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1. De'Estaing at spa, or, The French admiral in all his glory [graphic]
- Creator:
- Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.00.00.99+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The Count sits in a large chair, a basket of frogs on the floor between his wide-spread legs; he wears a powdered wig under his hat, his uniform, a gold cross on a black ribbon around his neck, high black boots with spurs, and sword at his waist. He is wide-eyed and stiff -- marionette-like -- as he eats a frog. A man servant with a worried expression on his face and wearing a red liberty cap approaches him from the left, holding a tray labeled "Fricasee of Frogs". From the right, a woman, her face mostly obscured by her large head scarf, carries a bowl labeled “Soup meager”.
- Alternative Title:
- French admiral in all his glory
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States
- Subject (Name):
- Estaing, Charles Henri, comte d', 1729-1794
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign participation, French, Frogs, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > De'Estaing at spa, or, The French admiral in all his glory [graphic]
2. Out of the frying pan into the fire [graphic].
- Creator:
- Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 May 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.05.30.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On a wooden platform a crowned goose, representing George III, lays its head on the executioner's block. To the left standing over the goose is a fox with a raised axe. On the far left Lord North and on the right a young man (the Prince of Wales?) dance with joy at each end of the scaffold. A satire on the Prince's dislike of the King and his association with Charles Fox
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 27 x 35 cm., and Characters are identified in pencil above each figure, from left to right: Ld North, Fox, Burke.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Darchery May 30, 1783, St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Geese, Foxes, Executions, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Out of the frying pan into the fire [graphic].
3. The French spy taken prisoner by English girls [graphic].
- Creator:
- Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 45. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire: a thin Frenchman kneels beseechingly while five women pull his pigtail, pinch his nose and threaten him with a mop."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Thomas Colley in the British Museum online catalogue., Restrike, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate. For an earlier issue of the plate, published in 1781, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.18., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 45 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- De la Motte, Francis Henry, -1781
- Subject (Topic):
- Spies, Women, Mops & mopsticks, Pails, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The French spy taken prisoner by English girls [graphic].
4. The fox and stork [graphic]
- Creator:
- Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 January 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.01.14.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A stork with the head of Shelburne is shown with its beak buried in the long neck of a glass jar labeled "The Treasury Jar". He smiles triumphantly as he picks up the gold guineas at the bottom; around his neck is the Garter ribbon. To his left is a fox with the bushy eyebrows, bulbous nose, and hairy chin of Charles Fox; he stands with his paws on the jar and a melancholy expression at the inaccessible treasure
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Originally published in 14 January 1783 by William Richardson. Cf. No. 6166 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Humphrey Jany. 14, 1783, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Great Britain. Treasury.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fox and stork [graphic]
