"A scene in the House of Commons, showing the Ministerial benches, with the Speaker's Chair and the Table partly cut off by the right margin. The Speaker (Manners Sutton) and one of the Clerks are just within the design. Castlereagh is speaking; he stands in profile to the right, hat in hand, with the Pope on his shoulders. The Pope holds crosier and keys, and wears an odd tiara. A demon crouches on his shoulders dressed as an acolyte, but displaying a cloven hoof; a mask with bland features (a device deriving from Gillray, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11384) is tied in front of his black horned head; he holds up a lighted candle, and clutches the Pope's hair. Castlereagh, with a blandly disingenuous smile: "I have the authority of the Head of the Catholic Church, for saying that there is no solidity in the objection taken on the other side: thus I am legislating with the Pope at my back!!!" The benches behind Castlereagh are crowded; the members listening intently; all wear hats, except Peel who sits immediately behind Castlereagh's empty seat, on the corner of which he has put a hat, inscribed 'Peel'. He looks up to say: "I hope that when the noble Lord observed that [he was legislating with the Pope at his back] he had no allusion to me, even if the noble Lord were willing to put the Popedom in Commission, I should not be willing to accept the office of one of the Commissioners." Men look down from the gallery. On the floor is a paper: 'St Steevens March 28 1821'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Whatever is, is right. Pope! and Weighty argument in favour of the Catholic Emancipation
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman 1820.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1821 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, Viscount, 1780-1845, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Legislative bodies, Politicians, Public speaking, Popes, Crosiers, Keys (Hardware), Demons, Masks, and Candles
"William Crowe stands in profile to the right holding his mortar-board in his right hand, his left hand extended, slightly stooping, as if making a speech. He has short thick hair (or wig) and wears bands and cassock under his gown."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Watermark: H S & S., and Countermark: 182[?].
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Crowe, William, 1745-1829
Subject (Topic):
People associated with education & communication and Public speaking
"William Crowe stands in profile to the right holding his mortar-board in his right hand, his left hand extended, slightly stooping, as if making a speech. He has short thick hair (or wig) and wears bands and cassock under his gown."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 55 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.8 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Mr. Crow" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Crowe, William, 1745-1829
Subject (Topic):
People associated with education & communication and Public speaking
A headless Charles Fox holding his hat in the right hand and a handkerchief in his left, is shown addressing the House of Commons. Below the image is etched a burlesque of his most recent speeches that referred to the attempts at promoting a coalition between him and William Pitt and the debate on his motion to request the removal of the ministers: "'Mr ----- in one of the most animated Speeches he ever made in his Life engaged the Attention of the whole house - he began with saying That he should have sat a silent Spectator of the business of the day if a very personal Attack had not been made upon him by calling him the Head of a Faction, he assured the Gentleman nothing was farther from his Heart, all now wished for was a Union upon a broad basis, upon a fair, tho' not an equal footing, and if the Right honourable Gentleman over the Way would but submit to a Capitulation ..."
Description:
Title etched below image. and Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
A headless Charles Fox holding his hat in the right hand and a handkerchief in his left, is shown addressing the House of Commons. Below the image is etched a burlesque of his most recent speeches that referred to the attempts at promoting a coalition between him and William Pitt and the debate on his motion to request the removal of the ministers: "'Mr ----- in one of the most animated Speeches he ever made in his Life engaged the Attention of the whole house - he began with saying That he should have sat a silent Spectator of the business of the day if a very personal Attack had not been made upon him by calling him the Head of a Faction, he assured the Gentleman nothing was farther from his Heart, all now wished for was a Union upon a broad basis, upon a fair, tho' not an equal footing, and if the Right honourable Gentleman over the Way would but submit to a Capitulation ..."
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on Page 37 with two other prints.
A headless Charles Fox holding his hat in the right hand and a handkerchief in his left, is shown addressing the House of Commons. Below the image is etched a burlesque of his most recent speeches that referred to the attempts at promoting a coalition between him and William Pitt and the debate on his motion to request the removal of the ministers: "'Mr ----- in one of the most animated Speeches he ever made in his Life engaged the Attention of the whole house - he began with saying That he should have sat a silent Spectator of the business of the day if a very personal Attack had not been made upon him by calling him the Head of a Faction, he assured the Gentleman nothing was farther from his Heart, all now wished for was a Union upon a broad basis, upon a fair, tho' not an equal footing, and if the Right honourable Gentleman over the Way would but submit to a Capitulation ..."
