"Burke, writing as he walks, advances towards the door of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern, over which is inscribed 'British Inquisition'. He wears a skull-cap and long legal robe, from his waist hangs a bag like that of the Great Seal, on which the royal arms are replaced by a crown and anchor and having a skull at each corner. His head is in profile to the left and he scowls with fiercely protruding lips. He holds up a large sheaf of paper headed 'Black List', his pen touching the last word of the inscription (a parody of Richard III): 'Beware of N--rf--k! --P--tl--d loves us not! - The R--ss--l's will not join us The Man of the People [Fox] has lived too long for us! The Friends of the People must be blasted by us! Sherridan, Ersk[ine].' On one of the door-posts is a narrow slit inscribed 'Anonymous - Letter Box'. The door of the famous tavern appears to be correctly depicted, but its lamps are surmounted by royal crowns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Part of imprint scored through with an etched line., and Temporary local subject terms: Societies: Crown & Anchor -- Architectural details: doorway -- Lighting: tavern lamps -- Male costume: legal robes -- Literature: parody of Shakespeare's Richard III, i.3 -- Letter-boxes -- Travesties -- Propaganda -- Inquisitions: British inquisition -- Taverns: Crown & Anchor -- Lists: black lists -- Great Seal: travesty of the Great Seal -- Allusion to the 3rd Duke of Portland -- Allusion to the Russell family -- Allusion to the Friends of People.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 19th 1793 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Crown & Anchor Soc, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
A copy in the same direction after the engraving by Hogarth titled 'The Company of Undertakers'. Sixteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the upper division, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez
Description:
Title etched below image., "Wm. Hogarth del." erased from this impression; surmised from earlier state in the British Museum. See Registration number: 1935,0522.1.40., Numbered "193" in lower left corner., Title from British Museum catalogue: A consultation of physicians., Caption below image begins: "Beareth sable, an urinal proper, between 12 quack-heads of the second & 12 caneheads or consultant ...", Copy of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2308., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, map & printsellers, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., One of a series of Drolls., Three lines of text below title: Madam, ther's [sic] not a man of the profession in Europe that can cut a corn ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Physicians: corn doctors -- Chiropodists -- Knives -- Female costume, 1793 -- Furniture: ladderback chairs -- Furnishings: wall panelling -- Women -- Children: girls.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20th 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
"The crier, his mouth wide open, with an angry expression, shakes his bell in the faces of three gaping and alarmed yokels (left). He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat and wig, and holds a cane. A young man with a pitchfork (right) loiters complacently. A path leads to a farmhouse (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Probably from the series of Drolls., and Three lines of text below image: Oyes! Oyes! This is to guie Notice, That Alice Grunt has lost from out her Stye last Night at 25 Minits past 10 o Clock two Pigs the one a black un 'tother Caroty un whoever will bring Um to the said alice Grunt - Or give inflammation where they have stolen or strayed shall have her thanks and the first sucking Pig from the Breed of old Nanny at Lammas day next - God save the King.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 16th 1793, by Robt. Sayer and Company, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural facilities, Agricultural laborers, Bells, Pitchforks, and Town criers
"Fox sits on the ground, full-face, his fingers together, scowling disconsolately. He holds the staff of liberty, broken, with a tattered cap of 'Liberty' inscribed 'Sedition \ Equality \ Rebell[ion]' about to fall from it. Flames rise on both sides inscribed: (left) 'A People rouz'd', and (right) 'Popular Resentment'. Beneath the title is etched: 'Ubi lapsus Quid feci? Such place eternal justice has prepar'd For those rebellious------ Vide Milton's Paradise Lost'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... who has again open'd his carricature exhibition rooms to which he has added several hundred old & new subjects., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 30 cm.
A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor, and a butcher. Marat's body lies between them on a wooden bedstead, his blood stained shirt on a pike
Description:
Title etched above image., One line of quoted text below title: "The noble enthusiasm with which this woman met the charge, & the elevated disdain with which she treated the self created tribunal, struck the whole assembly with terror & astonishment.", and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793, Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793, and France. Tribunal révolutionnaire.
Subject (Topic):
Assassination, History, and Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One of a series of 'Drolls.', One line of text below image: Indeed, Mr. Fribble, I am not to be done in this manner ..., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: shops -- Milliner's shop -- Trades: milliner -- Yardsticks., and Watermark: (partial) Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Published 16th Decr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
"Orléans (Égalité), looking to the right, stands on the scaffold dressed as a grenadier of the National Guard. He holds out by the hair the decollated head of Louis XVI, while he waves his cap in his right hand. Behind (left) is the guillotine, with the King's body; streams of blood pour from head and trunk. Below the scaffold (right) are heads and bayonets of the National Guard, and, behind, two large buildings, the windows and roofs filled with spectators; those on the roof wave their hats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Text below title: Behold the progress of our system.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 12, 1793, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793.
Subject (Topic):
History, Guillotines (Punishment), and Decapitations
"Custine stands on the scaffold beside the guillotine (left). Four ragged ruffians are about to bind him to the plank on which he is to lie; one says, "By Gar so we will serve all de Generals who do not conquer de whole World, and give them de Libertè". Custine says, "Pardon me Heaven for having been leagued with such a set of Blood hounds". A stout soldier pushes a weeping priest, who says "Let us Pray", down the steps (right) which lead up to the scaffold, saying, "Go to de diable & Your Prayers both". Below (right) stand republican soldiers with fixed bayonets much caricatured. On the extreme left a man kneels at the guillotine holding his hat in place of the usual basket; he says, "Begar I will have a Drink of de blood.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French gratitude and Republican rewards for past services
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 'N' in 'Custine' reversed., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pub. Sepr. 16, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Custine, Adam Philippe, comte de, 1740-1793
Subject (Topic):
Executions, Guillotines (Punishment), Priests, Soldiers, French, and Sansculottes
"The interior of a barber's shop. Fox, with a bald head, stands looking towards the barber (left), who holds up a plain wig with a single curl at the back, saying: "No fit you Zir, perhaps you got de Paine in you Head, make you tink so, dis Vigg vill fit any Loyal subject give but an Eye to it sir as I hold it -" Behind him, looking through the door and on the extreme right, is Burke wearing a neat wig. Fox is out at elbows and wears an apron. A dog tugs at his shoe. Above the barber's head is a shelf for wig-boxes inscribed 'By the King's Patent'. Wigs and tresses of hair hang in a curved shop-window behind Fox with inscriptions (reversed) in three panes: 'Essence of Lemon', 'A Separate appartment to dress in', 'Violet Soap'. On the left is a row of wig-blocks: busts with heads (some caricatured); a lady and three men."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Patent wig
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., and Whig Party (Great Britain)