"A fox (Fox) climbs up a signpost from which hangs the sign of the Crown. The gibbet-shaped post is wreathed with a vine with large bunches of grapes. Fox seizes a branch and gapes greedily for a bunch just within his reach. His left leg is supported on a pile of papers, one bundle of which is inscribed 'Libels'. The topmost paper is an open book: 'Review of the Charges against Warren Hasting[s] Publishd by Stockdale'. In the doorway of the Crown Inn (right) stands Pitt, grotesquely thin except for his head; he wears an apron over the legs of a skeleton. Alarmed at the fox, he drops a tankard of beer on which is a crown. Behind him appears Thurlow, in Chancellor's wig and gown, with an expression of gloomy apprehension."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Stockdale, 1749-1816 -- Alleged libel -- Libellous pamphlets -- Signs -- Signboards -- Inns: Crown -- Gibbet-shaped signpost -- Allusion to trial of Warren Hastings -- Political grapes -- Chequerboards -- Literary allusion to Aesop's fable: The fox and the grapes -- Allusion to John Logan's pamphlet, published by Stockdale: Review of the charges against Warren Hastings -- Allusion to Fox's February 14, 1788 speech -- Chancellor's wig and gown.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 18th, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"A stage-coach is driven (left to right) uphill at a gallop, the horses having human heads as in BMSat 7323. The arm of a signpost on the extreme left points 'To the Temple of Honor'. Thurlow drives, lashing furiously. George III, in profile to the right, is seated in the boot at the back of the coach holding a musket with a fixed bayonet. The Queen sits on the roof as an outside passenger, dressed as an old market-woman ; she holds a basket of 'Golden Eggs' on her knee, and another basket at her side in which is a goose which hisses at the King. Within the coach Hastings (left) and Mrs. Hastings (right) sit facing each other; he is in oriental dress; she wears a jewelled turban with a crown, and her neck is covered with jewels. The coach is 'Licens'd by Royal Authority'; on its panel are the royal arms. On the box under Thurlow's legs are a star and ribbon, a coronet, and feathers. The leaders have the faces of Pitt1 and Sydney, the wheelers are Dundas and Pepper Arden. The horses are galloping uphill and the sky is clear, contrasting with the scene in BMSat 7323."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image in lower left., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of verse below image: "The very stones look up to see, such very gorgeous harlotry, shaming an honest nation.", Companion print to "Opposition," also by Gillray and published by Fores on the same day. See no. 7323 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Hastings, Anna Maria Apollonia von Chapuset, 1747-1837, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Title etched below image., 1st state [?] with trimmed title and imprint replaced by ms., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Geoffrey Chaucer, 1340?-1400: Canterbury tales -- Robbing of Lambeth palace -- Robbers -- Bag of plunder -- Bankrupt Foxites -- Conspirator's hats -- Boat hooks -- Boats -- Suppressed titles.
Publisher:
Pub'd Nov'r 5th 1788 by SW Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Archbishop -- Anticipation of effects of insanity of King George III -- Mitres -- Allusion to Regency crisis.
Publisher:
Pub, Nov'r 5th 1788 by S.W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
"A lady stands in profile to the left removing her gloves; her head is turned to the spectator. Against the wall of the room, which appears from the carpet and an oval mirror in a carved frame to be a drawing-room, stands a commode, which if the lid were closed would resemble an ordinary chair. She wears the projections at bust and waist which were the subjects of caricature c. 1786-7 (cf. BMSats 6874, 7099, &c). Her hat, poised sideways, has a steeple crown."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Suggested attribution to Kingsbury in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub'd March 6 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Pitt, Hastings, and Thurlow sit at a circular dinner-table on which is the King's head in a large dish. The dish is ornamented with a crown and the words 'Mal. y . Pense'. Pitt (left) sits in profile to the right cutting off a piece of the tongue with a knife and fork. Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, faces him, using two large spoons greedily (cf. BMSat 7166), he is taking brains from a hole in the King's forehead. Hastings, in oriental dress, sits between them gouging out an eye with a spoon and fork. Besides Pitt is a sauce-boat inscribed 'Sauce', beside Thurlow a bottle inscribed 'Vinegar'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Oriental costume -- Royal motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense., and Inscribed in ink below signature in an unidentified hand: Gillray's early feigned signature.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 28th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
On the left a thin man stands in profile holding a large muff, his head thrown back. He has a haughty look on his face as he looks down his nose a very stout man on the right who stands full-face at the viewer. The larger man has his hands behind his back as he looks quizzically at his companion, a small smile on his face
Alternative Title:
Fat and lean antiquarian
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: Rules for drawing caricaturas / by F. Grose. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788., and Matted to 49 x 36 cm.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: East India House -- Declaratory Act., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 24, 1788 by Josa. Baldrey, No. 19 H. Holborn, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Portraits, Impeachment, Taxation, Tax assessment, Justice, Donkeys, Stores & shops, Shutters, Lawyers, and Britannia (Symbolic character)
"The head of a lady in profile to the right, yawning violently. A mob-cap perched on her hair has long lappets which fall on her shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray by Wright., and Temporary local subject terms: Yawns -- Female hats: mob cap.
