"Fox stands full face, his arms extended; these arms are the branches of a tree, and his body is its trunk. The two branches fork into the boughs of a weeping-willow, whose foliage forms an arch above Fox's head, and hangs nearly to the ground. Tears ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 13, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
"Pitt runs forward (left to right) to the waterside, a large sabre raised above his head, saying, "The Russian trade down the first"; he threatens a number of stranded ships with broken masts. The blade of his sabre is inscribed: 'General War in Europ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Russia
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, and Hertzberg, Ewald Friedrich, Graf von, 1725-1795
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, attributed name
Published / Created:
[April 1791]
Call Number:
791.04.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four men stand on the sea-shore, in back view but looking to the right: the King of Prussia stands between Holland (left) and Pitt (right); he holds Holland by the ear and kicks Pitt behind, saying, "This is the balance of Europe". Pitt, who is blind...
Alternative Title:
Political blind-buff man, or, The ministerial expediency Ministerial expediency Cause of the war
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1791 by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
A satire ridiculing the first Nootka Convention in which Spain conceded England's right to maintain outposts in Nootka Sound and engage in whaling outside a "ten-league line" off the Northwest coast of North America. In a small row boat on the Pacific...
Alternative Title:
Cheap way to catch whales
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1791, by H. Humphries, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Great Britain., Great Britain, Spain., and North Pacific Ocean.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Whaling, Fishing, Galleys (Ships), Maps, Ships, and Whales
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a son of wealthy brewer and an unidentified young woman separated from her husband who later brought a suit against the brewer
Description:
Titles engraved below images.
Publisher:
Published 1st July 1791 by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street
Volume 2, page 82. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr Priestley sitting at a garden table, looking at a mouse in a semi-circular cage, smiling as he listens to Mrs Barbauld who stands pleading for its release and another woman and Charles Rochemond Aikin, a little boy look on, with trees all around; ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, 39 Fleet Street
"Alderman Boydell (half length), wearing a bag-wig, stands in profile to the right, slashing with a knife a small picture on the wall. He glares furtively; the fingers of his left hand are greedily crisped. He says: "There! There! - There's a nice gas...
Alternative Title:
Peep into the Shakespeare Gallery
Description:
Title etched below image; first five words of title have been scored through but left conspicuously legible.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 26th, 1791, by H. Humphry [sic], N. 18 Old Bond Street
