"The platform extends across the centre of the design. Below are the audience, three-quarter length and half-length, standing and seated. A man in patched clothes stands in the front of the semicircle of men seated on the platform, holding out his empty breeches pockets. With sanctimonious melancholy he says: Oh! my Bretheren! in that black and benighted land of Ireland have the Servants of the Lord fought the good fight! For behold! we have wrestled lustily with the Wh--re! Yea, with the Scarlet Wh--re! and behold, from the pestiferous abominations of papistry, Millions have we gather'd to the fold, of Starving Souls who yearned for the Word!--but yet my Bretheren! 6 times 999000 still worship in the temple of Dagon!--still dwell in the tabernacles of the Enemy!--still hang over the Gulf! and shall they Tumble therin? even into the brimstone and the desolation & ye Confla=ge=ra=tion? No! No! No!--but alas! the Vinyard of the Lord is deserted, for the labourer lacketh his hire! Open thy purse strings Oh Israel! and let ye Mamon of the World be converted into the Sweet Manna of Justification! for lo! there is no Corn in Egypt, and the pockets of the faithful are lank and unreplemished [sic], yea even as the Udders of the Seven Starving kine in the Vision of King Pharoah!!! Those on the platform listen in pious gloom. In the centre are two stout bishops with a lean minister (? Irving) between them, dressed like a minister of the Scottish Church. The others are gaunt, elderly, in plain old-fashioned dress with knee-breeches. One (left) (who resembles Liston as Maw-worn in Bickerstaffe's 'The Hypocrite'), with lank hair resting on his shoulders, fingers clasped and thumbs together, says: That Man's a Saint, if ever there was a Saint. Another says oh! oh! The rest listen in silence. On the platform is a pile of books, three inscribed Bible, two Tracts, one Prayer. A man brings in on his shoulders a large basket inscribed Food for the Starving Irish, heaped with similar books, with a great preponderance of Bibles. Among the audience stands a man with a collecting-plate heaped with sovereigns; coins and a note are contributed. The audience listen intently or converse gloomily. A paper hangs from the platform: Paddy, Mullagan Converted by a Pair of Leather Breeches--Biddy Quin by a Peticoat and a Pair of Shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in near total loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Matted to: 28.2 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pulished [sic] June 21, 1827, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
British and Foreign Bible Society. and Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
"Men seated round a table, drinking, smoking, and reading newspapers. On the right. an artisan, wearing a flat cap and apron, drinks from a tankard while he reads 'The Morning Post'. Next him a man in back view reads 'The Daily Adver[tiser]', a monkey sitting on his shoulder, pulls the string-like queue of his ill-made wig. Next (l.), an elderly man in an arm-chair, wearing spectacles and a cap, holds up his hand as if to demand attention; he reads 'The London Chronicle', on which is inscribed "It is reputed that nixt [sic] sessions of Parliament, there will be a tax laid upon horn'd Cattle"; his neighbours listen to the news with expressions of consternation. The farther side of the table is crowded; one man reads 'The Evening Post', another the 'London Gazette', on which is inscribed "Extract of a Letter from America". Beneath the design is engraved: "With staring Eye, & Open Ear, Each Cobling, Horned, City seer, Swallow's down Politics with Beer. Neglects his Family & Calling. To enter into Party Brawling. Gets Drunk & Swears - the Nation's falling."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published July 30th, 1779, by WRichardson, No. 68 High Holborn
Reception de docteurs a l'Université d'Oxford : Le 15. Juin 1814
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication supplied by curator., Date of publication derived from subject., Trimmed within platemark., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British; Oxford University.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825,, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840,, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834,, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,, and University of Oxford.