Publisher:
Pub. 22 May 1788 by H. Humprey [sic], N. 51 New Bond St.
George III in profile to the right on a white horse rides down a stag which is under the hoofs of his rearing horse. He wears the Windsor uniform (blue coat with red collar and cuffs) and holds a riding-whip above his head. A wooded landscape suggests Windsor Park. Etched below title: "A Hint to Mr West for a Painting in St George's Hall'.
Alternative Title:
Modern Saint George
Description:
Imprint from British Museum catalogue., George suggests James Bearblock as engraver., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Stags -- Windsor uniform -- Windsor Park., and Mounted to 34 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1788 for I. and I.B. by R. Clamp, Holborn
Subject (Name):
George, Saint, -303., West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
"Four men, their feet cut off by the lower margin, play whist at a rectangular table; each has one card in his hand and is about to play the last trick, the tricks piled on the table show that each side has six tricks. Sir Joseph Mawbey (left) looks at his partner (right), a very stout man wearing a legal wig, both hold court cards (diamonds). The man seated on the farther side of the table looks sideways at Mawbey, saying, "O---h! you've brought your Pigs to a fine Market!" His partner, in back view, is a very thin man whose hair extends grotesquely on each side of his head; he holds the five of diamonds. From Mawbey's pocket projects a document, 'Surrey Commission', and a book, 'Burn Justice' (Burn's well-known 'Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer', used by all acting J.P.s, not an exhortation to incendiarism as Evans supposes). Above his head is a picture of a pig feeding from a trough."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Stevenson, fl. 1788 -- Allusion to "Account of Elections for Survey" by Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1730-1798 in Gentleman's Magazine: 1788.ii.975, 1052-3 -- Allusion to "Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by John Burns[?], 1743-1839 -- Quarrels: Allusion to Mawbey vs. his steward -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Feeding pigs -- Gaming tables -- Whist.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Burke sleeps in a half-reclining position, his arms folded, legs extended, spectacles pushed up on his forehead. On a pedestal above his head (right) is a bust inscribed 'Mahomet', a fierce-looking, mustachioed man. A hanging lamp burns before it. On the right is Burke's reverie or dream: A Turk sits cross-legged on a divan holding out his arms eagerly to a young girl who is being brought to him by his mother, an elderly woman, who says, grinning, "I have procured another Lamb for my Lord"; the girl turns away with a gesture of distress. Above the Turk's head is an open book inscribed 'Koran'. Beside Burke in the foreground (right) is propped an open book inscribed: '... I have observed that the greatest Degree of Respect is paid to Women of Quality in the East and that the strongest Instances of Maternal Affection & filial Duty prevail there. Note Begum ... The Viziers Mother frequently procures one of the most beautiful Virgins whom she adorns with Pearls and precious stones and brings to the Vizier whom she calls her Lion and desires him to take her to his Arms, this he most religiously performs and she is afterwards consig[ned] to the Zenana with 200 others whom he never sees a second Time.'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of another version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Another version, with slight differences in text and design, of no. 7307 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publd. 26 April 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Dimitrie Cantemir, Voivode of Moldavia, 1673-1723.
"Burke sleeps in a half-reclining position, his arms folded, legs extended, spectacles pushed up on his forehead. On a pedestal above his head (right) is a bust inscribed 'Mahomet', a fierce-looking, mustachioed man. A hanging lamp burns before it. On the right is Burke's reverie or dream: A Turk sits cross-legged on a divan holding out his arms eagerly to a young girl who is being brought to him by his mother, an elderly woman, who says, grinning, "I have procured another Lamb for my Lord"; the girl turns away with a gesture of distress. Above the Turk's head is an open book inscribed 'Koran'. Beside Burke in the foreground (right) is propped an open book inscribed: 'And I have observed that the greatest Degree of Respect is paid to Women of Quality in the East and that the strongest Instances of Maternal Affection & filial Duty prevail there. Note Begum - The Viziers Mother frequently procures one of the most beautiful Virgins whom she adorns with Pearls and precious stones and brings to the Vizier whom she calls her Lion and desires him to take her to his Arms, this he most religiously performs and she is afterwards consig[ned] to the Zenana with 200 others whom he never sees a second Time.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 18.7 x 16.7 cm, on sheet 20.7 x 18 cm., and Mounted on leaf 44 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 26th April 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Dimitrie Cantemir, Voivode of Moldavia, 1673-1723.
