Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue, Temporary local subject terms: Toppling buildings -- Staff of Liberty -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Allusion to many politicians of the day -- Allusion to Gustavus III, King of Sweden., Watermark: fleur-de-lis with initials G R below., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs July 1, by J. Wjsen [sic] Walbrooke
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Columns, Liberty cap, Rats, Emblems, Shields, and Thrones
Leaf 17. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6495 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 124., and On leaf 17 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th, 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Monro, John, 1715-1791
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Physicians, Physical restraints, and Quizzing glasses
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 250 x 305 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
A stage coach is drawn by two starved horses across rough terrain. An anxious looking Duke of Portland, the nominal head of the government, is being taught how to drive by Charles Fox who is in control of the reins. Their relationship is undescored by the crests on the side panels of the coach with the fox sitting on ducal coronet. Lord North stands in the basket behind, in place of a footman, watching with anger the proceedings on the box. The front left wheel is broken after going over the "Loan" rock; a larger "Reform Bill" boulder is ahead of the horses and The text below image is a paraphrase of the Duke of Chandos's speech criticizing North's coalition with Fox: "Such was the love of Office of the noble Lord, that finding he would not be permitted to mount the Box, | He had been content to get up behind, vide the Duke of C------. . . s's Speech Morning Chronicle 15th April". This was a speech by Chandos on the Irish Judicature Bill, 14 April, violently attacking the Coalition: "he particularly arraigned the conduct of Lord North, and said that not being able to get again upon the state coach-box, he had been content to get up behind." 'Parl. Hist', xxiii. 755
Alternative Title:
Such was the love of office of the noble lord ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30.5 x 43.3 cm, on sheet 32.3 x 45 cm., and Mounted on leaf 18 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 5th May 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
A stage coach is drawn by two starved horses across rough terrain. An anxious looking Duke of Portland, the nominal head of the government, is being taught how to drive by Charles Fox who is in control of the reins. Their relationship is undescored by the crests on the side panels of the coach with the fox sitting on ducal coronet. Lord North stands in the basket behind, in place of a footman, watching with anger the proceedings on the box. The front left wheel is broken after going over the "Loan" rock; a larger "Reform Bill" boulder is ahead of the horses and The text below image is a paraphrase of the Duke of Chandos's speech criticizing North's coalition with Fox: "Such was the love of Office of the noble Lord, that finding he would not be permitted to mount the Box, | He had been content to get up behind, vide the Duke of C------. . . s's Speech Morning Chronicle 15th April". This was a speech by Chandos on the Irish Judicature Bill, 14 April, violently attacking the Coalition: "he particularly arraigned the conduct of Lord North, and said that not being able to get again upon the state coach-box, he had been content to get up behind." 'Parl. Hist', xxiii. 755
Alternative Title:
Such was the love of office of the noble lord ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 29.
Publisher:
Published 5th May 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
A stage coach is drawn by two starved horses across rough terrain. An anxious looking Duke of Portland, the nominal head of the government, is being taught how to drive by Charles Fox who is in control of the reins. Their relationship is undescored by the crests on the side panels of the coach with the fox sitting on ducal coronet. Lord North stands in the basket behind, in place of a footman, watching with anger the proceedings on the box. The front left wheel is broken after going over the "Loan" rock; a larger "Reform Bill" boulder is ahead of the horses and The text below image is a paraphrase of the Duke of Chandos's speech criticizing North's coalition with Fox: "Such was the love of Office of the noble Lord, that finding he would not be permitted to mount the Box, | He had been content to get up behind, vide the Duke of C------. . . s's Speech Morning Chronicle 15th April". This was a speech by Chandos on the Irish Judicature Bill, 14 April, violently attacking the Coalition: "he particularly arraigned the conduct of Lord North, and said that not being able to get again upon the state coach-box, he had been content to get up behind." 'Parl. Hist', xxiii. 755
Alternative Title:
Such was the love of office of the noble lord ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Published 5th May 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
"Fox is being chaired (left to right) in a high-backed chair wreathed with laurel, according to the custom in Westminster at the close of an election. The three supporters of the chair (three quarter length figures in the foreground) are three ladies, all young and pretty, one of course the Duchess of Devonshire. On the third (left) is inscribed 'Portland Place', probably the Duchess of Portland, possibly Lady Archer, called 'the Portland Place Archer'. The other is probably Lady Duncannon. All three wear hats trimmed with a fox's brush. The foremost lady (right) holds a paper inscribed 'British Constitution'. Beside Fox in his chair is the cap of Liberty on its staff; he holds up a torn paper inscribed 'Rights of England'; in his left hand is a paper inscribed 'Privileges of the People'. A cluster of cherubs' heads beside him, emerging from clouds, is inscribed 'Voice of the People'; the principal cherub blows a trumpet from which issue the words 'Fox & Liberty'. In the background behind the chair (left) is a sea of heads; on the right is Sam House wearing his hat. Beneath the design is etched:'Friends freemen Britons all your strength be tried To quell oppression stem corruptions tide Let shouting plaudits fill resounding air And Fox & virtue set in freedom's chair.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title trimmed from this impression? Title from earlier state published by W. Wall on April 12, 1784. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6524., Sheet trimmed on the bottom within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Countermark in center of sheet: T.W. [monogram].
