"The Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the f...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"The Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the f...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"Pitt in the guise of a robber who is about to be hanged. He aims a pistol at the head of a cobbler, saying, "You Rascall, You keep a Shop, and shall pay for it". The cobbler, kneeling hat in hand, in profile to the left, says, "Lord Sir, mines only a...
Alternative Title:
Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobbler
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publishd. January 9th 1789 by H. Humphries, New Bond Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[26 November 1788]
Call Number:
788.11.26.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Dent Nov 26th 1788 ; sold by W. Moore Oxford St. of whom may be had the flight to Switzerland
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Pub. by J. Aiken, the corner Bare Street, Leicester Square
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Britannia (Symbolic character), Justice, and Frogs
"Fox as Falstaff, enormously fat, with a pleased smile, stands declaiming: "The Laws of England are at my commandment. Happy are they which have been my friends; & woe to my Lord Chanr." On the right stands Hanger as Pistol, in a swaggering attitude, ...
Alternative Title:
King Henry IV, the last scene and King Henry the Fourth, the last scene
Description:
Title etched below image, on either side of centered text.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 29, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character),, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Carlton House (London, England),
"Fox rises from a close-stool; Sheridan (left) is about to apply a syringe, inscribed 'R------ts [Regent's] Clyster', to his rectum. Burke (right), wearing a Jesuit's biretta (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6026), gropes in the close-stool, holding in...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 21, 1789, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Defecation, Medical equipment & supplies, and Bookcases
Either a copy or the original of British Museum satire no. 7388, in any event similar design except that Sydney, the coronet, and the tailor's goose are absent and inscriptions have been added; the satire alludes to taxes imposed by Pitt prior to 1788...
Alternative Title:
Cut purse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[January 1789]
Call Number:
789.01.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fox, wearing a coat, hangs in profile to the right from a very high gibbet. His large brush is inscribed 'Hereditary Right' (cf. British Museum Satires 7381); he is excreting, the ordure being inscribed 'Run my Mead'. Above the gibbet is a scroll: ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Dent and Sold by W. Moore, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Regency, Politics and government, Gallows, Justice, and Liberty
"A game of marbles (taw, cf. BMSat 7393) for the crown is in progress; the Prince of Wales is dressed as a toddling child in petticoats but is larger in scale than the other figures; he leans towards Fox, Sheridan, and Burke (who are aiming at the cro...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
