On the left, William Pitt, his arms and one leg raised, is looking up at the East India House that he has just kicked toward Charles Fox who stands ready to toss it back. Behind Fox is a table with dice and a dice box on it. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. Behind Pitt an open book inscribed, "Blackstone," indicates his barrister's education
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 25 x 34.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 45 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and East India Company.
On the left, William Pitt, his arms and one leg raised, is looking up at the East India House that he has just kicked toward Charles Fox who stands ready to toss it back. Behind Fox is a table with dice and a dice box on it. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. Behind Pitt an open book inscribed, "Blackstone," indicates his barrister's education
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.9 x 34.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 45 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and East India Company.
"View of a brewery yard with two large dray horses harnessed and standing nose to tail in the foreground, a dog beside them rubbing his face with his left forepaw. Two more dray horses are standing beyond harnessed to a cart; a pulley extends above them from a building from on the left; on the right, a burly man manoeuvres barrels in front of another building with two gables; in the background, the gateway of the yard with pillars on either side topped by globes; further buildings and a church spire beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from fifth plate in the series., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. A new book of horses and carriages. [London] : Pubd. by E. Jackson ..., [1784]., Third plate in a series of eight etched plates illustrating various carts, carriages, wagons, and horses. See: Yale Center for British Art, call no.: Folio A 2011 80., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 34 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
A giant, half-nude female figure of Britannia swings terror-stricken diminutive figures of Charles Fox and Lord North in the air. Holding Fox by the ankle, she raises him above her head while North dangles by his neck from her other hand. Her shield and the liberty cap are beside her
Alternative Title:
Britannia roused, or, The coalition monsters destroyed and Coalition monsters destroyed
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from Grego., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 20.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 44 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"A young military officer wearing a gorget stands at the door of a house, his left hand on the knocker, looking up at two courtesans who lean out of a sash-window over the door. He puts a coin into the hat of a disabled sailor who stands behind him, supported on crutches, his forehead bandaged. Behind the sailor are two itinerant musicians: a man carrying a rectangular box, and a woman turning the handle of a mechanical organ which is slung round her neck, her mouth is open as if singing. The door of the house is ornamented with a carved wooden pediment, and bears a plate "Mrs Mitchel". The knocker has a lion's head. Only the corner of the house appears, the street is "Cleveland Row". A brick wall extends from the house to the left, over it appear trees, and a notice-board inscribed "Men Traps are laid here: every Night also ...." On the wall a placard is pasted, "Dr Leaks Pills. . . "."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "n" in "sins" is etched backwards., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching in brown ink on wove paper ; plate mark 34.8 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 37.9 x 26.9 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 14 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act direts [sic], Nov. 27, 1781, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Brothels, Military officers, British, Military uniforms, Organ grinders, and Clothing & dress
A night scene under the Piazza of Covent Garden, the center of which is seen through the arch of the arcade. A couple hurry arm-in-arm through a doorway (right) over which is Haddocks (a bagnio). The woman is the Duchess of Devonshire, shown with a bare breast and holding a lantern. She tells the prim young man "Vote for whom you please but kiss before you poll." He answers, "Tis too much neighbor! I could not go through with it." On the left behind the couple is Mrs. Hobart who holds her lantern to see an old Chelsea pensioner and a negro supported on stumps and crutches. She says to them, "D-m the Duchess, she got all the young voters."
Alternative Title:
Dark lantern business, or, Mrs. Hob and Nob on a night canvass with a bosom friend and Mrs. Hob and Nob on a night canvass with a bosom friend
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 24.6 x 34.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 68 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. April 24th, 1784, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, and Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Lanterns, Lighting, People with disabilities, Political elections, and Prostitutes
"A satirical coat of arms for Sir James Lowther, created Earl of Lonsdale on 11 May 1784. The two supporters are ragged militiamen realistically drawn, one (dexter) being without shoes, with ragged stockings, through which his toes protrude, the other (sinister) is without breeches, a ragged shirt about his legs. On their cross-belts are the letters 'W.M.' [Westmorland Militia]. On the shield are six documents, inscribed respectively, 'False Musters'; 'False Certificates for Volunteer Companies'; 'False Returns'; 'Retention of Cloathing'; 'Contract for Building a Man of War (above a ship in construction, consisting of a few timbers only) 'Cancelled and Money Return'd'; 'Retention of Bounty'. Beneath is the motto 'Who. Doubts, it?' Above is a very large earl's coronet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dedicated to the newly created Earl of Lonsdale
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate is probably antedated in allusion to the date of Lowther's peerage. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 27.9 x 33.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman., Annotations in pencil supply the missing letters in title., and Formerly mounted on leaf 77 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"A satirical coat of arms for Sir James Lowther, created Earl of Lonsdale on 11 May 1784. The two supporters are ragged militiamen realistically drawn, one (dexter) being without shoes, with ragged stockings, through which his toes protrude, the other (sinister) is without breeches, a ragged shirt about his legs. On their cross-belts are the letters 'W.M.' [Westmorland Militia]. On the shield are six documents, inscribed respectively, 'False Musters'; 'False Certificates for Volunteer Companies'; 'False Returns'; 'Retention of Cloathing'; 'Contract for Building a Man of War (above a ship in construction, consisting of a few timbers only) 'Cancelled and Money Return'd'; 'Retention of Bounty'. Beneath is the motto 'Who. Doubts, it?' Above is a very large earl's coronet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dedicated to the newly created Earl of Lonsdale
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate is probably antedated in allusion to the date of Lowther's peerage. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Formerly mounted on leaf 76 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
The rivalry between Fox and Pitt is shown in a series of seven images beginning with the portraits of each of them. In the third image, Fox and Pitt fight for a Twelfth Cake, with Fox winning. In the fourth, Nobody (i.e., the King), gives Lord Temple, carrying dark lantern, a note supporting Pitt's claim to the Cake. In the fifth image, a grocer complains about Fox's actions against smuggling. In the sixth, on his return from the Grocers' Hall on February 28, Pitt participates in a riot. He is opposed by a diminutive Jeffery Dunstan, the popular 'mayor of Garrett" and Fox's supporter. In the seventh, Pitt and his companions are thrashed by men with sticks
Alternative Title:
Young statesman's ramble
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.9 x 35.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 50 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. 24th March 1784 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, and Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Devil, Smuggling, Riots, and Clothing & dress