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 23.5 x 16.3 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 18.2 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 23 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
"Lee Lewes stands on stage at Covent Garden, with busts arranged on a table behind him, he holds one up, turning to the crowd; the audience in the pit in the foreground, with four tiers of boxes behind; after Woodward."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Frontispiece to: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784., Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803, and Covent Garden Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Actors, British, Interiors, Audiences, and Public speaking
An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'Observations' protrudes from his coat-pocket. His scanty audience of seven men, most of them sleeping, is behind him, on either side of a fireplace. A broken candle on the mantel drips wax into the mouth of one of the sleeping men (right), much to the amusement of his neighbour on his right. In the doorway on the far-left, one of the men uses a ear-trumpet; one holds a tea cup in his hand, and a third yawns. Over the chimney-piece is a large clock-face, the hands indicating 10:56; above it is a carved owl and the words 'About your business'.
Alternative Title:
Deputy Pendulum's motion for an address
Description:
Title from words written around the face of the clock., With Woodword's name in the lower left. William A. Gordon 2023 attributes this drawing to Isaac Cruickshank., and Date of creation based on publication date of print. Published by S.W. Fores in November 1795 as "Deputy Pendulum's motiton for an address"; engraved by Isaac Cruikshank with Woodward's name removed form lower left corner.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
"[Left image] One of two designs on the same plate, see BMSat 6864. A cobbler (left) preaches in a bare, raftered room with a casement window. He stands behind a reading-desk on which is a large, open book, leaning forward, pointing, gesticulating, and shouting. The heads of his congregation, old men and women, are below and on the right. The title is from Burke's book, 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful' (1756). [Right image] A companion design to BMSat 6863 on the same plate. A scene in the House of Commons showing the corner of the clerks' table (left), the benches on the right crowded with members, and part of the gallery above, with two persons looking over. The new member stands, knees bent, hat in his left hand, right hand extended; his attitude and expression convey the impression of a halting and embarrassed speech. He is in full dress, with sword and bag-wig. The members listen with expressions of contemptuous amusement or boredom."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition
Alternative Title:
Essay on the sublime and beautiful
Description:
Two images on one plate, each individually titled below., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue of a plate originally published in 1785 by T. Cornell. Cf. Nos. 6863 and 6864 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 165., and Watermark: I Taylor.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Casement windows, Podiums, Public speaking, and Shoemakers
"[Left image] One of two designs on the same plate, see British Museum Satires No. 6864. A cobbler (left) preaches in a bare, raftered room with a casement window. He stands behind a reading-desk on which is a large, open book, leaning forward, pointing, gesticulating, and shouting. The heads of his congregation, old men and women, are below and on the right. The title is from Burke's book, 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful' (1756)"--British Museum online catalogue and "[Right image] A companion design to British Museum Satires No. 6863 on the same plate. A scene in the House of Commons showing the corner of the clerks' table (left), the benches on the right crowded with members, and part of the gallery above, with two persons looking over. The new member stands, knees bent, hat in his left hand, right hand extended; his attitude and expression convey the impression of a halting and embarrassed speech. He is in full dress, with sword and bag-wig. The members listen with expressions of contemptuous amusement or boredom."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Essay on the sublime and beautiful
Description:
Titles from text etched below each image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Publication information supplied from Grego., Two images on one plate, each individually titled below., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
T. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Casement windows, Desks, Public speaking, and Shoemakers
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Pencil notation: Cambridge published by W. Mason., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Phrenology, Public speaking, Skulls, and Audiences
"A phrenologist, ugly and dandified, standing behind a table, lectures to an informally grouped and stupid-looking audience; he holds his naturalistic brown wig, revealing a bald head covered with reddened protuberances. His Concluding Address is engraved in the lower margin: Ladies and Gentlemen Having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article, under the Head or Section of Propensities: I shall take my leave until the next lecture, by clearly elucidating in my own person an instance of Due Proportion of Faculties: Talkativeness with Gulling, standing First: and further beg to testify, beyond all doubt, . . . that on the Craniums of this highly gifted and scientific Audience, the Organ of Implicit faith Under Evident Contradictions, Stands beautifully develop'd to a Surprising and Prominent degree Dear Ladies Worthy Gentlemen; adieu. Nearest the lecturer is a family party: anxious wife, amused husband, and