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1. Evidence to character, being a portrait of a traitor by his friends & by himself [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1824 and 1827]
- Call Number:
- 798.10.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Folding plate (also issued separately) to 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 285, illustrating extracts from a pamphlet published by Wright: Considerable allowance to those who purchase Thousands and Tens of Thousands for distribution. A burlesque of the trial of O'Connor at Maidstone (22 May), parts of the court being hidden by the large labels which issue from the mouths of prisoner and witnesses. The presiding judge (Buller) looks down with horror at the witnesses, the other judges are hidden. O'Connor (not caricatured), wearing leg-irons, stands at the bar; his hands are clasped, and he bends forward in profile to the left, making a confession which, though condensed, does not differ substantially from that made by him, McNevin, and Emmet, and published in the Report of the Secret Committee made to the Irish House of Commons on 21 Aug. ('Lond. Chron.', 27 Aug.), ... 'I confess, that I became an United Irishman in 1796 & a Member of the National Executive, from 1796, to 1798. I knew the offer of French assistance was accepted at a meeting of the Executive in Summer 1796: I accompanied the Agent of the Executive (the late Lord Edward Fitzgerald) ...had an interview with General Hoche (who afterwards had the command of the expedition against Ireland) on which occasion every thing was settled between the parties with a view to the descent. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: Caricatures of Gillray, London, John Miller, [ca. 1824-1827], opposite page 17., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
- Subject (Geographic):
- Ireland
- Subject (Name):
- O'Connor, Arthur, 1763-1852, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
- Subject (Topic):
- Emblems, Judges, Justice, Nooses, Scales, Traitors, Trials, litigation, etc, Witnesses, History, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Evidence to character, being a portrait of a traitor by his friends & by himself [graphic]
2. New morality, or, The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes with the homage of Leviathan and his suite [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1798]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The design closely follows George Cannings "New Morality".
- Alternative Title:
- Promis'd installment of the high priest of the Theophilanthropes and Promised installment of the high priest of the Theophilanthropes
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Statement following publisher's name: ... for the Anti-Jacobin magazine & review., Five columns of verse etched under title: "Behold! The directorial lama, sovereign priest Le Paux whom atheists worship ...", Plate from: Anti-Jacobin magazine & review, v. 1, p. 115., Sheets trimmed to plate mark., 1 print on 2 sheets : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.8 x 62.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 4 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. August 1st, 1798, by J. Wright, No. 169 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., France, Great Britain, England, and London
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Canning, George, 1770-1827., Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de, 1753-1824, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Wakefield, Gilbert, 1756-1801, and Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobites, Theophilanthropism, Leviathan, Newspapers, Philanthropy, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Religious aspects, Politics and government, and Periodical illustrations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > New morality, or, The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes with the homage of Leviathan and his suite [graphic]
3. New morality, or, The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes with the homage of Leviathan and his suite [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.08.01.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The design closely follows George Cannings "New Morality".
- Alternative Title:
- Promis'd installment of the high priest of the Theophilanthropes and Promised installment of the high priest of the Theophilanthropes
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Statement following publisher's name: ... for the Anti-Jacobin magazine & review., Five columns of verse etched under title: "Behold! The directorial lama, sovereign priest Le Paux whom atheists worship ...", Plate from: Anti-Jacobin magazine & review, v. 1, p. 115., and Sheets trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. August 1st, 1798, by J. Wright, No. 169 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., France, Great Britain, England, and London
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Canning, George, 1770-1827., Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de, 1753-1824, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Wakefield, Gilbert, 1756-1801, and Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobites, Theophilanthropism, Leviathan, Newspapers, Philanthropy, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Religious aspects, Politics and government, and Periodical illustrations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > New morality, or, The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes with the homage of Leviathan and his suite [graphic]
