"A man, thin, elderly, and bald, leans back despairingly in an arm-chair by the fire, grimacing with upturned eyes, and holding a (useless) medicine-bottle. He is tormented by six little demons; one bores into his skull with an auger, another with a b...
Alternative Title:
Headache
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1819, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Headache, Devil, Demons, Fireplaces, and Hand tools
"Fox, as Belial, seated in a depression in the centre of a large mass resembling a balloon in process of deflation, which is inscribed Publica Fides. Four vertical posts marked with figures seem intended to measure the (rapidly decreasing) degree of P...
"Fox is being chaired by demons, who advance towards flames (left) in which stands a devil with a pitch-fork waiting to receive him. Fox, seated, holding out his hat, his left hand on his breast, says, "Westminster was pretty Hot but this much more so...
Alternative Title:
Man of the people below stairs, Infernals' choice, and Infrnals' choice
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 12, 1784, by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Devil, Demons, Chairs, Pitchforks, and Political elections
"A satire on the approaching election for the Chancellorship of Oxford University. Grenville, dressed as a cardinal, heads a small procession towards the Devil, who wears a robe on which is a large cross, and holds the bland mask with which he has bee...
Alternative Title:
Golgotha, i.e. the place of skulls
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street, London
Subject (Name):
University of Oxford., Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Religious processions, Clergy, Devil, and Petitions
"A satire on the approaching election for the Chancellorship of Oxford University. Grenville, dressed as a cardinal, heads a small procession towards the Devil, who wears a robe on which is a large cross, and holds the bland mask with which he has bee...
Alternative Title:
Golgotha, i.e. the place of skulls
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street, London
Subject (Name):
University of Oxford., Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Religious processions, Clergy, Devil, and Petitions
Depicts a fox (Charles James Fox) hanging from a gibbet around which dance members of the Conway family, headed by a blindfolded General Conway who is led by the nose by Shelburne. The Conways are all depicted as rats, with the exception of General Co...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 2d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Rats, Foxes, Blindfolds, Gallows, Devil, and Dance
Depicts a fox (Charles James Fox) hanging from a gibbet around which dance members of the Conway family, headed by a blindfolded General Conway who is led by the nose by Shelburne. The Conways are all depicted as rats, with the exception of General Co...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 2d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Rats, Foxes, Blindfolds, Gallows, Devil, and Dance
A single plate with Laughing audience in the upper left, Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith in the upper right, and An emblematic print on the South Sea below
Alternative Title:
Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith and Emblematic print on the South Sea
Description:
Titles engraved below images.
Publisher:
Published by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797., South Sea Company., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Snuff, Theater audiences, Theaters, Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
A fat lawyer clutching a purse is sped toward the flames of hell on a skeletal horse ridden by Death who is depicted as a skeleton carrying a scythe. A naked long-haired devil holding snakes pursues them on a snorting white horse, while in the foregro...
Description:
Title from words etched in banner at top of image.
Publisher:
Published by E. King, Chancery Lane and Printed by N. Chater
Subject (Topic):
Cerberus (Greek mythology), Lawyers, Hell, Horses, Horseback riding, Devil, Demons, and Death
Leaf 25. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A design with nine compartments depicting Charles James Fox and Lord North, (as a fox and badger respectively), in a series of scenes beginning with the fox beating the badger in a fight, and culminating in their wedding dance in the last compartment....
Alternative Title:
Coalition wedding
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Iany. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Foxes, Badgers, and Devil
