"Fox stands in the House of Commons, making a speech; in his right hand he holds out a paper: 'Speech on the 'Rights of the P------'; in his left is an 'Explanation of that Speech'. He faces the table on which are piled large folios: 'Statutes at Large', 'Magna Charta', 'Principles of the Constitution', 'Rights of the People'. He says, "all these I'll devour next". Behind him on the ground are two open books: 'Jus Divinum of Kings' and 'Principles of Toryism &c.' The benches behind him are packed with intent listeners, some dismayed, some admiring. North, a bandage over his eyes, sits on the extreme right, next him is Burke. The end of the gallery (left) is visible; listeners hang over to watch Fox."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Five lines of text below title: Advertisment extraordinary. This is to inform the public ..., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Fores, S. W., publisher., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Great Britain.--Parliament.--House of commons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"Coastal scene; a man sitting with one elbow on a fishing basket, opposite another who is mending a sail and who looks up at a woman who stands, carrying a basket on her back; with a sailing boat moored at the shore behind to left."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1872,1012.564.
Description:
Plate from series: Rowlandson's Imitations of Modern Drawings. and Title and printmaker from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Wheatley, Francis, 1747-1801, artist.
"A very fat man draped in a sheet, his vast chin lathered, turns his eyes upwards to a thin barber who stands beside him (left), his bowl in one hand, soap in the other. Behind (left) a bald man bends over a basin, stanching a wound; and (right) the barber's man applies a flat-iron to a wig on a standing wig-block with a carved face. From the raftered ceiling hangs a lamp in a rectangular (?) paper shade inscribed: 'The Oldest Shaving Shop in London Most Mony for second Hand Wigs'. On the wall hang a bird in a cage, a print of two men, a wig. Wig-blocks, a razor, and the customer's wig lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state.
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 257-8., Companion print to: A sufferer for decency., Date from description of lettered state in British Museum catalogue., Proof before letters; plate later published with the title "A penny barber" and imprint "London, Pubd. by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street." Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7605., and Title and publisher from lettered state.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
"A stagecoach stopped outside an inn with the sign of the horse at right, another coach being driven at speed at centre, a man in a leisuredly cabriolet at left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition.
Description:
For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate reissued ca. 1803 with the title: A stage coach. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.164., and Title from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Landscape with a figure herding cattle to the water at left, a shepherd resting on the banks at right with his flock around him."--British Museum online catalogue, registraion no.: 1852,0705.266.
Description:
Plate from series: Rowlandson's Imitations of Modern Drawings. and Title from Grego.
"Deer-hunting, a landscape scene; at a river in thick woodland, a stag in the water is pursued by the pack of hounds, two huntsmen on horses approaching through the water at right, several others on the banks at left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and Title from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