Subject (Topic):
Degrees, Academic, Monarchy, Meetings, Military officers, Fools & jester, and Politics and government
Leaf 8. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene of disorder; men sitting and standing round a circular table; they are smoking, gesticulating and drinking. A very fat man, seated on the farther side of the table, wearing a hat and smoking, his hands folded, says,"we want men of Activity". His neighbour, also smoking, adds "To destroy all their Looms". The next man (left), clenching his fists, says, "Blood & Guts, what are we all about - our Armys are grazing in Idleness, like a Flock of Sheep till they die of the Rot - I'd send them to Slaughter all the Cattle on the Enemy's Coast & make the Papist Scoundrells keep a long Lent of it". A man (right) holding up a foaming tankard, says "Old England will never be conquer'd while we can Brew such Drink as this". A barber, a comb stuck in his hair, an implement for curling hair protruding from his pocket, leans back in his chair, saying, "We're all in the Suds - I could shew them a way to lower their French Toupees". On his right stands the figure of 'Prattle' (Atkinson of Pall Mall), as in British Museum Satires No. 5603 but in reverse. He is saying, "Beg your Pardon my Dr Sir, meant no Offence my Dr Mr Tallow - too much Love & Respect - your Perfectly in the Right - of the same Opinion of my Led & I - they'll never Invade us as you say & my Lud Chatter observed to me the other Night at Lady Carbuncles". He is addressing a stout man standing on the left of the table, who flourishes a stick in his right hand while with a blow from his fist he overturns a punch-bowl, having upset a tankard, a lemon, and a number of wineglasses which are falling to the ground. He says "Dont Talk to me of your Dukes & your Lords, I'm a True Born Englishman, & dont care for Nobody not I - they dare not invade us - Damme they dare not - you Glister Pipe, you pitiful Plaister Spreader You------". A dog barks at him. A thin and rather ragged-looking man on his right, his hands in his breeches pockets, says "Invade us - Damme, what can Soup Meager do against Beef & Plumb Pudding"; a pair of scissors projecting from his coat-pocket shows that he is a tailor; his stockings are ungartered and his shoes are unbuckled. On the extreme left an elderly man with a tie-wig and wearing a hat and pince-nez, sits in a chair reading a newspaper; he holds up a hand in dismay saying, "All's lost". Behind stands a waiter, his napkin under his arm, saying "Dr Prattle says right - I'll go over to the Opposition and never drink another Pot with my Lords Footman". Hats are hung up on the wall, and a bracket-clock shows that it is one o'clock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Apothecaries, tailors, &c. conquering France and Spain and Apothecaries, tailors, conquering France and Spain
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with plate cut down on bottom edge removing most of imprint statement. For original issue with the imprint "London, Publish'd Sept. 29th, 1779, by W. Humphrey", see no. 5614 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Attributed to Gillray; see British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 8 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
"A scene of disorder; men sitting and standing round a circular table; they are smoking, gesticulating and drinking. A very fat man, seated on the farther side of the table, wearing a hat and smoking, his hands folded, says,"we want men of Activity". His neighbour, also smoking, adds "To destroy all their Looms". The next man (left), clenching his fists, says, "Blood & Guts, what are we all about - our Armys are grazing in Idleness, like a Flock of Sheep till they die of the Rot - I'd send them to Slaughter all the Cattle on the Enemy's Coast & make the Papist Scoundrells keep a long Lent of it". A man (right) holding up a foaming tankard, says "Old England will never be conquer'd while we can Brew such Drink as this". A barber, a comb stuck in his hair, an implement for curling hair protruding from his pocket, leans back in his chair, saying, "We're all in the Suds - I could shew them a way to lower their French Toupees". On his right stands the figure of 'Prattle' (Atkinson of Pall Mall), as in BMSat 5603 but in reverse. He is saying, "Beg your Pardon my Dr Sir, meant no Offence my Dr Mr Tallow - too much Love & Respect - your Perfectly in the Right - of the same Opinion of my Led & I - they'll never Invade us as you say & my Lud Chatter observed to me the other Night at Lady Carbuncles". He is addressing a stout man standing on the left of the table, who flourishes a stick in his right hand while with a blow from his fist he overturns a punch-bowl, having upset a tankard, a lemon, and a number of wineglasses which are falling to the ground. He says "Dont Talk to me of your Dukes & your Lords, I'm a True Born Englishman, & dont care for Nobody not I - they dare not invade us - Damme they dare not - you Glister Pipe, you pitiful Plaister Spreader You------". A dog barks at him. A thin