small boy with a head abnormally protuberant at the back. Two bald men anxiously feel their bumps; an agitated woman presses her forehead. A man inspects a skull. On the lecturer's table, with one of Gall's plaster heads mapped out in numbered compartments, are writing materials and books, two with titles: Treatise on Elementary and Logic. Portrait busts, all bald, stand on the floor; busts illustrating different propensities decorate the room. Two are placed conspicuously on the floor in front of the table, Dr. [sic] Ville [see British Museum Satires No. 15157] and Gall. Others are of Spurzhim [sic], Scott, Shakespeare, W. Clive, and Tremaine. Two of a group of skulls are inscribed Thirtell [Thurtell, the murderer, executed 1824] and Pollard. The busts featuring character (with appropriate expressions) are Gazing Faculty, Slyness, Pride, Sleepiness, Consequence. The book-case behind the lecturer contains, besides books, a skull and a large jar of coloured liquid inscribed Gall, it stands on a large book, Opinions on Men and things; beside this are Lock on Understanding and Aristotle (propped by a skull). The other books with titles are Moore, Lavater [two volumes], Lectures on Nothing [? Outinian Lectures, see British Museum Satires No. 14773]; a rolled document, Doctrino Particularum, lies on two large books: Self Knowledge and Commentana Critica. Treatise on Magic, Harriette Wilson [see British Museum Satires No. 14828, &c], Duty of Man, Mackenzie ['Man of Feeling'], Treatise on Doubt, Philosophers Stone, Combe [two volumes], Treatise on Gold Making, Bells Brain [two volumes, 'New Idea of the Anatomy of the Brain', 1811]. On the wall are three pictures: Bumps, two little boys boxing with huge spherical gloves; Life's a Bumper, a fat 'cit' toping in an arm-chair; Tony Lumpkin, who cracks a whip, and shouts as in Goldsmith's play. Below these are pinned up a pictorial advertisement and three prints. The first is headed by a human eye and the inscription, Sold by Royal Patent Phrenological Hats Adapted to Every Protuberance of Faculty or Organ Yet Discovered, above a cluster of misshapen hats and a little man wearing such a hat; below: To be Had [in] Caster . . . Two prints illustrate bust portraits: Abstraction and Suspicion. The third, Prying, is a print of Paul Pry, see British Museum Satires No. 15138."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Phrenological lecture
Description:
Title from text above image., Atrributed to Henry Thomas Alken in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1895,0617.455., Text below image begins: Concluding address: Ladies and gentlemen, having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Lectures., and Mr. De Ville of the Strand identified by ms. note in a contemporary hand in lower left of sheet.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 1826 for the artist at St. Peters alley Corn Hill
"A phrenologist, ugly and dandified, standing behind a table, lectures to an informally grouped and stupid-looking audience; he holds his naturalistic brown wig, revealing a bald head covered with reddened protuberances. His Concluding Address is engraved in the lower margin: Ladies and Gentlemen Having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article, under the Head or Section of Propensities: I shall take my leave until the next lecture, by clearly elucidating in my own person an instance of Due Proportion of Faculties: Talkativeness with Gulling, standing First: and further beg to testify, beyond all doubt, . . . that on the Craniums of this highly gifted and scientific Audience, the Organ of Implicit faith Under Evident Contradictions, Stands beautifully develop'd to a Surprising and Prominent degree Dear Ladies Worthy Gentlemen; adieu. Nearest the lecturer is a family party: anxious wife, amused husband, and small boy with a head abnormally protuberant at the back. Two bald men anxiously feel their bumps; an agitated woman presses her forehead. A man inspects a skull. On the lecturer's table, with one of Gall's plaster heads mapped out in numbered compartments, are writing materials and books, two with titles: Treatise on Elementary and Logic. Portrait busts, all bald, stand on the floor; busts illustrating different propensities decorate the room. Two are placed conspicuously on the floor in front of the table, Dr. [sic] Ville [see British Museum Satires No. 15157] and Gall. Others are of Spurzhim [sic], Scott, Shakespeare, W. Clive, and Tremaine. Two of a group of skulls are inscribed Thirtell [Thurtell, the murderer, executed 1824] and Pollard. The busts featuring character (with appropriate expressions) are Gazing Faculty, Slyness, Pride, Sleepiness, Consequence. The book-case behind the lecturer contains, besides books, a skull and a large jar of coloured liquid inscribed Gall, it stands on a large book, Opinions on Men and things; beside this are Lock on Understanding and Aristotle (propped by a skull). The other books with titles are Moore, Lavater [two volumes], Lectures on Nothing [? Outinian Lectures, see British Museum Satires No. 14773]; a rolled document, Doctrino Particularum, lies on two large books: Self Knowledge and Commentana Critica. Treatise on Magic, Harriette Wilson [see British Museum Satires No. 14828, &c], Duty of Man, Mackenzie ['Man of Feeling'], Treatise on Doubt, Philosophers Stone, Combe [two volumes], Treatise on Gold Making, Bells Brain [two volumes, 'New Idea of the Anatomy of the Brain', 1811]. On the wall are three pictures: Bumps, two little boys boxing with huge spherical gloves; Life's a Bumper, a fat 'cit' toping in an arm-chair; Tony Lumpkin, who cracks a whip, and shouts as in Goldsmith's play. Below these are pinned up a pictorial advertisement and three prints. The first is headed by a human eye and the inscription, Sold by Royal Patent Phrenological Hats Adapted to Every Protuberance of Faculty or Organ Yet Discovered, above a cluster of misshapen hats and a little man wearing such a hat; below: To be Had [in] Caster . . . Two prints illustrate bust portraits: Abstraction and Suspicion. The third, Prying, is a print of Paul Pry, see British Museum Satires No. 15138."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Phrenological lecture