"Burke sleeps in a half-reclining position, his arms folded, legs extended, spectacles pushed up on his forehead. On a pedestal above his head (right) is a bust inscribed 'Mahomet', a fierce-looking, mustachioed man. A hanging lamp burns before it. On the right is Burke's reverie or dream: A Turk sits cross-legged on a divan holding out his arms eagerly to a young girl who is being brought to him by his mother, an elderly woman, who says, grinning, "I have procured another Lamb for my Lord"; the girl turns away with a gesture of distress. Above the Turk's head is an open book inscribed 'Koran'. Beside Burke in the foreground (right) is propped an open book inscribed: 'And I have observed that the greatest Degree of Respect is paid to Women of Quality in the East and that the strongest Instances of Maternal Affection & filial Duty prevail there. Note Begum - The Viziers Mother frequently procures one of the most beautiful Virgins whom she adorns with Pearls and precious stones and brings to the Vizier whom she calls her Lion and desires him to take her to his Arms, this he most religiously performs and she is afterwards consig[ned] to the Zenana with 200 others whom he never sees a second Time.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 60 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Publd. 26th April 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Dimitrie Cantemir, Voivode of Moldavia, 1673-1723.
George III drinks from a stream pouring from a pump labelled Cheltenham. The queen stands near him pulling on his coat to stop his drinking as two of the princesses stand behind her, one saying "My Papa will leave none for us."
Description:
Title from item. and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. July 28, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and Cheltenham.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
"The Prince and Britannia stand on each side of the Coronation Chair as in BMSat 7386. Its Gothic carvings are altered to satyrs' heads. On the back of the Chair is a small money-bag inscribed Virtue. The Prince and Britannia stand as before, but the foot which she places on the step inscribed 'The Voice of the People' is a cloven hoof. The next step, 'Publick Safety', is badly cracked; the other steps are blank. No words come from Britannia's mouth; the Prince says, "I woud do the best to please my People". Liberty and Justice are transformed into Sheridan and Fox. Sheridan, wearing ragged clothes, holds the cap of 'Liberty' on a broom; he puts one hand on the Prince's shoulder while he steals a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. Fox, in place of Justice's sword, holds a bludgeon in the head of which is an eye which drips blood (in the coloured version); he holds up an evenly-balanced pair of scales, formed of two dice-boxes. His eye-bandage is pushed up on his forehead and he says, "I have the Voice of the People in my Eye". 'Commerce' is transformed from a comely young woman into a drunken hag who holds up a glass of gin. The Mayor says, "We have not been taxed this twelvemonth". Pitt, instead of being the colleague of the Furies, attacks them: in his left hand he holds up a large conical extinguisher with which he is about to put out the torch of 'Rebellion'. He says, "I could soon extinguish these Puppet Shew Vapours if properly supported". The Fury holds up two torches, one of 'Rebellion', the other 'Puppet Shew'. He puts his left foot on the prostrate head of 'Envy', who is holding up a fire-brand. The third fury (Falsehood) has disappeared. The British Lion looks from behind Britannia's shield snarling ferociously in defence of Pitt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Temporary local subject terms: Lord William Gill, 1720-1798: Mayor of London -- Lord Mayors -- Chairs: Satyrs' heads on coronation chair -- Broom as staff of liberty -- Emblems: drunken hag / commerce -- Scales: dice boxes -- Huge candle snuffers -- British lion -- Furies -- Regency crisis., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 29, 1788, by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's back, in the middle of the room, Fever, a furry monster with burning eyes, resembling an ape, stands full-face with outstretched arms. On the right the doctor sits in profile to the right at a small table, writing a prescription, holding up a medicine-bottle in his left hand. The room is well furnished and suggests wealth: a carved four-post bed is elaborately draped. On the high chimney-piece are 'chinoiseries' and medicine-bottles. Above it is an elaborately framed landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7448 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The hypochondriac., One line of quoted text below image, etched on either side of title: "And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, "extremes by change more fierce. Milton., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 226-7., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Ague -- Demons & devils -- Prescription of drugs., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 41.2 x 56.9 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
On the left Thurlow represents the world with his stomach in the shape of a globe and his clothes labelled with country names. He faces Hastings who is attired in Oriental dress and his head is bound in a large feathered turban encircled with jewels, the end of which expands into a cornucopia. Hastings' belt is inscribed 'Virtues', through it are thrust an axe, a halter, and two (?) clubs
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Four elderly men sit and stand round a small circular table on which are glasses, a bottle, a paper of tobacco. A man in profile to the left is reading
Description:
Title etched below image., Two figures are tentatively identified as Dr. Robert Bragge and Dr. Michael Lort., and Plate from: Grose, F. Rules for drawing caricaturas. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Lort, Michael, 1725-1790 and Bragge, Robert, Dr. 1700-1777
A very stout man with a pear-shaped head sits full-face in an armchair, looking at the spectator, with his right hand raised as if addressing an audience. Subject is perhaps Jeremiah Milles, president of the Society of Antiquaries. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Grose, F. Rules for drawing caricaturas. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788., and Watermark.