"An old sow lies exhausted on a pile of straw outside a sty roofed with dilapidated thatch. She is beset by thirty-two voracious piglets with human heads. [The identifications are those of Miss Banks, confirmed by Lord Holland. The identifications of Wright and Evans are incomplete; Ellenborough is called the Speaker.] John Bull, a clumsy yokel in a smock, holding a pitchfork, looks over the low stone wall surrounding the sty. He exclaims: "O Lord - O Lord! - well! - I never had such a Litter of hungry Pigs in all my life before! - why, they's beyond all count! - where the devil do they think I shall find Wash & Grains for all their Guts? - zookers, why they a drain the poor old Sow to an Otomy! - 'e'cod She'll make but bad Bacon for Boney, when they's all done sucking o' her - !!!' In the centre of the struggling mass of pigs is Fox with Grenville on his left. and Grey on his right. He bestrides the Duke of Clarence, whose hind-quarters only (clad in blue and buff) are visible, and supports his right. hind-leg on the back of the Prince of Wales, who is in back view but wearing a ribbon and unmistakable. Grey also clambers over the Prince. On Grenville's l. is his fat nephew, Lord Temple. The head next Grenville is that of Sidmouth, across whose back Lord Henry Petty scrambles open-mouthed. Above Petty, Sheridan scrambles avidly over the sow; Erskine, in his Chancellor's wig scampers over the sow's hind leg. Lauderdale, whose body is chequered to indicate tartan, is behind Grenville, next him (l.) is Vansittart; on the left of the latter is a group of three plump pigs one with the head concealed, the others smiling with complacent anticipation; they are Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn and his two brothers, see BMSat 9760, &c. Behind them (l.) three pigs scamper towards the sow (l. to r.): Tierney, the Duke of Bedford, and Lord Derby. Behind again, and on the extreme left. are five rather smaller animals: George Walpole, Adair (half cut off by the margin), Burdett, Horne Tooke wearing clerical bands, and Lord Carlisle. On the r. of Grey and the Prince are Lord St. Vincent, with a foreleg on the Prince, Courteney, a foreleg on Grey, Lord Spencer who has secured a teat, and Windham who clambers downwards from the sow's shoulder. Between Courteney and Spencer is a pig whose head is concealed, 'not meant for any body'. Climbing up the farther side of the sow and on the r. are Lord Ellenborough in his wig, Lord Fitzwilliam, and Moira who scampers on the creature's back."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New litter of hungry grunters sucking John-Bulls-old-sow to death
Description:
Title etched below image., Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman 1817., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 5th, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1772-1840, Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams, 1775-1850, Wynn, Henry Watkin William, 1783-1856, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl, 1748-1833
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull, a spectacled citizen, sits by the table in the Commons reading an 'Extraordinary Red Book' and registering frantic anger. He shouts: "Oh!!--Monstrous!!!--that twenty six State Cormorants should swallow annually an aggregate sum: under the name of salaries, independent of the indefinible emoluments which result from other sources of gain amounting to--£453,692. Can we any longer wonder that the love of Place in these men should supersede every more exalted consideration." The mace rests on a scroll which hangs from the table: 'Plac[es] Earl of Liverpool 14,000,-- Mr Vansittart £7,500, &--Ge Rose £16,551--Vist Melville £11,000-- Mr Wellesley Pole £10,000.' On the floor is a paper: 'Droits of Admiralty' [see British Museum Satires No. 10967]. On the right behind John's chair Ministerial members sit in a close row, with a second row standing behind them. One stands on the extreme right holding a long scroll whose coiled end is under John's chair. It is 'A List of Placemen Pensions and Sinecures--Lord Arden £38,574 [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12802]--Earl Bathurst and C°--£37,225--Lord Castlereagh for Two Years Service £71,000--Ld Ellenborough £24,100--Ld Eldon £40,000 & & &c--Marquis Camden £23,000.' The members are burlesqued; four of them say: "I swallow--£10,000 and do very little for it"; "and I £16,000-- for doing next to nothing"; "and I 40,000£--for doing less"; "and I [Castlereagh] £71,000--for doing nothing at all." A fifth, wearing tartan with a Scots cap and taking snuff from a ram's horn mull (evidently Melville), says: "and I 18,000--for doing worse!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull reading the extraordinary red book
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "205" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Maces., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 61 in volume 3.
