Political satire: With billows of smole behind it, a skeleton holding a noose and pointing to his eye dances to the left of Napoleon who stands pointing at it. In the right background is a gallows with a group of soliders standing in the distance belo...
Alternative Title:
Pair of specticals easely seen through and Pair of spectacles easily seen through
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 17 June 1813 by T. Tegg, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Skeletons, Nooses, Gallows, Soldiers, French, and Smoke
Political satire: With billows of smole behind it, a skeleton holding a noose and pointing to his eye dances to the left of Napoleon who stands pointing at it. In the right background is a gallows with a group of soliders standing in the distance belo...
Alternative Title:
Pair of specticals easely seen through and Pair of spectacles easily seen through
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 17 June 1813 by T. Tegg, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Skeletons, Nooses, Gallows, Soldiers, French, and Smoke
"A scene in the Lords. A large Green Bag stands wide open on the floor before the Woolsack; John Bull, a fat 'cit', takes from it a bottle inscribed 'Imputation' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13796]; the cork, in the form of a crown, flies up, and s...
Alternative Title:
John Bull and the secret committee
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published July 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Manners-Sutton, Charles, 1755-1828, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Lushington, Stephen, 1782-1873, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Legislative bodies, Interiors, Bags, Bottles, Crowns, Smoke, Locks (Hardware), and Snakes
Plate [167] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vice-Admiral the Earl of Sandwich, seated with sword in hand, refusing to abandon ship; smoke obscuring falling mast behind him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
"Gifford levels a cylindrical bill of 'Pains & Penalties' from which issues a blast of smoke, while Copley scatters squibs. Behind (left), spears, with the King's large bow, lean against a railing. P. 10: I, for the injury meant to be done, By the gre...
Alternative Title:
I, for the injury meant to be done by the great Bill of Pains, as a thundering gun ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, and Great Britain. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Lawyers, Legislation, Firecrackers, Smoke, Spears, and Bows (Weapons)
"A companion plate to British Museum Satires No. 13989 by the same artist, and with the same imprint. A Chinese interior resembling that of British Museum Satires No. 13986. George IV as a mandarin, languid and ill, sits cross-legged on a low settee. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Subject (Topic):
Costumes, Chinese, Interiors, Furniture, Draperies, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Documents, Smoke, Messengers, Vases, Figurines, and Dragons
