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1. A bouquèt of the last century [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 February 1802]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An elderly lady sits very upright in a glass-fronted coupé, the side window forming a frame. She has simply-dressed powdered hair on which is a turban-like drapery; a fichu covers her neck. Her dress, in front of which is a large bouquet of flowers, is shaped to the waist in a way very different from the fashion of the day. On the carriage door ls a baron's coronet above the initial 'D'. On the left is seen part of the coachman's back, and an elaborate hammer-cloth trimmed with gold fringe. Below the design: '-'t'was thus, heretofore, honest Dames shew'd their Faces, When Ball Nights & Birth Nights, call'd forth all their Graces! - But now, (-las-a-day!) what with Wigs and with Vails, Our Fair Ones, hide Faces, and all, - but their Tails! - '."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched at top of image. and Mounted on leaf 67 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:: Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A bouquèt of the last century [graphic]

2. An illustrious character [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 November 1802]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A bust portrait of the Duke of Clarence in profile to the left. He wears powdered hair with small tail, a cylindrical hat, high stock with a shirt-frill. He is caricatured, with heavy jowl, protruding lips, and small slanting eye: the manner, that of realistic, even suave, portraiture, makes the caricature more cruel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 80 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:: Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An illustrious character [graphic]

3. Blowing up the Pic Nic's, or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 April 1802]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Sheridan leads the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society, who are performing on a small, elegant stage, rising (without orchestra) from the boards in the foreground where these enemies advance. He is dressed as Harlequin; the tight chequered dress (slightly torn) accentuates his obesity; an empty purse hangs from his belt; in his left hand is a hat with a tricolour cockade (emblem of Jacobinism). In his right hand he flourishes a large pen whose feather makes wide swirling curves, terminating in firework-stars, and inscribed with the names of newspapers: 'Courier', 'Morning Post', 'Morning Herald', 'Morning Chronicle'. He is masked, to indicate that he has been writing anonymous squibs against the Pic Nics. The swirls of his pen partly obscure a figure of Comedy, meretricious, and half-naked, holding up a mask which decorates the left pilaster of the proscenium. The actors follow in characteristic attitudes. Kemble (as Hamlet) wearing a ribbon, ranting in tragedy, directly behind Sheridan, staggers back with legs astride, both arms raised. On the left is Mrs. Billington, singing as in BMSat 9765, left hand on her breast. Mrs. Siddons (? as Lady Macbeth) clutches a dagger. Behind is the head of Lewis (see BMSat 9915), with a comedian's smile, wearing a cocked hat. Crowds of actors pressing on from behind (left) and in deep shadow, are indicated by arms holding up banners; the chief one with the head of 'Shakespeare', badly torn. Others are 'Otway Rowe'; 'Kotzbue', and 'Schiller', both tricolour (indicating the supposedly revolutionary tendencies of modern German drama, cf. 'The Rovers' in the 'Anti-Jacobin', and BMSat 7054); 'Jonson', 'Congreve', 'Addison'. In the foreground, through splintering boards, the ghost of Garrick rises, a mask in his hand. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets
Description:: Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide Tottenham Street pantomime., Watermark: E & P., and Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:: Publish'd April 2d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Lewis, William Thomas, 1746?-1812, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Blowing up the Pic Nic's, or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets [graphic]

4. Coming out of a country theatre [graphic]

Creator:: Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 November 1802]
Call Number:: Drawer 802.11.01.05 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying laterns, one with a cane
Description:: Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 46 x 67 cm., Printed on wove paper, hand-colored, and matted to 57 x 74 cm., With the ownership stamp on mount (removed): From the collection of Maxine and Joel Spitz "Trail-Tree" Glencoe. Item no. 257. With a pencilled note: A rare print seldom met with. Obtained in London thru John Taylor -- ER NY. The original watercolor of this print is included in my collection -- obtained thru Amer. Art at auction, originally in the collection of David Insull., and Attached beneath are collector Joel Spitz's comments on provenance from old mount in pencil.
Publisher:: Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street, (removed from Oxford Street)
Subject (Topic):: Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Coming out of a country theatre [graphic]

