"Admiral Howe stands in a boat formed of a gold shell and drawn by two dolphins (as in BMSat 8469) towards the coast, where there is a stone with a hand pointing to Torbay. He covers his eyes with a hand to protect them from a shower of guineas which fill his boat and which he holds up the skirt of his coat to collect. The dolphins spout guineas. His large Union flag is attached to an upright trident; a blast of coins strikes the flag, tearing a large hole. The coins are blown from the mouths of winged cherubic heads wearing bonnets-rouges (right). They drive Howe's boat away from 'Brest', a fortress on the horizon towards which a French fleet is sailing unmolested. Howe says: "Zounds, these damn'd hail stones hinder one from doing ones duty! - I cannot see out of my Eyes for them! - Ah! it was just such another cursed peppering as this, that I fell inn with, on the coast of America in the last War; - what a deuce of a thing it is, that whenever I'm just going to play the Devil, I am hinder'd by these confounded French storms, or eke, loose my way in a Fog.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French hailstorm and Neptune loosing sight of the Brest fleet
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to America -- Reference to Torbay, Devonshire -- Reference to Brest -- Mythology: reference to Neptune -- Neptune's trident -- Money: guineas -- Boats -- Dolphins -- Flags: Union Jack., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 31.3 x 36.1 cm, on sheet 34.7 x 40.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"Design in an irregular oval. A Frenchman (bust) glares to the right, showing his teeth fiercely. He has long unkempt hair, a bristly beard, and wears a bonnet rouge with a tricolour cockade, and an ear-ring; his sleeve is splashed with blood. Above the design: 'Vive la Republique! que tous les Tyrans mordent la poussière! - Point de Religion' (cf. BMSat 8350)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "A Paris belle.", and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"Design in an irregular oval. A woman (bust) glares fiercely to the left, her mouth closed and drawn down. Her cap and fichu are decked with tricolour ribbons, and in her cap is a dagger, point upward and dripping blood. Above the design: 'Des Tetes! - du Sang! - la Mort! - à la Lanterne! - à la Guillotine. - point de Reine! - Je suis la Dèesse de la Libertè [cf. BMSat 8350] - l'egalité! - que Londres soit brulê! - que Paris soit Libre!! - Vive la Guillotine! - '."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "A Paris beau.", and Mounted on leaf 43 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"George III (three-quarter length) stands in profile to the left, nearsightedly examining an oval miniature of Oliver Cromwell by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The half length, looking to the right, in armour, probably derives from the pl. after Cooper in Mechell's ed. of Rapin's 'History', 1733. The candlestick is of massive plate holding a candle-end supported on a save-all (cf. BMSat 8091). The King is only slightly caricatured, but his receding forehead and chin and open mouth are exaggerated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: candlesticks -- Paintings: miniatures -- Reference to Samuel Cooper, 1609-1672., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching in brown ink on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 40.6 x 29.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 18th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
"Fox, a ragged sansculotte with bloodstained hands and a dagger dripping blood thrust in his belt, sings "Ca ira!" He capers, right hand on his hip, left hand held up; expression and attitude suggest quasi-intoxication, a blast issues from his posteriors. On his forehead is a patch of sticking-plaster. He is unshaven and his body has a subhuman hairiness. He wears the ill-fitting wig of an artisan, with a tricolour cockade."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Reason & philosophy
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to French Revolution -- Emblems: tricolor cockades -- French democrats -- Sansculottes -- Jacobins -- Expressions of speech: c̨a ira -- Weapons: daggers., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.0 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 39.3 x 29.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 29 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Grenville (left) stands in St. James's Park in profile to the right, firing a gun with a wide barrel at a group of winged money-bags, &c, flying in the upper right corner of the design, rising on smoke issuing from the chimneys of 'Buckingham House'. A pen in his round hat indicates his Secretaryship. Dead game hangs from his person: a hare whose body is a money-bag inscribed 'Secretaryship of State £7000 pr Ann.', a goose, whose similar body is inscribed 'Sinecures £9000pr Ann.', and two goslings, respectively 'Private Pension £4000' and '£3000 pr Ann.' The central bird at which he fires at close range is a winged document: 'Ranger of the Park'; winged bags are '75000 pr Ann', '3000 pr Ann', and '7000 pr Ann'. All these he hits. A winged ducal coronet is flying up towards the line of fire. A group of dogs with human faces surrounds him; they lick his boots, look up at him expectantly, or watch the shot; one has a collar inscribed 'Whitehall'. The southern part of the east front of Buckingham House fills the right part of the design. Behind Grenville are trees. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Billy Ranger the Game Keeper in a fine sporting country
