"The title is spaced to indicate the persons depicted. In a room in Carlton House the 'Greeks', or Foxites, superintend the obeisance of the Persians' or Grenvilles before the 'rising Sun' of the Prince of Wales. On the extreme left stands Thurlow ('Achitophel'), turning his back on the others with a morose frown. He is bearded, and wears old-fashioned dress with a tie-wig. In his pocket is a paper: 'Secret Advice to his R H No Respecter of Persons to invite Tag Rag & Bobtail to dine'. Next (left to right) stand Foxites: Norfolk, Windham, Fox (with a satisfied smile), and Sheridan who touches the shoulder of the kneeling Lord Grenville, saying, "lower my Lord". Next Grenville is the spectacled Marquis of Buckingham kneeling very low, and pressing down his son, Temple, who kneels immediately in front of the two brothers. Four others, all in back view (as are all the 'Persians' except Buckingham), and all with identical bag-wigs, kneel before the rays of a large sun. These rays are surmounted by the Prince's feathers and strike a solid mass of cloud above which are the (obscured) Royal Arms, supported on a motto: 'Auspicium [meli]oris Ævi'. The Unicorn looks down at the 'Greeks' with pained surprise, the Lion frowns with melancholy anger at the 'Persians'; one says "God save the King", the other "Long live the King". Through a large sash window (left) is seen the screen of Carlton House, and beyond it a railing with the notice: 'Ruspini Dentist to his Royal [Hi]ghness the Prince of Wales.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th July 1804 by H. Humphrey, St. James's
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, and Carlton House (London, England),
"The interior of a lawyer's office. A smartly dressed young man (l.), pen in hand, crouches in a ranting attitude, addressing an elderly man in old-fashioned dress, who gapes at him in dismay. On the r. a burly maidservant holds a pail of water, prepared to fling its contents, while a terrified old lady watches from the extreme right. The room contains a sloping desk, stool, shelves with papers, large volumes, and a box inscribed '9 to 12'. On the wall is a large calendar: 'Year 1803' and a notice of 'Terms and Returns'. Below the design: 'Dramatic Phrensy, to no place confind At freedom roves, and occupies the Mind, The Lawyers Clerk, Old Square-toes will to cross, Who spouts Lothario when he should engross All on a sudden from his writing stoops, My fierce ambitious soul declining droops His simple Master by - cries "whats the matter? Tom's in a fit here - Betty bring some water!' (Tom quotes the dying Lothario in Rowe's 'Fair Penitent', iv. I.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue., No. 5 of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Ink well -- Lawyer -- Calendar., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Title from item., Two columns of verse below design: By little cupids warmest passion led, when Daddy and Momma were gone bed ..., One of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Military Uniform: Regimental -- Male Costume: Cocked Hat -- Furniture: Bed -- Female Costume: 1804 -- Female Costume: Feathered Hat -- Male Costume: Night Shirt -- Male Costume: Night Cap -- Weapons: Blunderbuss -- Lighting: Lantern., Watermark: J Whatman., and Plate number burnished from plate.
Publisher:
Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Two columns of verse below design: By little cupids warmest passion led, when Daddy and Momma were gone bed ..., One of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Military Uniform: Regimental -- Male Costume: Cocked Hat -- Furniture: Bed -- Female Costume: 1804 -- Female Costume: Feathered Hat -- Male Costume: Night Shirt -- Male Costume: Night Cap -- Weapons: Blunderbuss -- Lighting: Lantern., 1 print on laid paper : etching, stipple, & roulette ; sheet 29 x 37.5 cm, Watermark: J Whatman., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of caption below title: Pray friend did you ever shave a monkey? N-n-no Sir, but -if -if you will -s-s-sit down I'll -t-t-try., Plate numbered '368' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Three wives of tradesmen dispute their precedence on a visit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '370' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of descriptive text below title: Three ladies mostly on a visit, a grocer's wife, a cheesemonger's, and a tobacconist's, who perhaps stood more upon the punctilios of precedence than some of their betters ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 22nd, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '371' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of an alleged citation below title: A copy of a curious advertisement taken from the Clonmell Journal. Run away last night, my wife, Bridget Coole. She is a tight neat body, and has lost one leg ... Aug. 17, Phelm Coole, his X mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 5, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The King steps forward to embrace the Prince of Wales, who throws himself into his father's arms, saying, "against Heaven - and before thee, and am no more worthy------" (the words fade out). George III wears court dress, the Prince's dress is tattered and dishevelled, his pocket hangs inside out, the garter at his knee - 'Honi soit' - is loose. Behind the King stands the Queen on the door-step, half-smiling, her arms outstretched. Two pleased princesses look over her shoulder. Just outside the door stand Pitt and Moira watching the reconciliation, Pitt with a benign expression, Moira more doubtfully; both wear footmen's court-livery, of military cut; Moira wears jack-boots. Pitt holds a paper: 'New Union Act Britains best Hope', implying that he is the author of the 'Union'. Moira holds Pitt's arm. Beside the house (r.) are a tree and a balustrade, against which grow a rose-bush and a thistle. After the title: '"And he arose and came to his Father, and his Father saw him, & had compassion, & ran, & fell on his Neck, & kissed him. - Read the Parable. Verse 16th to 24th.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Biblical Quotation: Parables, 'Prodigal Son', verses 16-24 -- Emblems: Rose-bush and thistle -- Reconcilliation: George III and Prince of Wales, Nov. 12, 1804 -- Acts: Union, 1784., and Ms. annotations along the top margin identfiy figures within the print; mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
"A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and cane, and grimaces and bows towards a pretty young woman, one foot on a fragment of her dress. She walks away from him to the left., taking her chair with her. Another pretty girl sits against the wall (r.) holding a closed fan. The dancers are bucolic and ugly. The walls are decorated with candle-sconces; a clock on the chimney-piece points to 1.25."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
"A violent disturbance in a luxuriously furnished breakfast parlour. The only lady present has risen from her chair to pull a bell-pull. The frantic efforts of five elderly men to stop her have produced a sequence of disasters. An urn overturns and pours boiling water on a fat man who puts a large lump of food speared on his fork into his eye. A man behind him, rushing to seize the bell-rope, spears the former's wig with his knife. Crockery cascades to the floor, the contents of a tea-pot falling on a dog, who bites the knee of a man in regimentals; he leans forward, planting his toe on the gouty foot of a man behind. The latter, about to fall, grasps the officer's pigtail, flourishing a knife, his mouth choked with food. A fifth man stands behind the table with raised hands and shrugged shoulders. The fare is boiled eggs, bread, and muffins. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of a fat Cupid firing his bow; his quiver is reversed, and one leg is transfixed with an arrow. The walls of the room are ornamented by gilt pilasters in the shape of palm-trees (as in BMSat 10472). Between them are empty candle-sconces decorated with palm-branches. The men appear to be the suitors of a rich widow. Cf. BMSat 9822."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Temporary local subject terms: Fireplace -- Sconces -- Cupid -- Eggs: Boiled -- Breakfast -- Urn -- Bell Pull -- Carpet., and Watermark: 1832.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
