Satire on the seditious toast given by the Duke of Norfolk at the birthday dinner in honor of Charles James Fox, January 24, 1798. See British Museum catalogue no. 9168
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Whigs -- Celebrations: birthdays -- Furniture: chairs -- Emblems: cap of liberty as bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of William III -- Wine glasses -- Food: Norfolk dumplings -- Bible: quotation from Daniel, 5 -- Devil., Watermark: E & P 1794., and Mounted to 42 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feb. 12, 1798, by S.W. Fores, Corner of Sackville St., Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, and William III, King of England, 1650-1702
"The Tree of Liberty (cf. BMSat 9214), often (in fact) a pole surmounted by a bonnet-rouge, is here a pike on which is the bleeding head of Fox, the eyes covered by a cap inscribed 'Libertas'. Round the base of the pike and on a grassy mound are heaped the heads of the Foxites. The six heads at the base of the pile are (left to right): Thelwall, a little apart from the others; beside him is a paper: 'Lectures upon the Fall of the Republic by J. Thelwall' (see BMSat 8685); against his head lies the blade of a headsman's axe; Derby (in 'profil perdu'), Lauderdale, Stanhope, M. A. Taylor, and Hanger. The two central heads are Erskine and Sheridan; next the latter is Horne Tooke. Behind, and forming the apex of the pile, are the head of (?) Grey [Incorrectly identified in Wright and Evans as Wilkes. It is possible that the head here identified as Grey is Byng, and that identified as Bedford is Grey.] in profile to the left and the handsome head of (?) Bedford. In the background are clouds, and below (right) the top of a hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Tree of Liberty -- Foxites -- Clubs: Whig Club -- Weapons: spears -- Executioner's axe -- Allusion to Thelwall's Political Lectures.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 16th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
A torrent of taxes gushes from the mouth of Lord Henry Petty, chancellor of the exchequer, emptying into the "Unfathomable Sea of Taxation" in which John Bull is drowning in full view of greedy cormorants representing members of the Grenville ministry which was formed after the death of William Pitt
Alternative Title:
John Bull swamped in the flood of new taxes
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Williams in the British Museum catalogue., A copy of a print by Gillray. Cf. No. 10564 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and With stamp of S.W. Fores in the lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855
Subject (Topic):
Taxes, John Bull (Symbolic character), Fountains, Cormorants, and Rowboats
"Robson speaks in the House of Commons, with outstretched arms: "We're all ruinated, Sir! - all diddled, Sir!! - abus'd by Placemen, Sir!!! - Bankrupts all, Sir! - not worth Sixteen Pounds, Ten Shillings, Sir! - ". From his coat pocket project bundles of papers: 'Ignorance of ye Old Administration'; 'Stupidity of ye New Administration'; 'Charges against the Ministry'. In his hat, on the seat behind him, are other bundles: 'Ministerial Tricks', 'Plunders', 'Blunders', 'Collusion'; 'Impeach[ment]'; 'Punishm[ent]'. Behind him, and next his vacant seat, sits Tyrwhitt Jones, listening with a fierce scowl, a pen in his mouth, his hat beside him; he holds a bulky sheaf of 'Notes'. Behind these two are Horne Tooke and Burdett (right), listening intently, Burdett turning towards his mentor. The other Opposition benches within the design, which shows a corner of the table on the extreme left, are empty."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Hope.", Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Bankruptcy -- Robson's Speech, March 4, 1802., Note from local card catalog record: Bowditch version has slightly faded aquatint indicating it was pulled later in the life of the plate., and Mounted to 37 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Seamstresses -- Cribs -- Washer tubs -- Crowns -- Bonnet rouge., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