Publisher:
Pubd. May 18, 1784 by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England) and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, Portland, Dorothy Cavendish, Duchess of, 1750-1794, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Musical instruments, Parades & processions, and Political elections
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Phillips" identified as printmaker in British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trumpet blown by cherub -- Furniture: Chair wreathed with laurel -- Cap of Liberty -- Cherubs' heads -- Election litters., and Mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12, 1784 by W. Wall, No. 31 Charles St. opposite Middlesex Hospittal [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England) and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, Portland, Dorothy Cavendish, Duchess of, 1750-1794, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Angels, Musical instruments, Canvassing, and Political elections
"Two men stand in the pillory on a small platform (left); over their heads is a cask, inscribed 'Small Beer', erected on a pole. Over the head of one left is Judas, indicating Sir Cecil Wray, over the other 'J.. k-s..n' indicating John Jackson, steward of the Duke of Newcastle and a prominent supporter of Wray, see British Museum Satires No. 6492. A large key hangs from the corner of the pillory, the emblem of the back-stairs by which Pitt and his supporters were supposed to have obtained office, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6564. Behind (right) walks a procession of maidservants who look scornfully at the victims; one carries a flag inscribed 'Tax on Maid Servants'; others, a broom, a mop, and a shovel. Immediately behind the platform the heads of a crowd, a row of staves marking the constables who stand in front, are suggested. Fox (right) stands in the foreground haranguing the crowd; he holds a Union flag inscribed 'The Rights of the Commons'. Behind him is a mob of men waving their hats, among whom Sam House is conspicuous. The scene is by the hustings in Covent Garden, the portico of the church (right) being lighdy sketched behind Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rights of the commons
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Text on flag within image: The rights of the commons., Reissue, with new imprint statement that is antedated. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.144., Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Publish'd as the act directs, May 7, 1784." See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Hustings -- Taxes: Tax on maidservants -- Brooms -- Mops -- Shovels -- Hats -- Election flags -- Election slogans: 'The rights of the Commons' -- Covent Garden: Piazza -- Portico of St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Pillories -- 'Small beer' -- Key of the Back Stairs -- Allusion to secret influence -- John Jackson, Duke of Newcastle's steward., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 26th, 1783, by H. Humphreys, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Servants, and Political elections
Tentative identification of Fox, Sheridan, Moira, Sir John Sinclair, and Sir George Shuckburgh in chairs, leaning against the sides of bunks in a ship, all sleeping or being ill
Alternative Title:
Margate hoy
Description:
Title from Draper Hill; alternative title from pencil inscription on verso: A Margate hoy. and Date from Draper Hill, who suggests that the drawing is a preliminary for one of the illustrations for the abandoned de luxe edition of Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835, and Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
Lord North, with an expression of anxious anticipation, applies white paint to Charles Fox's left cheek while Fox, his face inscrutable, descends the last step to the floor of the House of Commons taking North's left hand. A dog looks up at North. The inscription below the design reads, "--Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro, Translated for the Country Gentlemen, "I have found him a warm Friend a fair though formidable Adversary."
Alternative Title:
Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image., Printmaker identified as James Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with drypoint and stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 27.5 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 29.9 x 22.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 14 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1783 by Edwd. Hedges, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Lord North, with an expression of anxious anticipation, applies white paint to Charles Fox's left cheek while Fox, his face inscrutable, descends the last step to the floor of the House of Commons taking North's left hand. A dog looks up at North. The inscription below the design reads, "--Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro, Translated for the Country Gentlemen, "I have found him a warm Friend a fair though formidable Adversary."
Alternative Title:
Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image., Printmaker identified as James Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 23 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1783 by Edwd. Hedges, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Lord North, with an expression of anxious anticipation, applies white paint to Charles Fox's left cheek while Fox, his face inscrutable, descends the last step to the floor of the House of Commons taking North's left hand. A dog looks up at North. The inscription below the design reads, "--Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro, Translated for the Country Gentlemen, "I have found him a warm Friend a fair though formidable Adversary."
Alternative Title:
Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image. and Printmaker identified as James Sayers in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1783 by Edwd. Hedges, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, his cheeks inflated, blows at the flames; Fox (right), seated on a bulky roll inscribed 'Petition from the Cotton Manufacture[rs]', plies a pair of bellows. The fuel of the fire consists of papers inscribed 'Rumour', 'Evidence at the Bar' (2), 'Pamphlets', 'Pleadings at ye Bar' (2), 'Arguments'. The flames and smoke which extend above their heads are inscribed 'Distrust', 'To Scotland', 'Discontent', 'To the Chamber of Commerce', 'Objections', 'Jealousy', 'To Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 19.9 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 22 x 26.6 cm., and Mounted with one other print on leaf 29 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, his cheeks inflated, blows at the flames; Fox (right), seated on a bulky roll inscribed 'Petition from the Cotton Manufacture[rs]', plies a pair of bellows. The fuel of the fire consists of papers inscribed 'Rumour', 'Evidence at the Bar' (2), 'Pamphlets', 'Pleadings at ye Bar' (2), 'Arguments'. The flames and smoke which extend above their heads are inscribed 'Distrust', 'To Scotland', 'Discontent', 'To the Chamber of Commerce', 'Objections', 'Jealousy', 'To Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 47 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, his cheeks inflated, blows at the flames; Fox (right), seated on a bulky roll inscribed 'Petition from the Cotton Manufacture[rs]', plies a pair of bellows. The fuel of the fire consists of papers inscribed 'Rumour', 'Evidence at the Bar' (2), 'Pamphlets', 'Pleadings at ye Bar' (2), 'Arguments'. The flames and smoke which extend above their heads are inscribed 'Distrust', 'To Scotland', 'Discontent', 'To the Chamber of Commerce', 'Objections', 'Jealousy', 'To Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted to 27 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
