Bust portrait of Fox in an oval frame, head turned left. Below the portrait, bordered by a draped cloth is a scene -- a representation of the opposition and a hostile account of Fox and the Holland family, in front of Westminster Hall. In the center of the scene, a statue of a headless king holding an orb stands on a rectangular pedestal inscribed with the words "Magna carta". A satyr (left) is breaking the sceptre across his knee, the king's head on the ground beside him. A man with ass's ears raises a pickaxt to strike the pedestal. To the right of the statue a dishevelled woman holds the staff and cap of liberty. Another man (popular rage) with a raised club is about to strike the statute
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Charles James Fox
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., and Later state, with a change in title. Cf. No. 5836 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in almost complete loss of imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sailors -- Cannons -- Trunks -- Tankards -- Reference to Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson, 1758-1805 -- Reference to Solomon, King of Israel, 1015-975 B.C.
Design consists of eight panels arranged in two horizontal rows, with lines of text etched in the top portion of each panel. In the upper left, an intoxicated woman in an arm chair, says "May we have in our arms what we love in our hearts. No tax upon gin! Here we go up, up, up, and there we go down, down, down!" The next shows a man prostrate on his back holding a lantern, with words above, "Bless me, is that the sun of the moon I see above there!" On the wall behind him a print with the title "The good woman" etched above the figure of a woman without a head. Third, a bare chested gravedigger looks up from his work in horror as a woman loses control of the pail of water on her head. Above them are the words, "Hollo! Damn your blood you old Faggot, where are you coming to?" The final panel in the top row shows an obese well-dressed woman vomiting, a bottle of "Comfort for the Cholick" in her left hand. The words etched above her head: "Too much of a good thing!". First on the left of the second row: a large, young woman with bare breasts and generally disheveled and quesy look on her face, walks on a cobblestone street; behind her in the distance a man shakes a cleaver in her direction. Above her the words, “I am a little sickish or so, but no matter, I've given Sal her gruel? She drink gin with me! Blast me she could as soon swallow the fat landlady!” The next panel shows a unconscious woman being carried on a man's back. The text above them reads, “She's got her quantum, by jingo, she smells as sweet as a daisy! But no matter, I'll get the blunt in the morning from her old goat of a keeper. 'Upon my conscience and soul he will have a precious bedfellow of her to night! In the third panel, bottom row, an old woman with spectacles bumps into a large rock, causing her to drop her bottle of gin and a bloody nose. Etched above her head are the words, “What's that for you sawcy reascal! Here, Watch! Watch! Watch! Lord a mercy upon me what a blow! My poor head spins like a top!” In the final panel, a military officer escorts a well-dressed young woman along a street as he brandishes a club. Above them is etched, "Stick, close, my dear, Charlotte. Hold up your head, my lily of the valley. I am as sober as a judge. Woman and wine for ever, damn me!”
Description:
Title from caption below images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
Pub. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Couples, Gin, Gravedigging, Intoxication, Spouses, and Watchmen
On the back wall of a tavern(?) is drawn "Royal Game of the Goose" and underneath four men sit at a table with glasses and large punch bowl, smoking pipes.. The table and bowl are falling on a large man who has fallen from his chair. A woman (servant) on the right reacts with alarm at the contents of the bowl spilling on the falling man; another man behind her looks on in amusement
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered '146' in lower right of plate., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 24th Jany. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Fighting, Games, Pipes (Smoking), Smoking, Tables, and Taverns (Inns)
Title from item., Publisher's announcement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his caracature [sic] exhibition in an entirely novel stile [sic], admittance one shilling. NB folios lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Treasury -- Orbs and scepters -- Maces -- Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tempest., 1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 29 x 45 cm., and Sheet trimmed witihin plate mark on right.
Publisher:
Pub. Febry 19, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Title from item., Publisher's announcement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his caracature [sic] exhibition in an entirely novel stile [sic], admittance one shilling. NB folios lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Treasury -- Orbs and scepters -- Maces -- Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tempest., Publisher's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Matted to 47 x 63 cm.; subjects numbered on mat below and above image and identified in a key on the right.
Publisher:
Pub. Febry 19, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
"A Jew has fallen to the ground; water gushes from a stand-pipe into his face; he has a pair of breeches, showing he deals in old clothes. Two laughing young women watch the disaster (right). A youth holding a pitcher grins delightedly, a passer-by (left) looks round to smile. Beneath are eight lines of verse beginning: ''Early one Morning Sue & Ciss, Went out to fetch some water, Moses forsooth must have a Kiss, But Mark what followed after.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '145' in lower left of plate., and From the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls.
Publisher:
Published 20th March 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A scene on a curving road leading to a bridge over a stream in flood; a post is inscribed 'To Ring's End'. A man in back view is clumsily seated on a rough-looking horse which has just lost a shoe, carrying on his head a trunk labelled 'Sr Dennis Doyl with Speed'; he kicks his apparently stationary mount. In the stream is a thatched hovel (left) with the sign: 'Good dry lodgings'; a man walks from it through the water carrying a child and a young pig. His wife stands on the bank wringing out her petticoat, while a large pig struggles to land. A cow looks from the window, two cats are on the roof. A board on the bridge is inscribed 'Dangerous when you See the 2 Small Posts in the Water become Invisable - if you cant Read Inquire at Davy Drench's whole tell you all about it.' A sailing-boat has collided with the bridge, and large stones fall on the heads of its two occupants. On the right is a large tree; a man sits astride a branch which he chops off, while a man who holds a rope attached to it is looking quizzically over his shoulder at the rider carrying the trunk. Man and branch are about to fall on a barrow laden with crockery. On the tree-trunk is a board on which timber-workers are depicted with the inscription: 'My honest Frinnds as you pass by Were hard at work and very dry.' In the foreground (right) a man amusedly points out the pending accident to a woman holding a child who stands beside him. At their feet sits a child eating out of the same dish as a lean pig. Cf. BMSat 8747."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Irish bulls
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures in Europe, admite. 1 s. Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Mounted on modern secondary support., and Watermark.
"Six country people surround a flaming bowl on a small round table. A man jocosely holds a terrified cat over the bowl to force it to pull out a raisin. A man wearing a shirt or surplice stands with both arms held up, from one hand dangles a (?) burnt rag. A mastiff (right) snarls at the cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue and from original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Plate numbered '165' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Snap dragon -- Punch bowl., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 12th 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Games, Beverages, Bowls (Tableware), Tables, Pets, Cats, and Dogs
"View in Covent Garden showing St Paul's Church on fire; flames and smoke rising from the roof; in foreground people gather to watch spectacle, some on the tops of stalls, empty barrels, sacks and pieces of wood in foreground to left and right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Paul's, Covent-Garden : as it appeared on fire, at eight o'clock on Thursday evening, 17th Sepr. 1795
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title begins: Was built by that celebrated architect Inigo Jones, in 1640, by the direction and at the expence of the Earl of Bedford ..., and Mounted to 35 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Published 5th Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
