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21.
Wit's last stake, or, The cobling voters and abject canvassers [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[22 April 1784]
Call Number:
784.04.22.03+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A canvassing scene in a poor and disreputable district of Westminster, indicated by 'Peter Street' on the corner of the house. The Duchess of Devonshire canvasses a cobbler; she sits supported on Fox's knee, putting one foot on a cobbler's stall that he may do some imaginary repairs, for which she lavishly pays the man's wife, who leans forward, both hands held together to receive coins. The cobbler and his wife are behind a stall protected by a pent-house roof. On this is a notice, 'Shoes made and mended by Bob. Stichitt Cobler to her Grace the Tramping Dutchess NB Dogs Wormd Cats Gelded'. From an open casement window above it a man leans out waving a fox's brush; he holds a tankard and a long clay pipe in his left hand. Beside him a woman holds her head to vomit from the window, her elbows supported on the sill. A dog lies under the cobbler's stall. Fox, his right knee on his hat on the ground, the other supporting the duchess, turns round to give his right hand to a ragged man to whose mouth Sam House holds a tankard, his other hand pressed on the elector's head, who is shown by his long shovel to be a scavenger. Behind, a chimneysweeper with his brushes and his boy with brush and shovel are amused spectators. These figures fill the space to the left of Fox and the duchess. Behind are the irregular gabled roofs and casement windows of old Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cobling voters and abject canvassers
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate reissued for The history of the Westminster election. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: London: Peter Street -- Old Westminster -- Gabled roofs -- Casement windows -- Coblers' stalls -- Dishes: Tankards -- Clay pipes -- Shovels.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784 and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Wit's last stake, or, The cobling voters and abject canvassers [graphic].

22.
Blood & Co. setting fire to the tower & stealing the crown [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 July 1788]
Call Number:
788.07.26.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Fox, followed by Burke and Sheridan, hastily leaves a vaulted archway from which issue smoke and flames. George Hanger (left) runs in front, holding a burning firebrand; behind him is the White Tower in flames. Fox carries the crown which he partly conceals under his voluminous coat. Burke, dressed as a Jesuit (cf. BMSat 6026), holds the sceptre; he looks with satisfaction at Sheridan, who takes his arm. Sheridan holds the orb; in his hat is an election favour inscribed 'Townsend'. Hanger wears a cocked hat with an election favour, his military coat and tight breeches are in rags; under his arm is a sack labelled 'Unmill'd Coin'. Torn bills pasted on the wall behind Fox's head are inscribed 'the Westminster Election; for the Interest of Lord J. Townsd', and 'Leak's Pills'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Blood and Co. setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown and Blood and Company setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Following imprint: Price 1 s., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Lord John Townshend, 1757-1833 -- Allusion to Captain Mason, fl. 1671 -- Allusion to Thomas Blood, 1618?-1680 -- Tower of London -- Burning of White Tower -- Medical Signs: Pills -- Leake's -- Crowns -- Sceptres -- Orbs -- Election favours -- Attempted thievery: Blood and Mason, 1671 -- Perogatives: Fox's attempt to steal -- Torches: firebrand.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 26th, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Townshend, John, Lord., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788 and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Blood & Co. setting fire to the tower & stealing the crown [graphic].

23.
Election coalition [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1784]
Call Number:
784.04.13.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Second state entitled: Returning from Brooks's., Printmaker identified from description of the 2nd state. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6528., Temporary local subject terms: Coalitions -- Male costume: Hat of Prince of Wales with Fox's favor., Watermark in center of sheet: shield., and Mounted to 36 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784 and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Election coalition [graphic].

