"John Bull (right) stands in profile to the left, gaping in terror at four little demons, grotesque, naked, and senile, who approach him with calculating and complacent grins. His knees bend, his hands are thrust in his coat pockets; he says: "What do you want you little Devils - an't I plagued with enough of you already more pick poket Work, I suppose!!" Their leader stands forward with a mock deprecatory gesture; the next demon holds a large book. They say: "Please your Honor we are the assess'd Taxes.""--British Museum online catalogue and A satire on the tripling of the assessed taxes proposed by Pitt in his famous budget speech, 24 Nov. 1797. These were taxes on persons according to their expenditure (inhabited houses, male servants, carriages, &c.); it was an attempt at direct taxation, heavily graduated to tax the rich at a higher (five-fold) rate and with exemptions and abatements for small incomes. This was Pitt's 'plan of finance' to support the war without recourse to loans, intended to demonstrate to Europe England's determination and unity: 'to check a little the presumptions of Jacobins at home and abroad.' ... See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Assess'd taxes and Assessed taxes
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Richard Newton in the British Museum catalogue., and If etched by Newton, it must be after the design of someone else, possibly Woodward. See Alexander, D. Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s,
An old woman, the prude, is standing near a crowd of people huddled around a bonfire in Covent Garden. She is crossing Covent Garden Piazza, disapproving of the amorous scenes outside the notorious Tom King's Coffee House. The print shows the morning and is part of a series representing the progress of the day
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 146., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2357., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published August the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Children, City & town life, Couples, Crowds, Fighting, Food vendors, Kissing, Prostitutes, Quacks, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
Title from heading to letterpress text below image., Publication date extrapolated from business dates of Edward Wallis and Thomas Davis. See British Book Trade Index online., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and within plate mark on sides., Plate above letterpress, restrike, originally published: London : Published Jany. 17th 1797 by John Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Overturned coaches -- Spilled food -- Allusion to John Gilpin -- Literature: Cowper, William, 1731-1800, John Gilpin -- Mrs. John Gilpin.
Publisher:
Printed for Edward Wallis, No. 42 Skinner Street, Snow
A monkey wearing a military uniform and holding a sword and a flag "Volunteer cavalry" sits astride an ass. From a basket hanging from the saddle hang a portrait of Fox with the caption "In place" and a portrait of Fox with the words "Out of place"; below the portraits can be seen a papers, the top the words "Tantararara rogues all" . The ass stands in a trunk with bundles of newspapers and paper hanging off the sides or in the lid, identified with the words: Telegraph, Parliament speeches, Gazettes extraordinary, Fashionable occurrences, Independent [sic] elections, Law suits. On the ground around the trunk are papers with titles: Speech of Mr. Deputy Did[...], 20 s. notes, Examination of Faro's daughters before the Justice
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: I Taylor 1801.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10, 1797, 12 Charg. Cross
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Baskets, Donkeys, Military uniforms, Monkeys, and Newspapers
A copy of the fourth print in William Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day", set at the intersection of Rummer Court and Charing Cross. Le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I can be seen in the background. It is the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foreground a drunken freemason (probably the corrupt magistrate Sir Thomas De Veil) is supported by a serving man. Behind them a man pours gin into a keg. To the left a barber is seen at work through a window; each pane of the shop window contains a lit candle. From a window above the barber shop, a chamber pot is being emptied onto the top of a wooden shelter under which a man and woman sleep. Beside them, a link boy crouches as he blows on the flame of his torch. Behind and to the right of the freemason, the Salisbury Flying Coach has crashed and overturned while trying to avoid a bonfire in the middle of the street; the passengers reach out the window of the coach, alarmed looks on their faces.Two men look on, one of whom appears to be a butcher. Shop and tavern signs include the barber's which is decorated with oak leaves and advertises "Shaving Bleeding & Teeth Drawn wth. a Touch Ecce Signum"; the Rummer Tavern; the Earl of Cardigan; and, the Bagnio and the New Bagnio
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 149., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published February the 1.st 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson Pater-noster Row London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England.
Subject (Name):
De Veil, Thomas, Sir, 1684-1746
Subject (Topic):
Liquor laws, Freemasons, Jacobites, Accidents, Barbering, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Children, Fires, Intoxication, Liquor, Prostitution, Sleeping, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
A copy of the second print in William Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day": Set outside St Giles's-in-the-Fields. On the right an elegant crowd leaves the French Huguenot church; they are dressed in the height of French fashion. Two women kiss on the far right in the customary French way. They are contrasted with Londoners on the left. The two groups are separated by a gutter down the middle of the road; a dead cat lies in the gutter foreground. The Londoners stand outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head); a woman and man in the second-storey window look surprised as the contents of her bowl are tossed out the window. In the foreground, left, under a sign with John the Baptist's head on a platter and reading "Good Eating", a black man embraces a servant girl and a small boy (evidently intended by his curly red hair to be identified as one of the Irish inhabitants of the area) cries because he has broken a pie-dish. A little girl squats as she eats the fallen pie off the ground. The clock in the steeple in the background reads 12:30.
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 147., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published October the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, Irish, Blacks, Children, City & town life, Churches, Couples, Crowds, Crying, Kissing, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book xii, page 205 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 59 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Puns -- Puzzles: picture puzzles -- Reference to the failure of peace negotiations, 1797 -- Reference to George III -- Reference to William Pitt, 1759-1806., and Watermark: Budgen 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 14, 1797, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"Eight puzzle-pictures arranged in two rows, in general of a punning character, e.g., 'Specimens of Poetry', 'A' lying across two walking-sticks (acrostics). The first, however, 'An Obstruction to Peace', is the collar and shoulders of a coat, the blue with red facings of the Windsor uniform, together with the title, indicating the King (or perhaps Pitt), with perhaps the implication that he lacks a head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Earlier of the two plates with this title published by Fores. See British Museum catalogue, and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1797, by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France., France, and Great Britain.
