Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Two columns of verse printed below title: At a tavern one night, Messrs. More, Strange, and Wright ..., Plate numbered '208' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: taverns -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Smoking: pipes -- Pets: dogs.
Publisher:
Published 12th February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Members of the Opposition, arranged in two horizontal rows, receive the news of Aboukir. [1] In the upper left corner Burdett sits, directed to the right, intently reading the 'Extraordinary Gazette' on 'Nelson's Victory'; his shock of hair covers his eyes, and he says, left hand raised in alarm: "sure I cannot see clear?" On the wall (left) is a print, a profile head of 'Buonaparte'. [2] Jekyll stands beside Lansdowne, who reclines in an arm-chair in dressing-gown and bonnet-rouge, a gouty leg resting on a cushion. He holds out a paper headed 'Captured IX French Ships of War'; under his arm is a paper: '2 Burnt'; he holds up two fingers. Lansdowne puts his hands over his ears, saying, "I can't hear! I can't hear." (For Jekyll and Lansdowne cf. BMSat 9179, &c.) [3] Bedford, sitting on a large treasure-chest, sourly tears in half a paper: 'complete Destruction of Buonaparte's Fleet - ', saying, "It's all a damn'd Lye". Behind his chest are padlocked sacks inscribed '£', indicating his wealth; on the wall hang jockey-cap, boots, and riding-whip. [4] Erskine lies back in his chair holding a smelling-bottle to his nose, from his dangling right hand have dropped papers: 'Capture of Buonaparte's Dispatches'. He says "I shall Faint, I.I.I." He sits by a table on which are writing-materials and 'Republican Briefs'. (For Erskine's fainting in court, and egotism, see BMSats 7956, 9246, &c.) [5] Norfolk sits in an arm-chair beside a table on which are signs of a debauch: overturned decanters and a candle guttering in its socket. Wine pours from his mouth and from a glass in his right hand. At his feet is a broken tobacco-pipe, in his left hand a paper: 'Nelson & the British Fleet'. He says "what a sickening Toast!" (cf. BMSat 9168, &c). [6 and 7] Tierney and Sheridan sit looking at each other across a table, Tierney (left) clutching his knee, on which lies a paper: 'End of the French Navy - Britannia Rules the Waves'. From his pocket issues a paper: 'End of the Irish Rebellion'. He says: "ah! our hopes are all lost". Sheridan, elbows on the table, his chin in his hands, says "I must lock up my Jaw!" Before him are papers: 'List of the Republican Ships Taken and Destroy[ed]'. [8] Fox, in the lower right corner, hangs by a noose, having just kicked a stool from under his feet; his crisped fingers have dropped a paper: 'Farewell to the Whig Club'. He says: "and I, - end with Éclat!" He wears a bonnet-rouge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Good-news operating upon loyal-feelings
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Victories: reference to Nelson's victory in the battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 -- Opposition -- Allusion to the Whig Club -- Furniture: chairs -- Spirits: port -- Glass: wine bottles -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Writing materials: ink stands -- Suicides -- Smelling salts -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Buonaparte., and Mounted to 33 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3d, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
The design closely follows George Cannings "New Morality".
Alternative Title:
Promis'd installment of the high priest of the Theophilanthropes and Promised installment of the high priest of the Theophilanthropes
Description:
Title etched below image., Statement following publisher's name: ... for the Anti-Jacobin magazine & review., Five columns of verse etched under title: "Behold! The directorial lama, sovereign priest Le Paux whom atheists worship ...", Plate from: Anti-Jacobin magazine & review, v. 1, p. 115., and Sheets trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publishd. August 1st, 1798, by J. Wright, No. 169 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., France, Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):
Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Canning, George, 1770-1827., Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de, 1753-1824, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Wakefield, Gilbert, 1756-1801, and Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
Subject (Topic):
Jacobites, Theophilanthropism, Leviathan, Newspapers, Philanthropy, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Religious aspects, Politics and government, and Periodical illustrations
"Ghosts (right) stand in a row at the foot of Fox's bed; he sits up, staring in terror, hands raised, large tears on his cheeks. The ghosts emerge from clouds; they are headless, with bloodstained necks round which are nooses, except for Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who stands above the others, in profile to the left, with blood-stained hair and shirt. His right hand is on his breast and he says: "" Who first sedue'd my youthful Mind from Virtue? - "Who plann'd my Treasons, & who caus'd my Death? - "Remember poor Lord Edward, and despair!!! - " Fox says: ""Why do'st thou shake thy, Goary Locks at me? "Dear, bravest, worthiest, noblest, best of Men! "Thou can'st not say, I did it! - " The body on Lord Edward's right and on the extreme right is that of Grogan, a leader of rebels in Wexford, it was said under compulsion, hanged from Wexford Bridge, his head fixed on a pike. Lecky, 'Hist. of England', 1890, viii. 95, 166-7. On Lord Edward's left is a body, the label from the neck inscribed 'Remember Hervay'. (Bagenal Harvey, commander-in-chief in Wexford (ibid. viii. 91), executed with Grogan.) Next is 'Quigley' (or O'Coigley), see BMSat 9189, executed 7 June 1798 at Maidstone. Next, a label, 'Shears's', rises from clouds in which the bodies are concealed. (John and Henry Sheares, elected to the Directory in Dublin on the arrest of Bond and others, were arrested 21 May and executed on 14 July 1798. Lord Edward died of the wounds received when he resisted arrest, see 'Auckland Corr.' iv. 414 ff., 442-4.) Above Fox's head fly two naked creatures with infantine bodies, webbed wings, and the serpents of faction or discord springing from their heads and writhing round their bodies. They hold up between them a paper inscribed 'Confessions \ of O'Conner \ Ol Bond'. The bed is framed in heavy curtains. Mrs. Fox lies asleep with her back to Fox. On the ground at his side is an open book partly hidden by the bed-draperies: ' . . . Head Quarters London. Plan of the Irish Rebellion.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of paraphrased quote following title: "In glided Edward's pale-eye'd ghost and stood at Carlo's feet.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Irish Rebellion, 1798 -- Allusion to St. Ann's Hill -- Ghosts -- Literature: quotation from The Excursion: A Poem in Two Books by David Mallet (?1705-1765) -- Literature: quotation from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), iii, 4.50 -- Banegal Harvey, d. 1798 -- Allusion to Arthur O'Connor, 1763-1852 -- Allusion to Oliver Bond, 1760-1798.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 21, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"View from the street looking towards the Bank of England, the arcade across north front of Exchange on the left; elegantly dressed figures and street traders outside"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement., and Window mounted to 48 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 15th, 1798, by T. Malton
