"Britannia (left), a buxom young woman, clasps the trunk of a large oak, while Paine tugs with both hands at her stay-lace, placing a large foot on her posteriors. He wears blue and buff with a tricolour cockade on his bonnet rouge. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscribed: 'Rights of Man'. His face is blotched with drink and his expression is fiercely intent, but he is neatly dressed. Behind him is a thatched cottage inscribed: 'Thomas Pain, Stay-maker from Thetford. Paris Modes, by express.' Britannia looks over her shoulder at the stay-maker (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9240) with an expression of pained reproach. Her shield leans against the tree; her spear is on the ground; across it lies an olive-branch."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: stays -- Emblems: tri-colored cockade -- Male costume: bonnet rouge -- Reference to tailors -- Literature: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Reference to Thetford and Paine's stay-making past -- Britannia's shield -- Symbols: olive branch., and Mounted to 42 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Corsets, Scissors & shears, Liberty cap, Shields, Spears, and Olive branches
Title from item., Two lines of verse below title: Fasting and prayer, attending the church bell ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Gluttony -- Food: roasted turkey -- Utensils: knives and forks -- Beverages -- Wine glasses -- Glass: wine bottle.
"A staff dinner in a large open tent. At the head of the table the Duke of York carouses; a fat Flemish woman seated on his knee plays with his sword; he raises a full glass, looking down at the woman. He is seated on a drum, his left foot rests on a tattered British flag, beside which lies a bundle of muskets. On the table is a punchbowl ornamented with the royal arms. On one side (next the Duke) sits the Prince of Orange, a fat and stolid Dutch officer smoking a pipe and holding a small tankard. Facing him is a savage-looking (?) Austrian officer wearing a cap; his drawn sabre is on the table, he drinks wine voraciously from a bottle, his left arm round the waist of a stout Flemish woman seated beside him on the cannon which forms a seat; she raises her glass, holding a smoking pipe. Next the Dutchman a British officer and a fat Flemish woman are kissing. Behind the seated officers stand bandsmen wearing cocked hats and blowing wind instruments with great energy; a negro clashes his cymbals behind the Duke. On the extreme right two files of gaunt and emaciated British foot-guards advance behind the Duke carrying wine-bottles, glasses, and a punch-bowl, also with the royal arms. Empty bottles are stacked under the table. Behind (left), a file of conical tents recedes in perspective; the three flags which fly from them are British, Austrian, and Hanoverian. Dutch and Austrian officers are caricatured, but not the Duke, who is handsome and florid. The Flemish women with their wide straw hats are studies of type and costume."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
Title from item, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to: Adventures of Peregrine Pickle., Placement directions in upper right corner of plate: Vol. I, p. 158., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fires -- Fire rescue -- Panic -- Literature: Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title from item., 'Cold' etched above crossed out word 'French' in title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: undergarments -- Military uniforms: grenadier's busby -- Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of monarchs -- Pictures amplifying subjects: fallen picture of the King of Poland -- Allusion to the 2nd partition of Poland, 1793 -- Lady Cecilia Johnston, 1738-1820., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials D? L D below., and Printseller's stamp, 'S.W.F.' in lower right corner of plate.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 25, 1793, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, and Stanisław II August, King of Poland, 1732-1798
"The interior of a barrack-room; ladies are fitting soldiers with warm caps and undergarments. All the men wear conical caps with ear-pieces, some arranged to resemble a fool's cap. The three ladies in the foreground are young and comely; of those in the background, one is enormously fat, others thin and witch-like. On the wall are two dilapidated prints: 'Hannibal' and 'Charles XII' (the head torn off), commanders noted for their disregard of severe weather."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Modern heroes accoutred for the wars
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched below title: To the benevolent ladies of Great Britain, who have so liberally supported the new system of military cloathing, this print is dedicated., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: military barracks -- Military uniforms: undergarments -- Female costume, 1793 -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Hannibal -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Charles XII -- Allusion to Hannibal, 247-183 BC -- Allusion to Charles XII, King of Sweden, 1682-1718 -- Weapons: muskets -- Swords., and Mounted to 36 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 18th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who again has opened his caracature [sic] room to which he has added several hundred old and new subjects. Admitance [sic] 1sg., Pricing information below title: To those who give them away 1£ 11s 6d pr hundred plain and 3£ 3s 0d in colours., Price in lower right corner: 6d plain, 1s colored., and Temporary local subject terms: French uniforms: sansculottes -- Battles: allusion to French victory at Jemappes, 6 Nov. 1792 -- Symbols: tree of Liberty as a twig -- Food: roast beef -- Pudding -- Crucifixes as support for dagger and noose -- Executions: hangings -- Torture -- Starvation -- Satiety-- Food: frog -- Rats -- Pets: cats -- Fireplaces -- Songs: allusion to "O the Roast Beef of Old England" -- Allusion to "God Save the King" -- Allusion to "Rule Britannia" -- Toasts: "The King and Constitution forever" -- Bible -- Dishes: pitchers -- Farming: plowing -- Bird cages -- Assignats -- Beer.
Publisher:
Pub. Janry. 3, 1793 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
An allegorical representation of France with Liberty as a young woman bound and being dragged from a temple, Libertas, by French soldiers to face a angry mob, two decapitated heads at the base of the stairs. One soldier breaks a staff with a liberty cap at the top. A woman kneels a fire which consumes a spinning wheel and is fed books carried by laborers. A crowd of artists, musicians, carpenters, smiths, weavers and other tradesmen are roughly pushed away from the temple by a soldier. In the background a church which has been turned into a theatre attracts a large crowd to a production of "The massacre at Paris."
Description:
Attributed to John Nixon. See British Museum catalogue, no. 8334., Trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., One line of text below title: This print is most respectfully dedicated to every true hearted Briton who's a friend to his king and country., Four lines from Churchill's poem, Independence, printed in two columns on each side of title: O thou poor country, weak and overpow'rd, By thine own sons, eat to the bone, devour'd ..., Nine lines of explanatory text below image: Liberty is torn from her temple by a hired band of ruffians ... ., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom with loss of contemporary ms. annotation.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):
History, Artists, Book burning, Decapitations, Demons, Destruction & pillage, Fools & jesters, Liberty, People associated with manual labor, Trade, Revolutions, and Violence
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below title: This portrait of Lady Hibernia Bull ..., Temporary local subject terms: Comic maps -- Witch as a map -- Capes -- Harbors -- Emblems: Irish harp., and Text below title erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard
