A clergy man with a bulbous nose and large wig (right) kneels before an elderly, well-dressed woman (left) who sits in a chair with a cat on her lap. She is very thin, with wrinkled face and pursed lips and wears multiple strands of pearls around her neck and wrist. Her cat hisses at her suitor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse, signed W.H., below title: Hear me, angelic object of my love ... ., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. September 3, 1793, by Will. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clergy, Single women, Courtship, and Marriage proposals
"Satire: parson, with two men, exorcising ghost in field."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text beneath title: He donna half like it, give un a little more Maister Parson and he'll vanish!, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist identified by the cataloger based on his other works in the collection., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Louis XVI, King of France -- Allusion to Mrs. Schwellenberg, ca. 1728-1797 -- Miserliness of George III and Queen Charlotte -- Fear of invasion -- Allusion to fortune-telling., and Watermark: Countermark E & P.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 16, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
A satire on women's fashion. Three women stand outside and strike poses that show off their attire: dresses that expose their breasts and/or legs, and extravagant headdresses adorned with pearls or large feathers
Alternative Title:
Lunatics out of Bedlam!
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's street address and date of publication have been mostly removed from end of imprint statement; month and day of publication from Alexander., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Clothing & dress, Women, Fans (Accessories), and Feathers
Scene outside the castle where Hamlet and Banquo meet the three witches
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Nine lines of verse in two columns below title, Banquo's lines from Macbeth, Act I Scene 3: "What are these So withered and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' Earth, And yet are on 't? -Live you? Or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"John Bull (right) stands in profile to the left, gaping in terror at four little demons, grotesque, naked, and senile, who approach him with calculating and complacent grins. His knees bend, his hands are thrust in his coat pockets; he says: "What do you want you little Devils - an't I plagued with enough of you already more pick poket Work, I suppose!!" Their leader stands forward with a mock deprecatory gesture; the next demon holds a large book. They say: "Please your Honor we are the assess'd Taxes.""--British Museum online catalogue and A satire on the tripling of the assessed taxes proposed by Pitt in his famous budget speech, 24 Nov. 1797. These were taxes on persons according to their expenditure (inhabited houses, male servants, carriages, &c.); it was an attempt at direct taxation, heavily graduated to tax the rich at a higher (five-fold) rate and with exemptions and abatements for small incomes. This was Pitt's 'plan of finance' to support the war without recourse to loans, intended to demonstrate to Europe England's determination and unity: 'to check a little the presumptions of Jacobins at home and abroad.' ... See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Assess'd taxes and Assessed taxes
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Richard Newton in the British Museum catalogue., and If etched by Newton, it must be after the design of someone else, possibly Woodward. See Alexander, D. Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s,
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Newton from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Buckinghamshire, Albinia (Bertie) Hobart, countess of, 1738-1816 -- Wars -- Allusion to Mysore War -- Swallow Packet -- Allusion to East India Company -- Bellows -- Allusion to Isle of Skye -- Bristol Channel., and Watermark: G.R.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 31, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
June 16, 1795., [not before 1804], and June 16, 1795 [i.e., not before 1804]
Call Number:
795.06.16.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from dated watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Welshmen -- Wales -- Goats -- Pedigrees -- Food: leeks -- Food: cheese., and Watermark: J Ruse 1804.
"A pugilistic encounter between Pitt and Thurlow, who is seated on the Woolsack. Pitt, stripped to the waist, stands defiantly in profile to the right, saying, "I'll soon kick you from your stool you old hard hearted, brow beating monster". Thurlow, contemptuous of his opponent, sits confidently in shirt and breeches, arms outstretched, saying, "Afraid of him, b------t me, a dried eel skin! an ill shap'd figure of one, b------t me! no, no, I've got some bottom but he's got none" [cf. BMSat 8070]. Pitt's backer is the King, who stoops forward, hands on knees, saying, "Ward off that blow, Billy, never mind his looks, at him again." Behind the Chancellor is the Queen, holding the mace and the bag of the Great Seal; she says, "He never gave a good stroke in his life, dont be afraid of him". Behind her, and on the extreme right, appears the head and shoulders of the Devil, saying, "My Pupil will beat for a Million". Behind the King and on the extreme left is Dundas, holding his nose, and saying, "I have not smelt such a stink since I left Edinburgh! Somebody has dropp'd a daisy I'm sure.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Attack at the Woolsack
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue, Temporary local subject terms: Fighting -- Devils., and Mounted to 38 x 52 cm.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fourteen lines of text below image: A young gentleman being at the university was called upon by an old servant ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Academic costume -- Domestic service: footmen., and Watermark: small circle in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 11, 1794, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