"In a small space between the House Commons (left) and a rustic alehouse (right) Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head (the features as in BMSat 9200) of Horne Tooke. In this are stuck feathers, five inscribed respectively: 'Deceit, Vanity, Jacobinism, New Morality [cf. BMSat 9240], Envy'. From the neck hang (torn) clerical bands. Camelford in back view, 'profil perdu', wears a rakish hat with curved brim (as in BMSat 9699), a naval officer's coat with sailor's striped trousers, and buckled shoes; from his coat pocket issues a paper: 'Effusion of Loyalty'. He says: "There's a Stroke for you, Messmate! and, if you kick him back, I'll return him again, dam'me! - if I should be sent on a cruise to Moorfields [i.e. Bedlam], for it! - go it, Coz:" Temple, a stout country gentleman, scarcely caricatured, wearing a stiff round hat, prepares to return the stroke vigorously, left fist clenched; he says: "Send him back? - yes, I'll send him back Twenty Thousand times, before such a high flying Jacobin-Shuttlecock shall pearch [sic] it here, in his Clerical band." Both play vigorously with legs astride. Through the wide doorway behind him, inscribed 'St Steevens', is seen the Opposition side of the House of Commons densely packed, the Speaker just visible in his chair, the Clerk staring apprehensively. All the (tiny) members wave red caps to cheer their champion, shouting "The Church for Ever, [?] dem[me]". Sheridan and Fox only are characterized. The alehouse is a primitive thatched building with the chequers sign. On it are two placards: 'The Old Sarum Electors', five pigs in a sty eating from a trough. Below: 'The House of Call for Independent Members'. Against the building are a rustic table and bench. On the ground by Camelford is a 'List of Candidates for Old Sarum, J. H. Tooke, Black Dick [it was reported, though denied by Camelford, that he had declared his intention of returning his black servant if Tooke's election should be annulled], Thelwall' [see vol. vii]. In the background between the buildings is seen a small ruinous village, representing Old Sarum, with a bare, decayed tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old Brentford shuttlecock between Old-Sarum & the Temple of St. Steevens
Description:
Title from text in lower part of image., Mounted to 37 x 56 cm., Collector's annotations on mount., and Identifications in contemporary hand written below plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Fox stoops to support on his back Horne Tooke, who is about to climb into the window of 'St Stephe[n's] Chap[el]', the name on a slab over the door, partly cut off by the right margin. The door is being closed by Lord Temple, who says: "He shall not pollute this holy Temple". Tooke rests his right foot on Fox's back, his hands grasping the sill; his left toe is in a cranny in the wall above a placard headed: 'Old Sarum Dilly takes only one at the Brazenface'. He looks down at Fox, saying, "don't give way I am not quite in Yet". Fox, his head towards the door, one foot supported on a book: 'Powerfull Reasons for Non attendance', says: "Come on with you!! and mind and button your great Coat to hide the Old Cassock." Tooke's greatcoat hangs open, showing his coat, and the skirt of a short cassock over knee-breeches. On the wall beside him is a torn placard: 'A New Edition The Diversions of Purley by the Rev John H...' The keystone of the arch over the door, on the extreme right, is a satyr's head, leering at Tooke with protruding tongue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "n" in "Westminster" is etched backwards., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement beneath lower right corner of image: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: W. Elgar[?] 179[?], and Figures identified in pencil below plate mark in contemporary hand: Horne Tooke ; Lord Temple.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 14, 1801 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839
"Burdett (right) declaims a speech whose heads are inscribed on a gigantic scroll held out to him by Fox. Fox raises his arms high to hold the scroll, one end of which falls behind his head and shoulders. The other end, still rolled and blank, is held by Sheridan who stands on the extreme left behind a writing-table over which the scroll passes. Horne Tooke, seated full face behind the table, an inkpot in one hand, writes on the scroll with a sourly inscrutable expression. Burdett, with arms thrown wide, hat in right hand, stands with legs astride on a large tattered volume: 'List of them London Corresponding Society'. He says: "There! - there! - see the causes of