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1. The genius of France nursing her darling [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 November 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "France, a savage virago, dandles a tiny Napoleon seated on her right. hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing: "There's a little King Pippin "He shall have a Rattle & Crown, Bless thy five Wits my Baby "Mind it dont throw itself down! Hey my Kitten, my kitten &c &c. Below the design is a note: '"False of Heart, light of Ear, bloody of Hand, "Fox in Stealth, Wolf in Greediness, Dog in Madness, "Lion in Prey: - bless thy Five Wits" - vide Shakespeares King Lear' Beside her (l.) is the plain wicker cradle from which she has snatched Napoleon, who points eagerly at the crown on the rattle, holding up a sceptre. She wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade, a loose dress defining her figure, and sits in a small armchair, decorated with little decollated heads and a guillotine. Hand, dress, and the heads on the chair are blood-stained. Beside her are her spear, dripping blood, and shield; this is tricolour; on it is the bleeding head of Louis XVI above a reversed crown, with the inscriptions: 'Vive la Republique' and 'The Last of Kings'. Pose, shield, and spear suggest a comparison (and contrast) with Britannia."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 77 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Novr. 26, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The genius of France nursing her darling [graphic]
2. The reconciliation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 November 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The King steps forward to embrace the Prince of Wales, who throws himself into his father's arms, saying, "against Heaven - and before thee, and am no more worthy------" (the words fade out). George III wears court dress, the Prince's dress is tattered and dishevelled, his pocket hangs inside out, the garter at his knee - 'Honi soit' - is loose. Behind the King stands the Queen on the door-step, half-smiling, her arms outstretched. Two pleased princesses look over her shoulder. Just outside the door stand Pitt and Moira watching the reconciliation, Pitt with a benign expression, Moira more doubtfully; both wear footmen's court-livery, of military cut; Moira wears jack-boots. Pitt holds a paper: 'New Union Act Britains best Hope', implying that he is the author of the 'Union'. Moira holds Pitt's arm. Beside the house (r.) are a tree and a balustrade, against which grow a rose-bush and a thistle. After the title: '"And he arose and came to his Father, and his Father saw him, & had compassion, & ran, & fell on his Neck, & kissed him. - Read the Parable. Verse 16th to 24th.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Biblical Quotation: Parables, 'Prodigal Son', verses 16-24 -- Emblems: Rose-bush and thistle -- Reconcilliation: George III and Prince of Wales, Nov. 12, 1804 -- Acts: Union, 1784., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 40.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Novr. 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The reconciliation [graphic]
3. Middlesex-election, 1804 "a long-pull, a strong-pull, and a pull-all-together" / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 August 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sir Francis Burdett, scarcely caricatured, is being drawn (r. to left.) by his supporters in his carriage towards the hustings, past a densely packed and cheering mob. He bows gracefully, his tricorne (with a tricolour cockade) under his arm. On the three panels of the barouche are depicted (1) a bird with an olive-branch, and the scroll 'Egalité'; (2) a hand emerging from flames holding up a fire-brand, with a scroll, 'The Torch of Liberty') a frothing tankard on which is a bust portrait of 'Buonaparte', the scroll 'Three Pence a Pot'. The first and third panels have the motto the 'Peace &\ Plenty'. The driver is Horne Tooke; he flourishes his whip over the heads of his team, and smokes a long pipe. In his hat are a tricolour cockade and a blue and orange (buff) favour. From his pocket issues a stream of election literature, part of which has reached the ground: 'Speeches for Sir Fra[ncis] on ye Hustings'; 'Hints'; 'Speech from the Hustings'; 'Speeches for the Crown & Anchor Dinner'; 'Sir Fra[ncis's] Address to the Mob'; 'Bills for all the Pissing Posts [cf. BMSat 9886]; 'Hints for the Democra[tic] Newspapers'; 'Sir Francis's Patriotic Speech on the Defence of the Country' [see BMSat 10054]; Bills for Hackney Coaches'; 'Important Fact - Pitt the Supporter of Justices'; 'No Begging Candidate'; 'No Squinting Representative'; 'A Squeese for the Contractors.' The last lies besides a dog over whose body the hind-wheel passes makine a wound from which guineas are pouring. Its collar is inscribed 'A Cur-tis' (Sir W. Curtis, a contractor, cf. BMSat 7676, was one of Mainwaring's chief supporters). Behind the carriage, in place of footmen, stand Sheridan Erskine, and Tierney. Sheridan, a favour inscribed 'no Govr Aris' in his hat, holds up a fringed pictorial banner, inscribed 'Governor Aris [the name almost obliterated] in all his Glory': Pitt violently scourges Britannia, whose hands are confined in a pillory. Erskine (in wig and gown) holds up a banner 'The Good-Old Cause' (a republican slogan of the seventeenth century), surmounted by a cap of Liberty with a tricolour cockade. Tierney holds up a huge key tied to a pole and labelled 'No Bastille'. Ten or more men drag the carriage by ropes; the wheelers are Fox as a ragged chimney-sweeper with a brush under his arm, and Norfolk, wearing a striped shirt and an apron and mopping his forehead. In front of these are Derby, as a jockey, and Lansdowne. The next pair are the Duke of Bedford as a farmer in a smock and (?) the Duke of Northumberland, wearing an apron. In front of these are Lord Carlisle as a tailor, with a pair of shears and a measuring tape, and Grey with shirt-sleeves rolled up. Near him is Lord Spencer. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 75 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Augt. 7th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855, Curtis, Roger, Sir, 1746-1816, and Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Middlesex-election, 1804 "a long-pull, a strong-pull, and a pull-all-together" / [graphic]
4. L'assemblée nationale, or, Grand cooperative meeting at St. Ann's Hill [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 June 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Fox to various groups of the Opposition, [With one or two exceptions the identifications are those of Miss Banks; the characterization is excellent, and most are unmistakeable.] in which the arrangement has political and social significance. Three Grenvilles bow to the host and hostess; the Marquis of Buckingham, wearing his ribbon, holding hat and gold-headed cane and showing a gouty leg and foot, bends low. Next is Lord Grenville, clasping his hat to his breast, more ingratiating but less obsequious than his brother. Next is the stout Lord Temple, awkwardly imitating his uncle's gesture. Fox, wearing a sword, returns Buckingham's bow, his hand on his heart; on his right. stands the fat Mrs. Fox, curtseying, and ogling Grenville. She holds a fan on which is a profile portrait of 'Napoleone Ist'; from her pocket projects a flask of 'French Brandy', indicative of her antecedents (cf. BMSats 7370, 10589) as well as her sympathies, cf. BMSat 9892). On the extreme right. is the Prince of Wales, in back view, the greater part of his figure cut off by the margin, but unmistakable. From his pocket projects a paper: 'Henry IV. Sc. I [sic] Pr of W -l know you all, & shall . . . while.' A short fat man gazes up at him admiringly, obsequiously amused; he is identified by Miss Banks as 'Mr [i.e. General] Fitzpatrick', but resembles M. A. Taylor. Beside him is a dog, his collar inscribed 'Tommy Tattle' [? Thomas Tyrwhitt]. Mrs. Fitzherbert sits, in semi-state, in the corner of a sofa, holding a fan on which are the Prince's feathers and 'Ich Dien'; she is about to take a ticket, 'Coalition Masquerade', proffered with ingratiating vivacity by Lord Carlisle. Next Carlisle behind the sofa stands the Duke of Clarence, facing the Prince, and cruelly caricatured. Mrs. Jordan takes his right. arm, but is reading Jobson & Nell [characters in 'The Devil to pay] with the Farce of Equality' [see BMSat 7908, &c.]. Behind the pair are Col. McMahon, sly and furtive, and a large man, resembling the Duke of York. [Identified by Miss Banks as 'Mr. Tyrwitt', but Tommy Tyrwhitt was noted for his small size. ] Behind Mrs. Fitzherbert, Erskine, in wig and gown, delightedly holds up a large paper (the words partly obscured): 'Arraignments for the new Broad-Bottom'd Administration [cf. BMSat 10530], Citn Volpone [see BMSat 9892] . . . Lord Pogy [Grenville] . . . Madame Volpone .. . Cit . . . Ego [Erskine, see BMSat 9246], Lord High [Chancellor], Greyhound [Grey], H . . . Tooke . . ., Tierney' [imaginatively legible]. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Grand cooperative meeting at St. Ann's Hill
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text following title: Respectfully dedicated to the admirers of a "Broad-Bottom'd administration.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 74 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd June 18th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855, Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Gordon, Jane Maxwell Gordon, Duchess of, d. 1812, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'assemblée nationale, or, Grand cooperative meeting at St. Ann's Hill [graphic]
5. Britannia between death and the doctor's "Death may decide when doctor's disagree" / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [20 May 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire of Pitt's return to office in 1804. Pitt is shown in the chamber of Britannia. Britannia sits listlessly on a bed, holding a sword in one hand. Next to her, leaning against the bed, is her shield and olive branches. Pitt holds aloft a bottle labelled "Constitutional Restorative" as he kicks another man, a caricature of Addington, through the door. Addington is in the process of dropping a bottle labelled "Composing Draft". With his other foot, Pitt steps on the face of a flailing and prostrate Fox, who holds a bottle labelled "Rebublican Balsam" towards Britannia. From Fox's pocket dice and a dice container labelled "Whig Pills" have fallen. Emerging from behind the bed curtains, the figure of Death, a skeleton with the face and plumed bicorne of Napoleon, overturns a table and upsets bottles of medicine and points his sword toward the unsuspecting Britannia
- Description:
- Title etched below image., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 37.5 cm, on sheet 28.9 x 41.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 73 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 20th 1804 by H. Humphrey
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Politics & government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Britannia between death and the doctor's "Death may decide when doctor's disagree" / [graphic]
6. Confederated-coalition, or, The giants storming heaven with the gods alarmed for their everlasting-abodes / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The 'Gods', Hawkesbury, Addington, St. Vincent, lean down from the clouds to defend the 'Treasury' against the assault of the 'Giants', different groups of the Opposition forming a pyramid in the lower, and larger, part of the design. [These identifications are those of Miss Banks (on a B.M. print) confirmed by Lord Holland, who omits Lord Spencer but adds Tierney, called by Miss Banks 'no particular person'. The identifications of Wright and Evans are in several cases incorrect. Grego substitutes Lord Mulgrave for Dr. Lawrence (or Spencer) and omits Spencer and others. Lord Holland notes that only the portraits of Pitt, Addington, Fox, Norfolk, Buckingham, Grenville, and Derby are like their subjects.] These are grouped on rocks, and are naked or nearly so (with one exception). At the apex of the pyramid are Pitt and Dundas, smaller and less dangerous than Fox in the foreground (left). Pitt, much emaciated, stands with legs astride, looking up, and about to hurl a large bundle of papers: 'Knock-down Arguments'; two similar bundles lie at his feet: 'Death and Eternal Sleep' [cf. BMSat 8350], and 'Coup de Grace'. He wears a military cocked hat, jack-boots, and a sword-belt from which hangs a sabre, indicating his volunteer activities (see BMSat 10113, &c); round his loins is a girdle of grapes and vine-leaves (cf. BMSat 8798). Melville (Dundas), behind and below Pitt, raises a sword inscribed 'True Andrew-Ferrara' and a shield; he wears a Scots bonnet; a tartan plaid and kilt adorn his burly nudity. At Pitt's feet stands Wilberforce, a dwarf, holding a large volume, Duty of Man, and directing upwards a fountain which can never approach the clouds. On the lower part of this rock stands Canning, in an attitude like that of Pitt, prepared to hurl a bulky sheaf of papers: 'Killing Detections'; he registers sly amusement, and wears a girdle of feathers suggestive of a Red Indian. From behind the rock appear two shadowy figures, each with the pen in his mouth that indicates a Treasury secretary; one prepares to hurl a bundle of 'Charges', the other, below him, has a bundle of 'Long Charges'. They are Rose and Long, ex-Treasury secretaries, see BMSat 9722. In the foreground (left) is a lower rocky platform on which the obese Buckingham and his burly brother Lord Grenville hold up Fox by the legs. Fox, bulky and hairy, fires a blast of flame, smoke, and bullets from a blunderbuss', doing more execution than all the others together. He is completely nude; drapery hangs from the shoulders of his two supporters, and the pompous Buckingham wears spectacles and Garter ribbon. All register satisfaction, rather than ardour like the Pittites. Beside their rock, and on the extreme left are supporters of Fox: Norfolk with a kettle-drum slung from his neck on which he is performing with two wine-bottles (cf. BMSat 9261). Behind him is Carlisle, banging a marrow-bone on a cleaver inscribed 'Coalition Roast Beef' [reminiscent of the Foxite butchers at Westminster elections]. The profile of Burdett is on the extreme left; he wears a hat on which is a ribbon: 'no Bastile' [see BMSat 9878, &c], and holds a fringed banner on which are equally balanced scales and the motto 'In hoc Signo Vinces' [cf. BMSat 10416]; on its spear-point is poised a cap of liberty terminating in the bell that indicates Folly. Behind him an arm holds up a trumpet to which is attached a banner inscribed 'Honor Property Ability' [symbolic of the Whig oligarchy and stressing the gulf between Foxites and the supposedly levelling Burdett]. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Giants storming heaven
