"A symbolical bust of Napoleon, dressed as a Roman emperor, is on a rectangular base on which are title and inscription : 'Symbolical of the Effects produced by that Cause which the enlightened [image of a fox] in [the] Eighteenth Century sagaciously predicted would ultimately prove a Stupendous Monument of Human Wisdom!!!' The head is turned in profile to the left; the features are conventional but express ferocity, with glaring eye and fierce frown. It wears a fantastic helmet wreathed with laurel from which blood drips. The wreath is entwined by serpents, whose (three) heads are clustered at the back with words in large letters issuing from their jaws: 'Rapine', 'Lust', 'Murder'. The word 'Invasion' issues in the same manner from the mouth. Above the wreath the helmet is encircled by a band on which are quasi-zodiacal signs: a scorpion, a sickle, a crescent, an arrow, a caduceus, a goat-like monster. On the helmet sits a grinning Devil, playing a fiddle and spreading his webbed wings over the idol's head, while from under one wing Death, a skeleton, peers out; he holds a javelin poised to strike and a cup of poison inscribed 'Jaffa' [see British Museum Satires No. 10063]. The shoulders are covered by drapery, drawn aside to reveal (rotten) ribs and a torn and bleeding heart which is transfixed by a dagger and a barbed spear. A scroll floats from the dagger inscribed 'Wilsons Narrative'; the spear has a scroll inscribed 'British Press' and is surmounted by a cap of Liberty. Fragments torn from the heart are inscribed 'Acre' [see British Museum Satires No. 9412], 'Egypt' [see British Museum Satires No. 9250, &c], and 'Irel[and]', while in the middle of the heart is a triangular patch: 'England'. The heart is surmounted by a crown made of blood-stained daggers with a central fleur-de-lis."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., With an accompanying sheet of letterpress text describing: The crest, The helmet, and The heart., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Published by R. Cribb and Printed by Cox and Baylie, Great Queen Street
Subject (Geographic):
France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Wilson, Robert, Sir, 1777-1849.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Foreign relations, Devil, and Skeletons
"An allegorical design. Britannia, holding her shield and a cap of Liberty on a staff, rushes (right to left) with a calm expression to the edge of a cliff, urged on by Wellington and five other Ministers (scarcely characterized). On her right a man snatches the drapery from a small cloud-borne figure of Fortune with her wheel, who is directed towards an oval portrait of Queen Caroline supported by an angel. Fame holds a laurel wreath above the portrait. Below the cliff or rock from which Britannia steps so heedlessly is a patch of ground surrounded by sea. On this stands Burdett, holding out a scroll inscribed 'Magna Char[ta] Liberty of Napoleon' and holding out his left arm to prevent Britannia from falling. Justice stands behind him, holding evenly balanced scales. Four other men stand close behind him, one holding out a scroll inscribed 'Reform', and supporting the arm which holds the scales. A man in shirt-sleeves kneels at Burdett's feet, making a gesture of urgent entreaty. On a rock (right), symbolizing St. Helena but merging with Britannia's cliff, sits a spotted, sub-human Caliban-like creature, who holds a small image of Napoleon, which he is about to cover with an extinguisher. At the base of the rock, but in the background, are two tiny officers in military uniform, seated together at the edge of the sea, directed to the right. In the foreground (left) sits a woman (? France) in classical draperies, holding a sceptre, with a (? Bourbon) crown falling from her head, and with a second (? imperial) crown in her lap. She gazes towards St. Helena. Inset in the title and enclosed within a border inscribed 'Honi soit qui mal y pense': 'Wilson sçut délivrer une Noble victime Burdett, Hobhouse, Holland, sauvez Napoléon, Arrachez-le aux tourmens de l'exécrable Hudson, Vengez l'honneur Anglais flétri par un grand Crime Et sauvez Albion sur le Bord de l'Abême [sic]!!!'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Nation and her m-n-t-r's and Nation and her ministers
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before border and imprint statement added. For a later state with border present and the imprint "Pubd. by Milleville, Hampstead" etched in lower left, see no. 14050 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 90 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Typed extract of twenty-nine lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
John Milleville?
Subject (Geographic):
Saint Helena,
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869., Wilson, Robert, Sir, 1777-1849., Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840., Lowe, Hudson, Sir, 1769-1844., and La Valette, Antoine-Marie Chamans, comte de, 1769-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Cliffs, Shields, Liberty cap, Angels, Justice, Scales, Military officers, and Crowns
On the left, standing in front of a thatched hut. "Africa" wears a plumed headdress and animal pelt and holds a spear in his left hand; in his right hand he holds a document inscribed "Slave Trade abolish'd 1806." On the right, "America" is Lady Liberty, wearing plumed headdress and cloak; she holds a standard with the Stars and Stripes, and gestures at a pedestal with portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. A snake curls around the pedestal. Between the two figures is a landscape with hills on either side of a river, and waterfall; a crocodile emerges from behind the figure of Africa
Alternative Title:
America
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Description based on an imperfect impression; imprint statement mostly erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 20, 1807 [by W.B. Walker ...?]
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Washington, George, 1732-1799, and Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image., Verses continue: ... what if by conquest we possess thy shore, thy savages reveng'd should less repine, since we're the slaves of thy corrupting ore., Second state, with altered imprint statement; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.570., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, Asia, and Europe., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge and with thin margins on the other three edges.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Title from caption etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications -- Crowns: Prince of Wales's crown -- Emblems: goat as a symbol of Wales -- Mountains.
Publisher:
Published 3d Novr. 1800, by Haines & Son, No. 19 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane
Satire: Britannia, whose spear is broken in her hand, sits on a monumental statue which is placed on a pedestal of "Rotten Stone"; she says: "My leaness my leaness, wo untio me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, yea the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. ..." At the foot of the monument lies the British Lion, dreadfully emaciated, wounded by three daggers, and breathing his last. Near him are the personifications Truth, Rapine, Envy, Ingratitude, and Infidelity -- representations of the powers of Europe
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse below image: See here a monument of shame / Indelible the Horrid Name / Shame on your Actions, Cursed Tricks / To the latest Time -- O! fifty-six.", and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Europe
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Britannia (Symbolic character), Allegories, and National emblems
A man in Turkish dress smokes a long pipe as he sits on one barrel as he leans on another. A similarly dressed man, seated next to him, holds an axe. Smoke pours from a brass brazier in the foreground while in the background, a man hlding an umbrella over his head rides a camel. While the rider ignores the scene, the camel looks at the scene of the two men
Description:
Title from the first line of verse below image., Printmaker from Chaloner Smith., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Before 1763 (see Chaloner Smith)., and Four lines of verse below image.
Publisher:
Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Published / Created:
[before 1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.96+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in Turkish dress smokes a long pipe as he sits on one barrel as he leans on another. A similarly dressed man, seated next to him, holds an axe. Smoke pours from a brass brazier in the foreground while in the background, a woman holding an umbrella over her head rides a camel. While the rider ignores the scene, the camel looks at the scene of the two men
Description:
Title from the first line of verse below image., Printmaker from Chaloner Smith., Before 1765 (see British Museum online catalogue)., Verse continue: ... But ill compensate for a Land of Slaves, Whist Liberty disdains to bless thy Shores, And Luxury thy nerv'less Sons depraves., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, America, and Europe., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides; trimmed within plate mark at bottom edge.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