and rather ragged-looking man on his right, his hands in his breeches pockets, says "Invade us - Damme, what can Soup Meager do against Beef & Plumb Pudding"; a pair of scissors projecting from his coat-pocket shows that he is a tailor; his stockings are ungartered and his shoes are unbuckled. On the extreme left an elderly man with a tie-wig and wearing a hat and pince-nez, sits in a chair reading a newspaper; he holds up a hand in dismay saying, "All's lost". Behind stands a waiter, his napkin under his arm, saying "Dr Prattle says right - I'll go over to the Opposition and never drink another Pot with my Lords Footman". Hats are hung up on the wall, and a bracket-clock shows that it is one o'clock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Apothecaries, tailors, &c. conquering France and Spain and Apothecaries, tailors, conquering France and Spain
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
"Interior of the council chamber, in session; large paintings adorn walls below dome with skylight."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 42., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 116.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Novr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Guildhall (London, England) and City of London (England). Court of Common Council.
"A large and plebeian crowd is being addressed from three roughly made platforms, one being in the middle distance, another in the background. In the foreground (right) a man, supposed to be Thelwall, leans from his rostrum in profile to the left, shouting, with clenched fists, and raised right arm. Behind him stands a ragged barber, a comb in his lank hair, holding out a paper: 'Resolutions of the London Corresponding Society'. Next him, a man with the high-crowned hat and bands of a dissenting minister holds a tattered umbrella over the orator. A man on the steps leading to the platform, wearing a bonnet-rouge (the only one in the crowd) has a vague resemblance to Fox. From the next platform (left) a butcher, supposed to be Gale Jones, bawls at the crowd with raised right arm. Beside him stand a man holding a scroll inscribed 'Rights of Citizens'. The third orator is a tiny figure (Hodgson) with both arms raised. All the platforms are surrounded by crowds, and hats and arms are being waved by those addressed by the butcher. In the foreground (left) a man sits holding out for signature a document which is supported on a barrel of 'Real Democratic Gin by Thelwal & Co.' Three little chimney-sweepers stand round it, one of whom, holding a pen, has just made his mark on the 'Remonstrance', below the signatures of 'Jack Cade', 'Wat Tyler', 'Jack Straw'. All wear caps with the name of their master on a brass plate (according to the Chimney-Sweepers' Act of 1788); this is 'Thelwall'. A fat woman sells a dram to one of the crowd. Another presides over a portable roulette or E.O. table, a 'teetotum', inscribed 'Equality & no Sedition Bill'; three barefooted urchins are staking their pence. The heads in general do not appear to be portraits, but in the centre of the design, with his back to the woman selling drams, is Priestley, caricatured, standing with folded arms facing Thelwall. There is a landscape background with trees up which spectators have climbed. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text, running on both sides of title: "I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap upon it." Shakspeare., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 16th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Jones, John Gale, 1769-1838, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Hodgson, Richard, 1760-1816, and London Corresponding Society.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of the press, Meetings, Petition, Right of., Sedition, Political crimes and offenses, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Crowds, Podiums, Political parades & rallies, and Working class
"Interior of the Athenian Lyceum on Piccadilly, during a meeting of the Debating Society."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 29., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 223., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.2 x 28 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 33.9 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Interior view of the Doctors' Commons, on Knightrider Street, London; the court in session seen through large arches; civilians watching court in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 31., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 224.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Augt. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Date from pencil notation, lower right: 8 juin 67., Place of publication derived from street address., Above image: Actualités 104., In image lower right: 29., Originally published in La Charivari, 8 June 1867., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Physicians caricatured; Clysters; Medical Congresses, international., and At lower right, in pencil: 8 juin 67.