Publisher:
By Ths. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Arden, Charles George Perceval, Baron, 1756-1840., Wellesley-Pole, William, Earl of Mornington, 1763-1845, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828., Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851., Rose, George, 1744-1818, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794., Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis of, 1759-1840., Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull, a spectacled citizen, sits by the table in the Commons reading an 'Extraordinary Red Book' and registering frantic anger. He shouts: "Oh!!--Monstrous!!!--that twenty six State Cormorants should swallow annually an aggregate sum: under the name of salaries, independent of the indefinible emoluments which result from other sources of gain amounting to--£453,692. Can we any longer wonder that the love of Place in these men should supersede every more exalted consideration." The mace rests on a scroll which hangs from the table: 'Plac[es] Earl of Liverpool 14,000,-- Mr Vansittart £7,500, &--Ge Rose £16,551--Vist Melville £11,000-- Mr Wellesley Pole £10,000.' On the floor is a paper: 'Droits of Admiralty' [see British Museum Satires No. 10967]. On the right behind John's chair Ministerial members sit in a close row, with a second row standing behind them. One stands on the extreme right holding a long scroll whose coiled end is under John's chair. It is 'A List of Placemen Pensions and Sinecures--Lord Arden £38,574 [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12802]--Earl Bathurst and C°--£37,225--Lord Castlereagh for Two Years Service £71,000--Ld Ellenborough £24,100--Ld Eldon £40,000 & & &c--Marquis Camden £23,000.' The members are burlesqued; four of them say: "I swallow--£10,000 and do very little for it"; "and I £16,000-- for doing next to nothing"; "and I 40,000£--for doing less"; "and I [Castlereagh] £71,000--for doing nothing at all." A fifth, wearing tartan with a Scots cap and taking snuff from a ram's horn mull (evidently Melville), says: "and I 18,000--for doing worse!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull reading the extraordinary red book
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "205" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Maces., and Manuscript "94" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
By Ths. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Arden, Charles George Perceval, Baron, 1756-1840., Wellesley-Pole, William, Earl of Mornington, 1763-1845, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828., Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851., Rose, George, 1744-1818, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794., Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis of, 1759-1840., Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
New litter of hungry grunters sucking John Bulls old-sow to death
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Statement of responsibility is perhaps an allusion to Gillray's desire for a renewal of his pension. See British Museum catalogue., A copy of a print by Gillray, with the only changes in the design being the replacement of Walpole'a pig with a pig having a Jewish profile and the addition of a speech bubble originating from that new pig. Cf. No. 10540 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Watermark: A. Stace 1801., and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 6 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1806 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1772-1840, Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams, 1775-1850, Wynn, Henry Watkin William, 1783-1856, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl, 1748-1833
Vansittart and Castlereagh, as surgeons, bleeding coins from the arms of John Bull. The coins are collected by Prince Leopold, Princess Charlotte, a tiny McMahon, a Chinese mandarin, and the gouty Regent. Brougham, stands on the left, pointing finger at John Bull, saying, "Retrench! Johnny, Retrench! practise [sic] a little more Economy." and "John Bull sits foursquare in an arm-chair, between two surgeons, his arms extended horizontally and supported by the vertical poles which he clutches; these are spirally striped, like the barber's pole, and are such as were used by practisers of phlebotomy. The one in his right hand is inscribed 'Additional Military Staff to support the Peace'; the other: 'Wellington's Staff'. The surgeon on the left is Vansittart, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, triumphantly holding up his lancet as guineas spout from the incision in John's right arm. The coin is collected by Prince Leopold in a warming-pan inscribed '60,000 per Ann'. [see British Museum Satires No. 12754] and by Princess Charlotte, who holds out a large receptacle inscribed 'For Wedding Garm[ents] Diamond Trinkets & Baubles'. She looks sideways at the warming-pan; her very décolletée dress has a train, and she wears a small crown or coronet. His military tunic is covered with stars, and he stares intently at the golden shower. Castlereagh, with a cynical smile, operates on the left arm. A tiny McMahon swarms up the pole and holds out his 'Privy Purse', see British Museum Satires No. 11874, to catch a trickle from the wound. The main shower of guineas falls into the enormous jaws of a squatting and grotesque Chinese mandarin (see British Museum Satires No. 12749) whose obese body, in the form of a large bag, is inscribed 'To pay off Arrears of the Civil List'. Over this bag, the biggest of the receptacles depicted, the gouty Regent stoops forward, supported on crutches, his head turned to the left, staring with apprehensive malevolence at Brougham who stands on the extreme left, not caricatured. John Bull, a stout 'cit', wears patched and ragged waistcoat and breeches. His empty pockets are inside out. He registers alarm, and exclaims: "Pray good folks have a little mercy & spare the Vital stream which sustains me!