"A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 10416. The thistle grows from papers resting on an upturned tub on the extreme right. The head, with Melville's profile facing his tormentors, is erect; the stem is inscribed 'His radiis rediviva viresco'. These roots or papers are inscribed: 'First Charge Lie Ist'; '2d Charge Lie 2d'; '3d Charge Lie 3d'; '5th Charge Lie 5'; '7th Charge Lie ye 7th'. Clouds of dense smoke issue from these papers and billow to the left. across the upper part of the design, carrying with them the heads of nine of Melville's discomfited assailants whom he regards with a slight smile. By the tub falls a sheaf of bulky papers headed 'Protest'. The heads are (left to right): Erskine (close to a plume of feathers denoting the Prince of Wales), Derby, a judge's wig in back view, [For many years this denoted Lord Loughborough (Rosslyn); he died in 1805.] Fox, Stanhope, Ellenborough (scowling), Howick, Sidmouth, Moira. The thistle is irradiated with rays dispelling the dark smoke and inscribed: 'Judicium Parum', 'Not Guilty', and 'Lex Terrae'. Beside them floats a scroll: 'No Crime by ye unanimous opinion of ye eleven Judges'. On the extreme left is a cask, on low trestles, in which stands Wilberforce, with the lank hair bands, and steeple-crowned hat of a seventeenth-century sectary; his hat blows off in the drifting cloud; he turns his head in profile towards the thistle saying, "Tis the Lords doing And has spoiled our Brewing." In the foreground is a procession, leaving the platform on which stands the thistle. On the extreme left is the Speaker, partly concealed by the left margin in wig, hat, and gown, but with no body (to indicate that he is nobody, cf. British Museum Satires No. 5570, &c.) and with the gown raised to show a large foot and ankle inscribed 'Ex pede Herculem'.[Judge the whole from the part, as you guess the size of Hercules from seeing only his foot. Abbot was very small.] He carries a pole inscribed 'Casting Vote' [see British Museum Satires No. 10301] attached to a small ladder. He is followed by two men who carry, slung from a drayman's pole (as in British Museum Satires No. 10574), a cask (damaged), from which Whitbread leans out to shake his left fist at Melville. Under his right hand is a paper: 'Vote of Thanks to the Managers'. From the bung-hole issues a mass of exploding froth inscribed 'not sweet wort'. The cask-bearers are descending the shallow steps from the platform, where a bulky paper lies: 'The Tenth Report waste Paper'. The two men wear bag-wigs; the foremost gloomily gnaws his nails; from his pocket hangs a torn paper: 'I do my Best and yet it fails I hold my tongue and Bite my Nails'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From such inquisitors, impeachers, tub politicians and tub-preachers ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Twelve lines of verse below image in two columns, one on either side of an empty space for the title bound by curly brackets: From such inquisitors, impeachers, tub politicians and tub-preachers, like wolves carnivorous ..., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 29.5 x 38.6 cm, on sheet 30.6 x 39.8 cm., Contemporary pencil annotations "The triumph of the thistle" and "unfinished sketch" within blank space below image intended for title., and Mounted on leaf 85 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, and Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
"A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 10416. The thistle grows from papers resting on an upturned tub on the extreme right. The head, with Melville's profile facing his tormentors, is erect; the stem is inscribed 'His radiis rediviva viresco'. These roots or papers are inscribed: 'First Charge Lie Ist'; '2d Charge Lie 2d'; '3d Charge Lie 3d'; '5th Charge Lie 5'; '7th Charge Lie ye 7th'. Clouds of dense smoke issue from these papers and billow to the left. across the upper part of the design, carrying with them the heads of nine of Melville's discomfited assailants whom he regards with a slight smile. By the tub falls a sheaf of bulky papers headed 'Protest'. The heads are (left to right): Erskine (close to a plume of feathers denoting the Prince of Wales), Derby, a judge's wig in back view, [For many years this denoted Lord Loughborough (Rosslyn); he died in 1805.] Fox, Stanhope, Ellenborough (scowling), Howick, Sidmouth, Moira. The thistle is irradiated with rays dispelling the dark smoke and inscribed: 'Judicium Parum', 'Not Guilty', and 'Lex Terrae'. Beside them floats a scroll: 'No Crime by ye unanimous opinion of ye eleven Judges'. On the extreme left is a cask, on low trestles, in which stands Wilberforce, with the lank hair bands, and steeple-crowned hat of a seventeenth-century sectary; his hat blows off in the drifting cloud; he turns his head in profile towards the thistle saying, "Tis the Lords doing And has spoiled our Brewing." In the foreground is a procession, leaving the platform on which stands the thistle. On the extreme left is the Speaker, partly concealed by the left margin in wig, hat, and gown, but with no body (to indicate that he is nobody, cf. British Museum Satires No. 5570, &c.) and with the gown raised to show a large foot and ankle inscribed 'Ex pede Herculem'.[Judge the whole from the part, as you guess the size of Hercules from seeing only his foot. Abbot was very small.] He carries a pole inscribed 'Casting Vote' [see British Museum Satires No. 10301] attached to a small ladder. He is followed by two men who carry, slung from a drayman's pole (as in British Museum Satires No. 10574), a cask (damaged), from which Whitbread leans out to shake his left fist at Melville. Under his right hand is a paper: 'Vote of Thanks to the Managers'. From the bung-hole issues a mass of exploding froth inscribed 'not sweet wort'. The cask-bearers are descending the shallow steps from the platform, where a bulky paper lies: 'The Tenth Report waste Paper'. The two men wear bag-wigs; the foremost gloomily gnaws his nails; from his pocket hangs a torn paper: 'I do my Best and yet it fails I hold my tongue and Bite my Nails'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From such inquisitors, impeachers, tub politicians and tub-preachers ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Twelve lines of verse below image in two columns, one on either side of an empty space for the title bound by curly brackets: From such inquisitors, impeachers, tub politicians and tub-preachers, like wolves carnivorous ..., Mounted to 37 x 56 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, and Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
On a long table representing the table at the House of Commons, lie the heads of Charles Fox (left) and Lord North (right) brought in according to the mock decision of the House inscribed above the image. There is no background, but the upper part of the design is covered by an inscription: 'Cui bono, publico bono. Die Lunae 9 Februarii 1784. In a Committee on the Sense of the Nation - Moved That for preventing future Disorders and Dissentions the Heads of the Mutiny Act be brought in and suffered to lie on the Table tomorrow - Ordered That all further proceedings upon the Act for dividing the Commons &ca be adjourned sine die - Ordered, Vox Populi, Cler. Par'.