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: "They never complain'd of fatigue, but like giants refreshed, were ready to enter immediately upon the attack! Vide Lord Ch--c-ll-r's Speech, 24th April 1804. "Not to destroy! but root them out of heaven." Milton., and Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 1st, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Long, Charles, 1761-1838, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confederated-coalition, or, The giants storming heaven with the gods alarmed for their everlasting-abodes / [graphic]
7. The state waggoner and John Bull, or, The waggon too much for the donkeys! together with a distant view of the new coalition among Johnny's old horses / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 March 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lumbering wagon drawn (l. to r.) by eight asses is stuck fast, up to the axles in water; the asses strain hard to drag it up a steep slope to dry land. Its dilapidated tilt is much patched and is labelled 'British State Waggon 1804'. The wagoner, Addington (r.), kneels on an adjacent bank, and shouts to a fat and jovial John Bull, dressed as a volunteer, who stands on the opposite bank of the deeply sunken lane, his bulldog beside him. Addington wears a smock, but his powdered hair is in a black bag. He holds his long whip and his hat in his right. hand, and extends his left. arm, shouting, " - help, Johnny Bull! - help! - my Waggon's stuck fast in the Slough! - help! help." John, who holds his bayoneted musket, looks down at Addington, pointing behind him with outflung r. arm at thirteen horses with human heads above and behind him on rising ground. He answers: " - stuck fast in the Slough! - ay to be sure! - why dost'nt put better Cattle to thy Wain? - look at them there Horses doing o' nothing at all! - what ether they matches in Colour, if they do but drag the Waggon out o' the Mud! - don't ye see how the very thoughts o' being put into Harness makes 'em all love and nubble one another?" The horses, [The identifications (most being self-evident) are those of Miss Banks, the alternatives in brackets being those of E. Hawkins. Wright and Evans arrange them differently and omit Spencer and Lansdowne.] though close together, are in groups. On the extreme left., and rather behind the others, Lord Spencer (or Carlisle) rubs noses with Carlisle (or Lauderdale), Erskine (in wig and bands) with Wilberforce. In front of this group the bulky Lansdowne (or Norfolk) lies on the ground, asleep, his back to the others. Next, Grey turns his head towards the haughty Buckingham, who wears spectacles and a Garter ribbon. Their backs are turned to the main group of four: Fox, with a foreleg placed on Grenville's shoulder looks up affectionately at the latter, who responds with a complacent smile. Pitt watches the pair with haughty benignity; Canning, behind, watches them intently. On the extreme right. Sheridan (a plump piebald), scowling fiercely, kicks up his heels at Windham, who retorts with a blast of excrement, his head turned towards Fox and Grenville. In the foreground (l.) is the stage-wagon (the slowest form of transit), drawn by its eight undifferentiated asses. The tilt is open at the back, showing it crammed with bundles, &c. The centre-piece is a bulging sack: 'Budget for 1804', from which project papers inscribed 'Taxes'. A treasure-chest is inscribed 'Treasury'; coins pour from a hole in its side. It is flanked by two bundles: 'Secret Service Money' and 'Family Pickings'. A bundle of 'Pensions' consists of bulky papers inscribed 'Sinecure'. Large volumes tied together are 'New Acts of Parliament'. Other papers are 'Defence against Invasion'; 'State of Ireland'; 'East Indies'. A bundle of 'Loans for / 84' [sic] contains 'Navy Bills' and 'Exchequer Bills'. There are also three tiny barrels of 'Gun Powder' and a bundle of muskets inscribed 'Volunteers'. From the side of the wagon hangs a basket of 'Family Medicine' containing two bottles labelled 'Broth[er] Bra[gge]' and 'Brother Hiley'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- State wagoner and John Bull, Waggon too much for the donkeys!, and Wagon too much for the donkeys!
- Description:
- Title etched in upper left corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.6 x 36.9 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 40.7 cm., Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd March 14th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The state waggoner and John Bull, or, The waggon too much for the donkeys! together with a distant view of the new coalition among Johnny's old horses / [graphic]
8. The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver. [graphic] / (Plate 2d)
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 February 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A sequel to British Museum satire no. 10019. The King and Queen sit on chairs of state intently watching a rectangular tank in which Napoleon as Gulliver sails his little boat, manoeuvring the single sail. Behind the King's chair Lord Salisbury stands stiffly, holding his wand of office; the gold key is attached to his coat-pocket: he has the straight shapeless legs that Gillray always gives him. ... Two princesses sit beside the tank on the Queen's right; like the Queen, each holds up her fan. Two younger princesses stand behind. Two little pages (left) blow violently at the sail to propel the boat, while a third laughs. Two beefeaters (right) grin broadly. All are amused except the King and Queen, who are more serious."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Scene "Gulliver manoeuv'ring with his little-boat in the cistern," vide Swifts Gulliver. "I often used to Row for my own diversion, as well as that of the Queen & her Ladies, who thought themselves well entertained with my skill & agility. Sometimes I would put up my Sail and shew my art, by steering starboard & larboard, - However, my attempts produced nothing else besides a loud laughter, which all the respect due to his Majesty from those about him could not make them contain. - This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those, who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him!!! - See, Voyage to Brobdingnag., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.8 x 45.0 cm, on sheet 40.4 x 51.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 70 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840, Elizabeth, Princess of England, 1770-1840, Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1777-1848, Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, 1776-1857, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823
- Subject (Topic):
- Adaptations, parodies, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver. [graphic] / (Plate 2d)
9. Destruction of the French gun-boats, or, Little Boney & his friend Talley in high glee [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 November 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon sits on the shoulder of Talleyrand gleefully peering through a large rolled document at the Channel, where the French flotilla is being destroyed by shells from British ships. Talleyrand stands behind the gun embrasures of a fortress on a cliff at whose base the gunboats are foundering. He wears a general's uniform with a long cloak; the crown of his cocked hat is a bishop's mitre. He holds Bonaparte's legs, grinning delightedly. Napoleon's document is 'Talleyrand's plan for Invading Great Britain'; he says: "O my dear Talley, what a glorious sight! - we've worked up Johnny Bull into a fine passion! - my good fortune never leaves me! - I shall now get rid of a hundred- Thousand French Cut Throats whom I was so afraid of! - O my dear Talley, this beats the Egyptian Poisoning hollow! - Bravo, Johnny! - pepper 'em, Johnny!" On a flag (l.) behind the pair are a skull and cross-bones, the skull looking down with a sinister stare. On the horizon is the English coast, with Dover Castle on a cliff."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Little Boney & his friend Talley in high glee and Little Boney and his friend Talley in high glee
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 69 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 22d, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Destruction of the French gun-boats, or, Little Boney & his friend Talley in high glee [graphic].
10. French volunteers marching to the conquest of Great Britain [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A mounted officer with drawn sabre heads a procession of 'Volunteers' linked by a chain to his horse and to each other. The horse is a well-bred animal with handsome trappings, but the rider is lean and has torn breeches. He is followed by a file of three whose necks are attached to the horse and whose hands or arms are pinioned. All are miserable wretches, barelegged and ragged; the last, less abject, has sabots and takes snuff. He is chained to the neck of a donkey on whose back is a pannier containing three despairing conscripts. To the animal's tail is tied a low truck on which a moribund shackled man lies on his back, his knees drawn up. To the truck is chained, in a stooping position, a man whose hands are tied behind his back, his nails being long talons. Birds, scenting carrion, fly towards the procession. Below the design: 'Dedicated (by an Eye Witness) to the Volunteers of Great Britain'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched in top part of image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and the artist questionably identified as Charles Loraine Smith in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Watermark: 1809 J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 68 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 25th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Soldiers, French, and Starvation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French volunteers marching to the conquest of Great Britain [graphic]
11. The Corsican-pest, or, Belzebub going to supper [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 October 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Devil, seated with his back to a dinner-table made of a butcher's block, roasts Napoleon on a pitchfork in the flames of Hell; excrement falls into a dish below. Attendant demons act as cooks. The Devil is obese and hairy with barbed tail, webbed wings, and carbuncled nose emitting flames. He wears a bonnet rouge in the form of a fool's cap, with tricolour cockade and scarf. The back of his ornate chair is a guillotine; beneath it is a pile of skulls over which is a tricolour ribbon inscribed 'Robespiere Marat'. A tricolour table-cloth only partly hides the dripping butcher's block. On it are a carving-knife, the blade inscribed 'Taleyrand', and fork; a chalice inscribed 'Atheism' and 'Cup of French Faith'; a salt-cellar, the salt spilled, inscribed 'Sal Infernal'. Beside it stands an ornate wine-cooler inscribed 'Favourite French Wines of the Consular Vintage'; bottles are labelled 'Sang des Suisse[s]', 'Sang des Anglais', 'Sang des Holland[ais]'. Near it lies a ballad: 'Invasion of Great Britain a Catch to be performed after Supper with a full Chorus of his Highness's Band'. Two demon attendants on the extreme right., partly concealed by the r. margin, enter with a steaming tureen of 'Crocodile Soup' [see BMSat 11057] and a sauce-boat of 'Mahomedan Gravy.' A little wingless female demon sits on a sack of 'Fuel for Everlasting Flames', plying bellows. Papers pour from the sack and others are already burning: 'Poisoning 580 wounded French soldiers' [see BMSat 10063], 'Massacre of 3800 Turks at Jaffa' [see BMSat 10062], 'Murdering 1500 Women at Toulon' [see BMSat 10095, &c.], 'Assassination of captive Swiss', 'Destruction of St Domingo' [cf. BMSat 10090], 'Fire', 'Swo[rd]', 'extermination', 'Murder', 'Treachery', 'Blasphemy', 'Blood', 'Breach of Faith', 'Cruelty', 'Envy', 'Perjury', 'Ingratitude', 'Devestation', 'Avarice'. There are three other demon cooks, winged, wearing bonnets rouges and aprons: each holds his nose. One flying above Bonaparte bastes him with a ladle-full of Brimstone. The others (l.) hold ready for the fire a pan of vipers and three skewered frogs. Across a vault up which the flames ascend is a beam inscribed 'L'Armée D'Angletarre' [sic] from which are suspended by the neck simian creatures wearing French military coats. Winged monsters dart towards Napoleon. Below the title, in two columns, verses are etched, attributed ('Illustrative Description', 1830) to Paul Sandby. ... The verses are coarse invective and contain none of the detailed allegation of the print."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Belzebub going to supper
