A stout publican (Samuel House) holding a tankard with initials SH in his right hand and a pipe in his left is standing in front of his house. He wears waistcoat with sleeves, without a coat and wig; his breeches are unbuttoned at the knees. Behind him is a large barrel on which is written "Fox for Ever Huzza." A man smoking a pipe is seated below the window in which sit two other men, one with a pipe. Another man is vomiting out the second window
Alternative Title:
Sir Samuel House
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark at the bottom with loss of imprint., First state, with printmaker's name on plate., Date of publication from nos. 5696 and 5697 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, volume 5., and Sheet trimmed.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
House, Samuel, -1785. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Drinking vessels, Tobacco pipes, Barrels, Birdcages, Vomiting, and Clothing & dress
"Hibernia (left) seated under a tree receives advances from four men representing France, Spain, Holland, and Portugal. She holds a spear, and a shield on which is the Irish harp. At her side is a large roll inscribed "Irish Linnen" and a corded bale or packing case. The tree is inscribed "Shelaley" [An obsolete form of shillelagh, the term for a cudgel deriving from "a wood of that name [in County Wicklow] famous for its oaks". Grose, 'Dict. Vulg. Tongue', 1785, cited O.E.D.] and a branch over Hibernia's head is encircled with a wreath inscribed "Shamroke". She says, "I was once the Wife of John Bull, but now Ive a License to trade for myself, my Ports are free for all Mankind to enter". Lord North looks from behind the trunk of the tree, saying, "Had it not been for the Disturbance in America you should never have had a free trade I'm as far North as any of you". France approaches, hat in hand, his right. hand outstretched, saying "I have no vear de Shirt since Fielding take de Holland vich Mynheer sent me, I'm forced to make shift vith de Ruffle, if you vill let me into your Port for to get a bit of Linnen, I vill give you de French P--x, vich is all I shall have left ven de var is over". (It was a common gibe among the English populace that Frenchmen wore ruffles without shirts.) Spain, wearing a feathered hat, cloak, and slashed doublet, says "Let me enter your Port I'll give you plenty of Spanish Gold for your Linnen, tho' if Rodney comes to see me often I shall have none left". Holland, wearing a high-crowned hat and smoking a pipe, says "I want apiece of Linnen to send to America, she wants a new Shift but can't come for it least she should catch cold, if you'll let me enter your Port I'll give you a Dutch Herring and a glass of Hollands after it to keep it from rising in your Stomach". Portugal, dressed like Spain, except that his doublet is not slashed, says "I keep a Vineyard in Portugall, if you'll let me into your Port, I'll supply you with Wine at a cheap rate for your Linnen, if you'll drink none from France or Spain.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Suitors to Hibernia on her having a free trade
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 18, 1780, by I. Mills, No. 1 Ratcliff Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign economic relations, Free trade, and Clothing & dress
Two groups of men, an English group on the left (including George III, North, and Shelburne) and a Dutch group (including a sailor and clergyman) stand on the seashore, with the lone figure of Lord George Gordon on the right and allegorical figures overhead. The figures are numbered but there is no accompanying explanation. A naval battle between French and British ships occupies the distance. Concerns English policies towards Dutch shipping and Dutch reaction to the Gordon Riots
Alternative Title:
That and this side of the water, Dutch & English politicks, and Dutch and English politicks
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from address of the supposed publisher, William Richardson of High Holborn. See Maxted, London book trades., and An English copy of: Engelsch nieuws. See British Museum catalogue, no. 5722.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs Septr. 29th, 1780 by Wm. Richardson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Netherlands., Netherlands, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Gordon Riots, 1780, Commerce, and Clothing & dress
The kings of England, France, and Spain stand or sit by a table set with a punch-bowl, wine bottles, and glasses. Behind the table is a four-paneled screen. A waiter with a bill in his hand and a napkin under his arm says to George II: "Who pays the reckoning." George responds: "O! The French King pays for me." The King of France in a coat decorated with fleur-de-lys responds: "The King of Spain pays for all." The King of Spain seated at the table and dressed in a clock and feathered hat says: "D-n the family compact."