24.
Election-candidates, or, The republican-goose at the top of the polle the devil helping behind

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 May 1807]
Call Number:
807.05.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The rival candidates swarm up a pole, inscribed 'Westminster Election', in front of the hustings in Covent Garden. At the top is Burdett with the body and beak of a goose ... He is precariously poised on one webbed foot, the right leg. hanging down, dripping blood from a wound in the thigh (from Paull's bullet), but he is supported by a pitchfork held against his rightump by Horne Tooke, or the Devil, who stands astride the roof of the hustings. Tooke has webbed wings inscribed 'Deceit' and 'Sedition', cloven hoof and barbed tail, with round hat, coat, and clerical bands. Burdett's wings are 'Conceit' and 'Vanity'; his neck is stretched out towards an irradiated sun in the upper right. corner of the design, at which he is hissing, 'ssss [&c]' issuing from his beak. On the disk is a crown on a cushion; it is encircled by the words: 'The Sun of the Constitution'. Just below the goose is Cochrane, wearing the cocked hat and coat of a naval officer with striped seaman's trousers. He is active and agile, one hand on the pole, and one leg round it. In his right. hand he holds up a bludgeon: 'Reform', shouting fiercely to the mob below; his right. foot rests on the cask which encloses the paunchy body of the man below (Elliot), who is falling backwards. From his pocket issues a paper: 'Charges against St Vincent.' Below him legs and arms wildly outflung emerge from the cask which is inscribed 'Quassia' ... The head of the falling cask, inscribed 'Elliots Home Br[ewed], drops off, and its foaming contents pour down. Elliot drops a paper: 'Sixpenny Jack's Address'. Below Elliot, Sheridan, in his Harlequin suit (see BMSat 9916), enormously fat, grasps the pole with arms and legs, making no progress. Below him Paull falls head foremost and in back view to the ground; he is dressed as in BMSat 10725 and his (wounded) left leg breaks above the top-boot. He drops his shears and a cabbage. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Republican-goose at the top of the polle and Republican-goose at the top of the pole
Description:
Title etched below image., The second 'l' in 'polle' in alternative title is etched above the line, inserted into the word 'pole' using a caret., Text following title: Vide Mr. Paul's letter, article: Horne Tooke., Four lines of text below title: Also, an exact representation of Sawney McCockran flourishing the cudgel of naval reform ..., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.3 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 39 x 28.1 cm., and Price and identities of figures added in margin in Gillray's hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Paull, James, 1770-1808, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1807, Political elections, and Crowds
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Election-candidates, or, The republican-goose at the top of the polle the devil helping behind! / [graphic]

25.
Election-troops bringing in their accounts to the pay-table [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 August 1788]
Call Number:
788.08.14.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The 'Election-Troops', headed by Major Topham, advance towards the barred gate of the 'Treasury', behind which stands Pitt, holding a large key. He says, "I know nothing of you my Friends, Lord H------d pays all the expences himself - Hush! Hush! go to the back-Door in Great George Street under the Rose!" Topham holds out to Pitt a paper inscribed 'For Puffs & Squibs and for abusing opposition', in his right hand is a newspaper. 'The World' (see BMSat 7210, &c). Behind him is a dwarfish and ragged newsboy holding his horn, on his cap is the word 'Star' above a star. Under his arm is a copy of 'The Star' newspaper, in his right hand a paper inscribed 'For changing Sides; for hiring of Ballad Singers & Grub Street Writers. . .' . Next him is a publican holding a paper inscribed 'For Eating & Drink[ing] for Jack Ass Boys'. Behind these, three of the Foot Guards march together, each holding a paper inscribed 'For the attack in Bow Street' (see BMSat 7352); one holds a bayonet dripping with blood. Across the front of their caps is the word 'Hood'. A ragged and dwarfish cobbler holding a pair of shoes holds out a paper inscribed 'Far Voting 3 times'; he walks next two ballad-singers, one, fat, ragged, and pregnant, holds in her right hand a paper inscribed 'For Singing Ballads at 5 Skill pr Day . .', in her left hand is a sheaf of broadsides inscribed 'A begging we will go --- --- A new Song'. The woman next her holds a similar account; her hat is inscribed 'Hood'. On the extreme left is a sailor with a bludgeon who holds out a paper: 'For kicking up a Riot'. Next him is a burly and grinning negro (cf. BMSat 7367). Between these two and the cobbler a bearded Jew holds up in both hands a paper inscribed 'For Perjury & procuring Jew Voters'. Behind are the heads of the rest of the crowd; most wear election favours in their hats with the word 'Hood'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Price 1 s. 6.", Temporary local subject terms: Edward Thomas -- Reference to Horace Walpole -- Elections -- Military uniform of foot guards -- Naval uniform of sailors -- Negroes: Sailor with election favor in hat -- Newspapers: The World -- The Star., and Price mostly erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 14th, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Great Britain. Parliament, and Great Britain. Treasury.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Political elections, Newspaper vendors, and Shoemakers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Election-troops bringing in their accounts to the pay-table [graphic]