Publisher:
A. de Vresse R Rivoli 55 and Lith. Destouches rue Paradis Pre. 28.
Subject (Topic):
Enema, Physicians, Meetings, Medical equipment & supplies, and Robes
"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
"The meeting taking place in a hall, with gallery."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 64., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 236.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England., England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Interiors, Religious services, and Meetings
"Interior of the Great Room in the Adelphi, during a meeting; a presentation taking place; large paintings cover walls of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 71., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 67.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)
"Interior of the Great Room in the Adelphi, during a meeting; a presentation taking place; large paintings cover walls of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 71., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 67., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.2 x 27.5 cm, on sheet 26.6 x 34.1 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)
"View of the interior of the board room of the society, on Sackville Street, Piccadilly; a group of men sit around a large green table facing further rows of men seated on benches, and lining the sides of the room; large windows to left, a doorway to right, a bust on a plinth in a niche in back wall to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 72., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 73.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
A group of London merchants met on 8 March 1769 in the pub the "King's Arms" to address the King and express confidence in the current government, but it desolved into a fist fight. The participants are identified in the British Museum catalogue as Mr. Tooke, Mr. Muilman, a Mr. Reynolds (fl. 1769) and Charles Dingley. See British Museum catalogue for further explanation of the events depicted
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 38 (1769), p. 147., For the sequel see "Battle of Temple Bar.", and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dingley, Charles, -1769, Muilman, Peter, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Vaughan, Samuel
Subject (Topic):
Fighting, Interiors, Meetings, Merchants, and Taverns (Inns)
The assembly of old batchelors and The assembly of old bachelors
Description:
Title below image., Place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Assemblee des vieux garçons., Below title is a verse from Dryden., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Pauls' Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Subject (Topic):
Life cycle, Human, Bachelors, Old age, Gout, Older people, Meetings, and Crutches
"The Committee" made up of members of Parliament who are depicted here seated around a table, their hats hung on the wall behind them; two members standing and debating; to the left, standing in doorway, a man wearing a long cloak, holding a staff. The sheet of paper on the table reads "The League & Covenant." The doorway is on the left as it appears in the original drawing
Alternative Title:
Committee and Comittee
Description:
Title engraved above image., From a series of twelve prints after Hogarth and issued by Robert Sayer. Publisher name from first print in series., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement on the first plate in this series. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered '10' in upper left corner., Nineteen lines of verse in three columns, below image: And now the saints begin their reigh, For which they'd yearn'd so long in vain ... He thus began his tale by fits, See the remainder under the next print., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
"The Committee" made up of members of Parliament who are depicted here seated around a table, their hats hung on the wall behind them; two members standing and debating; to the left, standing in doorway, a man wearing a long cloak, holding a staff. The sheet of paper on the table reads "The League & Covenant." The doorway is on the left as it appears in the original drawing
Alternative Title:
Committee and Comittee
Description:
Title engraved above image., Reversed copy of the first state of Hogarth's The committee. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 91., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered '10' in upper right corner.
A scene depicting a club meeting with most members sitting around a long candlelit table. One member, dressed in robes and apron, is standing on his chair, arms outstretched and raised while speaking to the members, "Aimons sauvons loir et matin."
Description:
Title from inscription in black ink on mount., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Fraternal organizations, Meetings, Public speaking, and Candles
A scene depicting the meeting of a fraternal organization with members standing along the two sides of a long table. A stout man dressed in robes with gloves tucked into an apron tied at his waist stands atop the table and addresses the group; a speech bubble emanating from his mouth, "Brothers I should by ashamed &c."
Description:
Title from inscription in black ink on mount., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Fraternal organizations, Meetings, Public speaking, and Candles
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Plate from Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., and Mounted to 37 x 32 cm.