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Eight stanzas of verse in two columns below title: Buonapartè they say, aye good lack a day! With French legions will come hither swimming ..., and Mounted on leaf 67 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Octr. 6th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Corsican-pest, or, Belzebub going to supper [graphic]
12. The arms of France [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 September 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The centre of the design is an oval enclosed in a buckled garter, inscribed 'The Sun of the French Constitution', containing the 'Arms of France': a guillotine, dripping with blood, and irradiated by a large sun, partly below the horizon. The supporters are an important part of the design: dexter, a seated ape; sinister, a very rampant tiger; each holds a tricolour flag fringed with gold, and inscribed respectively 'Atheism', 'Desolation'. The ape wears a tricolour sash and a large bonnet rouge, forming a fool's cap, trimmed with bells and tricolour cockade. He sits on two thick volumes: 'Rosseau' [sic] and 'Voltaire', beneath which is a pamphlet: 'Tom Paine' [see BMSat 9240]. The crest is a boar. From the garter hangs an oval medallion or cameo, with the head of Bonaparte, cadaverous and sinister, in profile to the left., and having the inscription: 'And God made Buonapartè, and rested from his labours'; 'Vide French Bishops Address to the First Consul 1803'. The medallion has a background of foliage with pendent fleurs-de-lis. Below the medallion is an oval tablet with the inscription: 'Gallic Fraternity. \ - Spain, Inchain'd - \ - Holland, Plunder'd, - \ - Switzerland, Ruin'd; - \ - Italy, Destroy'd. - \ France, in Slavery.' Scrolls issuing from this extend symmetrically across the design, and form a base for the supporters; inscription : 'Invasion - Plunder \ And Destruction.' The Arms have an elaborate setting or background: Below are victims of the guillotine - piles of bleeding heads with a scroll: 'Death is an eternal Sleep'. On the left are the decollated heads of women and infants with a rosary and open book: 'Ave Maria'. These heads are comparatively few, and behind them ls a heavily barred dungeon window flanked by shackles and inscribed 'Toussaint'. On the r. the heads are much more numerous, and form a pile which balances the window. The foreground heads include a bishop, from whom a mitre has fallen, and a turbaned Moslem (cf. BMSat 10062). Above, the background is a piece of drapery framed by festooned tricolour curtains which form a border to the design. On the red stripes of the tricolour are the names of 'French Worthies'. Upper margin: (l.) 'Robespierre', 'Marat', 'Fouché', (r.) 'Buonaparte', 'Talleyrand', 'Cambaceres'. Side margins (l.): 'Barras Massena', 'Reubell', 'Rapp', 'Mengaud', 'Lepaux', 'Thibaudeau', 'Boisy [sic] d'Anglas'; (r.) 'Sieyès', 'Barrere', 'Tallien', 'Carnot', 'Lannes', 'Jambon' [sic] 'St André', 'Menou', 'Junot'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Septr. 6, 1803, by J. Hatchard, No. 190 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The arms of France [graphic]
13. Boney and Talley the Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [September 1803?]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a carcass-butcher's slaughter-house, the carcasses of animals suspended from the wall. Through the doorway (l.) is seen a rock rising from the sea on which stands a bellowing bull; at the base of the rock is a British fleet. Napoleon, the butcher, with cleaver and knife, makes frantic efforts to reach the (distant) bull, but is restrained by Talleyrand who holds him round the waist. He wears top-boots, one inscribed '7 Leagues', with apron, and rolled-up shirt-sleeves, showing 'R T' [? 'Returned Transport'] branded on his left. arm. On one flap of Talleyrand's oddly shaped cocked hat is a cross, to indicate the ci-devant Bishop of Autun. The head of the Russian bear looks in at the door, gazing menacingly at Napoleon. In the foreground lies a bulky body from which head, hands, and feet have been chopped; to it is skewered a paper: 'Germanic Body'; the severed r. hand lies on a paper inscribed 'Hanover'. On the extreme left. is a round wicker cage surmounted by the Papal tiara, inscribed: 'From Rome and Not worth Killing'; it contains a fox and other small animals. On the extreme right. is a dog-kennel inscribed 'Prussia' and 'Put up to Fatten'; from it a lean greyhound on a short chain puts out its head to lap greedily at a trough of 'Consular Whipt Syllabub'. Behind this is the butcher's block, on which lies a cleaver; blood drips from it into a receptacle inscribed 'Treasury'. Behind Napoleon, in a trough inscribed 'Jaffa Cross Breed', are the bodies of six turbaned Moslems; blood gushes from the trough into a tank inscribed 'Glory'. On the wall hang carcasses, &c. (l. to r.): a ram ticketed 'True Spanish - Fleec'd'; a bleeding calf's head, a simian creature with a tail labelled 'Native Breed'; an ass, ticketed 'From Switzerland', a bloated pig 'From Holland'. Below the title: 'New Style - No Quarter Day!' The verses are a dialogue between 'Boney and Talley' on the possibilities of plunder and conquest. Talleyrand restrains Bonaparte from a mad rush at the bull, regardless of the intervening water. ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
- Alternative Title:
- Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day
- Description:
- Title from letterpress text below image., Printmaker from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication based on that of probable later state. See British Museum catalogue., Probably an earlier state of a plate later published with the imprint: Published by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, Septr. 1803. Cf. No. 10091 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Text below title: New style-- No quarter day!, Plate serves as a heading for a broadside poem of twenty-nine verses arranged in three columns. The text of the broadside, printed in letterpress below the plate, begins: Says Boney, the butcher*, to Talley his man, one settling-day as they reckon'd ..., At bottom of broadside is printed the additional publication line "Published by J. Ginger, 169 Piccadilly," the printing line "Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, SOHO," and the price statement "Price two shillings and six pence, coloured." Another edition of the broadside, in a different type and apparently lacking these statements, was also printed in 1803. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on leaf 65 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Published by J. Ginger, Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Boney and Talley the Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day. [graphic]
14. Boney and Talley the Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Septr. 1803.
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a carcass-butcher's slaughter-house, the carcasses of animals suspended from the wall. Through the doorway (l.) is seen a rock rising from the sea on which stands a bellowing bull; at the base of the rock is a British fleet. Napoleon, the butcher, with cleaver and knife, makes frantic efforts to reach the (distant) bull, but is restrained by Talleyrand who holds him round the waist. He wears top-boots, one inscribed '7 Leagues', with apron, and rolled-up shirt-sleeves, showing 'R T' [? 'Returned Transport'] branded on his left. arm. On one flap of Talleyrand's oddly shaped cocked hat is a cross, to indicate the ci-devant Bishop of Autun. The head of the Russian bear looks in at the door, gazing menacingly at Napoleon. In the foreground lies a bulky body from which head, hands, and feet have been chopped; to it is skewered a paper: 'Germanic Body'; the severed r. hand lies on a paper inscribed 'Hanover'. On the extreme left. is a round wicker cage surmounted by the Papal tiara, inscribed: 'From Rome and Not worth Killing'; it contains a fox and other small animals. On the extreme right. is a dog-kennel inscribed 'Prussia' and 'Put up to Fatten'; from it a lean greyhound on a short chain puts out its head to lap greedily at a trough of 'Consular Whipt Syllabub'. Behind this is the butcher's block, on which lies a cleaver; blood drips from it into a receptacle inscribed 'Treasury'. Behind Napoleon, in a trough inscribed 'Jaffa Cross Breed', are the bodies of six turbaned Moslems; blood gushes from the trough into a tank inscribed 'Glory'. On the wall hang carcasses, &c. (l. to r.): a ram ticketed 'True Spanish - Fleec'd'; a bleeding calf's head, a simian creature with a tail labelled 'Native Breed'; an ass, ticketed 'From Switzerland', a bloated pig 'From Holland'. Below the title: 'New Style - No Quarter Day!' The verses are a dialogue between 'Boney and Talley' on the possibilities of plunder and conquest. Talleyrand restrains Bonaparte from a mad rush at the bull, regardless of the intervening water. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day
- Description:
- Title from letterpress text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably a later state of a plate originally published with the imprint: Published by J. Ginger, Piccadilly., Text below title: New style-- No quarter day!, Plate serves as a heading for a broadside poem of twenty-nine verses arranged in three columns. The text of the broadside, printed in letterpress below the plate, begins: Says Boney, the butcher*, to Talley his man, one settling-day as they reckon'd ..., Another edition of the broadside, in different type, was also printed in 1803. This edition bore the publication line "Published by J. Ginger, 169 Piccadilly" and the printing line "Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, SOHO." See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all letterpress text. Title and broadside verses from the Beinecke Library impression., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 32.1 x 32.6 cm, on sheet 61.3 x 36.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 65a (i.e. verso of leaf 64) of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Published by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Boney and Talley the Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day. [graphic]
15. John Bull and the alarmist [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "John Bull stands squarely, holding a thick stick with a carved head representing a bull-dog, and a frothing tankard ornamented with a crown. He turns his eyes with appraising disparagement towards Sheridan (r.), a ragged bill-sticker, who slouches forward with conspiratorial impressiveness. The latter, r. hand raised warningly, says: "The Corsican Thief has slip'd from his Quarters \ And coming to Ravish your Wives & your Daughters". In his left hand is his bill-sticker's pole, under his arms are papers: 'Loyal Bills distributed pro bono publico', 'Sherry Andrew's Address'. From inside his coat project 'Play Bills'. A bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade, shaped like a fool's cap, hangs from his coat pocket. John answers: "Let him come and be D------n'd! - what cares Johnny Bull! \ With my Crabstick assured I will fracture his Scull! \ Or I'll squeese the vile reptile 'twixt my Finger & Thumb, \ Make him stink like a Bug, if he dares to presume!" John wears a laced cocked hat and powdered wig. His dress is old-fashioned, with spotted handkerchief round his neck, unbuttoned waistcoat, and the wrinkled gaiters of the farmer. From his waistcoat pockets hang papers: 'List of the Volunteer Corps'; 'God save the King'; 'Navy List.'; 'Rule Britannia'. Behind him is a Gothic chair, resembling the Coronation Chair, and having the Royal Arms on the back. This shows that, despite his dress, John is George III. [This is asserted in 'London und Paris', xi. 169.] Beside it (r.) is one end of a heavy, ancient table on which lies a 'London Gazette' with columns headed 'List of Captures' and 'Imports'. Across it lies John's long pipe. On the wall is a broadside, 'The Roast Beef of Old England', headed by a print of an ox regarding a frog. It begins: 'As once on a time a Young Frog \ Beheld a large Ox that . . . \ . . . O the Roast Beef of Old . . . [other words illegible].' Behind Sheridan is the corner of a brick wall on which bills are pasted: 'Heroes . . .'; 'Live Free or Die Slaves'; 'to devour the Women & Children'; 'Consular Monster'; 'Englishmen'; 'First Consul Rascal Scoundrel Rogue'; 'Invasion of Great Britain Pillage Destruction Rapes Murder'; 'Ravishment Conquer or . . .'; 'Corsican Cruelties 4000 Turks murderd after laying down their Arms at Jaffa [see BMSat 10062] - 500 Sick Soldiers poisond in Egypt [see BMSat 10063] O Lord! - O Lord!'; 'Address to Britons blood Murder Cut Throat Butcher'; 'Devil. . .'; 'Little Boney's delight Sword Fire Destruction'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched in top part of image., Smaller plate consists entirely of etched text and is printed below the plate with image., Four stanzas of verse on lower plate begins: John Bull as he sat in his old easy chair, an alarmist came to him & said in his ear ..., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Septr. 1st, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John Bull and the alarmist [graphic].