26.
Returning from Brooks's [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[13 April 1784]
Call Number:
784.04.13.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Prince of Wales, drunk, staggers along supported on his right by Fox, on his left by Sam House. He wears a 'Fox' favour and a Prince of Wales plume in his hat. Fox, whose left arm is linked in the Prince's right, points at him with his right forefinger. House (right) stands in back-view, turning his head to look at Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Gillray from British Museum catalogue., Originally issued without imprint and with the title: Election coalition. See Lewis Walpole Library 784.04.13.01.1., Etched below title in lower right: No. 12., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Coalitions -- Male costume: Hat of Prince of Wales with Fox's favor., and Oval image slightly trimmed at the top.
Publisher:
Published April 13, 1784, by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784 and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Returning from Brooks's [graphic].

27.
The butchers of freedom [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[July 1788]
Call Number:
788.07.00.02+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An election mob in which Townshend and his supporters, as butchers, are violently attacking the populace with cleavers and marrow-bones. They wear aprons with butchers' steels dangling from the waist. George Hanger (right), his hat decorated with three ostrich feathers and the coronet of the Prince of Wales, raises a cleaver in both hands and threatens two constables with staves who fall backwards, wounded or terrified. He is in violent action, one foot rests on the unconscious body of a sailor whose face is gashed and bleeding. In the sailor's hand is a flag with a ship and the words 'Royal Navy'; on this Townshend, who uses his marrow-bone and cleaver as a musical instrument, not as weapons, is trampling. Behind Hanger, Fox, climbing above the crowd, is violently smashing the sign of 'The King's Head' (a bust portrait of the King) which is over a door inscribed 'Martin'. In the foreground a woman half-lying on the ground tries to protect her screaming infant from a cleaver and bone brandished by Sheridan. On the extreme left Lord Derby attacks a kneeling sailor with a wooden leg. Behind Sheridan, Burke raises a cleaver in both hands, and behind him the Duke of Norfolk waves a flag inscribed 'Townsend and Liberty'. Behind is a dense crowd brandishing cleavers and bones, while others attempt to escape. On the right are houses inscribed 'James Str[eet]', the houses of Covent Garden are indicated on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text right of title: Price 1 s., and Mounted to 32 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July [...]th. by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Coleraine, George Hanger, Baron, 1751?-1824, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Axes, Butchers, Crowds, Political elections, Riots, Sailors, British, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The butchers of freedom [graphic].

28.
Doctor Barnacle driving a load of Spittalfields weavers to poll for Westminster [graphic]

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 6, 1784.
Call Number:
784.05.06.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster electors carted to polls -- 'Spittalfields weavers' -- Medal of the Westminster Justices of the Peace -- Ass-drawn carts -- Election favors -- Election flags -- Scrutiny -- Signs: Sign-posts -- Kelly, Justice of the Peace, fl. 1784., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, Morris, Charles, 1745-1838, Cartwright, John, 1740-1824, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Pharmacists, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Doctor Barnacle driving a load of Spittalfields weavers to poll for Westminster [graphic]

29.
Her +++++ carrying a plumper for Charly [graphic].

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 30, 1784.
Call Number:
784.04.30.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duchess of Devonshire (left) carries a fat butcher (right), both her arms round his waist, his right arm is round her waist, their faces are in profile looking at each other. She says, "I'll try all measures to bring the matter to a proper Issue"; he says, "Oh! - who can withstand such charms". She wears a large hat trimmed with a 'Fox' favour, laurel branch, and four fox's brushes inscribed respectively, 'Love and \ Liberty \ Delicacy and \ Decorum'. A crudely drawn hand on a signpost (right) points with a thumb 'To Covent Garden'. Behind the Duchess (left) is the corner of a building inscribed 'Newport Market'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Her Grace carrying a plumper for Charly
Description:
Title etched below image., Watermark (partial) right side of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 32 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, for the proprieter [sic], by T. Bun, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Political elections, Butchers, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Her +++++ carrying a plumper for Charly [graphic].