Description:
Title from text above image., Atrributed to Henry Thomas Alken in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1895,0617.455., Text below image begins: Concluding address: Ladies and gentlemen, having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Lectures., and 1 print : soft-ground etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 32.6 cm, on sheet 30.3 x 39.6 cm.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 1826 for the artist at St. Peters alley Corn Hill
"A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., and Mounted to 47 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., 1 print : etching with drypoint and stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 34.3 x 28.5 cm, on sheet 36.7 x 29.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 26 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., and Mounted on page 41.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
"An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'obervation' [sic] protrudes from his coat-pocket. His scanty audience is behind him, on each side of a fireplace, for the most part asleep. A broken candle on the chimney-piece drops wax into the mouth of a sleeping man (right), to the amusement of his neighbour. Over the chimney-piece is a large clock-face, the hands indicating 10.56; above it is a carved owl and the words 'About your business'. Beneath the design: 'Gemtnen At a General Meeting, you impowered me whenever the situation of public affairs ran down & the main spring of good order broke, then Gemmen as I before said you rmpowerd me to call you together; now is your time, & a moment lost belike may never be Regaind, unless you exert yourselves to unhing [sic] that bold Monster Sedition who Stalks abroad in broad day light Gemmen to destroy our glorious Constitution & throw the balance of power from its place & canker our principles with the rust of democracy, Gemmen its unknown the villany thats abroad there are wheels within wheels that regulate the encreasing tide of traitorous measures in this here big Town therefore in order to check this growing evil I have called you together, that we may know how and about it.'
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Eleven lines of text below image and above title: Gemmen, at the general meeting you impowered [sic] me ..., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark: center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 29, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Great Britain, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
"An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'obervation' [sic] protrudes from his coat-pocket. His scanty audience is behind him, on each side of a fireplace, for the most part asleep. A broken candle on the chimney-piece drops wax into the mouth of a sleeping man (right), to the amusement of his neighbour. Over the chimney-piece is a large clock-face, the hands indicating 10.56; above it is a carved owl and the words 'About your business'. Beneath the design: 'Gemtnen At a General Meeting, you impowered me whenever the situation of public affairs ran down & the main spring of good order broke, then Gemmen as I before said you rmpowerd me to call you together; now is your time, & a moment lost belike may never be Regaind, unless you exert yourselves to unhing [sic] that bold Monster Sedition who Stalks abroad in broad day light Gemmen to destroy our glorious Constitution & throw the balance of power from its place & canker our principles with the rust of democracy, Gemmen its unknown the villany thats abroad there are wheels within wheels that regulate the encreasing tide of traitorous measures in this here big Town therefore in order to check this growing evil I have called you together, that we may know how and about it.'
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Eleven lines of text below image and above title: Gemmen, at the general meeting you impowered [sic] me ..., and Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 29, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Great Britain, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1841]
Call Number:
841.00.00.37+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left, poor emaciated laborers are chained to the ground while above them dangle bread, meat and beer just out of their reach. Behind them a building inscribed 'Poor Law Union'. The ground is inscribed 'Land of the free'. A crowd of people enter a tunnel that above has a sign that reads, 'County Gaol.' In contrast, on the right fat Members of Parliament sit and listen to a speech against Poor Law Reform made by possibly Melborne (William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne) who has a paper inscribed with '£70 000 Per Annum'.
Description:
Title from text below image., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Part of a new series of The political drama that was begun in 1841. See pages 12-13 in: C.J. Grant's political drama: a radical satirist rediscovered. London : University College, c1998., "Price 1d. plain."--Upper right corner., and Wood engraving with letterpress text.
Publisher:
Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848
Subject (Topic):
Poor persons, Laborers, Chains, Bread, Meat, Beer, Tunnels, Jails, Politicians, and Public speaking
"Caricature on George IV in the costume of Henry VIII addressing Parliament on one side while the Queen and her supporters stand on the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 22 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Manuscript date "1 June 1820" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published June 15th, 1820, by J. Fairburn, 2, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,