16. The hand-writing upon the wall [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 August 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon presides at a feast with Josephine seated on his left. A sumptuous dessert is on the table, with dishes moulded to represent English buildings, &c. Napoleon has begun to devour 'St James's', but has dropped his fork, and looks round in horror at the words 'Mene Mene, Tekel, Upharsin' (l.) at which the arm of Jehovah points. This emerges from clouds, the other arm holds over the head of Napoleon a pair of scales; one, inscribed 'Vive le Roi', contains a crown and outweighs the other, 'Despotism', which flies in the air, spilling the contents, shackles and a bonnet rouge. The room is lined with grenadiers at attention, with drawn sabres and pistols in their belts; they are partly obscured by clouds, but their eyes are turned to the writing on the wall. This is also seen by three grenadiers who stand rigidly behind Napoleon's chair, their sabres dripping blood, their eyes turned to the left. Of those at the feast only Napoleon has seen the message, but the general on his right. looks with alarm at his master who has overturned three bottles of wine. The others are absorbed in food or women. Josephine, grossly fat, drinks avidly, spilling her wine. Behind her chair stand three slim and meretricious young women, looking down at her: they are scantily clad, with hair arranged in the French manner in snaky ringlets. They are Napoleon's three sisters, Elisa, Pauline, and Caroline. The upper end of the table stretches across the foreground. On the extreme left. Arthur O'Connor, the only civilian, ogles a lady, holding her chin and offering her a dish of 'Pommes d'Am[our]', while she holds up a tumbler of wine. In front of him is a decanter labelled 'Maidstone'. Between this lady and the general on Napoleon's r. is a grotesque officer greedily devouring a large fragment of the 'Tower de Londres'. An officer (r.) ogles a woman with whom he drinks wine. All the women have the patched faces that in these prints indicate dissoluteness. Two of the officers have the plucked scalp of the Frenchman in BMSat 9960. Before Napoleon is a dish containing the 'Bank of England', flying a tricolour flag. The back of his chair is decorated with a carved eagle or vulture whose eyes are turned to the fatal message. Before Josephine is a dish inscribed 'Prune Monsieur' containing two plums; beside it are two bottles of 'Maraschino', one overturned. The decollated head of a bishop fills a dish inscribed 'Oh de Roast Beef of Old England'. Wine, fruit, and jelly-glasses fill the spaces on the table."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Handwriting upon the wall
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Watermark: 1801., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Augt. 24th, 1803, by Js. Gillray, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814, Piombino, Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, principessa di, 1777-1820, Bonaparte, Paolina, 1780-1825, Caroline Bonaparte, consort of Joachim Murat, King of Naples, 1782-1839, and O'Connor, Arthur, 1763-1852
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The hand-writing upon the wall [graphic]
17. John-Bull offering little Boney fair play [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 August 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "John Bull is a sailor, stripped to the waist, his trousers turned up, who stands arms akimbo in the English Channel. He looks at Napoleon, whose head peers over the top of a triple fortification on the French coast, bristling with guns, at the base of which small gun-boats are drawn up, on a low cliff rising from the sea. Napoleon, wearing his feathered cocked hat, haggard and alarmed, says: "I'm a com'ing! I'm a' coming!!!" Beside him flies a tricolour flag inscribed 'Vive la Liberta.' John, brawny and contemptuous, asks: "You're a' coming"? - You be d-n'd! [see BMSat 10110] If you mean to invade us - why make such a rout? - I say, Little Boney - why don't you come out? - yes, d-n ye, why don't you come out?" The words of both float upwards in large labels. On a cliff behind John is a fort flying the Union flag."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched in top part of image., Printmaker's signature present in lower right corner of design but mostly obscured by etched lines., Watermark: J. Whatman 1811., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. August 2d, 1803, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John-Bull offering little Boney fair play [graphic]
18. Buonapartè 48 hours after landing! vide John Bulls home-stroke, armed en masse / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 July 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The head of Napoleon in profile to the left, is held high on a pitchfork by John Bull, whose head and shoulders only are visible. He is a volunteer, an armed yokel, his loose hair and check neckcloth going ill with his military coat and epaulets. He wears a three-cornered hat turned up with a favour inscribed 'Britons strike home', and with a bunch of oak-leaves. A background of similar heads, fat and smiling, recedes in perspective : a crowd holding up their bayoneted muskets and looking up at the bleeding head; some wave their hats. They have a Union flag. John says: "Ha! my little Boney! - what do'st think of Johnny Bull now? - Plunder Old England! hayy? - ravish all our Wives & Daughters! hay - O Lord help that silly Head! - to think that Johnny Bull would ever suffer those Lanthorn Jaws to become King of Old England's Roast-Beef & Plumpudding!" Above the design: 'This is to give information for the benifit of all Jacobin Adventurers, that Policies are now open'd at Lloyd's - where the depositer of One Guinea is entitled a Hundred if the Corsican Cut-throat is Alive 48 Hours after Landing on the British Coast.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Buonaparte forty-eight hours after landing!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Impression from a worn plate; parts of title and statement of responsibility are lightly printed and nearly illegible., Watermark: E & P., and Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 26th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buonapartè 48 hours after landing! vide John Bulls home-stroke, armed en masse / [graphic]
19. Death of the Corsican-fox scene the last of the royal-hunt / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 July 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George III (left), as a huntsman, stands beside his white (Hanoverian) horse, holding up to a pack of hounds a fox with the head of Napoleon. He is in 'profil perdu', and grips the frantic animal by the neck. On the right are the hounds, eager for the kill; others swim across a stream on the farther side of which members of the hunt are galloping up, tiny figures led by Pitt, who echoes "Tally ho" to the King's "Tally-ho! - Tally-ho! - ho! - ho!- ho!" The King stands under a gnarled oak. The leading dogs have collars inscribed 'St Vincent', 'Nelson', '[Admiral William] Cornwall[is]', 'Sydney S[mith]', 'Gardner' (indicating the predominance of the Navy in the defence of Great Britain, cf. BMSat 10065). The leadership of the hunt by Pitt is also significant, cf. BMSat 9978."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 60 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 20th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Death of the Corsican-fox scene the last of the royal-hunt / [graphic]
20. The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 June 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George III, half length, stands in profile to the left, a holding a tiny Napoleon on the palm of his right hand, and inspecting him through a spy-glass. He says: "My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable \ "panegyric upon Yourself and Country, but from what I can \ "gather from your own relation & the answers I have with \ "much pains wringed & extorted from you, I cannot but con- \ "-clude you to be one of the most pernicious, little - odious \ "-reptiles, that nature ever suffer'd to crawl upon the surface of the Earth." He wears military uniform with a bag-wig. The only background is a dark cloud-like shadow across the lower part of the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Artist identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 36.6 x 27.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 59 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 26th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adaptations, parodies, etc, Telescopes, Military uniforms, British, and French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver [graphic].
21. French invasion, or, Buonaparté landing in Great-Britain [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 June 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A burlesqued battle-piece. A French army on the sea-shore flees in wild confusion from the fire of a group of English soldiers with a Union flag and two cannon on a low sandy cliff (right). Clouds of smoke suggest an intense cannonade from invisible British troops. In the centre of the French fugitives is Napoleon spurring a white horse, his sabre flying into the air from his outstretched right hand. Two other officers are mounted, one hurls away a banner with skull and cross-bones; the rest are infantry. Corpses, decollated heads, weapons, &c, lie on the ground, trampled on by fugitives. On the horizon are men-of-war; in the sea, ships boats in advance or retreat. The British are realistically drawn, the French are burlesqued. The former wear shakos, their first appearance in these prints."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Buonaparte landing in Great Britain
- Description:
- Title etched in upper left corner of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 58 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. June 10th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French invasion, or, Buonaparté landing in Great-Britain [graphic].
22. Maniac-raving's, or, Little Boney in a strong fit vide Lord W-, account of a visit to [the] Thuilleries / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 May 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon stamps in fury, right arm outstretched with clenched fist, left fist on his forehead. His frantic gestures have overturned table (left), 'Consular Chair', and terrestrial globe, both on the extreme right. His huge plumed cocked hat lies on the floor; his (sheathed) sabre is broken. From his head issue swirling words: (left) "English Newspapers- \ English Newspapers!!! \ Oh, English Newspapers!!! \ hated & Betray'd by the French! - Despised by the English! \ & Laughed at, by the whole World!!! \ Treason! Treason! Treason! Georges! [Cadoudal] Arras! de Rolle! Dutheil! O Assassins!! \ O! Sebastiani! Sebastiani! Oh! \ English calumniating Newspapers! \ British Trade & Commerce! - Oh! Oh! Oh! \ Treaty of Amiens! - damnation \ Insolence of British Parliament \ Oh cursed Liberty of y British press! \ Malta! Malta! Malta! \ O Diable \ the Riches! Freedom! & Happiness, of the British Nation!!! \ ha Diable! \ Diable! \ Diable \ O- Egypt! Egypt! Egypt! \ Oh St Domingo! Oh! \ Oh! the Liberty of the British Press \ English Blood-hounds! \ Wyndham! Grenville! Pitt! \ Oh! I'm Murder'd! - I'm Assassinated!! \ London Newspapers! Oh! Oh! Oh! \ Revenge! Revenge! \ come Fire! Sword! Famine! \ Invasion! Invasion! \ Four Hundred & Eighty Thousand Frenchmen \ British Slavery - & everlasting Chains! \ everlasting Chains." Under the overturned writing-table are Napoleon's ink-stand and pen and papers: 'Scheme'; 'List of Future Conquests, Turkey - Persia China'; 'pour le Expedition a la Lune' [see BMSat 9988]; 'Pour Mettre le Thames en Feu dedié a mi Lord Stanhope' [as Francophil Jacobin and inventor of steam navigation, see BMSats 8448, 8640, &c]; 'Pour le Hamburg Gazette'; 'Pour le Moniteur'; 'Pour le Argus'. Against his hat lies a large 'Plan for Invading Great Britain with a list of ye Members of the British Republic'. On other papers he is stamping frantically: 'Wyndham's Speeches'; 'Cobbett's Weekly Journal'; 'Parliament[ary] Debates'; 'Anti-Jacobin Review' [see BMSat 9243, &c.]; 'de Peltier'; 'Lloyds'; 'True Briton'; 'Mor . . . Herald'; 'Times'; 'Wilson's Egypt'; 'Debates'. The globe is damaged: a jagged hole fills the place of Europe, leaving the British Isles untouched. The back of the ornate 'Consular Chair' is decorated with Medusa's head, the snakes in violent action."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Little Boney in a strong fit
- Description:
- Title from text in top part of image., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.0 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 30.8 x 40.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 24th, 1803, by Js. Gillray, St. James Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Maniac-raving's, or, Little Boney in a strong fit vide Lord W-, account of a visit to [the] Thuilleries / [graphic]
23. The flying sword run mad [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Printmaker identified as Starcke and the artist as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Publication information extrapolated from the place and date of publication of the periodical for which the plate was etched., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1803, v. 12., Numbered 'No. XIII' in upper right corner., Annotated in a contemporary hand below plate mark in lower right: Lond. u. Par. 17r Jahrg. 5s St.[?]., Sheet numbered "VI No. 1" in manuscript in lower left., and Mounted on leaf 57a (i.e. verso of leaf 56) of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The flying sword run mad [graphic].
