"Satire on the ministerial party's attempts at bribery to influence the poll at Brentford during the Middlesex By-election in December 1768. A drunken feast is taking place in a tavern with voters and others sitting round a table on which is a large j...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Glynn, John, 1722-1779 and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Subject (Topic):
Elections, Bribery, Eating & drinking, Butchers, and Pickpockers
"The Queen stands on the shore, making a gesture of outraged refusal to Lord Hutchinson, who bows low, proffering a paper inscribed '£50,000' (see British Museum Satires No. 13730). She points to a small vessel. P. 4: C, for the Cash that was promised...
Alternative Title:
C, for the cash that was promised to pay the Q-n, if she'd travel a different way ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Donoughmore, John Hely-Hutchinson, Earl of, 1757-1832
"Caroline rejects 'the bribe' (see British Museum Statires No. 13730), protected by John Bull, Sandy, and Pat. The King, with his mistress, tramples on Religeon, Decency, &c. In a picture of Jupiter and Europa the naked Queen (presumably) rides a bull...
Alternative Title:
Infamous proposal rejected
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published June 13th, 1820, by J. Fairburn, 2 Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Mistresses, Bribery, Crowns, and Ethnic stereotypes
"A lawyer on the left and a stout government minister on the right, seated at a table and clinking glasses with the Devil who is assisting them; the room is littered with money bags labelled 'Perquisites in Office' etc. and bills labelled 'Contrivance...
Alternative Title:
En emploi
Description:
Title from text below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Corruption, Devil, Government officials, Lawyers, Money, Offices, and Toasting
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 30, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Courtship, Parlors, Daggers & swords, and Wigs
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 30, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Courtship, Parlors, Daggers & swords, and Wigs
"The cattle-pens (right) of Smithfield Market are filled with cattle with the faces of peers and draped with ermine-trimmed robes. [The ermine is apparent only in the coloured impression] Thurlow, dressed as a farmer, the owner of the cattle, stands o...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 2d, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India. and England
Subject (Name):
Smithfield Market., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Montfort, Thomas Bromley, Baron, 1733-1799, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Influence, Bribery, Cattle, Ceremonial objects, City & town life, Clock & watch making, Equipment, Taverns (Inns), Usury, Signs (Notices), Stockyards, and Stores & shops
