"The figures are placed in an alcove recessed in a wall of heavy stones. The massive Ellenborough in wig and gown sits on a wooden seat or plank supported by Sidmouth, Lauderdale, and Stanhope, with behind, the bent posteriors and massive legs of Grenville, who is otherwise hidden by Lauderdale and by a pan suspended from the seat. This seat is 'Broad-Bottom Cabinet' [cf. BMSat 10530], the pan (shaped like that of a commode) is 'Privy Seat'. The plank rests on the shoulders of Sidmouth (l.) and Stanhope (r.); both are tall, thin, and elderly, their heads in profile to the right. The short and solid Lauderdale stands between them, with Ellenborough's feet on his left. shoulder and on Stanhope's r. arm. He is in Highland dress, holds a bonnet rouge, and stands on a large book: 'Brissots Principles of Justice'. Sidmouth holds his cocked hat, and wears the Windsor uniform; in his pocket is a bottle labelled 'Viper Drops'; beside him lies a clyster-pipe (cf. BMSat 9849). Beside Stanhope is an open book: on one page a picture of a boat, 'Justitia', exploding, with a pair of scales shot into the air; on the other: 'The Catamaran of Justice - or the last Expedition to blow up All Opposition in spite of Wind & Tide.' Ellenborough, directed to the right., holds up a pair of scales; the r. scale heavily outweighs the other; it contains a mitre and papers inscribed: 'Decision of the Peers', 'Not Guilty', 'Eldon', 'Vote of the Bishops', 'Opinion of the Eleven Judges'. In the other are a frothing tankard of 'Whitbr[ead's] Entire' [cf. BMSat 10421], and a paper: 'Impeachment'; to these Ellenborough gloomily adds his 'Sword of Justice'. Above his head is the inscription: 'FIAT IN JUSTITIA RUAT CŒLUM'; the 'in' is partly concealed by shading."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
A digit, perhaps a '2', precedes '9th' in imprint statement but is scored through with etched lines., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched at bottom of image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Ellenborough, Edward Law,--Baron,--1750-1818--Caricatures and cartoons., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Lauderdale, James Maitland,--Earl of,--1759-1839--Caricatures and cartoons., Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., and Stanhope, Charles Stanhope,--Earl,--1753-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A battle scene in a mountain valley. The Spanish forces are on the left, at the base of a precipitous mountain on which are guns firing at the opposite hill, up which French troops, tiny figures, are fleeing in confusion. In the foreground (l.) a monk is pushing a rammer down the mouth of a cannon, while two elaborately dressed and meretricious-looking Spanish ladies hold cannon-balls. One has a bloodstained dagger hanging from her waist. A Spaniard wearing a star is about to put a match to the touch-hole. On the r. a British grenadier, trim, plump, and whiskered composedly bayonets at one thrust two men at the head of a file of terrified and grotesque French soldiers. He tramples on a tricolour flag inscribed 'Invincible Legion'. In the centre nuns advance to the attack with raised daggers- th foremost is about to strike down a terrified French officer, whom she grasps by the hair. One holds up a crucifix. The Spanish forces in the middle distance advance at the base of the mountain, led by a fat monk on horseback blowing a trumpet. Behind him rides a bishop holding a sword and crosier. Other Spanish soldiers, advancing in close formation, have swords and spears. Their banners are (r. to left.) 'La Morte ou la Victoire'; 'Vive le Rot Ferdinand VII'; 'Sainte Vierge' with the Virgin, with a sword in her right. hand and the Child in her left. arm; 'Victoire Espagnol'; 'Vive la Libert[é]'. The troops on the mountain have a large cross and a banner: 'Libert[y] & Loyalt[y]'. The very numerous French soldiers, except for a grotesque group in the foreground (r.) advancing terrified against the single British soldier, are on a tiny scale, and are in headlong flight, uphill. On their banners are the words 'Vive le Roi Joseph' and 'Dupont'. In the foreground on the extreme left. are barrels of British Gunpowder, symbols, like the grenadier, of British aid (see BM Sat 11003, &c.). Clouds of smoke rise from the battle and float to the right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"In the manner of history painting rather than caricature. ... George III as St. George, in uniform, holds up his sword, about to give a final blow to a scaly dragon with the head of Napoleon. The long convolutions of the dragon are under the horse's feet: Napoleon's head, with a barbed fang and flames issuing from the mouth, looks up despairingly. A sword-cut has gashed his skull, and cut his crown in two. The dragon has large wings and the legs and talons of a beast of prey; it falls backwards: Britannia (left) will just escape being crushed."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Saint George and the dragon
Description:
Artist identified as Lt.-Col. Thomas Richmond Gale Braddyll in the British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Braddyll, Thomas, 1776-1862, artist., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
A satire ridiculing the installation of Lord Grenville as the Chancellor of Oxford University on July 3rd, 1810. The installation followed a divisive election in which Lord Eldon opposed Lord Grenville on political and religious grounds. Opponents like Gillray saw Grenville's installation as a triumph for Catholic Emancipation. Here Grenville rises in balloon over a vast applauding crowd in Oxford. Many of the faces in the crowd are identifiable political figures: Buckingham, Stafford, M.A. Taylor, Erskine, Tierney, Holland, Grey, Sidmouth, Cholmondeley, Whitbread, Watkin Williams-Wynn, Fingall, Sheridan, etc.
