The interior of a room in the floor of which is sunk a circular bath. A lady (Lady Worsley), holding a little drapery, steps into it. Through a window high in the wall behind her (right) appear the head and shoulders of Captain Bisset. Outside the building (right) Sir R. Worsley stands on tip-toe holding Bisset, who sits on his shoulders; his hat is on the ground, and by it lies a paper inscribed "My Yoke is Easy & my Burden light". Bisset is saying, "Charming View of the Back Settlements Sir Richard". On the farther side of the bath (left) stands a maid-servant of attractive appearance, holding her mistress's clothes; she holds up her right hand saying, "Good lack! My Lady the Captn will see all for Nothing". On the back wall is nailed a 'Map of the Isle of Wight'. The ceiling of the room has a circle inset in the rectangle which may support a dome. See British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., A version in reverse, with several alterations, of No. 6109 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: J. Whatman 1811., and Mounted on leaf 15 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 14th, 1782, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751-1805, Bisset, Maurice George, 1757-1821, and Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady
"Portrait (whole-length) of Sam House seated in an arm-chair, a wineglass in his right hand, his left hand on his hip. At his right side, on a small rectangular table, is a punch-bowl inscribed "Fox for eve[r]". He is in his well-known dress, see BMSat 5696, &c, and wears ungartered stockings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue. Also attributed to Charles Knight; see British Museum online catalogue., Text below title: Libertas et natule [sic] solum., and Mounted on leaf 9a (i.e. verso of leaf 8) of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Published July 12, 1781, by C. Knight, Berwick Street
Lady Cecilia Johnston, facing right, seated at the organ upon which two cats are reading from a hymnal and yowling accompaniment. A parody of Reynold's painting of Mrs. Sheridan as St. Cecilia
Alternative Title:
Saint Cecilia
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching & roulette on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.5 x 19.0 cm, on sheet 24.2 x 19.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 24th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Cecilia, Saint.
"A young woman stands upon a high stool, her skirts raised to show her posteriors to three men (half length) behind her. She bends forward, pointing to Charles Fox who stands with his hands handcuffed in a booth or box behind a bar. Fox has an enormous head and an expression of terrified dismay at the denunciation. Behind him is a man in profile holding a constable's staff. The three men are evidently Bow Street Justices (Sir Sampson Wright, Addington, and Bond); the principal magistrate (Wright) wears a hat and spectacles and is much caricatured (cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 6119-21). Above their heads are the evenly balanced scales of Justice. In front of the woman stands a clerk (half length) meditatively biting his pen."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene in Bow Street
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Bond -- Crime., Watermark: S. Lay., and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Addington, William, Sir, -1811, Wright, Sampson, Sir, -1793, and Williams, Renwick.
Depicts on the right the German dancing master Jansen playing the fiddle, as his pupil faces him with raised right arm and hat in left hand, a smaller youth standing sleepily on the left
Alternative Title:
Maitre de ballet allemand
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 19.0 x 24.4 cm, on sheet 20.9 x 26.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
A lady (left) lies in bed, baring her breast and looking amorously at the Duke of York, who takes her hand and is climbing into the bed. Her husband (in back view) leaves the room by a door on the right, saying, "A good night to your R . . . l High . . . s!!! Bon Soir, my lady; I'll be back to Breakfast! so let the butter'd bun be ready for Jerry". The Duke's breeches an military coat, with its star, are on a chair by the door. The bed is draped with a heavy curtain; the floor is covered with a patterned carpet. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tyrconnel's delight! Coming York over her, or what you like and Tyrconnel's delight! Coming over her, or what you like
Description:
Title etched below image; 'York' in title is scored through with etched lines but conspicuously legible., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with changes to Tyrconnel's words in speech bubble. Cf. No. 7530 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., "Pr. 1 s. 6 d.", Price partially erased from sheet., and Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 15th, 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields, London
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Tyrconnel, George Carpenter, Earl of, 1750-1805, and Tyrconnel, Sarah Hussey
"A lady (left) lies in bed, baring her breast and looking amorously at the Duke of York, who takes her hand and is climbing into the bed. Her husband (in back view) leaves the room by a door on the right, saying, "A good night to your R . . . l High . . . s!!! Bon Soir, my lady; I'm no peeping Tom of Coventry". The Duke's breeches an military coat, with its star, are on a chair by the door. The bed is drape with a heavy curtain; the floor is covered with a patterned carpet."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Kind cuckold sent to Coventry; coming York over her, or what you like and Kind cuckold sent to Coventry; coming over her, or what you like
Description:
Title etched below image; 'York' in title is scored through with etched lines but conspicuously legible., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Early state, before alterations to title and text in speech bubble. Cf. Nos. 7530 and 7530A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., "Pr. 1 s. 6 d.", and Mounted on leaf 55 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 15th, 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields, London
