"Ministers and others, holding hands, caper in a ring round a pole to which are symmetrically attached the decollated heads of the Cato Street conspirators executed on 1 May, see British Museum Satires No. 13707, &c. Between Sidmouth and the smiling C...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1820 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Abbott, Charles, Baron Tenterden, 1762-1832, and Edwards, George, 1788-1843
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Politicians, May poles, Dance, Decapitations, Heads (Anatomy), Criminals, Masks, Knives, and Violins
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 September 1791]
Call Number:
791.09.02.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A French patriot, wearing a cocked hat with large tricolor cockage, rests his hand on a bludgeon; from his pocket issues the "Rights of Man. Paine". In the background a noose dangles from a lamppost on which is fixed a bleeding head"--British Museum...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Septr. 2, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N.3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Decapitations, History, Gallows, Nooses, and Street lights
"A satire on King Louis XV of France accusing him of treachery showing him sitting on a throne under a canopy, his crown is held over his head by Pride on his left, a peacock in front of her, and two-faced Treachery on his right, behind whom the devil...
Alternative Title:
Funiral ticket for Lord Lovet and Funeral ticket for Lord Lovat
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd in May's Buildings
Subject (Name):
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667?-1747, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, and Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Tragical ballad, of the unfortunate love of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor
Description:
In three columns with the title above the first two; a woodcut is in middle of the second column; imprint is below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, Betrayal, Decapitations, Dead persons, and Daggers & swords
"Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp...
Alternative Title:
Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home and Britons strike home
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Soldiers, British, French, Militias, Pitchforks, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and War casualties
A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend....
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend....
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
A headless Brissot, with his right arm stretched forward and his head under his left arm, runs toward Lord Lauderdale who is sitting on a rocking horse. Lauderdale turns back his head on a snake-like neck to look in surprise at his guillotined friend....
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 1754-1793 (Jacques-Pierre), and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Hobby horses, Decapitations, and Politics and government
An allegorical representation of France with Liberty as a young woman bound and being dragged from a temple, Libertas, by French soldiers to face a angry mob, two decapitated heads at the base of the stairs. One soldier breaks a staff with a liberty c...
Description:
Attributed to John Nixon. See British Museum catalogue, no. 8334.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):
History, Artists, Book burning, Decapitations, Demons, Destruction & pillage, Fools & jesters, Liberty, People associated with manual labor, Trade, Revolutions, and Violence
