"Napoleon, John Bull (a 'cit'), a British general wearing a star, and the Duke of Portland sit in conference, each holding a large double paper covered with type or script. Napoleon sits on the left, pointing to the text of his paper and saying to his neighbour, "You see Mr Bull the case is simply this If you do so, I'll do so!" John, much disconcerted, stares at the Emperor, exclaiming "O! O!" The general also looks at Napoleon, perturbed. Portland (right), who sits in an armchair facing the Emperor, with frank dismay says: "If he says O! O! I'm afraid t'is but so! so!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sounding the opinions of John Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. March 1808 by Walker & C., No. 7 Cornhill", see no. 10971 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., "March 1808" written in brown ink in lower right, over the remnants of the burnished imprint statement. Formerly mounted on a blue sheet, remnants visible on back., and Watermark, partially trimmed: 1811.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, John Bull (Symbolic character), Generals, British, Sitting, and Meetings
"Canning, as Phaeton, drives his chariot with four horses abreast on a curving track across the heavens, slanting upwards across the design from left. to r. On this are signs of the zodiac; other constellations of the zodiac are on the darkened sky, above and below the path of Phaeton; all assail him. The base of the design is part of the northern hemisphere, showing the world in flames, and flanked by the ghosts of Pitt and Fox. In the lower left. corner is the ghost of Pitt as Apollo (half length); he weeps, dropping his lyre, and raises his shroud to gaze up at his son, Phaeton. He is surrounded by heavy clouds. In the opposite corner, the head and shoulders of Fox as 'Pluto', holding a pitchfork, emerge from flames: he looks up with sinister anxiety at the conflict in the heavens. Canning's head is the centre of an irradiated sun: 'The Sun of Anti-Jacobinism.' He is heroic, youthful, and naked, except for floating draperies. Above him (l.) is a crescent moon. His horses have human heads set behind equine jaws and nostrils which jet flame. They are (l. to r.): Hawkesbury, Perceval, Castlereagh (with a profile expressive of nobility), Eldon (sub-human). Flame streams backwards from the chariot wheels; the wheels pass over the (dismantled) scales, 'Libra-Britannicus' [British justice], one scale inscribed 'Copenhagen'. Close behind the chariot the British Lion, 'Leo Britannicus', rushes furiously; on the chariot's track, facing the horses, is the Ram (faintly sketched). Behind this is Taurus, a ferocious Irish bull, snorting fire at the horses. His collar is inscribed 'Erin go Bragh'; from it flies a rosary; to his tail is tied a pot inscribed 'Emancipation'. The most conspicuous assailant of the horses is 'Scorpio Broad-Bottom', with the head of Grenville, the words inscribed on the two ferocious claws, in which his arms terminate. (He is the Scorpion who 'bends out his arms into two bows, . . . [and] spreads over the space of two signs'.) The body spirals into a barbed tail, emitting names close to Fox. Smaller claws terminate in human heads (below, l. to r.): Temple, Spencer (both spitting fire), Bedford; (above, l. to r.): Moira, Tierney. Covering Grenville's posterior is an irregular circle. In its centre is an irradiated ring enclosing a chalice with the Host; round this are irradiated heads: Grafton, Stanhope, Derby, Carlisle, Norfolk, Holland. Flame and a barbed tongue issue from Grenville's mouth. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Phaeton alarmed
Description:
Title etched below image., Six lines of quoted text following title: "Now all the horrors of the heav'ns he spies, "and monstrous shadows of prodigious size ..., and Mounted on leaf 50 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 22d, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Canning, George, 1770-1827, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
"Half length portrait of an elderly man near-sightedly reading a newspaper in profile to the left."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"Three military men and a dog standing outside a tavern, two at left, one holding up a stick, another in a confused posture at centre; the tavern, with the sign of 'The Crooked billet', at right, a maid standing by the door and a man leaning on the fence, both laughing at the soldiers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Production of an ale house
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly an illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life; Cf. Rowlandson's print The production of a post house, no. 10859 in the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. See also the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.735., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on verso of leaf 36 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"A pedestrian, flimsily dressed in tail-coat, nankeen trousers, and pumps, struggles against driving rain, turning an agonized face to the spectator. He walks (r. to left.) on a muddy track beside a decayed paling. A raven croaks on a rotten tree. In the background is a dilapidated scarecrow, surrounded by birds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Ms. notes in pencil along lower edge of sheet.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A countryman (right) in a smock and his wife (left) sit by a table on which is a frothing jug and two full tumblers. She reads the newspaper, and looks up to say: "Why this Bonny-part be making Kings every-day - I should not wonder if thee wast in France, if he made a King of thee John - what wouldst thee do if thee wast a King?" He answers: "Do -! Why I'd swing on a gate and eat fat Bacon all the day long." He is a broad shock-headed fellow, seated with legs astride, a hand on each knee, a smoking pipe in his right. hand. A blazing fire burns in the grate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Nature will prevail
Description:
Title etched below image., Date has been mostly burnished from imprint, leaving a gap between "... Published 1" and "by Thos. Tegg, Cheapside." Date of publication from Krumbhaar, who seems to describe an earlier state with intact imprint statement. A date of 1807 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "130" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling."--Lower right corner of design., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 67 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A countryman (right) in a smock and his wife (left) sit by a table on which is a frothing jug and two full tumblers. She reads the newspaper, and looks up to say: "Why this Bonny-part be making Kings every-day - I should not wonder if thee wast in France, if he made a King of thee John - what wouldst thee do if thee wast a King?" He answers: "Do -! Why I'd swing on a gate and eat fat Bacon all the day long." He is a broad shock-headed fellow, seated with legs astride, a hand on each knee, a smoking pipe in his right. hand. A blazing fire burns in the grate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Nature will prevail
Description:
Title etched below image., Date has been mostly burnished from imprint, leaving a gap between "... Published 1" and "by Thos. Tegg, Cheapside." Date of publication from Krumbhaar, who seems to describe an earlier state with intact imprint statement. A date of 1807 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "130" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., and "Price one shilling."--Lower right corner of design.
"A copy of a Rowlandson watercolour, see British Museum Satires No. 11111. Two hideous prostitutes stand at the counter of a gin-shop (or vault), each with a glass. A dog sits at their feet. On the left a third and comparatively handsome woman is drinking. An upturned face with a glass to the lips is on the extreme right. On the other side of the counter a stout man fills a glass from a bottle. Behind him are huge casks, one inscribed 'Booths Best Gin'. The place is brightly lit, with heavy shadows. A bunch of metal grapes hangs from the roof, catching the light."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
