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1. Iohn Bull flourishing in a dignified attitude of strict neutrality!!!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1823]
- Call Number:
- 823.05.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "John Bull sits in a double pair of stocks, his ankles heavily shackled. His wrists are linked by a huge padlock inscribed Million £800 000 000 [National Debt]. He sits on bales of Taxes; to his back is tied a huge bundle of Last Wars Taxes. His cloth...
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull flourishing in a dignified attitude of strict neutrality
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street & 74 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, and Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Public debt, Taxes, Trees, Rocks, Stocks (Punishment), Forts & fortifications, Cannons, Devil, and Frogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Iohn Bull flourishing in a dignified attitude of strict neutrality!!!! [graphic]
2. Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 12th May 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the t...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
3. Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 12th May 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the t...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
4. Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 12th May 1791.
- Call Number:
- 791.05.12.02+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the t...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]
5. Royal gambols!!, or, The old oak in danger [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [September 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Caricature with the oak of England, weighed down by George IV and his mistresses swinging on its branches, being undermined by devils, watched by an appalled John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Old oak in danger
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Published September 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, and Windsor Castle,
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Mistresses, Trees, Oaks, Swings, Devil, Axes, Soldiers, Bridges, and Castles & palaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Royal gambols!!, or, The old oak in danger [graphic].