all our Woe! - Oh! my ruin'd Country! - Enslav'd! - ah Traitors! - Expiring Liberty! - precious, Aristocratic Villains! - Oh Unaccounted Millions! - murder'd Myriads! oh, Gallows! - Block! - Guillotine! - Caira! Caira!" Sheridan, the theatrical expert, leans forward delightedly to say: "Bravo! - Bravo! - but it should give more Emphasis to the beginning of the last Line of Exclamation." Fox, very corpulent and gouty, his gloomy face shaded by the scroll, says: "Bravissimo! - Encore the Unaccounted Millions! - Encore! - " The scroll is inscribed: 'Ministerial Crimes & Misdemeanours. - Ist Espousing the Cause of Loyalty & Old England. - 2d Making War against the Enemies of Loyalty and Old England. - 3d Destroying the Navy of the Enemies of Loyalty & Old England - 4th Capturing Malta, & all the foreign Possessions of the Enemies of loyalty and Old England. - 5th Ruining the Commerce of the Enemies . . . [ut supra]. - 6th Paying off the National Debt, in spite of the well-wishers to the Enemies . . . [ut supra]. 7th Uniting & Defending our Irish Brethren, when Invaded by the Enemies . . . [ut supra]. 8th Refusing to break Faith with the Allies of Loyalty . . . [etc.] 9th Holding out to the last, & Fighting single-handed with all the Enemies . . . [etc.] 10th Rejecting the profer'd Reconciliation with the Enemies of Loyalty and Old England, until Peace could be ratified upon Honorable Terms.' Much that follows is obscured by folds in the scroll; a few words stand out: '. . . French Principles and destroying Democratic P ... 16th Extirpating [?] the Hydra of [?] Faction .. . Loyalty & Old England.' The words again become clear where the scroll rests on the table, and enfl under the pen of Horne Tooke: '18th - Destroying all hopes of a Revolution & leaving the Enemies of Loyatly [sic] & Old England to Despair & to hang themselve . . .' [see BMSat 9258, &c.]. Under the scroll lie other papers: 'Last dying Speech . . . Aristocratic Ministry' and 'Scheme of Ministerial Equality.' Against the wall and forming a background to Sheridan, Horne Tooke, and Fox is a high book-case, the books covered by a curtain, parted to reveal to inscribed 'Thel[wall]', 'Revoluti[on]', 'Cromw[ell]', 'Machiavel'. On the top three busts partly decapitated by the upper margin: 'Tom Paine, Abbé Seyeis', and 'Rob'spear'. Their positions imply that they are the 'doublures' (cf. BMSat 9261) respectively of Sheridan, Tooke, and Fox; for Fox as Ropespierre see BMSat 8450; for Tooke and Sieyes cf. BMSat 9270. On a small cabinet behind Burdett stands a model of a guillotine. Tooke wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade, a dressing-gown with (torn) clerical bands (cf. BMSat 9716)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Private rehearsal of "The ci-devant Ministry in danger".
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Bonnet rouge -- Guillotine -- Quill Pens -- Ogle Swindler., and Mounted to 32 x 42cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 4th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on one side., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Quotation from Milton following title: The world was all before them where to choose their place of rest ..., Temporary local subject terms: Wimbeldon -- Gate of Saint Stephens -- Mellish, William -- Middlesex -- Westminster., Watermark: Edmonds & Pine., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1806 by S.W. Fores, no. 50, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Paull, James, 1770-1808
Political mathematicians shaking the broad bottomed hemispheres
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: T. IX., Plate no. IX from: London und Paris, vol. xix, 1807., Reduced copy of Gillray print published by H. Humphrey in 1807., Two lines of quotation preceded by bracket in lower right corner of plate: "Mr. Paull is fixed upon a rock, and be assured he will prove the fulcrum by means of which the present Broadbottomites will be overset! Sir F. Burdett's speech., and Two lines of text near top margin of print: To that last hope of the country, the New Opposition, this representation of "Charleys Old Breeches in Danger" is respectfully submitted.
Publisher:
Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Paull, James, 1770-1808, Cobbett, William, 1763-1835, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Canning, George, 1770-1827, and Rose, George, 1744-1818
