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1. "An angel gliding on a sun-beam into Paradice," Milton [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1791 October 11
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across the sea to a castellated town flying a flag inscribed 'Hanover'. Half only of the crown and sun is visible. Her massive legs terminate in tiny feet. In her arms are two large money-bags, labelled 'Pr Ann.' and '£1000000'. Her bulging pocket hangs downwards, a rosary and cross hanging from it."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
- Description:
- One line of quoted text below title: "Down thither, prone in flight, lo Schwelly speeds, & with her brings the gems and spoils of Heav'n.", Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana,--ca 1728-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "An angel gliding on a sun-beam into Paradice," Milton [graphic].
2. "Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt" [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1791 March 20
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A very short and corpulent woman stands full face, her handkerchief is raised towards her face as if to mop it, her left arm is clasped by a man of similar proportions, who kneels in profile to the left, looking up at her with a pained expression."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower right corner below image: Design'd for the Shakespeare Gallery., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt" [graphic].
3. "Patience on a monument" [graphic] : engrav'd from a modern antique in the possession of the General.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1791 September 19
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston, is seated in profile to the right on a round close-stool. She is thin and witch-like, her chin is support by her left hand, the elbow resting on her knee. In her right hand is a torn paper inscribed 'Tranquility'. Behind the stool stands a little cupid holding his nose; in his left hand is a torch, reversed. On the ground (right) are bones and two skulls which gaze at Lady Cecilia. Beneath is the inscription: "By Patience, minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low; Patience the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm: Patience can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please, This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Husbands ears, confind the sound." Vide St Cecilias Day."--British Museum online catalogue. and The allusions are to St. Cecilia (died 177) and to Cecilla's husband General James Johnston. Also allusion to Shakespeare's Othello, iv.2.61-3 and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, ii.4.111.
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons., and Johnston, James Lesslie,--1697 or 1698-1789.
- Subject (Topic):
- Defecation., Monuments & memorials., Putti., and Skull & crossbones.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Patience on a monument" [graphic] : engrav'd from a modern antique in the possession of the General.
4. "The rights of man, or, Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1791 May 23
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man.
- Alternative Title:
- Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
- Description:
- At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!", Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797.--Reflections on the Revolution in France., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Paine, Thomas,--1737-1809.--Rights of man., and Paine, Thomas,--1737-1809--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Subject (Topic):
- Symbols. , Tailoring., and Tailors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "The rights of man, or, Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches [graphic].
5. A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1791 July 23
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Lindsey, Theophilus,--1723-1808--Caricatures and cartoons., Priestley, Joseph,--1733-1804--Caricatures and cartoons., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Tooke, John Horne,--1736-1812--Caricatures and cartoons., and Wray, Cecil,--Sir,--1734-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the - Revolution Society [graphic].
6. A little bigger [graphic] / Rowlandson 1791.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1791 May 18
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Companion print to: A little tighter., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A little bigger [graphic] / Rowlandson 1791.
7. A little tighter [graphic] / Rowlandson 1791.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1791 May 18
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Companion print to: A little bigger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A little tighter [graphic] / Rowlandson 1791.
8. A modern cherub [graphic] : vide, Peters.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "The head and shoulders of a woman, caricatured, in profile to the right, singing with upturned eyes, holding up a paper in both hands. A wing, foreshortened, and very freely sketched, extends diagonally across her shoulder, and has some resemblance to a part of her dress; her hair is loosely arranged, but its contour is fashionable; her face is blotched with drink. Clouds and a ray of light are indicated in the background."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A modern cherub [graphic] : vide, Peters.
9. A natural crop, alias, A Norfolk dumpling [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1791 September 21
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A whole length satirical portrait of the Duke of Norfolk, directed to the right; in his left hand is the baton of Earl Marshal; his right hand is in his waistcoat pocket. He wears top-boots, a slouched hat, and his hair is closely cropped. Earlier caricatures show the Duke wearing his own hair without powder, hanging on his neck."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Norfolk dumpling
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Norfolk, Charles Howard,--Duke of,--1746-1815--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A natural crop, alias, A Norfolk dumpling [graphic].