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of text below title: He shoots a good shot; it will do a mans heart good to see him; he will charge you & discharge you ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Dogs: hounds -- Ministers as hounds -- Buildings: Buckingham House -- Sinecures -- Lord Grenville's sinecures as Ranger and Keeper of St. James's and Hyde Parks -- Bags of money -- Hunting: bird shooting., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 38.2 x 27.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 2 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"A companion print to BMSat 8659. Grenville seated in an ornate armchair peers near-sightedly at a map of 'The Globe' in two hemispheres which he holds up to his face. The eastern hemisphere, at which he is not looking, shows an exaggeratedly large tract of 'French Conquests'. His posteriors and legs, very solid in BMSat 8659, are thin. He sits before a light rectangular table on which are ink-stand and pens and two books, 'Court Calender' and 'Locke on Human Understanding' (as in BMSat 8659). On the wall are two pictures, the subjects merely indicated: 'The Treasury' (left) shows the arched gate and stone wall of many satires; 'Brittania Triumphant': Britannia seated with spear and shield. A patterned carpet completes the design. Grenville fixes his attention on scarcely visible successes in the W. Indies, ignoring the French conquests in Europe. The 'Court Calender' and 'The Treasury' indicate eagerness for the perquisites of office, cf. BMSat 8061 (1792)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Inkstands -- Maps -- Shortsightedness -- Pictures amplifying subject: View of the Treasury building -- Pictures amplifying subject: Britannia's chariot -- Literature: reference to John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 33.2 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 42.1 x 28.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 8th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"A companion print to BMSat 8656. Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book inscribed: 'Fundamental Principles of Government for 1795', at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, his left hand in his breeches pocket. On the chimney-piece lie two books: 'Court Cookery' and 'Locke on Human Understanding'. Hanging above it is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent' on which confused scrawls are depicted. On the back wall (left) is a bracket supporting a bowl of gold-fish, above which is a picture of the 'Treasury Bench': three Ministers seated as if in Parliament, in back view with their coats drawn aside to show their bulky posteriors; the wall of the Treasury forms a background. ...."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Nine lines of verse in two columns below title: "Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Fireplaces -- Furniture: shelves -- Fish bowls -- Shortsightedness -- Wall maps -- Pictures amplifying subject: Treasury bench -- Literature: Reference to John Locke's Essay on human understanding -- Furnishings: carpets., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.3 x 25.0 cm, on sheet 40.5 x 28.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 60 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 13th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"Pitt and Dundas, Fox and Sheridan face each other across a long narrow table, smoking long pipes and puffing clouds of smoke in each other's faces. The gallery of the House of Commons is indicated in the background. At the head of the table (left) in a raised arm-chair (in the manner of the chairman at a tavern-club) sits a man in the hat, wig, and gown of the Speaker (Addington) [Identified by Wright and Evans as Loughborough, 'cogitating' between the parties; this is inconsistent with the House of Commons setting and with Loughborough's appointment (26 Jan. 1793) as Chancellor.] holding the mace, which has been transformed into a crutch-like stick. He puffs smoke at both Treasury and Opposition benches. Pitt, on the Speaker's right, holds a frothing tankard inscribed 'G.R' and directs a cloud of smoke at Fox, who puffs back. Before Fox is a tray of pipes and a paper of tobacco, implying that he excels in abuse. On the extreme right Dundas, a plaid across his coat, puffs at the scowling Sheridan seated close to Fox; he has a punch-bowl inscribed 'G.R' in which he dips a ladle. Small puffs of smoke issue from the pipes, great clouds from the smokers' mouths, as in BMSat 8220. The House of Commons is burlesqued as a smoking-club, a plebeian gathering in which quarrelsome members were wont to puff smoke at each other, see BMSat 8220."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally issued with the imprint: Pubd. Feby. 13th, 1793, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields., Publication date based on publisher's street address. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the House of Commons -- Pipes -- Emblems: mace -- Tankards -- Tobacco -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Emblems: crown and initials GR on tankard and punch bowl., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 31.0 x 42.1 cm, on sheet 35.7 x 46.8 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman 1808[?]., and Mounted on leaf 27 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
"A monster, representing Austria, puts to flight a disorderly rabble of French soldiers who fall over each other in their haste. He has enormous legs which are joined to his shoulders, probably to indicate that he is 'nobody' (cf. BMSat 5570); his head consists of a large military cap, decorated with the Habsburg eagle, from which issue enormous moustaches and two puffs of smoke (from simulated nostrils); he smokes a large curved metal pipe, and from his supposed mouth issues a blast of smoke directed against the French troops. His legs are arrogantly astride, his arms akimbo, he wears a huge sabre and spurred jack-boots. The French soldiers in the foreground are ragged and ill-armed, one holds a pitchfork, those behind have muskets. One holds up a tricolour flag inscribed 'Liberta[s]' and cries "La Liberté! La Liberté - de s'enfuir". In the upper left corner of the design is etched: '"While loyal honour warm'd a Fr'enchmans breast, "The field of Battle was a glorious test; "Nobly ambitious for his King to fight, "To die or conquer was a Soldiers Right. "A strange reverse the Democrats display, "And prove the "Right of Man" - to run away -'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Wars: Austro-French War, 1792-1797 -- Battles: flight from the Battle of Tournay, 1792 -- Symbols: figure of Austria -- Bugaboos -- Emblems: Austrian two-headed eagle -- Nobodies -- French soldiers -- Smoking: pipes -- Military uniforms: Austrian soldier's uniform -- Tools: pitchfork -- Allusion to Paine's Rights of Man -- Funk -- Weapons: sabre -- Knives -- Guns., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.6 cm, on sheet 27.6 x 38.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