Alternative Title:
Cui bono, publico bono
Description:
Title from description of another version of the design in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Another version, with only minute differences in text and image, of no. 8244 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted with one other print on leaf 24 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published [as] the act directs by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"Folding plate to 'Hints [ut supra] ... on his modelling a bust of Lord G ****** le' (a verse satire). Nollekens (three-quarter length) stands in back view placing a bust of Grenville on a shelf at the level of his head, between the busts of Pitt (left) and Fox (right). Grenville's eyes are slits; round his neck is a rosary with a cross. Pitt's head, turned to the right, looks over his shoulder at Grenville with a puckered brow ('dignified disgust'). Fox gazes to the left. Two other busts (right and left) on brackets look down with displeasure at Grenville. On an upper shelf is a group of antique busts, their expressions registering surprise or cynical amusement. With them is an oval medallion of a monk kneeling before a cross. Below, flanking Nollekens, are two marbles from his collection of antiques: a seated satyr (left) and a much-damaged torso inscribed 'ΑπΟΛΛωΝΙΟS ΝΕSΤOROS'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Six lines of quoted verse below image: "And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted, and with the Cross of Peter graced, between his quondam colleagues placed, propose with theirs to join his pate, and form a Bust Triumvirate"., Temporary local subject terms: Busts., 1 print : soft-ground etching and stipple engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 26.2 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 28.2 x 19.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 88 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published by R. Spencer
Subject (Name):
Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Sculpture, Monks, and Crosses
"Folding plate to 'Hints [ut supra] ... on his modelling a bust of Lord G ****** le' (a verse satire). Nollekens (three-quarter length) stands in back view placing a bust of Grenville on a shelf at the level of his head, between the busts of Pitt (left) and Fox (right). Grenville's eyes are slits; round his neck is a rosary with a cross. Pitt's head, turned to the right, looks over his shoulder at Grenville with a puckered brow ('dignified disgust'). Fox gazes to the left. Two other busts (right and left) on brackets look down with displeasure at Grenville. On an upper shelf is a group of antique busts, their expressions registering surprise or cynical amusement. With them is an oval medallion of a monk kneeling before a cross. Below, flanking Nollekens, are two marbles from his collection of antiques: a seated satyr (left) and a much-damaged torso inscribed 'ΑπΟΛΛωΝΙΟS ΝΕSΤOROS'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Six lines of quoted verse below image: "And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted, and with the Cross of Peter graced, between his quondam colleagues placed, propose with theirs to join his pate, and form a Bust Triumvirate"., Temporary local subject terms: Busts., and Mounted on page 106.
Publisher:
Published by R. Spencer
Subject (Name):
Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Sculpture, Monks, and Crosses
"Folding plate to 'Hints [ut supra] ... on his modelling a bust of Lord G ****** le' (a verse satire). Nollekens (three-quarter length) stands in back view placing a bust of Grenville on a shelf at the level of his head, between the busts of Pitt (left) and Fox (right). Grenville's eyes are slits; round his neck is a rosary with a cross. Pitt's head, turned to the right, looks over his shoulder at Grenville with a puckered brow ('dignified disgust'). Fox gazes to the left. Two other busts (right and left) on brackets look down with displeasure at Grenville. On an upper shelf is a group of antique busts, their expressions registering surprise or cynical amusement. With them is an oval medallion of a monk kneeling before a cross. Below, flanking Nollekens, are two marbles from his collection of antiques: a seated satyr (left) and a much-damaged torso inscribed 'ΑπΟΛΛωΝΙΟS ΝΕSΤOROS'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Six lines of quoted verse below image: "And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted, and with the Cross of Peter graced, between his quondam colleagues placed, propose with theirs to join his pate, and form a Bust Triumvirate"., Temporary local subject terms: Busts., and Mounted to 43 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Spencer
Subject (Name):
Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Sculpture, Monks, and Crosses
"Thurlow as Balaam, riding (right to left) on an ass with the head of Pitt, is confronted by Fox (left) holding a sword with a serpentine blade and the shield of Britannia. The ass says, "Am not I thy Pitt=ifull Ass; upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine". Thurlow, on a larger scale than Fox and the ass, which is much overweighted, wears his Chancellor's wig and gown and holds his mace against his right shoulder; he looks fixedly at Fox. A low and irregular stone wall forms a background. Beneath the design is etched: 'And they came unto Balaam and said unto him, thus saith Balak the Templeite, let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me, for I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore I pray thee, curse me this People. Balaam rose up in the Morning and saddled his Ass, and went with the Lords of the Bed-Chamber, now the Man of the People stood in the way for an adversary against him, and when the Ass saw the Man of the People, he fell down under Balaam and Balaam's anger was kindled; and he smote the Ass with the Mace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G R., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Colliers -- Fullers -- Coal pits -- Shovels -- Literature: Aesop's fables, no. 88., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Sold at No. 34 King Street, St. Ann's, Soho
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
On the top of a hill, Lord Shelburne (William Petty) stands leaning against a gallows, his hands crossed at the wrists and eyes downcast. In front of him are Charles Fox and Lord North, their left hands joined. North's right hand reposes reassuringly on Fox's left shoulder. Fox points to Shelburne behind him with his right thumb. All three have beards characterizing them as Jews. The text below the design reads, "And Herod and Pilate were made Friends together that same Day; for before they were Enemies one to another. Luke. Cap 23, Ver 12."