24. Armed-heroes vide, military appearances at St. Stephens & at St. Cloud's on [the] day of defiance / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 May 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Addington and Napoleon face each other defiantly across a narrow channel. Addington, the nearer, is the larger, and much the taller. He wears regimentals, cocked hat, and shapeless boots; he stands with arms akimbo, sabre in his hand; from each pocket projects a medicine-bottle, one labelled 'Composing Draft', the other 'Stimulating Draft'. He looks at Napoleon with a chop-fallen stare, saying, "who's afraid? damme? - \ O Lord. O Lord - what a Firey Fellow he is! \ - Who's afraid? damme? \ O dear! what will become of ye Roast Beef? \ damme! who's afraid? \ O dear! O dear." (The lines are alternately in large and tiny letters to distinguish between words spoken aloud and to himself.) He straddles across a steaming sirloin on a dish inscribed: 'O the Roast Beef of Old England'. Napoleon, who straddles even more widely, holds the hilt of his sabre; his head is large, his cocked hat grotesquely huge. He glares at the beef, saying, "Ah! ha, sacrè dieu! vat do I see yonder? \ Dat look so invitinly Red & de Vite? - \ Oh by Gar! I see 'tis de Roast Beef of Londres \ Vich I vill chop up, at von letel bite!" (Cf. BMSat 5790.) Behind Addington is the front bench in the House of Commons. Hawkesbury, thin, stooping, and melancholy, his hands on his hips, his arms curiously twisted, says: "Ah who's afraid now of Marching to Paris? ah who's afraid now." Behind Addington's seat stand two dim figures, waving their hats; they say: "who's afraid! Brother Bragg" and "who's afraid Brother Hely" ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched in upper right corner of image., Two lines of text in curly brackets below title: Throughout the world, heroes but two wee [sic] see, great Doctor A-, and little-bouncing B-., and Mounted on leaf 56 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 18th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Armed-heroes vide, military appearances at St. Stephens & at St. Cloud's on [the] day of defiance / [graphic]
25. Doctor Sangrado curing John Bull of repletion with the kind offices of young Clysterpipe & little Boney / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 May 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Addington (right) bleeds John Bull, who sits on a commode, exhausted and faint, supported by Hawkesbury. Addington, very erect, wears his gown, and says: "Courage John Bull - Courage!!!" Hawkesbury, drooping and melancholy, repeats "Courage Johnny." John's arm is tightly bound above the incision by a tricolour bandage, a tricolour ribbon is tied round his tousled head. A diminutive Napoleon (right) with a martial stride and drawn sabre holds out his cocked hat to catch the blood that spurts from John's arm; this is inscribed: 'West Indies', 'Cape of Good Hope', 'Malta' [in large letters, see BMSat 9997, &c], 'Ceylon'. A little boy, standing behind Addington and clutching his gown, holds out his hat, inscribed 'Clerk [of the] Pells', to catch a stream of blood inscribed '£3,000 Pr Annum'; he echoes 'Courage'. On the left stand Fox and Sheridan proffering bowls of 'Warm Water'; both say "Courage". Fox has swollen legs and holds a tea-kettle, his expression is that of calculating reserve; Sheridan bends forward with eager greed. John is a countryman wearing wrinkled gaiters. His commode is inscribed 'Reservoir for the Clyster-pipe Family' [the Addingtons]. Beside him lie his (damaged) hat and stick, with a torn paper: 'Rule Britannia an old Song'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched in upper left corner of image., Text following title: A hint from Gil Blas., and Mounted on leaf 55 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 2d, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doctor Sangrado curing John Bull of repletion with the kind offices of young Clysterpipe & little Boney / [graphic]
26. Physical aid, or, Britannia recover'd from a trance also, the patriotic courage of Sherry Andrew, & a peep thro' the fog. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 March 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Britannia, terrified, faint, and dishevelled sits on the ground supported by Addington and Hawkesbury, and defended by Sheridan, a Silenus-like and ragged Harlequin. They are on the coast towards which are advancing many rowing-boats filled with little French soldiers. Napoleon stands with drawn sword in the foremost boat, a tiny figure with a large head and no body, to show that he is Nobody, as in BMSat 5570, &c. The distant French coast (right) is covered with troops marching towards the shore. Clouds of smoke rise from the beach, which is concealed by the foreground. Britannia, wearing Roman dress with cothurnes, raises her arms, and shrieks (parodying Hamlet): "Doctors & Ministers of dis grace defend me!" The 'dis' is scored through but conspicuously legible. Addington holds a bottle of Gunpowder to her nose, and looks in alarm at the approaching army. He says: "Do not be alarm'd my dear lady! the Buggabo's (the Honest Gentlemen, I mean,) are avowedly directed to Colonial service, - they can have nothing to do Here - my Lady! - nothing to do with Us! - do take a Sniff or two, to raise your Spirits, and try to stand, if it is only upon One Leg!" Hawkesbury looks down with deep melancholy, supporting her (cracked) shield, and holding her (damaged) spear. He says: "Yes my Lady, you must try to Stand up, or we shall never be able to "March to Paris"". Sheridan holds Harlequin's wooden sword of 'Dramatic-Loyalty' in his right hand (cf. BMSat 9916). On his left arm is a shield with Medusa's head, the snaky locks inscribed: 'Abuse', 'Bouncing', 'Puffing', 'Detraction', 'Stolen Jests', 'Malevolence', 'Stale Wit', 'Envy'. He wears a hat turned up in front with a tricolour cockade; its crown is a fool's cap with two ears and a bell. Round his paunch is a tricolour sash through which is thrust a paper: 'Ways and Means to get a Living'. He shouts in defiance at the distant army: "Let 'em come! - dam'me!!! - where are the French Buggabo's? - single handed I'd beat forty of 'em!!! dam'me, I'd pay 'em like Renter Shares, sconce off their half Crowns!!! - mulct them out of their Benefits, & come ye Drury Lane Slang over 'em!" Behind, between Addington and Sheridan, is the head of Fox, holding his hat before his eyes; he says: "Dear me - what can be the reason of the Old Lady being awak'd in such a Fright? - I declare I can't see any thing of the Buggabo's!" In the foreground lies a long torn scroll, headed 'Treaty of Peace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia recover'd from a trance and Britannia recovered from a trance
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Britannia -- Literature: Parody of Hamlet by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Medical: Smelling salts -- Weapons: Ammunition -- Gunpowder -- Sword -- Emblems: Britannia's shield -- Britannia's spear -- Shield with Medusa -- France: Threat of invasion -- Peace treaties., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.4 x 36.3 cm, on sheet 29.7 x 39.2 cm., On verso is an 1803 postmark, remnants of a seal, and an address written in a contemporary hand: Chas. Berners Esqr. Junr., Woolverstone Park, Ipswich., and Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publd. March 14th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Physical aid, or, Britannia recover'd from a trance also, the patriotic courage of Sherry Andrew, & a peep thro' the fog. [graphic]
27. Evacuation of Malta [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 February 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Addington, chapeau-bras, squats in profile to the left over a cocked hat into which he evacuates papers: 'Guadeloupe', 'Martinique', 'St Domingo', 'Cape of Good Hope', 'Egypt', and (the last) 'Malta'. Napoleon (left), very small and thin, holds him by the cravat and threatens him with a sabre, saying, "All! - all! - you Jean F-t-e! - think yourself well off that I leave you Great Britain!!!" Addington, terrified, says: "Pray do not insist upon Malta! - I shall certainly be turned out! and I have got a great many Cousins and Uncles & Aunts, to provide for, yet!" A French officer in uniform, (?) Andréossi, holds out his cocked hat to catch the papers which fall from Addington. He says, holding his nose: "My General, you had better not get him turn'd out - for we shall not be able to humbug them any more." Napoleon wears a huge cocked hat with tricolour plume and a tricolour sash with immense spurs on his Hessian boots."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 53 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 9th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Evacuation of Malta [graphic].
28. Bat-catching [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19 January 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Addington and Hawkesbury, in the gateway of the Treasury (inscribed 'Granary'), snare three bats with the heads of Grey, Sheridan, and Tierney. Addington kneels on one knee holding out a dark lantern and a hat with a tricolour cockade filled with papers inscribed 'Sinecure', 'Place', 'Annuity', 'Pension', 'Post'. Hawkesbury, standing behind him, holds out a net supported on two sticks in which to catch the creatures which fly, like harpies, straight towards Addington, dazzled by the lantern's rays. Grey's eyes are fixed on the lantern, those of Tierney and Sheridan, the last with an expression of eager greed, on the papers in the hat. Beside Addington is a sack of 'Sterling British Corn', overflowing with guineas. After the title: '"Bat-catching, (says Buffon,) does not require much art, for, flying always in the Night, they are easily attracted by a Dark-Lanthorn & being always hungry, may be easily caught, by a few Cheese-Parings, or Candle Ends; - they are so rapacious, that if they once get into the Granary, they never cease devouring, while there is any thing left." - Vide. Buffon's Nat: His. Article Birds of Night.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 30.3 x 40.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 52 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 19, 1803, by J. Gillray, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bat-catching [graphic]
29. A phantasmagoria scene, conjuring-up an armed-skeleton / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 January 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an oval, placed on an oblong background representing a stone wall, and thus simulating the projection of a magic lantern. The figures, except Wilberforce, are light against a dark background. Addington, Hawkesbury, and Fox, as the three witches in Macbeth, cook their hell-broth in a cauldron. From this rises a cloud inscribed 'PEACE' which frames a skeleton (of Britannia). Its long hair shows that it is that of a woman; in one hand is a trident, in the other her shield. From the pot issue the tail and one paw of the British lion. His decollated head lies on the ground (right); on it stands a crowing Gallic cock wearing a tiny bonnet rouge. Addington stands on the left ladling into the pot guineas from a sack inscribed: 'To make Gruel Thick & Slab' [Macbeth, iv. i]. He raises his right arm, holding up an olive branch; a serpent twines round arm and branch; its fangs pointing at the word 'Peace'. Hawkesbury crouches on the right, recklessly feeding the fire with papers inscribed: 'Dominion of the Sea', 'Egypt', 'Malta', 'Cape', 'Continental Alliances', 'Honduras', 'Switzerland', 'Brit[isk] Isles'; beside him are others: 'Gibralter' and 'Ireland'. Among the papers already blazing the word 'West Indies' is just visible. At his side hangs an ink-pot with a pen, suspended from a tricolour ribbon, indicating the Foreign Secretary. Behind him Fox, as a fat old woman, stands full face, holding up a broom tied with a tricolour ribbon. All three wear conical hats; that of Addington has a tricolour favour, that of Fox a tricolour cockade and bunches of olive. Addington is grave, Hawkesbury melancholy, Fox exultant. In front of the cauldron, beside the lion's head, kneels Wilberforce (left), a little figure in Monkish robes, hideously caricatured, chanting a 'Hymn of Peace' from an open book."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 51 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 5th, 1803, by J. Gillray, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A phantasmagoria scene, conjuring-up an armed-skeleton / [graphic]
30. German-nonchalence, or, The vexation of little-Boney [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Count Starhemberg (left), Austrian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to England, drives in a post-chaise drawn by two galloping horses past the gate of the Tuileries (right), where Napoleon stands, with straddling legs and outstretched arms, small, angry, and impotent, shouting, "Ha, diable! - va't 'en! Impertinent! - va't 'en! - is dere von Man on Earth who not Worship little Boney? - Soldats! aux Armes! revenge! - ah sacre dieu! - je suis tous Tremblans [sic]." Grenadiers are drawn up on both sides of Napoleon, their heads receding in perspective under the arch of the palace. They have huge moustaches, and wear bearskins, high stocks, and Hessian boots. They glare fiercely at the Austrian, with their hands on the hilts of their sabres. Starhemberg looks wards Napoleon with raised eyebrow, taking snuff with nonchalant contempt. A large coronetted 'S' and the Austrian eagle on the post-chaise show his identity. Baggage is piled on the roof of the chaise."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- German nonchalance and Vexation of little Boney
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide, the diplomatique's late journey through Paris., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Count Starhemberg., 1 print : etching & soft ground etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 29.6 x 40.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 50 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Jany. 1st, 1803, by Js. Gillray, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Str
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > German-nonchalence, or, The vexation of little-Boney [graphic]
31. The first kiss this ten years!, or, The meeting of Britannia & Citizen Francois [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1803]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Britannia (right), fat, good-natured, and richly dressed, holding a fan, is kissed by a tall lean French military officer who bends forward, holding her below the shoulders. He is war-worn, his pigtail stands awkwardly erect and his hair straggles over his face, while the crown of his head is almost bald, as if plucked (cf. BMSat 10072). He wears jackboots ; his hat and sword lie on the ground beside him. She is almost spherical; her shield and trident, replacing the usual spear, lean against the wall behind her and out of sight. He says: "Madame, permittez me, to pay my profound esteem to your engaging person! & to seal on your divine Lips my everlasting attachment!!!" A cynical and sensual grin indicates the character of his advances. She smiles with coy complacency, saying, "Monsieur, you are truly a well-bred Gentleman! - & tho' you make me blush, yet, you Kiss so delicately, that I cannot refuse you; tho' I was sure you would Deceive me again!!!" Above their heads are oval bust portraits of Napoleon (left) and George III (right), the two men extending their arms as if to shake hands; the King scowls, Napoleon regards him with brooding suspicion. The frames are bordered by olive branches and palm-branches."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Meeting of Britannia & Citizen Francois and Meeting of Britannia and Citizen Francois
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Jany. 1st, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The first kiss this ten years!, or, The meeting of Britannia & Citizen Francois [graphic].