Description:
Published in: Hill, Draper. Fashionable contrasts: Caricatures by James Gillray. London: Phaidon Press, 1966, cat. no. 49., Sequel to Gillray's The introduction of the Pope to the convocation at Oxford by the Cardinal Broad-Bottom., and Title from Latin quote below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 8th, 1810 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street,
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley,--Marquess of,--1749-1827--Caricatures and cartoons., Cleaver, William,--1742-1815--Caricatures and cartoons., Crowe, William,--1745-1829--Caricatures and cartoons., Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Caricatures and cartoons., Erskine, Thomas Erskine,--Baron,--1750-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Fingall, Arthur James Plunkett,--Earl of,--1759-1836--Caricatures and cartoons., Grenville, Thomas,--1755-1846--Caricatures and cartoons., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Grey, Charles Grey,--Earl,--1764-1845--Caricatures and cartoons., Harcourt, Edward,--1757-1847--Caricatures and cartoons., Holland, Henry Richard Vassall,--Baron,--1773-1840--Caricatures and cartoons., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice,--Marquess of,--1780-1863--Caricatures and cartoons., Moss, Charles,--1763-1811--Caricatures and cartoons., Nugent, George Nugent Grenville,--Baron,--1788-1850--Caricatures and cartoons., Randolph, John,--1749-1813--Caricatures and cartoons., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower,--Duke of,--1758-1833--Caricatures and cartoons., Taylor, Michael Angelo,--1757-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Tierney, George,--1761-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., University of Oxford--History--19th century--Caricatures and cartoons., Whitbread, Samuel,--1764-1815--Caricatures and cartoons., Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams,--1775-1850--Caricatures and cartoons., and Wynn, Henry Watkin William,--1783-1856--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Cartoons (Commentary), Catholic emancipation--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., and Satires (Visual works)
"The sovereigns of Europe, &c, watch from their seats in a bull-ring the Spanish bull tossing Napoleon above its head. The point of his sword projects from the ferocious animal's shoulder; he holds his broken sword, dripping blood, and has a badly gashed thigh. His cocked hat and a paper, 'Plan pour Assujettir le Monde' [cf. BMSat 10599, &c.], fall to the ground. A broken collar inscribed 'Corsican Chain' is round the bull's neck, a few links of a heavy chain still attached to it. The bull tramples on and befouls Joseph Bonaparte, who lies on his back, moribund or dead, in his rightoyal robes, the crown falling from his head; under his hand is a torn paper: 'Coronation de Joseph Boanaparte Rex Espagnol-Gibraltar-&c. Nap'. Three bulls, previously disposed of by the Corsican Matador, and horribly gashed, lie on the ground (r.), bellowing. A butcher's ticket is affixed to each: 'Prussian Bull Beef', 'Dutch Bull Beef', 'Danish Bull Beef'. They are [marginal note] "Wounded Bulls bellowing for help-." The barrier, an arc of which frames the arena, is inscribed 'Theatre Royale de I'Europe'. Behind it, and along the upper margin of the design, sit the sovereigns. On the extreme left. is George III, in military uniform, holding a trident (emblem of sea-power), and peering down impassively through his glass; the back of his (coronation) chair is partly visible. Next him is (?) the Emperor of Austria, gripping the edge of the barrier with a gauntleted hand and with the hilt of his sword projecting from his right. hand. Next John, the Regent of Portugal holds up his hat in exultation; he clutches a bottle of 'Vin de Brazil' [see BMSat 10960, &c.]. Next him, the Tsar, his head encircled by the words 'Alexr the Great', bites the corner of a feathered tricorne in his agitation. The King of Prussia grasps a feathered cocked hat, and puts his hand to his mouth. The bellicose King of Sweden wears a fur-trimmed tunic and a fur cap, with a star, inscribed 'Polar Star' [the Swedish order]. Two pistols are thrust through his belt. Next is the Pope, wearing his tiara, and holding up his cross; before him is a paper: 'The Bull for Excommunicating the Corsican Usurper'. He is supported from behind by the Sultan wearing a jewelled turban; behind the latter is the Dey of 'Algiers' [the word etched across his turban]."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Corsican-matador in danger
Description:
Text above image: "The Spanish Bull is so remarkable for spirit that unless the matador strikes him dead at the first blow, the bull is sure to destroy him." Vide Barretti's Travels. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Alexander--I,--Emperor of Russia,--1777-1825--Caricatures and cartoons., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Francis--I,--Emperor of Austria,--1768-1835--Caricatures and cartoons., Frederick William--III,--King of Prussia,--1770-1840--Caricatures and cartoons., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., Gustav--IV Adolf,--King of Sweden,--1778-1837--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., John--VI,--King of Portugal,--1767-1826--Caricatures and cartoons., Joseph Bonaparte,--King of Spain,--1768-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., Mustafa--IV,--Sultan of the Turks,--1779-1808--Caricatures and cartoons., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., and Pius--VII,--Pope,--1742-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Grenville (r.) displays a dancing bear with the head of Fox enclosed in a muzzle. He holds a chain attached to the muzzle and a long heavy staff: 'Cudgel for Disobedient Bears'. The bear obediently and clumsily repeats the dancing-step of his master; he holds in both paws his bonnet rouge trimmed with tricolour, and tramples upon two torn and discarded songs: 'Caira, Ca . . .' [see BMSat 9735] and 'A Begging we will go' [an allusion to the subscription raised for Fox in 1793 [This is confirmed by Lord Holland.]: see BMSat 8331, &c., and cf. BMSat 9885]. The bear and Grenville face each other in profile; the latter is neatly dressed, wearing top-boots with round hat and bag-wig. In his pocket is a book: 'Rewards for Obedient Bears'. He says: "dont be afraid of my Bear, Ladies & Gentlemen! \ "I have tamed & muzzled tarn, & reformed his Habits." The rest of the troupe is on the left, behind the bear's back. An ape with the head of Lord Henry Petty, and wearing the gown of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, capers in time, clasping the bear's stump of tail, and holding up, with a delighted grin, a fool's cap trimmed with bells. The music is provided by Sidmouth, a ragged fiddler, with a patch over eye. He stands on the pavement, his head in profile to the right., wearing cocked hat, bag-wig, and Windsor uniform, with tattered breeches, and a foot projecting through a remnant of boot. His r. knee rests on a wooden leg or stump. He plays 'God save the King' [as a protégé of George III]; from his the pocket hangs a paper: 'Pray remember your poor and Old Blind-Fiddler'. On the wall behind him are three bills: (1) 'Pro Bono Publico - Superbly fine Exhibition, at the Bear Garden, Broad-bottom'd Alley. - Orpheus Charming the Brutes, with a Grand Accompaniment by Dr Sangrado [Sidmouth]'. (2) 'in the Press. - Pease Soup or Bruins Delight - a Ballad [cf. BMSat 9848]'. (3) 'Bubble & Squeak, a Duet.' ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One line of quoted text following title: "What tho' I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. My bear ever dances to the genteelest of tunes." and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice,--Marquess of,--1780-1863--Caricatures and cartoons., and Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
"The beam of a pair of scales is suspended from a vertical bar terminating in a ring which encircles one of many solid rays from a large sun (l.) surmounted by the Prince of Wales' coronet and feathers. The 'Rising-Sun' (see BMSat 10258) is partly obscured by dark clouds, but its rays extend across the design and illuminate especially Sidmouth and Ellenborough. The former is poised triumphantly on the cross-beam, depressing the r. scale with his foot, while he holds on his shoulders Ellenborough in judge's wig and gown, who manipulates the scale in the same direction. This lower scale contains the 'Broad-Bottomites' ie the Grenvillites, or New Opposition, the other, the 'No-Bottomites', i.e. the Foxites, or Old Opposition. In the latter (l.) the occupants hold the ropes with expressions of anxiety; the inscription suggests that they lack 'bottom' or endurance (a pugilistic phrase). Fox is the most prominent, between Erskine (l.), in Chancellor's wig and gown and with the Purse of the Great Seal, and Grey (r.). Moira, in cocked hat and regimentals, stands stiffly behind. Fox and Grey have bonnets rouges but do not wear them. The other bowl contains Grenville, one hand on his fat nephew Lord Temple; the heavy posteriors for which the family were noted take up much of the bowl. Windham waves his hat triumphantly. Of two other partly obscured occupants one resembles Lord Henry Petty. The scales are suspended above the curve of the globe on which Great Britain and the Continent are indicated. Behind the North Pole (r.) is a setting sun containing a royal crown; its feeble rays are outshone by the heavy beams of the rising sun (or son). Above it, among clouds, flies the ghost of Pitt, weeping."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Title etched below image., and Two lines of text following title: NB. The representation of the astonishing strength & influence of the rays from the rising-sun is taken from Sir Isaac Newtons theory of light.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 16th, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street,