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Tyrconnel, George Carpenter, Earl of, 1750-1805, and Tyrconnel, Sarah Hussey
"An opera dancer, on one foot, strikes an attitude with her right arm extended, left arm held above her head. She is grotesquely thin; her face with upturned head shows a long muscular neck, her arms are emaciated and muscular and her hands are almost those of a skeleton. Her mouth is large, tightly set, and drawn down at the corners in an expression of grim determination. She is simply dressed and wears a feathered hat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Celebrated Mademoiselle Guimard or Grimhard from Paris
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue, but this attribution has subsequently been questioned. See British Museum online catalogue., Artist attribution to "Mr. Batty" is based on a manuscript note on an impression in the British Museum. See British Museum catalogue., Variant state, with different publisher's street address in imprint, or a print issued with the publication line "Publd. as the act directs by E. Humphrey, May 26th, 1789, at No. 51 New Bond Strt." Cf. No. 7589 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., and Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Publd. as the act directs by E. [sic] Humphrey, May 26th, 1789, No. 18 Old Bond Strt
"George III, dressed like a farmer, rides a sorry horse towards Windsor. Queen Charlotte sits pillion behind him like a farmer's wife; he is in profile, she full-face, both feet in a wide stirrup or platform. He points awkwardly with his stick towards Windsor. A dog walks before them, its collar inscribed 'G.R. Windsor Castle' (left) is among trees; a signpost (left) points 'To Windsor' and 'To Slough'. On the extreme right is a milestone, 'XX Miles from St James's'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., The title is an allusion to George Farquhar's Constant Couple., Possibly by: W. Mansell, Conrad Martin or Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Proof? Without artist's initials and date in lower left corner as in other impressions., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For another state see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6918., 1 print : etching & engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 25.0 x 36.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 24, 1786, by J. Phillips, No. 164 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
"Lennox leans back on a sofa, his pistol in his hand, looking up with a melancholy expression. A lady (left) holds a smelling-bottle to his nose; the Duke of Richmond (right), leaning on one end of the sofa, regards his nephew anxiously. Lennox says: "I had been happy, if the Gen'ral Camp Foot-soldiers, all, had pull'd my Nose in private, So it had not been told; O, now for ever Farewell the Plumed Troops & the big War, The spirit-stirring Drum & the ear piercing fife, The Royal Banner & all quality, Pride, Pomp, & Circumstance of glorious War Farewell! Your Hero's reputations gone!" The lady, Lady Charlotte Gordon (who married Lennox, see BMSat 7594), says: "O my dear shiv'ring L. .. . x [These words have been ostensibly obliterated by cross-hatching which leaves them legible and makes them conspicuous.]! do compose yourself, for the sake of your dear Charlotte! Ah! that hot-blooded-fellow has fright'ned him into an Ague - come do take a sniff at your Charlotte's smelling-bottle, the Bonny Duchess says that my smelling Bottle is a nice Thing to raise a Man's courage, I long for you to take hold of it, my dear L ... x. [These words have been ostensibly obliterated by cross-hatching which leaves them legible and makes them conspicuous.] Richmond says, "Don't fret yourself my dear Nephew, [These words have been ostensibly obliterated by cross-hatching which leaves them legible and makes them conspicuous.] you have behaved like a Man of Spirit & Honor; - your putting up with a public Insult when you could have resented it, shews your magnanimity! your pretending not to remember the words of the insult, shews your harmless disposition! - your Letters to the Club, your good-sense! - their being sent a week before the Duel, your want of malice! as it gave his Highness's friends an opportunity to secure him from your resentment, by putting you under arrest! - your firing first, proves your spirit! - your not waiting to be shot at, your discretion! - & your being satisfied with only attempting the life of the son of your **** proves your Loyalty, & generosity! - therefore, my dear Boy, take comfort, get the better of this Ague, which you are thrown into by pulling the trigger, &, if you are kick'd out of one Regiment, Nunkle will beg another for you, as a reward for your Gallantry & good-will to the house of Hanover!!!" Pitt (left) looks round a door, saying, "Heav'ns L . . . x [These words have been ostensibly obliterated by cross-hatching which leaves them legible and makes them conspicuous.] what's the matter? I hope you've succeeded in lessening the number of my Plagues.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene immediately after the duel
Description:
Title etched below image; the word 'coward' has scratched out with numerous etched lines but is still legible., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1 sh./6 plain.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: lieutenant-colonel, 35th Foot -- Duels: Duke of York and Lt.-Col. Lennox -- Guns: pistols -- Medicinal: smelling bottles -- Furniture: sofas -- Charlotte (Gordon), Duchess of Richmond, 1768-1842., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 27.6 x 39.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 59 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 29th, 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1764-1819, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Richmond and Lennox, Charlotte Gordon, Duchess of, 1768-1842, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
