"Social satire; Pitt the Younger portrayed as a monkey, with regalia and his crown hanging on a chain around his neck, in a field labelled "Windsor Park"; below the image a text explains that this animal is confounding naturalists, who suppose it to be an offspring of the devil."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed at bottom of image with printmaker W. O'Keeffe's monogram; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.19., Sheet trimmed to plate mark in lower right corner., Three lines of text below title: The naturalist's of this country is [sic] at a loss how to give an account of this extroardionary [sic] animal ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
A lady sits in an armchair, her head tilted back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose-fitting dress, suggestive of her pregnant state? Her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. She holds a fan in her right hand and long locks of hair escape from her turban. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet
Alternative Title:
Modern elegance
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Probably an earlier state of: Modern elegance: a portrait. Cf. No. 8719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22d. 1795 by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Pigs - Taxes: reference to hair powder tax, May 1795 -- Snuff-boxes -- Expressions of speech: "no grumbling" -- Slogans: '45' -- Farmers -- Male dress: farmer's smock.
Publisher:
Pub. July 27, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Three-quarter length portrait of a plainly dressed man standing in profile to the right, holding a purse in his right hand. He says: "I will hold you Ten Guineas of it". He resembles caricatures of Lord Lauderdale."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fool's eloquence
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., One line of text below image: I will hold you ten guineas of it., and Mounted to 19 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
"Three-quarter length portrait of a plainly dressed man standing in profile to the right, holding a purse in his right hand. He says: "I will hold you Ten Guineas of it". He resembles caricatures of Lord Lauderdale."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fool's eloquence
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S'. See British Museum catalogue., One of eight satirical portraits issued as a set on one sheet., One line of text below image: I will hold you ten guineas of it., and On same sheet: Ministerial eloquence; Opposition eloquence; Naval eloquence; Military eloquence; Billingsgate eloquence; Pulpit eloquence; Bar eloquence.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
"Three-quarter length portrait of a plainly dressed man standing in profile to the right, holding a purse in his right hand. He says: "I will hold you Ten Guineas of it". He resembles caricatures of Lord Lauderdale."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fool's eloquence
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., One line of text below image: I will hold you ten guineas of it., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 12.2 x 8.5 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 17.2 cm., Watermark, partially trimmed: [J.] Whatman 1822., and Mounted on leaf 59 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Title from item., Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Buck's with Truncheon's swagger and knock down ..., Plate numbered '150' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Foot-pads -- Watches: pocket watch -- Highway robbery -- Milestones -- Bludgeons., and Watermark: Strasburg bend (partial) with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Published 4th May 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Five members of the Opposition watch with admiring surprise 'Ombres Chinoises': figures whose shadows are thrown on a sheet or screen, the scene enclosed in a circle: three fat Dutchmen seated on the sea advance directly towards the spectators. On the shoulders of each sits a French sansculotte soldier, cadaverous and sinister; the central figure wears a cocked hat from which project cannon or trench-mortars, he holds a tricolour flag. The others wear bonnets-rouges; one (left) blows a trumpet, the other (right) beats a drum. The Dutchmen are impassively smoking pipes, two wear French cockades; from the hips of each project the mouths of cannon. The light background of the circle stands out on a tinted ground; above it is a scroll, apparently issuing from the mouth of the trumpet: 'Terror the Order of the Day'. Only the heads and shoulders of the spectators are visible, all in back view except that of Lansdowne on the extreme right, who says "Astonishing effect". The others (left to right) are Fox, looking through a glass as in British Museum Satires No. 8641, Sheridan, Stanhope, and a bishop identified as Watson of Llandaff. Fox says: "what a fine Effect"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Seventh of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Threat of French invasion of Britain -- Reference to the Dutch fleet -- Military: Dutch soldiers -- Sansculottes -- Bonnet rouge -- Musical instruments -- Slogans: "Terror the order of the day.", and Mounted on page 89 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Watson, Richard, 1737-1816
Subject (Topic):
Navies, Dutch, Soldiers, French, Cannons, Trumpets, Drums, Flags, Liberty cap, and Pipes (Smoking)
"Five members of the Opposition watch with admiring surprise 'Ombres Chinoises': figures whose shadows are thrown on a sheet or screen, the scene enclosed in a circle: three fat Dutchmen seated on the sea advance directly towards the spectators. On the shoulders of each sits a French sansculotte soldier, cadaverous and sinister; the central figure wears a cocked hat from which project cannon or trench-mortars, he holds a tricolour flag. The others wear bonnets-rouges; one (left) blows a trumpet, the other (right) beats a drum. The Dutchmen are impassively smoking pipes, two wear French cockades; from the hips of each project the mouths of cannon. The light background of the circle stands out on a tinted ground; above it is a scroll, apparently issuing from the mouth of the trumpet: 'Terror the Order of the Day'. Only the heads and shoulders of the spectators are visible, all in back view except that of Lansdowne on the extreme right, who says "Astonishing effect". The others (left to right) are Fox, looking through a glass as in British Museum Satires No. 8641, Sheridan, Stanhope, and a bishop identified as Watson of Llandaff. Fox says: "what a fine Effect"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Seventh of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Threat of French invasion of Britain -- Reference to the Dutch fleet -- Military: Dutch soldiers -- Sansculottes -- Bonnet rouge -- Musical instruments -- Slogans: "Terror the order of the day."
Publisher:
Published by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Watson, Richard, 1737-1816
Subject (Topic):
Navies, Dutch, Soldiers, French, Cannons, Trumpets, Drums, Flags, Liberty cap, and Pipes (Smoking)
"Five members of the Opposition watch with admiring surprise 'Ombres Chinoises': figures whose shadows are thrown on a sheet or screen, the scene enclosed in a circle: three fat Dutchmen seated on the sea advance directly towards the spectators. On the shoulders of each sits a French sansculotte soldier, cadaverous and sinister; the central figure wears a cocked hat from which project cannon or trench-mortars, he holds a tricolour flag. The others wear bonnets-rouges; one (left) blows a trumpet, the other (right) beats a drum. The Dutchmen are impassively smoking pipes, two wear French cockades; from the hips of each project the mouths of cannon. The light background of the circle stands out on a tinted ground; above it is a scroll, apparently issuing from the mouth of the trumpet: 'Terror the Order of the Day'. Only the heads and shoulders of the spectators are visible, all in back view except that of Lansdowne on the extreme right, who says "Astonishing effect". The others (left to right) are Fox, looking through a glass as in British Museum Satires No. 8641, Sheridan, Stanhope, and a bishop identified as Watson of Llandaff. Fox says: "what a fine Effect"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Seventh of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Threat of French invasion of Britain -- Reference to the Dutch fleet -- Military: Dutch soldiers -- Sansculottes -- Bonnet rouge -- Musical instruments -- Slogans: "Terror the order of the day.", 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30 x 23.6 cm, on sheet 32.7 x 25.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 71 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Watson, Richard, 1737-1816
Subject (Topic):
Navies, Dutch, Soldiers, French, Cannons, Trumpets, Drums, Flags, Liberty cap, and Pipes (Smoking)
