"A man walks along the pavement in profile to the left., stooping from the waist but with head erect. He wears spectacles and carries a stick. He approaches the door (left) of Christies, which is partly visible. On the pillar hangs the usual catalogue: 'Catalogue of 800 Capital Pictures to be Sold by Mr Christie in Pall Mall. Feby 1st 1808'. The wall of the house (No. 125) with a window forms the background. Snow is heaped against the railings, where there is a shovel and broom."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower,--Duke of,--1758-1833--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution. The audience are in a semicircle facing the lecturer's table, which is covered with apparatus. The lecturer, probably not Garnett but Thomas Young who succeeded him as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Institute in July 1801, and who delivered thirty lectures there between January and May 1802, is experimenting on Sir J. C. Hippisley (left). Holding him by the nose, he applies to his mouth a tube from a series of retorts in which a gas has been made. The result is a violent explosion of flame and smoke from the victim's breeches. Next Young stands Humphry Davy, assistant lecturer to the Institute since July 1801. Holding a pair of bellows with vapour and gas spouting from its nozzle, he watches the experiment with a sardonic smile. Facing the table from the right, Count Rumford (see BMSat 9565) stands a little apart from the audience, looking on with a complacent and proprietary smile; he wears an order. On the extreme right the audience are Isaac D 'Israeli, wearing spectacles over half-closed eyes, Lord Gower, watching impassively, and Lord Stanhope, looking intently through an eyeglass. Beside him on the padded green bench is an open book: 'Hints on the nature of Air requir'd for the new French Diving Boat.' (Fulton's submarine was tried in Brest harbour in 1801, and a small vessel was blown up by a torpedo; Stanhope's experiments with steam navigation had been unsucces-ful, cf. BMSat 8640.) Two unidentified ladies watch open-eyed. Immediately in front of Stanhope sits Lord Pomfret, enormously stout, his eyes almost shut. These watch from the right. Facing the lecturer sit (right to left) Sir H. Englefield, holding note-book and pencil, and a thin and elderly lady turned in profile, taking notes earnestly, but not watching the experiment. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Experimental lecture on the powers of air
Description:
Title etched at top of image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Davy, Humphry,--Sir,--1778-1829--Caricatures and cartoons., Disraeli, Isaac,--1766-1848--Caricatures and cartoons., Englefield, Henry,--Sir,--1752-1822--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hippisley, John Cox,--1748-1825--Caricatures and cartoons., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Rumford, Benjamin,--Graf von,--1753-1814--Caricatures and cartoons., Sotheby, William,--1757-1833--Caricatures and cartoons., Stanhope, Charles Stanhope,--Earl,--1753-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower,--Duke of,--1758-1833--Caricatures and cartoons., and Young, Thomas,--1773-1829--Caricatures and cartoons.
A satire ridiculing the installation of Lord Grenville as the Chancellor of Oxford University on July 3rd, 1810. The installation followed a divisive election in which Lord Eldon opposed Lord Grenville on political and religious grounds. Opponents like Gillray saw Grenville's installation as a triumph for Catholic Emancipation. Here Grenville rises in balloon over a vast applauding crowd in Oxford. Many of the faces in the crowd are identifiable political figures: Buckingham, Stafford, M.A. Taylor, Erskine, Tierney, Holland, Grey, Sidmouth, Cholmondeley, Whitbread, Watkin Williams-Wynn, Fingall, Sheridan, etc.
Description:
Published in: Hill, Draper. Fashionable contrasts: Caricatures by James Gillray. London: Phaidon Press, 1966, cat. no. 49., Sequel to Gillray's The introduction of the Pope to the convocation at Oxford by the Cardinal Broad-Bottom., and Title from Latin quote below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 8th, 1810 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street,
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley,--Marquess of,--1749-1827--Caricatures and cartoons., Cleaver, William,--1742-1815--Caricatures and cartoons., Crowe, William,--1745-1829--Caricatures and cartoons., Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Caricatures and cartoons., Erskine, Thomas Erskine,--Baron,--1750-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Fingall, Arthur James Plunkett,--Earl of,--1759-1836--Caricatures and cartoons., Grenville, Thomas,--1755-1846--Caricatures and cartoons., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Grey, Charles Grey,--Earl,--1764-1845--Caricatures and cartoons., Harcourt, Edward,--1757-1847--Caricatures and cartoons., Holland, Henry Richard Vassall,--Baron,--1773-1840--Caricatures and cartoons., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice,--Marquess of,--1780-1863--Caricatures and cartoons., Moss, Charles,--1763-1811--Caricatures and cartoons., Nugent, George Nugent Grenville,--Baron,--1788-1850--Caricatures and cartoons., Randolph, John,--1749-1813--Caricatures and cartoons., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower,--Duke of,--1758-1833--Caricatures and cartoons., Taylor, Michael Angelo,--1757-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Tierney, George,--1761-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., University of Oxford--History--19th century--Caricatures and cartoons., Whitbread, Samuel,--1764-1815--Caricatures and cartoons., Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams,--1775-1850--Caricatures and cartoons., and Wynn, Henry Watkin William,--1783-1856--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Cartoons (Commentary), Catholic emancipation--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., and Satires (Visual works)