Alternative Title:
And Herod and Pilate were made friends together that same day
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1783, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Gallows, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
"Fox and Burke (half length) seen through the barred window of a brick building in which they are imprisoned. They are Hudibras and his squire as in British Museum Satires No. 6361, but in a prison instead of in the stocks. Above the barred aperture is inscribed 'Bailiffs for Middlesex' showing that it is a sponging-house for debtors (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6483, &c). Outside stands the Duchess of Devonshire looking at them over her right shoulder. She wears a hat with a 'Fox' favour, trimmed with feathers and fox's tails as in the canvassing caricatures, but wears a plain riding-dress of masculine cut [Cf. 'Her Grace sometimes rides about in a black riding habit, which is very convenient in case she should be obliged to enter into contact with a Chimneysweeper'. A newspaper paragraph quoted in 'Westminster Election', p. 246.] instead of the usual voluminous petticoats. Her left hand rests on a tasselled cane. She is Hudibras's Lady who visited the pair in prison and released them; her words are etched beneath the design: 'O heavens! quoth she, can this be true? I do begin to fear 'tis you: Not by your individual whiskers, But by your dialect and discourse. That never spoke to man or beast In notions vulgarly exprest: But what malignant star alas! Has brought you both to this sad pass? Hudibras, canto I mo.' [i.e. Part II, canto 1]. On the brick wall of the prison bills are posted: 'Several Pouting lips to be hired by the day by Deven'; [ One of the advertisements for Hood and Wray ran: 'To be hired for the day, several pair of ruby pouting lips, of the first quality, [etc. etc.].' 'Westminster Election', p. 99.] Hood Ray Fox; 'Hood and Wray for ever; Leakes justly famous pills for curing the veneral . . . [cf. British Museum Satires No. 6530]; No Coalition No Bribery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Sir Cecil Wray, 1734-1805 -- Allusion to Samuel Hood, 1724-1816 -- Allusion to Walter Leake, fl. 1772- -- Literature: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, Hudibras, part II, canto 1 -- Medicine: Leake's pills for curing venereal disease -- Signs: 'Bailiffs for Middlesex' above prison window -- Placards on prison walls -- Coalitions: Allusion to Fox-North coalition, 1783 -- Female costume -- Election favors -- Debtors' prisons -- Sponging houses -- Walking staves -- Quackery: Leake, Walter, fl. 1772-., and Partial watermark in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd by I. Notice, Oxford Road
Subject (Geographic):
England) and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Political elections, Prisons, and Riding habits
Title, imprint, and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture -- Pictures amplify subject -- Poland and Hungary -- Wall map., and Below the image, the three figures are indentified in contemporary hand as: Lord Loughborough, Mr. Wedgwood, Earl of Portland.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795, and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Five pairs of implacable enemies are shown in the act of reconciliation. Britannia and America clasp hands on the left; behind them the Duke of Richmond takes the hand of Parson Bate ; in the center foreground Fox (with a fox's head) brings together Shelburne and Lord Denbigh, the latter having the body of a dog; behind them are Sir Hugh Palliser and Admiral Keppel, and on the far right John Wilkes and George III shake hands
Alternative Title:
Wonders wonders wonders and wonders
Description:
Title from item. and See no. 6162 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5 for another print with the same title, on a similar theme.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 9, 1782 by I. Langham print coulerer No. 84 Dorset Street Salisbury Court Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Denbigh, Basil Fielding, Earl of, 1719-1800, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824 (Henry Bate),, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Shaking hands, and Clothing & dress
"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
"Pitt sits astride a huge pile of bundles strapped to the back of a bull (John Bull); he is about to enter a high archway inscribed 'Trea[sury]'. His pose and expression combine jauntiness with dignity. His head is in profile to the right, his right hand on his hip, he wears a large bag to his wig, and while pressing his hat under his left arm holds the (slack) reins of the bull; his long thin leg hangs considerably above the bull's back, owing to the height of the bundles. The sturdy bull, though with downcast head and closed eyes, is not weighed down with his burden. Dundas (right), in Highland dress, marches grinning in front of the bull, playing the bagpipes which are inscribed 'Union Pipes' and have a transparent bag filled with coins. The bull's burden consists of ten superimposed bundles, inscribed with figures relating to the Loyalty Loan. Some of these are '50 000!, 30 000!, East India Company 2 000 000!!!, Duke of Queensbury 100-000!, 100 000!, Pit[t] D. dass 10000 [partly obscured by Pitt's foot], 50000, Duke of Bridgewater 100 000!, Corporation of London 100 000!' Behind the bull and on the extreme left are crowded together four British Jacobins, much caricatured, wearing bonnets-rouges and looking up at Pitt with anger and dismay. Their heads rise vertically one behind the other; the foremost and lowest is Fox, clenching his fist, next Sheridan in profile; then Stanhope, the fourth a mere scrawl."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: Strasburg bend with date 1798?, and Mounted to 42 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Finance, Public, Economic conditions, John Bull (Symbolic character), Debts, Public, Loyalty Loan, and Musical instruments
"The interior of a large church or cathedral. Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, standing within a low, semicircular wall at the foot of a crucifix, marries the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. The Prince is about to put the ring on her finger. Fox gives her away, holding her left wrist. Beside him (right) stands Weltje in back view but looking to the left at the ceremony. A napkin is under his left arm, bottles project from his coat-pockets, and the tags on his shoulder denote the liveried manservant. To the left of Fox appears the profile of George Hanger. On the left North sits, leaning against the altar wall, sound asleep, his legs outstretched. He wears his ribbon but is dressed as a coachman, his hat and whip beside him. All the men wear top-boots to suggest a runaway match. Behind the Prince in a choir seat is a row of kneeling monks who are chanting the marriage service. The crucifix is partly covered by a curtain, but the legs and feet are painfully distorted ... On the wall and pillars of the church are four framed pictures: 'David watching Bathsheba bathing', 'St. Anthony tempted by monsters', 'Eve tempting Adam with the apple', and 'Judas kissing Christ', the last being over the head of Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Trip to the Continent and Wife and no wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent., and Watermark: Strasburg bend & lily / W and J Whatman.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane, London
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Churches, Clergy, Monks, Royal weddings, and Sleeping
"The interior of a large church or cathedral. Burke, dressed as a Jesuit (cf. BMSat 6026), standing within a low, semicircular wall at the foot of a crucifix, marries the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. The Prince is about to put the ring on her finger. Fox gives her away, holding her left wrist. Beside him (right) stands Weltje in back view but looking to the left at the ceremony. A napkin is under his left arm, bottles project from his coat-pockets, and the tags on his shoulder denote the liveried manservant. To the left of Fox appears the profile of George Hanger. On the left North sits, leaning against the altar wall, sound asleep, his legs outstretched. He wears his ribbon but is dressed as a coachman, his hat and whip beside him. All the men wear top-boots to suggest a runaway match. Behind the Prince in a choir seat is a row of kneeling monks who are chanting the marriage service. The crucifix is partly covered by a curtain, but the legs and feet are painfully distorted as in BMSat 6026. On the wall and pillars of the church are four framed pictures: 'David watching Bathsheba bathing', 'St. Anthony tempted by monsters', 'Eve tempting Adam with the apple', and 'Judas kissing Christ', the last being over the head of Fox."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Trip to the Continent and Wife and no wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally issued with the publication line: Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane, London, March 27, 1786. Cf. No. 6932 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires v. 6., Companion print to: "The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriage of Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert -- Allusion to Bible stories: Adam and Eve -- Allusion to Bible stories: David and Bathsheba -- Allusion to Bible stories: St. Anthony tempted by monsters -- Allusion to Bible stories: Judas kissing Christ., and Formerly matted with a counterproof of: The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent. (See LWL 788.04.05.01++ Impression 2).
