, and John Cavendish
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 26.5 x 38.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 1 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 12th, 1782 by H. Humphrey, No. 118 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cooper, Grey, Sir, ca. 1726-1801, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1746-1815, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Politics and government, Card games, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Banco to the knave [graphic].
2. Britania's assassination, or, The republicans amusement [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 May 1782]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies, America (shownas an Indian), France, Spain and Holland run away with the spoils
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia's assassination, or, The republicans amusement and Republicans amusement
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from The art of poetry on a new plan by Oliver Goldsmith, 1761, v. 2, p. 147., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 29.2 x 45.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 1 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 10th, 1782, by E. D'Archery, St. James Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Vandalism, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Britania's assassination, or, The republicans amusement [graphic].
