"Erskine stands directed to the right, a sheaf of papers in his right hand, his left held out in a declamatory gesture. He wears a long gown over a black tunic and sash, with a broad white collar. His advocate's wig has a red patch on the crown of his...
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Pubd. May 21st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Sir George Shuckburgh, in the white draperies with tricolour border and white cap of a Judge of the High Court, stands full-face on a low platform of stone slabs. His right hand is raised as if expounding a principle. Two tufts of hair project latera...
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Pubd. May 15th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
"Courtney sits heavily in an arm-chair directed to the right, his head in profile to the right; his hands rest on his knees. His dress is that of a Membre du Tribunal Criminel, except that his cloak is long instead of knee-length, and except for the c...
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Pubd. May 21st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Nicholls, M.P. for Tregony, sits in an arm-chair directed to the left; in his right hand is a tall staff in whose head is an eye; his left hand is thrust under his coat, which is buttoned. From a tricolour ribbon round his neck is suspended a small m...
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Pubd. May 15th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Sir William Pulteney sits directed to the left on the lowest of three large brass-bound treasure-chests. He wears a powdered wig, plain black coat and breeches, and top-boots. On the left side of his coat hangs a gold key, another is in his left hand...
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Pubd. May 21st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Sir F. Burdett, standing with his left foot forward, his head in profile to the left, his hat in his left hand, holds out a paper to an official whose presence is indicated by a heavy shadow, and the arc of a circular pavement. He is scarcely caricat...
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Pubd. May 21st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Six brutal-looking men, much caricatured, sit round a table in a cellar, listening with apprehensive intentness to their chairman, who reads a paper: 'State Arrests - O'Conner Binns Evans Quigley'. He sits in an arm-chair, a grotesque ragged creature...
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London Corresponding Society alarmed
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Pubd. April 20th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
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Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and London Corresponding Society.
"Fox kneels in profile to the right with bent back before an altar, his hands together. His unpowdered hair is cropped. From his pocket projects a book: 'New Constitut[ion]'. The altar, draped with a cloth on which crossed daggers are embroidered, is ...
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Pubd. May 26th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
"Outside a country ale-house ruffians are practising their weapons at close range on the effigy of a British soldier which is spiked on a spear (left): helmet, coat stuffed with straw, top-boots. One man levels a spear, another fires a misshapen pisto...
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Pubd. June 13, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A night scene with a waning moon. United Irishmen burn and plunder. On the left is the corner of a farm house with flames pouring from a casement window. A ruffian wearing a military coat, tricolour cockade and green branch in his hat, seizes the bur...
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Pubd. June 12th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The Irishman, with coarse features and cropped hair, stands on a rounded hill, left arm raised oratorically, right hand on one of two pistols in his belt, saying, "No Union, Erin go Brack!" He wears a round hat tilted to one side, and with a small tu...
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Pubd. July 10th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Ghosts (right) stand in a row at the foot of Fox's bed; he sits up, staring in terror, hands raised, large tears on his cheeks. The ghosts emerge from clouds; they are headless, with bloodstained necks round which are nooses, except for Lord Edward F...
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Pubd. Sepr. 21, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Fox flees in terror through the doorway of the House of Commons, taking an enormous stride. Beside him runs a thin demoniac greyhound, Grey, wearing a collar: 'Opposition Grey-Hound'. A small animal runs behind with the head of M. A. Taylor. Through ...
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Prudent secesion and Prudent secession
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Pubd. Novr. 6th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
"A British sailor, firmly planted astride the globe, is severely punishing Bonaparte, who, with one knee precariously on 'Turk[ey]' (Egypt), is about to fall backwards into space. Bonaparte wears a huge cocked hat, is naked from the waist, but wears s...
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Jack Tar settling Buonaparte
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Pubd. Novr. 20th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
Parkyns, George Isham, approximately 1750-approximately 1820, printmaker
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[1 January 1798]
Call Number:
Topos Su962 no. 5+
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1
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"An arched gateway the centre, with a smaller arch on the right; three women and a child talking by a wall in the left foreground; a gothic style building on the left behind the wall; a courtyard in the background through the arch"--British Museum onl...
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Published Jany. 1, 1798, by T. Simpson, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Darling & Thompson, Gt. Newport Street