Publisher:
Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt., London
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following the imprint: ... where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures in Europe, also a correct model of the guillotine 6 feet high, admitt. 1 shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: daggers -- Gallows -- Poison -- Allusion to George IV -- Reference to sansculottes., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 25, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd accg to act. Feby. 17, 1780 by D. Long
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"A satire on the peace negotiations and on Windham's Training Act. The scene is outside the 'Treasury', the lower part of its façade forming the background. Ministers and their supporters as 'Corporal and Conscripts' obey the orders of their 'Drill-Serjeant' Napoleon, who stands on the extreme left., his jack-boots firmly planted on cannon-balls him height. He extends his sword with an arrogant gesture, and fiercely orders: "Ground - Arms!" Next him, and in back view, but looking up at him, is Fox seated in an invalid's wheeled chair on the back of which are the coronet and feathers of the Prince of Wales. He is 'Grand Double Drums' and is vigorously beating a pair of kettle-drums, one inscribed 'GR' and crown, the other 'N' and crown. He wears a dressing-gown and bonnet rouge, and his enormously distended legs are straddled outside his drums. On Fox's r. is the 'Flugel Man', Grenville, going through the movement as a pattern to the other privates. He kneels on the left knee and grounds his musket, putting up his hand to shield his eyes; his bayonet is broken, as is its sheath. The 'Corporal & Conscripts' drawn up (r.) facing Napoleon attempt the movement with extreme awkwardness and obsequious haste, not excepting Windham the corporal, the end man (r.) of the front rank. Next him is Lord Holland, on both knees, with an amiable smile. Then Sheridan, very bulky and awkward, but unlike the others directing his musket towards Napoleon. Petty, on both knees, flings down his musket with an obsequious gesture. Next him Lord Temple grovels displaying spherical posteriors. Next, at the end of the line, and close to the gate of the Treasury, kneels Erskine, in wig and gown, raising his hat. In the second rank, behind Windham, is Howick, First Lord, deferentially raising a naval cocked hat; Sidmouth staggers back, throwing up his arms and dropping his musket which lands on his face. Next are Spencer, clumsily lifting his musket, and Ellenborough in wig and gown, with a blunderbuss which he seems about to dash violently on the ground. Behind him is Moira, stiff and tall, in uniform with cocked hat, holding up a musket exploding at lock and barrel. Behind and in shadow are (l. to r.) St. Vincent, Hanger, and the Duke of Clarence, all holding up the muskets which the next rank prevents them from grounding. Most of the 'conscripts' wear civilian dress with crossed bandoleers, and are in most unsoldierly confusion. By the Treasury gate and facing Erskine stands the 'Constable of the Corps', Talleyrand, holding a long constable's staff, crowned, his left. arm extended in a gesture of command; one twisted leg is supported by a stilt under the shoe. As ex-Bishop of Autun (see BMSat 8088) he wears a hat whose crown is a mitre, a long gown and bands over his coat, and a rosary. In his mouth is a pen. Above his head a bird with webbed wings and the head of Lauderdale flies towards Fox, clutching a paper: 'Terms of Peace'. In his mouth is a completely are olive branch. He wears a bonnet rouge, and his body is covered with tartan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Series of mocking military are etched below image and correspond with figures in the design: Drill-Serjeant [Napolean], Constable of the Corps [Talleyrand-Périgord], Grand Double-Drums [Fox], Flugel Man [Grenville], Corporal & Conscripts [remaining figures]., Figures identified by ms. annotations in modern hand throughout outer margin of print., and Mounted to 35 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1st, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
"Fox as Dr. Busby birches Pitt and his supporters in a lofty hall with stone walls. Fox (left) sits under a statue of Justice which is in an alcove above his head, a birch-rod in her right hand, in the left, her scales evenly balanced. Pitt lies across Fox's knee, his posteriors scarred; he says, "O pardon me & I'll promise you on my honor that I will Honestly & boldly endeavour a reform!" Fox, his birch-rod raised to smite, says, "That's all Twaddle! - so here's for your India Task! there! there! there! & there's for blocking up the old Womens Windows & making them drink Tea in the dark! - there! there! & there's for------O I've a a a hundred accounts to settle - there! there! there! there! there! there." Those who have been already chastised are borne off (right), a sea of heads, on the backs of the Foxite party ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dr. Busby settling accounts with Master Billy and his playmates
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Illustrious burns, might merit more regard ...", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 41 x 29 cm., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1785, by J. Ridgeway, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Robinson, John, 1727-1802, Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Sculpture, Justice, Scales, Buttocks, Chamber pots, and Spanking
Political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse ...