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos,--Duke of,--1776-1839--Caricatures and cartoons., Ellenborough, Edward Law,--Baron,--1750-1818--Caricatures and cartoons., Erskine, Thomas Erskine,--Baron,--1750-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Grey, Charles Grey,--Earl,--1764-1845--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings,--Marquess of,--1754-1826--Caricatures and cartoons., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice,--Marquess of,--1780-1863--Caricatures and cartoons., Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., and Windham, William,--1750-1810--Caricatures and cartoons.
"An allegorical design combined with a quasi-realistic scene on the deck of the 'Victory'. The dying Nelson, in half-reclining position on a cannon, is supported by Britannia and by Captain Hardy, who stanches his wound. A young sailor kneels at his feet, supporting the hand from which Nelson's sword drops; he holds up the folds of the tattered tricolour flag which another sailor, with a gesture of astonishment and grief, has brought to Nelson. The flag (from the French flag-ship, the 'Bucentaure') is inscribed 'Vive l'Emp[ereur des] Francois'. On the deck, beside Nelson, his telescope lies across a paper: 'Bay of Trafalgar'. Britannia, with trident, shield, and a small branch of olive, kneels on the cannon, covering her eyes with her left hand. Poised on a cloud of smoke behind Britannia stands Fame, blowing his trumpet and holding up a pen with which he has just written in large letters on a swirling cloud the word 'Immortality'. The flag of the 'Victory', torn by shot, is on the extreme left; beside it three marines fire their muskets with deadly effect at the men in the mizen-top of the adjacent French ship, the 'Redoubtable' (who were responsible for the fatal shot). On the right sailors fire a cannon. A sailor climbs the rigging, waving his hat. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Text below title: This design for the memorial, intended by the city of London to commemorate the glorious death of the immortal Nelson, is with every sentiment of respect humbly submitted to the right honble. the Lord Mayor & the Court of Aldermen. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Nelson, Horatio Nelson,--Viscount,--1758-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Lord Temple, naked, wtth large feathered wings bound to his upraised arms, attempts to fly after his father, Buckingham, who is soaring upwards. But his wings are disintegrating; feathers, which are quill pens, fall from them, and he is about to descend heavily on to a viciously pointed stake which is planted in the cobbles of the roadway. His wings are splashed with red, i.e. with sealing-wax. The stake is inscribed 'Stake out of Public-Hedge!' Buckingham (as Daedalus), whom distance makes much smaller than his bulky nephew, is borne up on intact, outspread wings inscribed 'Tellership of \ the Exchequer'. His naked posteriors are grotesquely large. Both are lit by broad slanting beams from a sun in the upper right. corner of the design containing the heal of George III looking down with surprised severity at Temple. On the opposite side of the wide roadway is a handsome detached house, representing the Paymaster's house in Whitehall. A negro servant in livery stands at the door handing up a package to a man in a cart inscribed 'Stationary Office', which is piled with similar packages and bundles of pens. Clouds of black smoke rise from the chimneys but are deflected by the sun."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Four stanzas of verse, in two columns, etched below title: In former days the poet sings, an artist skill'd and rare ..., The questionable digit '8' in 'April 28' in imprint statement seems to have been etched over a different digit., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos,--Duke of,--1776-1839--Caricatures and cartoons., Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville,--Marquess of,--1753-1813--Caricatures and cartoons., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
