"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 389 x 269 mm.
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: screen -- Window curtains -- Drunkenness -- Pests: rats.
"A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife (?). The coffin is placed on trestles next to a four-poster bed (the deathbed of a rich man?). The lid of the coffin bears an elaborate brass plaque inscribed "Mr Gripe departed this life Ague" (last word indistinct). Arising from out of the coffin, Mr. Gripe disturbs the woman who was reading a large book (presumably a business ledger). On the ground, a soup bowl, a bottle and a glass, suggesting that she had poisoned him."--Wellcome Library online catalogue, no. 533361i
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First of two plates with the same title, both etched by Rowlandson after Wigstead; see Grego. For the second plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1947,1215.2., "Plate 1"--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: Theater: stage scenes -- Ghosts -- Literature: scene from John O'Keeffe's The Dead Alive! -- Furniture., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; design 230 x 302 mm.
"A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife (?). The coffin is placed on trestles next to a four-poster bed (the deathbed of a rich man?). The lid of the coffin bears an elaborate brass plaque inscribed "Mr Gripe departed this life Ague" (last word indistinct). Arising from out of the coffin, Mr. Gripe disturbs the woman who was reading a large book (presumably a business ledger). On the ground, a soup bowl, a bottle and a glass, suggesting that she had poisoned him."--Wellcome Library online catalogue, no. 533361i
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First of two plates with the same title, both etched by Rowlandson after Wigstead; see Grego. For the second plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1947,1215.2., "Plate 1"--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: Theater: stage scenes -- Ghosts -- Literature: scene from John O'Keeffe's The Dead Alive! -- Furniture., and Sheet mutilated in lower right, with loss of digit "1" following "Plate".
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified from original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '197' in lower right corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of text below title: Justice - Well, Mr. Blunt, where was you at the time you discovered your sheep ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Smithfield.
Publisher:
Published 1st September 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Butchers, Deafness, Farmers, Lawyers, and Owls
"A close parody of West's picture, 'The Death of Wolfe' (1771). The three officers supporting the mortally wounded Pitt are (left to right) Burke, Pepper Arden (Master of the Rolls), and Dundas. From Burke's pocket projects a paper 'Reflections upon £3700 Pr Ann.' (The policy indicated by his famous book, see BMSat 7675, &c, had been rewarded by two pensions, see BMSat 8654.) Dundas, wearing a kilt, offers Pitt a glass of wine (in place of stanching his wound); a bottle of 'Port' projects from his coat-pocket. The officer behind holding the British flag is identified by Lord Holland as Chatham and the man who supports him as Powys, noted for his propensity to tears (see BMSat 6642). The White Horse of Hanover (cf. BMSat 8691, &c.) on the flag is more conspicuous than in West's picture, and a scroll inscribed 'Magna Chart[a]' has been added. In the group facing Pitt the place of the Mohawk Indian seated on the ground is taken by Loughborough, half-naked, the purse of the Great Seal replacing the Indian's beaded bag, the mace that of his musket, a bloodstained headsman's axe that of his tomahawk. In place of the beaded headdress is the Chancellor's wig surmounted by a monster with the head of a cock, whose limbs are snakes. The two men who lean forward to Wolfe, pointing back to the messenger with the news of victory, are dressed as running-footmen in livery and hold the long sticks with the head enclosing an egg carried by these men. Ink-pots are slung across their shoulders by bands inscribed 'Ist Treasury Runner' and '2d Tre . . .', showing that they are the two Secretaries to the Treasury, George Rose and Charles Long. Grenville, in peer's robes, stands between Lord Mansfield and Windham, who supports him. In place of West's handsome young officer who runs up with the French flag is a man with the face of a demon holding a tattered tricolour flag inscribed 'Libertas', its shaft broken. A large bonnet-rouge lies on the ground. The couple who stand on the extreme right watching Pitt with clasped hands are Richmond and a man with a wooden leg. Richmond, in general's uniform, his bald head contrasting with the luxuriant hair of West's corresponding figure, has a cannon slung to his back to indicate his Mastership of the Ordnance (cf. BMSat 6921, &c.) in which, however, he had been succeeded by Cornwallis (Feb. 1795), see BMSat 8341. His weeping companion has been identified as Wilberforce, though his wooden leg might indicate Brook Watson, Commissary-General (see vol. vi). The background differs from West's picture. In place of the confused fighting and the smoke which surrounds the Heights of Abraham, the Ministerial cavalry advance in even line, rank upon rank, and put to flight a small body of sansculottes with bonnets-rouges (left). They have a standard on which is a crown. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: "We have overcome all opposition!, exclaimed the messengers. "I'm satisfied," said the dying hero, & expired in the moment of victory., Text at botton of plate: To Benjn. West Esqr., President of the Royal Academy, this attempt to emulate the beauties of his unequal'd picture ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper and lower edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: White Horse of Hanover -- Purse of the Seal -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Treasury -- Bills: Sedition Bill.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 17th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Long, Charles, 1760-1838, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Chatham, John Pitt, Earl of, 1756-1835, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Watson, Brook, 1735-1807, Wolfe, James, 1727-1759., and West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.
"A drawing room with a young woman seated at a piano at right, gazing seriously into the eyes of her tutor, who has his arm around the back of her chair; an older couple seated at the fireplace at left, the man dozing with his dog at his feet, the grotesque old woman, startled, just noticing the lovers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fortepianos -- Fireplace screens -- Music sheets -- Allusion to adultery -- Windows., Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1818., and Number "5" in publication year changed to a "6" in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
A grossly elongated figure is caricatured as a devil's darning needle presumably making humorous reference to both the dragonfly and the evil of the unidentified subject
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist statement and date etched over fainter impression of earlier state; imprint is lightly etched or partially burnished from plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