5. Despair [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [8 April 1802]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Robson speaks in the House of Commons, with outstretched arms: "We're all ruinated, Sir! - all diddled, Sir!! - abus'd by Placemen, Sir!!! - Bankrupts all, Sir! - not worth Sixteen Pounds, Ten Shillings, Sir! - ". From his coat pocket project bundles of papers: 'Ignorance of ye Old Administration'; 'Stupidity of ye New Administration'; 'Charges against the Ministry'. In his hat, on the seat behind him, are other bundles: 'Ministerial Tricks', 'Plunders', 'Blunders', 'Collusion'; 'Impeach[ment]'; 'Punishm[ent]'. Behind him, and next his vacant seat, sits Tyrwhitt Jones, listening with a fierce scowl, a pen in his mouth, his hat beside him; he holds a bulky sheaf of 'Notes'. Behind these two are Horne Tooke and Burdett (right), listening intently, Burdett turning towards his mentor. The other Opposition benches within the design, which shows a corner of the table on the extreme left, are empty."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Hope.", Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Bankruptcy -- Robson's Speech, March 4, 1802., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.6 x 20.6 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 23.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Despair [graphic]

6. Hope [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [8 April 1802]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 5
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The fat and clumsy William Dickinson stands on gouty legs in profile to the right, outside the open door of the House of Commons, where Addington is speaking. He stoops, holding a cane in his gloved hand, and from his closed and protruding lips issues a cloud inscribed : - "let me see - 25 Millions! how are we Ruin'd? - 10 pr Cent for my Money! - income tax taken off! - well! - well! - well! - ". [further words have been erased], behind him is the hooded chair of the door-keeper. Addington, in profile to the right, makes his budget speech; in his hand is a paper: '25 Mill. Loan'. Behind him is a crowd of undistinguished-looking members, as in BMSat 9843. Hawkesbury sits next Addington's empty seat, holding the 'Treaty [of] Peace'; his fingers are to his face as in BMSat 9843, but to his nose in place of his lip. The corner of the table is on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Despair.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Sir William Addinton's budget speech, April 5, 1802 -- Taxes: income tax., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.8 x 20.6 cm, on sheet 30.6 x 23.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 44 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: Dickinson, William, 1745-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hope [graphic]

7. Lordly elevation [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 January 1802]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Lord Kirkcudbright stands at a dressing-table on an immense baron's coronet which serves as a foot-stool, regarding himself in a draped mirror. He wears a court suit and sword with an immense bag to his wig, which sticks out from his humped back. His left arm is akimbo, fingers outspread, right arm bent and holding a small tricorne in a swaggering pose that exaggerates his deformity, which is further accentuated by a shirt frill. His profile is almost concave; the mirror reflects a satisfied full face. On the table are toilet appliances and a large bottle labelled 'Velno', a quack venereal remedy, see BMSat 7592. He says: '"Methinks I'm now, a marv'lous proper Man, - "I'll have my Chambers lin'd with Looking Glass, "And entertain a score or two of Tailors, - "To study Fashions to adorn my body, - '."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lordly elevation [graphic]

8. Tales of wonder! [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 February 1802]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three women seated at a round table listen intently to a fourth who reads 'The Monk' by M. G. Lewis, one volume of which lies beside her on the table. One, full face, is old and ugly, the others young and comely; they register excited horror. The reader sits in profile to the left, elbows on the table; from an ornamental clasp at her waist hangs a watch, showing that the time is 12.45; a younger sister, hardly grown up faces her. The room is lit by a single candle on the table; beside it lie smoking snuffers in a tray. Curtains are draped across the window, a fire burns in the grate (right). Heavy shadows are thrown. The ornaments on the chimney-piece (the right of which is cut off by the right margin) are a Gorgon looking down at the women, a skeleton from which snakes emerge, and a dragon. On the fireplace is a carving in relief: Pluto carrying off Persephone in his chariot. There is a picture of a man in armour carrying off a protesting young woman, with rape and slaughter indicated in the background. The room is luxuriously furnished, the women are elaborately dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Later state, with text added above image. See British Museum catalogue., Dedication etched above image: This attempt to describe the effects of the sublime & wonderful is dedicated to M.G. Lewis Esqr. M.P., and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:: Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tales of wonder! [graphic]