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Horse-racing -- Signs: Sign-posts -- Horses -- Asses -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire., and Mounted to 28 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 19 May, 1784, by WH, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
Political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue for: The history of the Westminster election, with folds in the plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Signs: Sign-posts -- Allusion to George III.
Publisher:
Pub. 19 May, 1784, by WH, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Donkeys, Horses, and Political elections
Three candidates for Westminster election are shown under the portico of St. Paul's, from left, Admiral Rodney, accompanied by the figure of Neptune, sword in his right hand, announcement of victory over the Spanish fleet at Gibraltar in his left; Charles James Fox, holding in his left hand an open book inscribed "Magna Charta" and accompanied by the figure of Britannia petting a fox seated in her lap; Lord Lincoln, who lost the election, with a devil hovering above him. He is holding a scroll inscribed with the number of purchased votes and acknowledgement of bringing the news of the capture of Charleston. Below the portico the poll-clerks sit behind a long table, their books on top. Fox's supporters are gathered to the right and can be distinguished by fox's tails in their hats. A band of butchers plays in the foreground. More tails are offered for sale at the stand to the far right. A man carries a stuffed fox on a pole, placarded "4878 Reynard for ever." Next to him is a barrel of beer
Description:
Title from item. and Variant of no. 5699 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs Sept. 25, 1780, by P. Mitchell, North Audly Stt. Grosr. Sqr. & J. Harris, Sweething Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Clinton, Duke of, 1752-1795, and Neptune (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Demons, Political elections, Crowds, Foxes, and Butchers
Verso of leaf 94. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the lower left corner stands Lord North, his right arm raised, delivering a speech while Cornwall, the Speaker, is looking at him from his chair in the upper left corner of the image. On the right, rising from a cloud, are Fox and Burke, both violently gesticulating in their attack on North. Below the figures of North and Fox are excerpts from the speech they made attacking each other before the formation of their coalition. A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6188
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: Neithe [sic] war nor peace! : the astonishing coalition., Mounted on verso of leaf 94., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 13.7 x 18.9 cm, on sheet 19.6 x 26 cm, mounted to 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 9th March 1783 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Public speaking, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Verso of leaf 94. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the lower left corner stands Lord North, his right arm raised, delivering a speech while Cornwall, the Speaker, is looking at him from his chair in the upper left corner of the image. On the right, rising from a cloud, are Fox and Burke, both violently gesticulating in their attack on North. Below the figures of North and Fox are excerpts from the speech they made attacking each other before the formation of their coalition. A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6188
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: Neithe [sic] war nor peace! : the astonishing coalition., Annotations in contemporary hand below plate line., and Watermark (partial).
Publisher:
Pub. 9th March 1783 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Public speaking, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Duchess of Devonshire as Britannia -- Shield of virtue -- Cap of Liberty -- Staff of Liberty -- Trumpets -- Laurel wreaths -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers., and Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Pubd. 23d May, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
Full length caricature of Charles James Fox, making a campaign speech, his right arm raised and fists clenched
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.3 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 2 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in each print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Fox.
"Fox reclines in an armchair of Gothic shape, his vast swathed legs resting on a cushion, his head against a pillow. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap. His friends and colleagues stand round him. On his right. is Mrs. Fitzherbert, a meretricious 'Abbess' (cf. BMSat 5181, &c), holding a rosary and placing her hand under his chin; her face and breasts are covered by a large veil of transparent black. On his left. stands a bishop in lawn sleeves and mitre, a rosary hanging from his waist; he puts one hand on Fox's arm, and raises the other in admonition, saying, "O Tempora, O Mores! - Charley! dear Charley! - remember your poor Soul! - & if you're spared this time give us Emancipation - or!!!" His head is concealed, but he is identified by Lord Holland as O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath, educated as a Catholic, and a Whig pamphleteer. Mrs. Fitzherbert says: "Do confess your Sins Charley! do take Advice from an Old Abbess [cf. BMSat 10404] & receive Absolution! - here is Bishop O'Bother, 'twill be quite snug among Friends you know!" Fox says: "I abhor all Communion which debars us the comfort of the Cup! - will no one give me a Cordial?" Facing Fox, and in back view, stands the Prince, holding a handkerchief to his face; he says: "Alas! poor Charley! - do give him a Brimmer of Sack, 'twill do him more good Abbess, than all the Bishop's nostrums!" In his left hand he holds his cocked hat; in a coat-tail pocket is a pamphlet: 'Letter from N. Jeffreys'. Sheridan on the extreme right., furtive and bloated, puts his hand on the bishop's shoulder, saying, "Emancipation! - fudge! - why Dr OBother I thought you knew better!" In his pocket is a paper: 'Scheme for a new Administra[tion]'. Behind him stands Howick, in the extremity of grief, throwing back his head, and holding his handkerchief to his face. Three men stand, on the Prince's l., looking towards Fox, all weeping with raised handkerchiefs. Their heads rise one above and behind the other from the short Petty who wears a laced coat and bag-wig and has a large roll under his arm: 'New Taxes for 1806'. He says "Ah poor me! - If my Dancing-Days are over!" Windham says: "O Lord! what side can I tack round to Now!" The tall Moira says: "I must get back to Ballynahinch! Och! Och." [The allusion is to Moira's Irish estate and to Canning's verses, 'Ballynahinch' in the 'Anti-Jacobin', 9 July 1798, cf. BMSat 9235.] The three '(Ministerial) Grenvilles stand in the doorway (l.) apart from the mourners. Lord Grenville turns to Sidmouth, who is just within the room, putting a hand on his arm, and saying, "Well Doctor, have you done his business? - shall we have the Coast clear, soon?" Sidmouth answers, with sly satisfaction, "We'll see!" He holds a bottle labelled 'Composing Draft' [cf. BMSat 9849]. The spectacled Marquis of Buckingham looks round to say "O! Such a Day as This! so renown'd so Victorious"; his son, Lord Temple, continues: "such a day as This! was never seen!" In the foreground (l.) the fat Mrs. Fox faints in a small ornate chair; under her chair is a square spirits-bottle of 'True Maidstone', with a broken glass beside it. Lord Derby, wearing top-boots, bends over her, holding a bottle to her nose. He says: "My dear old Flame Bet, dont despair! - if Charley is pop'd off - a'nt I left to Comfort you - ?" On a stool at Fox's r. hand is a urinal decorated with Britannia, standing on a scroll: 'Negotiations for Peace between Great Britain & France'. On the ground beside him are a broken dice-box and dice. Behind the back of Fox's chair heavy fringed curtains are festooned, giving an impression of ducal magnificence, the scene being the Duke of Bedford's house in Arlington Street (or Stable Yard, St. James's)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Catholics -- Furniture: Gothic armchair -- Rosaries., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: British politics., 1 print : etching with aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 36.1 cm., and Restrike?