30.
Pro bono publico the political cluster in terrorem / [graphic]

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
June 25th, 1784.
Call Number:
784.06.25.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A conventional vine-branch ascends the left side of the design, then turns at right angles; from it hangs a symmetrical cluster of heads or masks of Fox and his supporters with closed eyes; the stalk attaching it to the branch is inscribed 'Ripe Fruit for Old Nick'. The central and largest head is that of Fox. On the left and right and slightly lower are the heads of North and Burke; these three are larger than the remaining heads. Between them and beneath Fox's chin are Keppel (left), and (right) perhaps Jack Lee. The apex of the cluster, between the stalk and Fox, is Lord Derby looking downwards. Flanking him, in profile, are Lord Stormont (left) and Lord John Cavendish (right)-Below Stormont and above North is the Duke of Portland, in profile to the left. Below Cavendish and above Burke is an unidentified profile having some resemblance to Carlisle. The lowest point of the cluster is the mask of Sam House. Between this and the heads of North and Burke on each side are two small profiles: below North (left) that of Hall the apothecary, and between Hall and House the hideous profile of the Westminster Justice (? Kelly), see BMSat 6575, &c.; below Burke (right) that of the Earl of Surrey, and between Surrey and House that of Powys. On the ground at the foot of the vine-branch and beneath the cluster is a pile of objects inscribed 'Trophies'. In the foreground (left) is a pair of crutches inscribed 'Patriotic Props'. In the centre of the base of the pile are (left) a fox's brush inscribed 'Euphorbium' (an allusion to the 'sneezing-bag' thrown at Fox, see BMSat 6426, &c.) and (right) a mask of the faces of Fox and North inscribed 'Coalition' imitated from 'The Mask by Sayers', see BMSat 6234. On the extreme left is a document inscribed 'Œconomy (but the word scored through) 24,000l. Pr Annum'; against it lie a pair of spectacles, emblems of Burke and the meagre results of his Bill of Economical Reform (cf. BMSat 5657). On the extreme right is a pestle (inscribed 'Capricum, Capricum') and mortar and another pair of spectacles, emblems of Hall the apothecary. Beside the pestle is a document inscribed 'Receipt Tax', an unpopular measure of the Coalition (see BMSat 6243, &c.) which was dropped by Pitt; a flag inscribed 'July 27th', a gibe at Keppel's conduct at the Battle of Ushant in 1778 (see BMSat 5992, &c); a paper inscribed 'American War', a gibe at North. In the centre, lying against the fox's brush, is a document inscribed 'India Bill' (see BMSat 6271, &c.) and an open book inscribed 'Platonic Love'. The three remaining trophies, at the summit of the pile, are a weaver's shuttle inscribed 'Weavers', to insinuate that Fox had bribed Spitalfields weavers to vote for him, see BMSat 6575, &c.; a laurel branch, emblem of victory in the Westminster Election; and a butcher's cleaver inscribed 'Westminster Election', emblem of the butchers canvassed by the Duchess of Devonshire"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political cluster in terrorem
Description:
Title from caption below image: Political cluster in terrorem, Text at top of image: Pro bono publico., and Temporary local subject terms: Bipartite masks: Fox and North -- Coalitions: Allusion to Fox-North Coalition, 1783 -- Apothecary's mortar and pestle -- Cleavers -- Allusion to canvassing butchers -- Taxes: Allusion to Receipt tax -- Allusion to 'sneezing bag' thrown at Fox, 12 February, 1784 -- Allusion to East India Bill, 1783 -- Allusion to Burke's bill on economical reform -- Allusion to American War -- Flags: allusion to the Battle of Ushant, 27 July, 1778 -- Allusion to Spittalfields weavers.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, Eyeglasses, Gallows, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Pro bono publico the political cluster in terrorem / [graphic]

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