32. The nursery with Britannia reposing in peace / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 December 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Britannia, massive, but childlike, sleeps in a large wicker cradle, rocked by Addington, dressed as an elderly woman, who is seated on a low stool (right). Hawkesbury, a thin and spinsterish nursemaid, (left) approaches the foot of the cradle holding out an ornate child's commode, inscribed 'French C . . k . . g Chair'. Behind the cradle appear the head and shoulders of Fox, looking furtively towards Britannia and Addington, while he hangs out napkins to dry on a cord stretched across the fireplace; one is 'French Cambrick'. Britannia sleeps with her thumb in her mouth, her right arm across the coverlet, holding her shield and spear; her uncovered shoulder shows that she is wearing a Roman corslet. The head of the cradle is inscribed: 'Requiescat in Pace'. Addington sings: "o, By - my Baby, my Baby, - o, By - in Peace! my dearee! - For such a sweet Nap as This, You never had, far nor nearee! - so. By - my Baby, my dearee!' On the ground is a casserole of 'French Pap'; on the plain chimney-piece are a bottle labelled 'Composing Draught' and a box of 'Opiate Pills'. Above it is a print of 'Buonaparte' playing a fiddle and capering ecstatically. On the wall (left) are a broadside: 'Rule Britannia . . . Britons never will be - ['slaves' torn off] and (right) a birch-rod tied with tricolour ribbon. Addington, Hawkesbury, and Fox all wear their hair in their accustomed manner with the addition of tricolour ribbons. The first two look anxious, Fox registers calculating satisfaction."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Nursery -- Cradle -- Casserole -- Child's Commode -- Bonnet Rouge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 26.4 x 36.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 48 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 4th, 1802, by Js. Gillray, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The nursery with Britannia reposing in peace / [graphic]
33. Introduction of Citizen Volpone & his suite at Paris vide the Moniteur & Cobbetts letters / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 November 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon, enthroned, receives the obeisance of Fox and his party. The centre figure is the enormous Mrs. Fox, burlesqued, and full face, who curtsies, fan in hand; her coarse features and patched face indicate Gillray's view of her antecedents, cf. BMSats 5352, 5587, 10589. On her right and next Bonaparte, O'Connor bends forward, chapeau-bras; from his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Trial of O'Conner at Maid[stone]'. Opposite Bonaparte, and on his wife's left, Fox much caricatured, and with gouty swollen legs, makes a low bow, right hand on his breast, hat held out. He wears court dress with a sword. From his pocket issues a document: 'Original Jacobin Manuscripts'. Behind him Erskine, tall and self-important in barrister's wig and gown, bows with a complacent smile, holding out a brief bag in his left hand. Behind him Lord and Lady Holland (who is meretricious-looking) are bowing. In the foreground and on Fox's left, Robert Adair, much emaciated, grovels on the floor, his head between his arms which are extended along the carpet, in a gesture of abject homage. From his coat pockets project 'Revolutionary Odes, by Citizen Bow-ba-dara' and 'Intelligence for the Morning Chronicle.' Napoleon, very thin, sits on a canopied throne whose arms terminate in globes covered with maps of the world, each supported on the shoulders of a naked manikin. On one globe the Consul rests his right hand, clutching it with long predatory fingers; the left hand is extended towards Fox. He wears military uniform, with a huge plumed cocked hat, and (like Fox) a black bag attached to his coat collar, below his cropped hair. His throne is on a circular dais, covered with a fringed carpet, with a tasselled cushion for his feet. Behind it is a carved irradiated sun, reminiscent of Louis XIV, le Roi Soleil, but with eyes which look down in surprise at the First Consul. On each side of the throne fierce Mamelukes stand at attention, holding sabres, and with pistols in their belts."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Introduction of Citizen Volpone and his suite at Paris
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 47 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Novr. 15th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, O'Connor, Arthur, 1763-1852, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845, and Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Introduction of Citizen Volpone & his suite at Paris vide the Moniteur & Cobbetts letters / [graphic]
34. The national parachute, or, John Bull conducted to plenty & emancipation [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 July 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt stands beside John Bull in a basket, inscribed 'Sinking Fund', which is attached to an elaborate pagoda-like parachute. On the apex of the parachute is a solid ball or weight inscribed. 'Million pr Annum at Interest & Compd I[nterest]'. From this floats upwards into the clouds a tattered ribbon inscribed 'National Debt', by which the parachute was attached to the base of the balloon. The umbrella of the parachute is covered with the words 'Compd Interest \ Interest', many times repeated. The ropes which attach it to the basket are encircled by a 'Hoop of National Security'. John Bull looks down grinning and cheering, waving his hat. Pitt's right hand is on his shoulder, his left points out the earth beneath: the tiny British isles in a curving ocean near the edge of the globe. Over Great Britain, inscribed 'Land of Emancipation', flies a large Union flag. Unless the parachute drifts to the right, it will fall into the sea."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull conducted to plenty & emancipation
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 46 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. July 10th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The national parachute, or, John Bull conducted to plenty & emancipation [graphic].
35. Despair [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 April 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.6 x 20.6 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 23.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 5 of 12.
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Despair [graphic]
36. Hope [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 April 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The fat and clumsy William Dickinson stands on gouty legs in profile to the right, outside the open door of the House of Commons, where Addington is speaking. He stoops, holding a cane in his gloved hand, and from his closed and protruding lips issues a cloud inscribed : - "let me see - 25 Millions! how are we Ruin'd? - 10 pr Cent for my Money! - income tax taken off! - well! - well! - well! - ". [further words have been erased], behind him is the hooded chair of the door-keeper. Addington, in profile to the right, makes his budget speech; in his hand is a paper: '25 Mill. Loan'. Behind him is a crowd of undistinguished-looking members, as in BMSat 9843. Hawkesbury sits next Addington's empty seat, holding the 'Treaty [of] Peace'; his fingers are to his face as in BMSat 9843, but to his nose in place of his lip. The corner of the table is on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Despair.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Sir William Addinton's budget speech, April 5, 1802 -- Taxes: income tax., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.8 x 20.6 cm, on sheet 30.6 x 23.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 44 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Dickinson, William, 1745-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hope [graphic]
37. Sketch of the interior of St. Stephens, as it now stands / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A view of the House of Commons showing only the Ministerial benches immediately beside and behind the Speaker's Chair, and, on the extreme right, the Speaker and the Clerk with part of the Table. Addington, scarcely caricatured, but wearing gloves, is the principal figure. He stands in profile to the right, right hand extended; in his left is the 'Treaty of Peace with ye Democratick ['Democratic' was then used as an equivalent of Jacobin, cf. BMSat 8310.] Powers'; from his pocket issues a paper: 'List of the new Administration'. On the front bench (left) next Addington's seat, marked by his hat, sits Hawkesbury, nervous and deprecating, legs crossed, crouching forward, holding his chin. Next him is a very fat man with gouty legs, his head concealed behind Addington, identified as Dickinson, see BMSat 9854. Just behind are Nicholls, clutching his cane, and Tierney (not caricatured), both gazing intently at Addington's back. Behind Nicholls is Wilberforce, much caricatured. A fat, youngish man, standing full face (right), resembles Lord Temple. Of the other heads gazing fixedly at Addington only Tyrwhitt Jones (see BMSat 9401 and Index) can be identified: according to 'London und Paris', Jekyll and Whitbread are there. The Speaker, Abbot, is dwarfishly too small for the Chair; in front of him sits the Clerk, with a melancholy expression, holding a pen, his hands folded."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.9 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 40.9 x 30.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 43 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd March 1st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Dickinson, William, 1756-1822, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, and Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sketch of the interior of St. Stephens, as it now stands / [graphic]
38. Preparing for the grand attack, or, A private rehearsal of "The ci-devant Ministry in danger" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 December 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 36.0 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 40.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 5 of 12.
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Preparing for the grand attack, or, A private rehearsal of "The ci-devant Ministry in danger" [graphic]
39. Political-dreamings! Visions of peace! Perspective horrors! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 November 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Windham, not caricatured, lies in bed dreaming, his right hand extended, his left hand against his head. The coverlet is patterned (inconspicuously) with dragons, &c. The bed is surrounded by solid clouds, supporting visions. At its head (right) is an olive branch bent down by the weight of a vulture, which clutches a bleeding hare, while it savagely croaks 'Peace!' On the left Death, a skeleton on stilts formed of spears (skeleton A stilts coloured red), bestraddles a pile of British trophies; one spearpoint pierces a 'List of British Conquests: Cape of Good Hope Malta Egypt West India [Islands]'; the other rests on a tilted dish inscribed 'Oh! the Roast Beef of Old England', from which a sirloin is slipping. The other objects are steaming pudding, an overturned tankard inscribed 'J. Bull's Old Stout', small cask of 'True British Spirits', spilling its contents; two coronets, a mitre, and a mace. The skeleton, reminiscent of Death in BMSat 6699, by Gillray, is in back view, turning a grinning head towards Windham; ['London und Paris' quotes (p. 319), as probably in Gillray's mind, Milton, 'Paradise Lost', ii. 285-7: 'Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd . . .'] it wears a large bonnet rouge and in the right hand is a cord attached to the dripping blade of a guillotine. This emerges from clouds beside the blazing dome of St. Paul's, from which the ball and cross are falling. On the extreme left is the Tower of London flying the French flag. By the foot of the bed stands a fat demon with barbed tail, webbed wings, and the features of Fox; he plays a guitar and sings delightedly: "Caira! - Caira! - Ca-i-r-a!" [cf. BMSat 10566, where he has discarded the song]. By the near side of the bed sits (on a chamber-pot) a small figure, Justice, with bowed head registering despair, her scales broken and dismantled, her sword, inscribed 'Justicia', broken. Emerging from clouds are four figures: Hawkesbury, with a sulky, youthful profile, writes 'Peace' on Britannia's 'Death-Warrant'. Behind him stands Pitt guiding his hand, a finger to his lips. Near them Bonaparte, scarcely caricatured, stands arrogantly, holding a rope which is round the neck of Britannia, while he points imperiously towards the guillotine on his right. She stands full face, weeping, her wrists shackled, with a broken shield and trident. Behind her is a (captured) fleet, in full sail, with tricolour flags. Above their heads flies a demoniac Fame, blowing two trumpets. Two groups of tiny decapitated figures kneel at the head of the bed, appealing to the sleeper. The French are on Windham's right, those in the front row being evidently (left to right) the Dauphin, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Mme Elisabeth; the King holds out a placard: 'Oh! Remember Our Cause! poor Ghosts of French Ladies and Gentlemen.' Behind, two bishops are conspicuous. On Windham's left are men in peers' robes; their placard is inscribed: 'Ah! See what is to become of Us poor English Men of Consequence'. In the foreground are two groups of (Opposition) politicians with the heads of rats. One eats from a dish of 'Cheese Parings', the other from a coffer of 'Candle Ends', inscribed 'Treasury' [both phrases derive from a speech by Windham in which he is alleged to have derided paltry economies, an old gibe, see BMSat 9515 and 'Windham Papers', ii. 178]. Both are filled with papers inscribed 'Place', 'Pension', 'Sinecure', 'Office'. The former group are identified (in Gillray's hand) [On a slip evidently written for Miss Banks, pasted to an impression from the Banks Collection.] as Erskine, Sheridan, Tierney, Norfolk, and Bedford; the latter are Nicholls, Grafton, Stanhope, and the Earl of Oxford (who is unmistakably Burdett), Sir G. Shuckburgh. Running towards the dish (left) are M. A. Taylor and Derby, (right) Jekyll (resembling Col. Walpole)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Novr. 9th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Elisabeth, Princess of France, 1764-1794, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Political-dreamings! Visions of peace! Perspective horrors! [graphic]
