Title from item., Attributed to Ansell in British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for evening., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: courtroom -- Lawyers -- Emblems: scales of Justice -- Farmers -- Reference to John Lovelace's case at Winchester Lent Assizes, 1798., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials E & P 1794 below.
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Pubd. April 2d, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"The windlass (right) is turned by Bedford, in profile to the left, Fox, in back view but looking to the raft (left), Sheridan, in profile to the right, and Tierney, coming towards the spectator. From Bedford's pocket hangs a paper: '£1400 Fined, for False Entry of Servants'. All are running, but it is clear that huge waves raised by Pitt will swamp the raft before it reaches shore. All wear coats except Fox, whose coat lies on the ground beside a paper: 'List of the New Republican Ministry. Citizen Volpone, Premier..'.. Fox's shirt is tattered, his hair is tied by a tricolour ribbon. Pitt's profile emerges from clouds in the upper (right) corner; his blast spreads as it reaches the raft, developing into flashes of lightning ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Republican flotilla in danger
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Round a bare and decayed oak-tree is twined a serpent with the head of Fox; he has scaly arms with human hands and holds out a damaged apple inscribed 'Reform', saying, "nice Apple, Johnny! - nice Apple". John Bull (left) is a fat and squat yokel, wearing the Windsor uniform of blue coat with red collar and cuffs. The pockets of his coat and waistcoat bulge with round golden apples. His back is to Fox, towards whom he looks out of the corners of his eyes, saying: "Very nice N'apple indeed! - but my Pokes are all full of Pippins from off t'other Tree: & besides, I hates Medlars, they're so domn'd rotten! that I'se afraid they'll gie me the Guts-ach for all their vine looks!" Fox's scaly tail is coiled round the upper branches; its tip issues from a large cap of 'Liberté', decorated with tricolour cockade and ribbons, which is poised on a branch. The trunk of the tree is 'Opposition'; its roots are: 'Envy', 'Ambition', 'Disappointment'. The main branches are 'Rights of Man' (see BMSat 7867, &c.) and 'Profligacy'. Each rotten apple or medlar has an inscription: 'Democracy.', 'Treason.', 'Slavery.', 'Atheism.', 'Blasphemy.', 'Plunder.', 'Murder.', 'Whig Club', 'Impiety', 'Revolution', 'Conspiracy', 'Corresponding Society', 'Deism', 'Age of Reason' (Paine's deistic book). In the background (right) is an oak in full leaf: its trunk is 'Justice', the roots 'Commons', 'King', 'Lords', the branches 'Laws' and 'Religion'. From it hangs a crown surrounded by 'pippins', some inscribed 'Freedom', 'Happiness', 'Security'. (Cf. BMSat 8287, &c.)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Liberty: tree of liberty -- Uniforms: Windsor uniform -- Literature: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Vices -- Cap of liberty as bonnet rouge -- Serpents -- Reforms., and Watermark: 1794.
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Pubd. May 23d, 1798, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
Title etched below image., "Page 147."--Upper right corner., Plate from the first edition of: Ireland, J. Hogarth illustrated, vol. iii, p. 147., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above print: The Vase. Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand below print: See Mr. John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, p. 147., and On page 231 in volume 3.
A half-length portrait of Thomas Kirgate facing right, with a view of the Strawberry Hill printing house in the distance on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 237 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 16.4 x 13.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
"Two lawyers in violent dispute"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1797.
"Outside a country ale-house ruffians are practising their weapons at close range on the effigy of a British soldier which is spiked on a spear (left): helmet, coat stuffed with straw, top-boots. One man levels a spear, another fires a misshapen pistol, a third, who is bare-legged, with a headsman's axe in his belt, fires a blunderbuss whose large bullets fall to the ground. In the foreground (right) a woman turns the handle of a grindstone on which a man sharpens a sword; on the ground is a pile of weapons: swords, daggers, spears, muskets, and a pistol. Behind (right) men with pikes and spears gather round the inn-door, which is inscribed 'True French Spirits'. They drink; the landlord fills a glass from a small keg. All wear tricolour cockades. The (pictorial) sign over the door is 'Tree of Liberty' (see BMSat 9214, &c). In the background are a broken paling, trees, and a mountainous sky-line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "United Irishmen upon duty.", and Temporary local subject terms: Irish Rebellion, 1798 -- Buildings: country ale-houses -- Inn signs: Tree of Liberty -- Spirits: French wine -- Tools: grindstone -- Military uniforms: British soldier's uniform -- Guns: blunderbuss -- Pistols -- Weapons: swords -- Daggers.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 13, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A night scene with a waning moon. United Irishmen burn and plunder. On the left is the corner of a farm house with flames pouring from a casement window. A ruffian wearing a military coat, tricolour cockade and green branch in his hat, seizes the burly farmer by the neck-cloth and raises a sword to strike; the dripping blade is inscribed 'Liberty', and a mastiff lies dead beside him. Immediately behind, in a doorway, another ruffian seizes a woman round the waist; an infant lies on the ground. A man holding a dagger is disappearing into the house, another comes out with a bundle on his head. Behind are the flames of the burning house. Over the thatched lintel is a dove-cote from which birds are escaping. Three other men hurry off laden with plunder towards a road which leads to a camp flying a tricolour flag inscribed 'Equality'. The nearest (right) holds a sow on his back by the hind legs; her little pigs run after her; a goose hangs from his belt. A bare-legged man with a dagger in his belt pushes a wheelbarrow laden with trunks. In the background other plunderers proceed along the road; a man prods a cow with his spear. The road is crowded with sheep. In the distance is a burning town."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "United Irishmen in training.", and Temporary local subject terms: Irish Rebellion, 1798 -- Buildings: farmhouses -- Farm animals: pigs.
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Pubd. June 12th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title etched above image., Vignette from titlepage of John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, vol. iii., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above print: Serpentine or Dolphin Candlestick. See the title-page to Mr. John Irelandss Hogarth illustrated., and On page 231 in volume 3.
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Published March 1798, for John Ireland, Poets Corner, Palace Yard, Westminster
