"The Marquis of Buckingham, tall and bulky, stands against a measuring-post (left); Lord Derby, standing on a table, adjusts the horizontal bar to his head. Buckingham, wearing dark spectacles, stands without his shoes (which lie beside him), and holding his hat; he faces Fox, who is seated on a drum (right), and says: "To Pitt I made my Proposition But he rejected the Condition So I enlist with Opposition". He holds out to Fox a paper: 'Condition to be first Lord of the Admiralty'. Fox, taking the paper, scrutinizes it through a glass with a pleased smile. His drum is inscribed 'C F' and beside him is a spear from whose tasselled head hangs a placard: 'Watch Word Peace'. From the top of the measuring-post flies a flag of three horizontal stripes inscribed 'The Standard of Opposition.'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Sixth of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., For a variant state with plate number "6" etched in upper left corner, see no. 8641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- House of Commons: Recruits for the Opposition -- Slogans: "Watch word peace" -- Measuring posts -- Spectacles., Mounted on leaf 69 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark: 1805.
Publisher:
Published by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
"A thin elderly woman stands full-face, looking sourly to the left, holding out her right arm, from which an enormous fan points to the ground. Her left arm is akimbo. She wears a short-waisted dress with a separate train; her drooping breasts are defined by drapery, her thin arms by tight-fitting sleeves; her neck is heavily swathed. Her hair falls down her back from a twisted turban (see BMSat 8755) decorated with a group of erect ostrich-feathers, and a huge brush-aigrette. She wears large earrings, and an oval medallion is suspended from her neck on a heavy chain."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1795 -- Headdresses., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Pub. July 11th 1795, by S.W. Fores, 50 corner Sackville St., Piccadilly
"A whole length caricature-portrait of Prince William Frederick of Gloucester in profile to the right wearing military uniform. He is very thin, elongated, and knock-kneed, and stands with his right hand in his breeches pocket. His profile resembles that of his uncle, George III ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Slice of Gloucester cheese
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
"Sheridan (left) and Fox (right) face each other in profile across a narrow table on which they lean with folded arms. They are large half length figures. Their lips are closed by padlocks (see BMSat 8693), their faces register anger and alarm. Above their heads: 'Mum, - is the order of the Day!!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old friends with new faces
Description:
Attributed by George to Newton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: allusion to Treasonable Practices and Seditious Meetings bills -- Padlocks., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: Seditious Meetings bill -- Crowd -- Symbols: the White Horse of Hanover -- Buildings: Treasury -- John Bull as a bulldog., and Watermark: countermark L & P.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 26, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
The Duke of Clarence dressed as a rough sailor, stands full-face with folded arms (three-quarter length view only), looking to the right with a belligerent stare. He wears a shapeless hat, a naval coat, striped trousers, a handkerchief knotted round his neck. Etched below the image: "Damn all Bond St Sailors I say, a parcel of smell smocks! they'd sooner creep into a Jordan than face the French! dam me!"
Description:
Title etched below image., Enlarged copy of Naval eloquence, by the same printmaker., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 28th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816. and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Title from item., From the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '149' in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: rector -- Parish: vestry -- Creeds: vestry creed -- Beadles -- Beggars -- Table settings -- Glutony.
Publisher:
Published 21st April 1795, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
On a country road, two countrymen encounter an ugly witch who sits crouching on a fence rail holding her broom, her hair sticking out straight from her head. The one countryman kneels on the ground with a horrified look on his face, clutching his hat in front of him. His companion, a thinner man, stand behind him adjusting his glasses. Their dog stands at the fence looking up at the witch. In the distance (right) a cottage can be seen behind a group of bushed. In the top center a bright moon shines in the night sky
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1794 J Whatman [name partially trimmed].
"A boxing encounter; the combatants, wearing waistcoats and gloves, stand facing each other with clenched fists. One (left) says:"I'll Box the Minister about if I get in & tip him Seven the Main". The other (right) says: "Now Mr Alderman I vil Show you vone Jews Blow". Each has a second; on the extreme left a backer sits on a cask inscribed 'Combe's Entire [scored through] Small hopes'; he holds a paper inscribed 'Aldn Combes for ever' and says: "He'll Make a better Boxer than a Parliament Man". On the extreme right the bottle-holder of Combe's opponent stands holding a bottle and a lemon. On the ground are books and papers: 'Brothers Prophecys' (see British Museum Satires No. 8627, &c.); 'Pains Rights of Man' (see British Museum Satires No. 7867, &c.); 'The Whole art of Boxing made Easy'; 'A Petition for Peace on giving up all the West India Islands Corsica [see British Museum Satires No. 8516] Fleet &c &c'; 'King Lord and Commons [erased and replaced by] A New System of Governt on the French Republican Plan'. On the wall (left) is a map (represented by meaningless scrawls) of 'Teritories Conquerd by the Republic of France & Indivesible Equality for Ever'. On the right is a bust portrait of the King in profile to the right, torn at the neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Strong recommendations for a membr. of Parliament and Strong recommendations for a member of Parliament
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen -- Prints in print: 'The Constant Couple' -- Literature: Reference to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- London by-election, 3-5 March 1795 -- Reference to Harvey Christian Combe, 1752-1818 -- William Lushington, fl. 1790., and Watermark: center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 3, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818., and Lushington, William, 1747-1823.
Subject (Topic):
City council members, Boxing, and Political elections
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1795 -- Female costume, 1795 -- Bludgeons -- Umbrellas., and Mounted to 23 x 18 cm.
