Leaf 32. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two-part satire on the resignation of Lord Bute, April 1763. On the left is a scene of execution, headed "Excise", with Bute, identified by his plaid waistcoat, hanging from an apple tree (referring to the Cider Bill), a devil sitting on the branch above him wears a large boot (a pun on Bute) on one leg, the other ending in a claw; two men below exult. In the centre a man (evidently another representation of Bute as he wears a large boot on one leg and on the other leg wears a garter lettered "Honi ..." as in the scene on the right) lies across a fire while another pumps a pair of bellows to fan the flames; three farmers standing behind the fire and another to the right rejoice at Bute's downfall. On the right, another devil reciting the proverb, "Harm watch, Harm catch", one leg ending in a hammer, sits on top of a gallows from which hangs a fox (Henry Fox) wighted down by money bags tied around his neck. On the right is a scene set in a grand interior, headed "Resignation, in which Princess Augusta sprawls weeping in a chair her breasts partly exposed while a devil delves into Bute's breeches as he drags him through a door through which flames and smoke can be seen, the Duke of Cumberland brandishes a sword in his right hand and pushes Bute with his left; he is encouraged by a nephew, Edward, Duke of York, at lower right, a lusty goat, one of whose hands is a claw, looks on with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Give the devil his due, Excise, and Resignation
Description:
Title etched below image, between the verses., Design consists of two images, each with a caption title above., Restrike, with final four lines of title burnished from plate. For original issue, published by J. Williams in 1763, see no. 4026 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Eight lines of verse below each image; the verses on the left begin: With greater joy, his L- see, like Judas hanging on a tree ..., and On leaf 32 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from the earliest issue of the periodical for which this plate, originally published without title and statement of responsibility in 1763., Cf. No. 4086 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Window mounted to 19 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764
Title from broadside that was illustrated with this image. Cf. No. 4008 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Lord Bute -- Reference to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn -- Reference to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham -- Reference to John Carteret, Earl of Granville -- Sawney (Symbolic character) -- Taffey (Symbolic character) -- Paddy (Symbolic character) -- Will (Symbolic character) -- Dishes: punch bowl., and Mounted to 33 x 39 cm.
Title from caption etched below image., Three columns of verse below image: So here, fellow-subjects (so fine and so pretty!) A show that not long since was seen in the City ..., Following imprint: Price 6 pence., Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had The British antidote, in 2 volumes, price 5 shillings., and Temporary local subject terms: Heraldry: King-at-Arms -- Personifications: Fame -- Slang: 'bruisers' -- Laws & statutes: Cyder Act -- Trades: apple-women -- Excise -- Sailors -- Naval uniforms -- Pugilists -- Emblems: boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Wooden legs.
Publisher:
Sold by E. Sumpter at the Bible and Crown, near Shoe Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, and Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
"An etching comprising several allegorical and grotesque figures assembled on clouds or on smoke, before the gaping jaws of a monster, which, in the manner of medieval representations of the Mouth of Hell, emits flames. In front of this is a wolf in sheep's clothing, i.e., a fleece shaped like a clergyman's canonicals, and bearing on its head a church. The next figure is that of horned owl with spectacles, a satyr's leg and hoof, and a wooden leg; in one hand, or harpy's claw, this creature holds a balance, in which "honesty", inscribed on a deed(?) is outweighed by a bag of money, on which is marked '£100800'; in the other claw is a scroll, inscribed, "Mongri(or "a") Farca." A fox follows, offering a bag marked, "10,000". The head of a bishop in a mitre appears behind. In the middle of the design the Princess of Wales, as a sphinx-like she-goat, looks at the above-named figures, and is ridden by the Earl of Bute, as a he-goat, with a jack-boat, alluding to John Stuart, Earl of Bute, on one of his legs. A cerberus-like monster, or three centaurs, with zanies' trappings, and holding marrow-bones and cleavers which are beaten together, is followed by an old man who sounds a drum. Another old man advances eagerly from our right; his profile resembles that of the Duke of Newcastle, but probably was not intended to do so; he wears armour, and an enormous wig; he has a flame-like sword in one hand, and extends the other hand, which is like a claw; he has likewise a satyr's leg."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., A copy of print no. 169 of the illustrations to: Political and satirical history., Numbered '4' in upper right corner., Illustration to: The British antidote to Caledonian poison., "Price six pence."--Following imprint which is mostly burnished from the plate in this state., and With annotations in Bowditch's hand, identifying the figures depicted; mounted on a sheet 33.2 x 45.5 cm.
Publisher:
[...] in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Dogs, Caricatures, Clergy, Hell, Monsters, and Supernatural beings
publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 1, 1763.
Call Number:
Hogarth 763.00.00.62 Box 111
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty club in the other; the knots in the club are labelled 'Lye 1, Lye 2, Lye 3 ... Fallacy, Lye 10 ... ". The oval canvas rests on two books, on top is 'Great George Street : a list of the subscribers to the North Britons' and below 'A new way to pay old debts, a comedy by Massenger.' The dog Trump is urinating on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth". Leaning on the palette is a framed satirical print showing Hogarth himself (in a white hat) whipping a dancing bear (Churchill) and a monkey (John Wilkes) in front of a projected tomb for William Pitt from which a cannon fires at the dove of peace"--British Museum onlne catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text below title: "But he had a Club this Dragon to Drub, or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye.", "From the original print designed & engraved by Mr. Hogarth.", Copy of no. 4084 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and For a discussion of this image see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 215.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797.
Title from the broadside edition with verses., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Another state. Cf. No. 4040 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: bed with canopy -- Tripod table -- Trades: quacks -- Medicines: 'Bardana' for gout, 'Waterdock', 'Balsam of honey' -- Diseases: scurvy -- Invalids -- Devil -- Literature: allusion to Macbeth by William Shakespeare., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Title from caption etched below image., Etched above image: Frontispiece., Frontispiece from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Earlier state, without plate number. Cf. No. 4149 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Dragons -- Personifications: Justice -- Emblems: scales of justice: cap of liberty vs. Scotch bonnet -- Personifications: Peace -- Emblems: palm leaf -- Syrens: with Hydra's heads as tail -- Jewels -- Crowns -- Reference to Lord Bute., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Charles Churchill in the form of a huge bear (right, as in Hogarth's print The Bruiser) and wearing clerical neckbands, looks down, mouth agap, at a little dog (left) who snarls back. The dog personifies Hogarth as in his own print "Trump"; his paws rest on a artist's palette inscribed "Line of beauty". The bear's paw rests on a sheet inscribed "Epistle to Wm. Hogarth," the poem which Churchill published in response to Hogarth's sketch of Wilkes described as "John Wilkes, Esqr."
Alternative Title:
Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill
Description:
Title from later state, engraved for the engd. for the Hiberia magazine. and Alternative title from British Museum catalogue: Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill.
Title from caption etched below image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy, without price, of no. 4045 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Executions: hanging -- Gallows -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Flags: Magna Charta -- Slogans: Liberty, property and no excise -- Containers: barrel -- Taxes: tax on cider -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Fuel: Florida turf -- Effigies: effigy of Lord Bute as exciseman -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Coffee-houses: reference to Cocoa Tree coffee-house., and Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