40. Preliminaries of peace!, or, John Bull and his little friends "marching to Paris" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 October 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Lord Hawkesbury as a drummer boy, very thin and weedy, marches (left to right) in front of John Bull with awkward and shambling aggressiveness; he steps on to a rotten plank inscribed 'Heart of Oak' which connects the shores of England and France. His drum-sticks are a rolled document, 'Preliminaries', and an olive branch. Across his dishevelled bearskin is a ribbon: 'Peace'; from it hangs the end of a fool's cap. From his coat-pocket issues a paper: 'Instructions from Park Place' [Pitt's London address]; [So given in the Royal Kalendar (alphabetical list of the House of Commons). Broadley notes that Malmesbury lived at Park Place, Henley (this was his third country house). The crest on the drum, as well as political probability, supports the Pitt interpretation.] his drum is slung from his neck by a tricolour ribbon, and has on its side the Pitt crest, a stork holding an anchor. His expression is deprecatingly wary; and he looks sideways at John Bull, who is accompanied by a swarm of little English 'Jacobins'. He says: "Allons, Enfans de la Patrie! - now's your time Johnny! - my dear Boys! - did not I promise long ago, to take my Friends by the hand, & lead them on to March to the Gates of Paris? - Allons! vive la Liberta!!" In the narrow Channel which he is about to cross float Britannia's discarded shield, a large money-bag of '£400 Million', and papers inscribed: 'Malta', 'West India Islands', 'Cape of Good Hope', 'Map of Egypt', 'Restoration of French Monarchy', 'List of Soldiers & Sailors Killed'. John Bull (left), a simple yokel, very fat and good-natured, marches after Hawkesbury in high glee waving his hat; over his civilian dress is a sword-belt from which a sword falls to the ground, hilt downwards. He shouts: "Rule Britannia! - \ Britannia Rules the Waves!!! \ Caira! - Caira!" He is being urged forward by a crowd of little figures, members of the Opposition, who wave or wear their bonnets rouges. They vary in scale: the most prominent is Fox who marches along blowing a trumpet; Norfolk drags John forward, clutching his coat with both hands; behind Norfolk Tierney's head appears. Behind Fox is Sheridan pushing John from behind; on Sheridan's right is General Walpole; on his left, Burdett. Behind him on the extreme left is Moira, with a conspicuous whisker. Other persons are represented by arms waving caps. In front and under John's feet are three tiny naked mannikins: Nicholls holdup his eyeglass, his legs attached to his shoulders to show that he is 'nobody', cf. BMSat 5570; the paunchy Derby, blowing a French horn, and, smallest of all, M. A. Taylor blowing a trumpet. Across the water, in France, and on the extreme right, is a ramshackle building, perhaps a ruined church, with a large placard: 'Vive la Liberta'. Before it is planted a Tree of Liberty; a garlanded pole supporting an enormous bonnet rouge, round which tiny simian figures dance, holding hands. They wear bonnets rouges and have tails."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull and his little friends "marching to Paris"
- Description:
- Title etched in top part of image. and Mounted on leaf 40 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Octr. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Preliminaries of peace!, or, John Bull and his little friends "marching to Paris" [graphic]
41. Lilliputian-substitutes equiping for public service [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 May 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The new Ministers (identified by inscriptions below the design) don the clothes of their predecessors. These are (left to right) the Chancellor (Eldon) on the Woolsack, in back view, wearing the wig, enormously elongated so that it trails on the floor, characteristic of Loughborough (cf. BMSat o. 6796): 'Lord L------gh------h's large Wig'. He says: "O such a Day as This, so renown'd so victorious, \ "Such a Day as This, was never seen!" His feet are pressed against the front bench. The principal figure is that of Addington standing in profile to the right on the 'Treasury Bench', inside an enormous jack-boot, reaching to his neck: over this hangs Pitt's far too large coat (the Windsor uniform, blue with red facings). His forehead disappears in a vast cocked hat, and his wig-bag is enormous. He is 'Mr Pitt's Jack-Boot'. He says: "Well! to be sure these here Cloaths do fit me to a inch! - & now that I've got upon this Bench, I think I may pass muster for a fine tall Fellow, & do as well for a Corporal, as my old Master, Billy, himself!!! - ". In front stands Hawkesbury, youthful, nervous, and almost tearful; he stands within the bulky breeches of his predecessor as 'Ld G - n - le's Breeches'; he says: "Mercy upon me! - what a Deficiency is here!!! ah poor Hawkee! - what will be the consequence, if these d------d Breeches should fall off in thy ''March to Paris", & thou should be found out a Sans-Culotte?" Lord Hobart, a very broad figure, 'Mr D-d-s's Broad Sword', stands full face, a curious divided petticoat (made out of Dundas's kilt) is buttoned under his arms, over a military coat. His head is overweighted by Dundas's large Scots cap; he stands defiantly, left hand on hip, in his right he holds erect a broad-sword dripping blood. He says: "Ay! Ay! leave Us to settle them all! here's my little Andrew Ferrara!!! - was it not Us that tip'd em the broadside in the Baltic? - was it not Us that gave ye Crocodiles a breakfast in Egypt? - I'm a Rogue if it is not Us that is to save little England from being swallow'd up in the Red Sea!!!" In the foreground (right) the fat, elderly, but comely Lord Glenbervie (who succeeded Canning as Paymaster General) sits on the floor in shirt and waistcoat, trying to pull on the pointed slippers which are far too long and too narrow for his gouty feet. He is 'Mr C-n-g's Old Slippers'. He says: "ah, Dam'n his narrow Pumps! I shall never be able to bear them long on my Corns! - zounds! are these Shoes fit for a Man, in present-pay Free Quarters". Behind him stand together the two new Treasury secretaries (John Hiley Addington, brother of the Minister, wearing spectacles, and Nicholas Vansittart). They wear the coats of their predecessors, which trail on the ground, and hold, like muskets at attention, two enormous pens. On the head of each is a vast round ink-pot: 'G. Rose's old Stand' and 'C. Long's old Stand'. They are 'Treasury Ink Stands'. Behind (left), partly hidden by Eldon and Addington, are two unidentified figures: a man wearing a large naval cocked hat, and a lawyer in back view. The former must be St. Vincent who succeeded Spencer at the Admiralty. The latter may be Law who became Attorney General. Between and behind Addington and Hawkesbury is a sulky-looking man in a military coat and an enormous busby in which is a huge pen: 'Wyndham's Cap & Feather'. He is Charles Yorke who succeeded Windham as Secretary of War."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Lilliputian substitutes equipping for public service
- Description:
- Title etched in top part of image. and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 28th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Hobart, Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1760-1816, Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, 1743-1823, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, and Yorke, Charles Philip, 1764-1834
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lilliputian-substitutes equiping for public service [graphic]
42. Political amusements for young gentlemen, or, The old Brentford shuttlecock between Old-Sarum & the Temple of St. Steevens [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 March 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.8 x 35.9 cm, on sheet 29.0 x 40.1 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 5 of 12.
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Political amusements for young gentlemen, or, The old Brentford shuttlecock between Old-Sarum & the Temple of St. Steevens [graphic]
43. Integrity retiring from office! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The resigning Ministers issue from the arched gateway of the 'Treasury', led by Pitt (right) who, with an oratorical gesture, holds out a document: 'Justice of Emancipating ye Catholicks'. Behind him is Dundas (Secretary of State for War), holding Pitt's right arm, and not in the usual Scottish dress (though he wears a tartan waistcoat). He holds a document: 'Advantages of the Union'; from his coat pocket issues a paper: 'Successes in the East'. Next walks Grenville (Foreign Secretary) in peer's robes holding a paper: 'Acquisitions from ye War. Malta, Cape of Good Hope, Dutch Islands' [Ceylon captured 1796]. Behind him walk Spencer (First Lord), holding 'Enemies Ships taken & Des[troyed]', and Loughboroug in his Chancellor's wig. Three heads are dimly visible in the shadow of the archway. From the left the Opposition, in the guise of a plebeian rabble, advance towards the Treasury gate but are held back by a sturdy grenadier sentry at the point of the bayonet. He is back view, with 'G.R' on his busby, and is probably George III, possibly Addington. Facing him, against the Treasury wall, is his sentry-box, placarded: 'G.R Orders for keeping all improper Persons out of the Public Offices'. The rabble are led by Sheridan and Tierney; the former a butcher with cleaver raised to strike, the latter a ragged cobbler wearing a bonnet rouge; he is about to fling a cat which he holds by the tail. Behind them are Jekyll, as a chimney-sweep with brush and shovel, but wearing a barrister's wig and (tattered) gown, Bedford dressed as a jockey and holding out whip and cap (cf. BMSat 9261, &c), Nicholls and Tyrhwitt Jones, both holding up hats with tricolour cockades. At the back are Norfolk, about to hurl a bottle of wine, and Burdett. There is also raised above the crowd an arm which has just hurled a full tankard of 'Whitbread's Entire' [see BMSat 10421]. Other missiles include a lighted squib, a bludgeon, vegetables, and a book: 'Jacobin Charges, Speeches Essays'. Bedford cries: "Push on, dam'me! - work 'em! - its our Turn now!" The sentry answers: "Your Turn! - no, no! - whoever goes out You'll not come in!" In the foreground, on the extreme left, are two dwarfish and ragged little newsboys blowing their horns; on the cap of one is 'Morning Chronicle' [see BMSat 9240]. Below the design: "Men in conscious Virtue bold! "Who dare their Honest purpose hold. "Nor heed the Mob's tumultuous cries; "And the vile rage of Jacobins - despise.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 37 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Integrity retiring from office! [graphic]
44. The Union-Club [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A drunken debauch in the new Union Club, see BMSat 9698. A long table, the cloth removed, one end cut off by the left margin, stretches almost across the design, slanting back slightly from the left, where it is in the foreground, and where Fox, grossly corpulent, sits in an armchair asleep, his feet on the table, a pipe in one hand. Nearly opposite his feet is the chair of state, on the table; on the empty seat is the Prince's cocked hat with triple plume, his motto 'Ich Di[en]' within the crown. The chair is backed by an elaborate architectural canopy with ornate pilasters on which swags of fruit and flowers are carved in relief: (left) grapes and lemons (materials for punch), and (right) roses and shamrocks. Above the seat are figures of Britannia and Erin, kissing, standing on a curved base inscribed 'The Union'. On the back of the chair are two clasped hands, elaborately irradiated. The chair is surrounded by broken wine-bottles; its former occupant, the Prince, lies on his back under the table, one arm flung over Lord Stanhope, who lies unconscious, clasping a bottle. On the Prince's stomach rest two feet in shoes with spiked, upcurved toes. In the foreground, opposite the Prince, Norfolk lies with his head against the seat of his overturned chair, looking very ill. All who are not incapacitated or fighting are toasting the Union (except Lansdowne and Parr, see below). On the table sits Moira, dressed as in BMSat 9386, a glass of wine held high above his head, his right leg thrust forward, while he stretches back to take the hand of Lord Clermont, [This is clear from the resemblance to BMSat 9575, and is supported by the shamrock which he and the other Irishmen wear. It is confirmed by 'London und Paris', vii. 80, where it is said that he and Moira were once bitter enemies. He is identified by Grego as General Manners, see BMSat 9288.] seated next Sheridan on the farther side of the table. Facing Clermont and in back view, Camelford sits erect, wearing a Jean de Bry coat (see BMSat 9425) and small round hat, with cropped hair. [The identification (that of Grego) is confirmed by BMSat 9716, Wright and Evans give Burdett, E. Hawkins 'Mr Manners'.] Beside him (right) two waiters bring in a full tub of Whiskey Punch, which they spill; one treads on the face of the prostrate Nicholls. Near the end of the table (right) sits Derby, his large head and crumpled features grotesquely caricatured. In the foreground on the extreme right Montagu Mathew (as in BMSat 9560) and Skeffington (as in BMSat 9557) advance dancing arm-in-arm, with tipsy grace, the former with a bottle in each hand; one reversed, the other, held above his head, splashes its contents over his partner's uplifted glass. (The pair, according to 'London und Paris', vii, 1801, p. 76, were known as inseparables in fashionable London resorts, cf. BMSat 9755.) ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of verse on either side of title: "We'll join hand in hand, all party shall cease, "and glass after glass, shall our union increase ..., Watermark: J. Whatman 1808., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 21st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Kirkcudbright, John Maclellan, Lord, 1729-1801, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, and Sturt, Charles, 1763-1812