Alternative Title:
Three kings
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Text below image indicates the country of each corresponding King portrayed in image: England; France; Spain., Stamped on verso: British Museum 1868 4656; second stamp indicting British Museum duplicate: JRR in ms., and Date added in ms. by unidentified hand in ink in lower right corner: 26 Feb. 1780.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, Feby. 26, 1780 by WRichardson, No. 68 High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
"Lord North (left), with a sack over his shoulder inscribed "Budget", drags by a chain a large lion. The lion's right fore-paw, inscribed "America", has been cut off, and his leg is bleeding. With the lion walk America, France, and Spain. America, a Red Indian with a head-dress and kilt of feathers, holds out a tomahawk in his left hand; in his other hand is the staff supporting the cap of liberty; he says, "This Limb belongs to me in Spite of Fate". France holds out a sword in his left hand, his right is on the lion's head; he says, "Either by Policy or Force I must Obtain some limb or Other". Spain, standing by France, says "I am afraid I shall lose all my Dollers & get Nothing". Behind the lion (r.) three men advance with a flag inscribed "Associations", two of them with drawn swords; they point towards North; one says, "Let our Associations Stop that lump of Iniquity from Ruining our Country"; the next says, "One limb is lost Already by his Infernal tricks". The third says, "Give us an Account how you Spend our money". North is saying, "D------n these Associations they will put a Stop to my Proceedings at last." He is walking over documents inscribed "York; Middlesex; Petitions, and Protestant Petition" (the monster petition for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act to which Lord George Gordon was then collecting signatures). In the foreground a large thistle is growing, emblematic of the evil influence of Scotland; near it appears part of some striped material, perhaps the American flag, but with many more than thirteen stripes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Voice of the public for an enquiry into the public expenditure
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate line with partial loss of imprint., Publication day and year from British Museum catalogue., and Possibly engraved by T. Colley. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by E. Hedges No. 2, under the Royal Exchange, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foreign relations, and History
"A soldier on a great horse holds a rope attached to the legs of two prisoners who sit behind him facing the animal's tail; a drawn sword is in his right hand. Behind (right) is a haystack, on the top of which are two other Spaniards, much alarmed at the approach of a countryman who threatens them with his pitch-fork. A man and woman (left), both wearing coats with military facings, watch the scene; she points, he looks through a small telescope. In the foreground a sow and three young pigs are galloping. In the background is the sea, with fishing-boats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate line.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Spanish, Captives, Soldiers, Swine, and Clothing & dress
George III sharing a cannibal feast with an Indian chief. Under a palm-tree (left) are three American Indians; one, standing, holds the dismembered body of an infant, so that its blood pours into a cup formed of a skull held by a kneeling Indian (left). The third (right), whose feathers and bracelets show that he is a chief, sits on the ground holding a tomahawk in one hand, a long bone which he is gnawing in the other. On his left, and in the centre of the design, sits George III on the ground, gnawing the other end of the Indian's bone, while he holds a smoking bowl made of a skull. He is wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter. On the ground in front are the head and limbs of an infant, and a dog vomiting. On the king's left is a flag-staff, surmounted by a cross, from it hangs a ragged flag on which is inscribed "GEO . . . E the T[hird] by the Grace of. . . . of. . . . King [Def]ender of the Faith &c.” Beneath it, a 'Holy Bible' stands upside down. Two figures hasten towards the feast from the right. A very fat bishop wearing a mitre holds in his right hand a crozier, in the left a paper inscribed “Form of Prayer 4th Febry General Fast.” He is saying “That thy Ways may be known upon Earth, thy saving Health among all Nations.” Behind him is a sailor carrying on his head a packing-case inscribed “Scalping Knives, Crucifixes, Tomahawks, Presents to Indians 96,000”; he says, “D------n my dear Eyes, but we are hellish good Christians.” Beneath the design is engraved, “Qui facit per alium, facit per se. Princ. Leg. Ang.” In the upper right corner of the print is engraved on a scroll, “The Party of Savages [The original here adds “under Le Mote”] went out with Orders not to spare Man, Woman, or Child. To this cruel Mandate even some of the Savages made an Objection, respecting the butchering the Women & Children; but they were told the Children would make Soldiers, & the Women would keep up the Stock. Remembrancer, Vol. 8. p. 77”--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Par nobile fratrum
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and First state, with imprint present.
Publisher:
Pub'd as the act directs Febry. 3, 1780 by I. Almon, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820. and Markham, William, 1719-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Cannibalism, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
Two military officers on horseback beside a fence, one tall and thin with a walking stick under his arm, following another who is short and corpulent who holds his sword by the blade
Alternative Title:
City defenders
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub by M Darly Sept 1, 1780 (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Military uniforms, Horseback riding, Staffs (Sticks), Daggers & swords, and Wigs
"The beam of a pair of scales supported on a post, from each end of which, instead of a scale, dangles a man as if from a gibbet. On the centre of the beam is perched an owl wearing a ribbon and star, inscribed "Center of Gravity". On the lighter side (left) hangs a man over whose eyes a fool's cap has been drawn, through which protrude ass's ears. In his right hand is a "Plan for enlarging Newgate", in his left a copy of the 'General Advertiser'. On the right hangs a man in parson's gown and bands, his eyes covered by a turban-shaped cap; in his left hand is a copy of the 'Morning Post', in his right a newsboy's horn, from which issues a blast inscribed "Blast ye", directed against the other body hanging from the gibbet. On his breast is a playing-card, the knave of clubs. Over his head are falling a castle, two churches, and two mitres. He is Bate, editor of the 'Morning Post', noted as a bruiser, see BMSat 5550, &c. On the ground stand two figures pointing to the gibbet: Justice (left) leans on her sword, holding her scales, above her head is engraved: "Grave wisdom takes the centre of the Beam, And leaves to Knave & Fool, the wide extream." The owl perhaps represents North, often accused of unseemly levity, and his attitude towards Ministerial journalists. The Devil (r.) stands holding a coffin on which is a skull and cross-bones surmounting a freely sketched inscription suggesting the words "Here lies P[arson] B[ate]" and two reversed mitres. He points grinning to Bate; above his head is inscribed, "Here I wait; To take my B------.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Trimmed to design.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 8, 1780, by W. Renigald
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Cooke, William, active 1776-1780., Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824. (Henry Bate),, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