Publisher:
Pubd. July 28th, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
O'Beirne, Thomas Lewis 1748?-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"Fox reclines in an armchair of Gothic shape, his vast swathed legs resting on a cushion, his head against a pillow. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap. His friends and colleagues stand round him. On his right. is Mrs. Fitzherbert, a meretricious 'Abbess' (cf. BMSat 5181, &c), holding a rosary and placing her hand under his chin; her face and breasts are covered by a large veil of transparent black. On his left. stands a bishop in lawn sleeves and mitre, a rosary hanging from his waist; he puts one hand on Fox's arm, and raises the other in admonition, saying, "O Tempora, O Mores! - Charley! dear Charley! - remember your poor Soul! - & if you're spared this time give us Emancipation - or!!!" His head is concealed, but he is identified by Lord Holland as O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath, educated as a Catholic, and a Whig pamphleteer. Mrs. Fitzherbert says: "Do confess your Sins Charley! do take Advice from an Old Abbess [cf. BMSat 10404] & receive Absolution! - here is Bishop O'Bother, 'twill be quite snug among Friends you know!" Fox says: "I abhor all Communion which debars us the comfort of the Cup! - will no one give me a Cordial?" Facing Fox, and in back view, stands the Prince, holding a handkerchief to his face; he says: "Alas! poor Charley! - do give him a Brimmer of Sack, 'twill do him more good Abbess, than all the Bishop's nostrums!" In his left hand he holds his cocked hat; in a coat-tail pocket is a pamphlet: 'Letter from N. Jeffreys'. Sheridan on the extreme right., furtive and bloated, puts his hand on the bishop's shoulder, saying, "Emancipation! - fudge! - why Dr OBother I thought you knew better!" In his pocket is a paper: 'Scheme for a new Administra[tion]'. Behind him stands Howick, in the extremity of grief, throwing back his head, and holding his handkerchief to his face. Three men stand, on the Prince's l., looking towards Fox, all weeping with raised handkerchiefs. Their heads rise one above and behind the other from the short Petty who wears a laced coat and bag-wig and has a large roll under his arm: 'New Taxes for 1806'. He says "Ah poor me! - If my Dancing-Days are over!" Windham says: "O Lord! what side can I tack round to Now!" The tall Moira says: "I must get back to Ballynahinch! Och! Och." [The allusion is to Moira's Irish estate and to Canning's verses, 'Ballynahinch' in the 'Anti-Jacobin', 9 July 1798, cf. BMSat 9235.] The three '(Ministerial) Grenvilles stand in the doorway (l.) apart from the mourners. Lord Grenville turns to Sidmouth, who is just within the room, putting a hand on his arm, and saying, "Well Doctor, have you done his business? - shall we have the Coast clear, soon?" Sidmouth answers, with sly satisfaction, "We'll see!" He holds a bottle labelled 'Composing Draft' [cf. BMSat 9849]. The spectacled Marquis of Buckingham looks round to say "O! Such a Day as This! so renown'd so Victorious"; his son, Lord Temple, continues: "such a day as This! was never seen!" In the foreground (l.) the fat Mrs. Fox faints in a small ornate chair; under her chair is a square spirits-bottle of 'True Maidstone', with a broken glass beside it. Lord Derby, wearing top-boots, bends over her, holding a bottle to her nose. He says: "My dear old Flame Bet, dont despair! - if Charley is pop'd off - a'nt I left to Comfort you - ?" On a stool at Fox's r. hand is a urinal decorated with Britannia, standing on a scroll: 'Negotiations for Peace between Great Britain & France'. On the ground beside him are a broken dice-box and dice. Behind the back of Fox's chair heavy fringed curtains are festooned, giving an impression of ducal magnificence, the scene being the Duke of Bedford's house in Arlington Street (or Stable Yard, St. James's)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Catholics -- Furniture: Gothic armchair -- Rosaries., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: British politics., and Mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 28th, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
O'Beirne, Thomas Lewis 1748?-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"The Devil (or a satyr) crouches behind a magic lantern whose handle he is turning. Its light is thrown on a draped sheet, speared to the wall by a fork. Facing the lantern, life-size and realistic, but apparently displayed by the lantern, stand (left to right) Fox, Sheridan, and Lansdowne. Each stands as if speaking in Parliament: Fox, with right hand in his breeches pocket, left fist raised for a downward thrust; Sheridan stooping forward as if expounding, right forefinger extended, left fist half raised; Lansdowne smiling blandly. The Devil points at Fox; an angry man at his side (right) threatens Fox with fist and bludgeon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