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Union-Club [graphic]
45. The worn-out patriot, or, The last dying speech of the Westminster representative at the anniversary meeting on Octr. 10th, 1800, held at the Shakespeare Tavern [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 October 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox stands on a dais at the head of a rough table, the seat from which he has risen is magnificent, above it is the inscription 'Vive la Libertè' surmounted by a bonnet-rouge. He is held up (left) by Combe, the Lord Mayor, a pompous figure in gown and chain, and (right) by Erskine. The former holds a 'Petition to ye Throne; - or a new way to Combe the Ministers Wig'; the latter grasps a bottle of 'Brand[y]'. Fox is melancholy, and his swollen legs cannot support unaided his vast bulk. Before him is a frothing pot of 'Whitbread's Entire' (cf. BMSat 8638). Only the guests on Fox's right and left are visible; they are Grey (or perhaps Byng), [Incorrectly identified in Wright and Evans as Sir J. Sinclair. Identifications of Grey by Lord Holland appear conclusive, but he is identified in 'London und Paris' as Byng, M.P. for Middlesex, and he resembles the Byng of BMSat 8782.] turning to watch his chief, and Tierney, looking gloomily before him. Behind Tierney are the heads of a butcher, with marrow-bone and cleaver, and a chimney-sweep with brush and shovel. All listen intently to Fox, who says: "Gentlemen, you see I'm grown quite an Old Man in your Service! Twenty Years I've served you, & always upon the same Principles; - I rejoic'd at the Success of our Enemies in the American War! - & the War against the Virtuous French Republic has always met with my most determined opposition! - but the Infamous Ministry will not make Peace with our Enemies, & are determin'd to keep Me out of their Councils & out of Place! - therefore Gentlemen! as their Principles are quite different from mine, & as I am now too Old to form myself according to their Systems, my attendance in Parliament is useless: - & to say the truth, I feel that my season of action is past, & I must leave to younger Men to Act, for alas! my failings & weaknesses will not let me now recognise what is for the best!""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Last dying speech of the Westminster representative ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at the top and bottom., Temporary local subject terms: Speeches: C.J. Fox's speech, October 10, 1800 -- Allusion to the War of American Independence -- Allusion to Napoleonic wars-- Taverns: Shakespeare Tavern, London -- Lord Mayor of London -- Chairs: thrones -- Emblems: cap of liberty as bonnet rouge -- Dishes: tankards -- Beverages: Whitbread's Entire (beer) -- Reference to Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815 -- Petitions: London Livery's petition -- Furniture: chairs -- Spirits: brandy -- Harvey Christian Combe, 1752-1818., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.8 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 39.2 x 28.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. October 13th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Byng, George, 1764-1847
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The worn-out patriot, or, The last dying speech of the Westminster representative at the anniversary meeting on Octr. 10th, 1800, held at the Shakespeare Tavern [graphic]
46. Democracy, or, A sketch of the life of Buonaparte [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A sequence of eight designs, arranged in two rows. [1] 'DEMOCRATIC INNOCENCE. The young Buonaparte, & his wretched Relatives, in their native Poverty, while Free Booters in the Island of Corsica.' ... [2] 'DEMOCRATIC HUMILITY. Buonaparte, when a boy, receiv'd thro' the King's bounty into the École Militaire at Paris.' ... [3] 'DEMOCRATIC GRATITUDE. Buonaparte, heading the Regicide Banditti which had dethron'd & Murder'd the Monarch, whose bounty had foster'd him.' ... [4] 'DEMOCRATIC RELIGION. Buonaparte turning Turk at Cairo for Interest; after swearing on the Sacrament to support ye Catholic Faith.' ... [5] 'DEMOCRATIC COURAGE. Buonaparte, deserting his Army in Egypt, for fear of ye Turks; after boasting that he would extirpate them all'. ... [6] 'DEMOCRATIC HONOR. Buonaparte, overturning the French Republic which had employ 'd him, & intrusted him with the chief Command.' ... [7] 'DEMOCRATIC GLORY. Buonaparte, as Grand Consul of France, receiving the adulations of Jacobin Sycophants & Parasites.' ... [8] 'DEMOCRATIC CONSOLATIONS. Buonaparte on his Couch, surrounded by the Ghosts of the Murder'd, - ye Dangers which threaten his Usurpation, and all the Horrors of Final Retribution.' ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Sketch of the life of Buonaparte
- Description:
- Title etched below images., Plate is divided in eight compartments in two rows, each with caption title and short description below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., Temporary local subject terms: Corsica -- École Militaire, Paris -- Regicide Banditti -- Napoleonic Wars: Egyptian campaign -- Turks -- Reference to the coup of 18 Brumaire -- French government: Consulate -- Nightmares., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 29.9 x 45.7 cm, on sheet 34.4 x 50.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 12th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Democracy, or, A sketch of the life of Buonaparte [graphic]
47. Buonaparté leaving Egypt [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 March 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bonaparte stands on the sea-shore, about to embark (on 23 Aug. 1799) in a boat (left) which will take him to a ship in full sail (the 'Muiron'). He looks with a sly leer to the right, where a little band of ragged and emaciated French soldiers hurry towards him making gestures of dismay. He wears the embroidered fastened coat or tunic with a sash of authentic portraits, without a hat; he points up towards a vision in the sky surrounded by massive clouds of a sceptre and imperial crown superimposed on the revolutionary fasces and axe. Above the general flies a figure of Fame, smiling sardonically and pointing down derisively. Two soldiers in cocked hats who stand in the boat waiting for Bonaparte to embark greedily hug large money-bags. A plank slants from the boat to the shore. The boat has a figure-head composed of two heads facing opposite ways wearing a single coronet. Behind the French troops is a small encampment with tricolour tents and flags. Behind this stretches a vast Turkish camp with crescent flags."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below title: For an illustration of the above, see the intercepted letters from the Republican General Kleber to the French Directory respecting the courage, honor & patriotic-views of "the deserter of the Army of Egypt.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Temporary local subject terms: Expeditions: Napoleon's Egyptian campaign -- Letters -- Reference to Jean-Baptiste Kleber, 1754-1801-- Ships: Muiron -- Military: French soldiers -- Personifications: Fame -- Musical instruments: trumpets -- Visions: imperial crown and scepter with executioner's axe, 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.4 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 41.0 x 29.3 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman 1814., and Mounted on leaf 33 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd March 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buonaparté leaving Egypt [graphic].
48. The apples and the horse-turds, or, Buonaparte among the golden pippins [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A winding river flows (left to right) towards a hill in the background surmounted by a temple of Fame. In the foreground (left) is a 'Dunghill of Republican Horse Turds'; in the stream float turds from the dunghill, while farther up are golden apples, crowned and inscribed. The foremost is 'English-Pippin', close behind are 'Imperial-Pippin' and 'Russian-Pippin'; they are followed by a (turbaned) 'Turkish-Pippin' and a small 'Neapolitan' [Pippin]. From a mass of floating dung emerges the profile head of Bonaparte, wearing a feathered cocked hat inscribed 'First Horse Turd'; this is the central and dominating object in the river; from his mouth issues a large label: 'A ha! par ma foi - how We Apples Swim!' Lumps of dung close behind him are inscribed 'Second Horse Turd' [Cambacérès], 'Third Horse Turd' [Lebrun], and 'Seyes' [sic]. They are followed by 'Massena', 'Jourdan', 'Talleyrand'. Bonaparte swims between 'Spanish-Pippin' and 'Prussian-Pippin', both in proximity to dung. Behind him float 'Papal P[ippin]', a triple crown, and 'Sardinian [Pippin]', both half submerged. Under water are submerged (or dead) turds: 'Robespierre', 'Marat', 'Condorcet', 'Roland'. A spreading column of thick smoke arises from the dunghill, which is composed of inscribed fragments, from which in the left foreground tiny heads emerge, the dominant one being Fox, who says: "Caira! Caira! - chacun à son tour! We shall all Swim in our turns"; next him is 'Envy'. Tierney, the second head, says: "Yes! Yes! - none of Us was born to be Drowned". The others are Sheridan, Nicholls, Erskine, and (slightly smaller) Burdett, Derby, Taylor. Those indicated by names only are: 'Voltaire', 'Rosseau' [sic], 'd'Alembert', 'Godwin', 'Price', 'Priestley', 'Holcroft', '(?) Darwin', close to (scarcely legible) 'Mo[rning] Po[st]', 'Morn. Chronicle', 'Courier [see BMSat 9194]. Larger turds are: 'Atheism', 'Falshood', 'Regicide', 'Egalité', 'Disappointment', 'Beggary', 'Poverty', 'Plunder', 'Paines Rights of Man' [see BMSat 7867, &c], 'Republican Faith', 'Theophilanthropy' [see BMSat 9240], 'Deceit [twice]', 'Lies', 'Licentiousness', 'Hypocrisy'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Buonaparte among the golden pippins
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: Explanation. Some horse turds being washed by the current from a neighbouring dunghill, espied a number of fair apples swimming up the stream ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Second Coalition, 1798-1801-- Opposition: members of the Opposition -- Allusion to Voltaire -- Allusion to Rousseau -- Allusion to Paine's The Rights of Man -- Allusion to Robespierre -- Allusion to Marat -- Emblems: pippins., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.1 x 36.4 cm, on sheet 29.7 x 41.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The apples and the horse-turds, or, Buonaparte among the golden pippins [graphic]
49. The new Speaker, (i.e. the law-chick), between the hawks & buzzards [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 February 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Michael Angelo Taylor, wearing the Speaker's gown, about to step up to the empty Speaker's Chair, staggers back in alarm, the long wig falling from his head. From nozzles at the ends of twisting tubes directed against him from both sides issue jets inscribed 'Hiss'. A phalanx of hawks on the Government benches threatens him from the left, while on right and nearer bench three buzzards do the same from the Opposition side. The nearest bird has the bloated and inflamed features of Sheridan."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One line of text below title: Poor little Michee! Just mounting! & then funk'd & frighten'd out of all his hopes., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons -- Speaker's chair -- Furniture: cushioned benches -- Coats of arms: Royal Arms -- Opposition., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.3 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 38.9 x 27.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 15th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
- Subject (Name):
- Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The new Speaker, (i.e. the law-chick), between the hawks & buzzards [graphic]
50. Design for the naval pillar [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A tall pillar, supporting an allegorical design of Britannia and covered with figures and objects in high relief, stands upon a rock in a stormy sea, waves dashing against it. The square base is supported by figures of Fortitude, with a lion, her left hand on a broken pillar, and Justice, with an ostrich, her scales not balanced. Between them is inscribed: 'To Perpetuate the Destruction of the Regicide Navy of France, and the Triumph of the British Flag'. It rests on two slabs of stones inscribed with the names of admirals: (below) 'Howe', 'Parker', 'Nelson', 'St Vincent', 'Bridport'; (above) 'Duncan', 'Gardiner', 'Keith', 'Hood'. On the summit tritons blowing horns support a shell in which stands Britannia with shield and trident. In her right hand stands a tiny figure of Victory. Beside her an angry lion grasps a globe showing the British Isles and 'le Mer'. The capital of the pillar is formed by the feathers in the hats of republican soldiers who dangle from it, still holding blood-stained daggers. Other objects on the pillar are a sailor wearing wooden shoes, broken weapons and nautical instruments, a tricolour flag inscribed 'Egalité' with a broken shaft, a small decapitated figure of 'Libertas', holding up a bonnet-rouge. On the horizon (left) is a fort; above are dark clouds from which issue many flashes of lightning. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia victorious
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of verse above image: "Nought shall her columns stately pride deface; "the storm plays harmless round the marble base ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Navy: Admiralty -- Monuments: Naval pillar., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 56.1 x 30.7 cm, on sheet 58.8 x 34.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 5 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Design for the naval pillar [graphic]