-- Consider what Oceans I have spilt in the late Wars!--I am too much exhausted to Bleed as freely as formerly--You have Open'd so many veins & drain'd me so incessantly that I fear my Constitution is impair'd for ever! My Friends, say that I am Declining fast & will certainly Die of a Galloping Consumption!!!" Two hussars with drawn sabres stand on guard behind his chair, watching the operation with pleased surprise. Behind them, the middle distance and background are filled with soldiers standing at attention with drawn sabres or fixed bayonets, wearing braided tunics and high hussar caps. They have British flags, faintly indicated, one being a Union flag, another the Royal Standard, and a fringed banner inscribed 'Standing Army For the Peace Establishment'. On the right, behind the Regent, the Tsar walks off to the right, looking over his shoulder with a pleased smile; he carries a sack across his shoulder inscribed 'Subsidies Russia'. With him, but less conspicuous, are Francis I and Frederick William; each carries a basket on his head heaped with coins, one 'Subsidies For Austria', the other 'Subsidies for Prussia'. All three wear uniform. Brougham, who wears a long loose coat, with trousers, and holds a top-hat, stands in profile to the right, his right arm extended with admonitory finger pointing at John Bull. He says: "Retrench! Johnny, Retrench!--practise a little more Economy in your present Wretched State, or you'll never Recover!--you have too many Physicians & their constant Employment is very Expensive they will not leave you till they have the last Shilling!--Kick out the Doctors & a fig for the Disease!!" At his feet and in the foreground is a neat box inscribed '37 Styptics [see British Museum Satires No. 12750, &c.] for Curing John Bull's Dreadful Disorder by Brougham & C°.' Near it are the fragments of a broken tub inscribed: 'Property Tax receiver rendered useless by the "ignorant impatience" of John Bull.' In front of John are a jar of 'Leeches' and a book: 'The Red Book or or [sic] a list of Persons Holding Sinecures'. Three tubs heaped with coin stand on the right, each progressively larger in size, inscribed: [1] 'Regency Presents & Yearly Allowance to Bonaparte & the Govenors [sic] Establist at St Helena'; [2] 'To Support the Allied Army in France'; [3] 'Extra Allowance for Commissrs of Dockyards & other fresh-water Agents of the Navy who will on the Peace Establishment of 1816 greatly exceed in expence the War Estabt of 1804 when the British Navy with 140,000 seamen Covered the Ocean.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Month of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British.
Publisher:
Pubd. by F. Sidebotham, 96 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852., Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868., Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Phlebotomy, Gout, Taxes, and Military personnel
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vansittart, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, bestrides a large green bag, representing the budget, in shape rather like a gourd or cucumber, which rests on the pole of a velocipede (see British Museum Satires No. 13399) with two small and solid wheels, one inscribed 'Pensions', the other 'Places'. The bag: 'Bugget, Tea Tax, New Malt Tax, New Tobaco Tax, Coffee Tax'. A smaller bag has fallen from the machine (right): 'a few Odd Thousands for the New Tailors' [see British Museum Satires No. 13237, &c.]. Vansittart, leaning forward almost horizontally, steers his hobby-horse straight at John Bull (left) whom he (acrobatically) kicks in the mouth, knocking him over. He says: "Take care John I do'nt rightly know how to manage my new Hobby it is rather a Heavy Machine if you dont go out of the Road to Bottany Bay or Amercia [sic] I can't answer for the Consequnce [sic]." John, a fat drink-blotched 'cit' in patched clothes, falls backwards, exclaiming: "What the Devil the fellow at [sic] are you going to cram all this Down my Throat Zounds you will choak me." Behind John and on the extreme left is the sea-shore with a large sign-post pointing one way 'To America', the other 'To Starvation'. A ship lies at anchor; tiny figures, including a woman clasping an infant, flee in terror from Vansittart, towards 'America'. On the right is another sign-post, pointing (left) 'To Ruin'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
More taxes for John Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "328" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., and Leaf 30 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pub. June 19, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