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Banks, Commercial facilities, and Arcades (Architectural components)
"Three opera dancers, holding a garland of roses, are dressed alike in short transparent petticoats partly covered by a shorter apron. The centre dancer holds out her left leg horizontally . Mme Rose [Parisot] is in back view, her sharp features in profile to the right. On each side of the stage is a column on the plinth of which stands a figure: (left) a satyr holding a mask; (right) a woman wearing a clumsy undergarment, in the attitude of the Venus dei Medici. In front of the stage are the musical instruments of the orchestra, including a violin on which is a cap perhaps intended for a bonnet-rouge. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dance a l'eveque
Description:
Title etched below image, in lower left., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: 'Tis hard for such new fangled orthodox rules, that our opera-troop should be blam'd ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Theatre: stage -- Opera: dancers -- Musical instruments -- Stage lighting -- Devil -- Dancing -- Newspapers: reference to Morning Herald.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 14th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
"The upper part of a telegraph, not the usual screen in one plane (cf. BMSat 8837), but two screens at right angles to each other, the point of junction in the centre of the design. This is supported on a rectangular structure the upper part of which is open, with an aperture below each telegraph. From each of these Jekyll looks out in profile to the left and right, respectively. The telegraph, which is in the foreground, the lower part cut off by the lower margin of the design, overlooks from a height two views of the mouth of the Bruges Canal, flowing from an undulating landscape with a small town and distant windmills. Each Jekyll pulls strings which are attached to circular disks (for letters) in the upper part of the apparatus. On the left he looks through a rolled paper inscribed 'Morning Chronicle' over the intact sluice at the mouth of the canal, outside which are a few boats. From the disks above floats a label: "Ay, now let us see what are the fruits of this miserable Ostend Expedition! - ay, I see that the intelligence I had from Bruges, was of undoubted authority! - yes, yes, our Informations are always to be depended upon! - ay! sure enough there's the great Sluice of Sluykens, which was blown up! - the damages have all been repaired in a Week, & the Canal is now as full as at any former period! - O Lord! O Lord! - this is the way that poor John Bull's money goes!" Above each telegraph floats a tricolour flag surmounted by a bonnet-rouge; on the left the flag is inscribed 'June 20 1798', on the right it is 'June 21. 1798'. On the right Jekyll looks through a rolled paper: 'Capt Pop'em's Information from Capn Winter'. The landscape below shows a block of masonry exploding in the middle of a turbulent flood in which are carried down timbers and wrecked boats. His telegraph signals: 'Why what the devil do I see? - sounds, why here's incontestable evidence that the Sluices are all destroyed! - the Masonry all blown up! - and the Navigation of the Canal at an end! O Lord! what damages they have done!- why it can't be repaird by any effort, in less than 12 Months! - Mercy upon me, what will my Lord Malagrida say when I tell him about the business?' Jekyll's two profiles are identical; both smile waggishly. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Little second-sighted lawyer gving a true specimen of patriotic information
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of text below title: "After so candid & honorable a statement, no man can suspect the Honble. Gentleman of wilful misreprentation [sic]." - Mr. Ds remark., One line of text above image: "I trust the world will not regard me as a person ready to bring before them any matter which does not rest on a proper foundation!", and Temporary local subject terms: Military expeditions: Ostend expedition, May 1798 --Telegraphs -- Newspapers: Morning Chronicle -- Reference to taxation -- Reference to John Bull -- Reference to Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham, 1762-1820 -- Reference to the Marquis of Lansdowne.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Two lines of text below title: Fire Man -- get up my friend, get up directly, the house is on fire ..., Plate numbered '212' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Firemen -- Lighting: torches -- Tools: axes -- Pets: dogs -- Male dress: night clothes.
Publisher:
Published 16th March 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Illustration to verses printed in two columns. An elderly parson, holding his pipe, his back to the fire, makes gestures of rage towards his servant (right) who hurries terrified from the room as he drops a jug. His wife (left) holds his coat to restrain him, dropping a book from her lap as she sits in a chair with a slipcover. The verses in letterpress below the image relate that after a sermon on the misfortunes of Job, the parson told his wife that his 'patience and strength of mind' were equal to Job's, though she (like other women) was incapable of such restraint. His servant enters to tell him that the contents of a cask of ale had been spilt. His wife reproaches him for his violent abuse: "Job was not half so vext ..."; he says: "Answer me this, I say- Did Job e'er lose a barrel of such ale?" On the wall behing is a picture of Job suffering by the road as described in the Bible. See British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bad job
Description:
Titie from letterpress printed below the image. On this impression part of the title is printed below plate., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Text of the tale in letterpress printed in two columns below title: Twas at some country place, a parson preaching, The virtue of long sufferance was teaching ..., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., and Watermark: E & P 1796.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Job (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Chairs, Clergy, Fireplaces, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Religious dwellings, Servants, and Spouses
