In the tradition of May Day celebrations, Lord North and Charles Fox, in sooty clothes, holding brushes and dust pans, dance around the "Ways & Means" pyramid made of fishes and loaves and decorated with the royal crown on top
Alternative Title:
State sweeps
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 3d. 1783 by W. Dent, No. 116 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Chimney sweeps, Dance, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 2. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves."
Alternative Title:
Coal-heavers
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6213 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 2 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Coins, Obesity, Bags, and Clothing & dress
Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves."
Alternative Title:
Coal-heavers
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Coins, Obesity, Bags, and Clothing & dress
An air balloon, shown as a globe, lands in front of a cottage causing panic among those who were watching its progress. A cleric, holding a crucifix and a bible, attempts to exorcise the evil while the sheep, the cock, and the goose that travelled in the balloon's basket escape unharmed. A monkey looks on from a nearby tree. Below the image is a brief description of Montgolfier's experiment
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate from: European magazine, October 1783, p. 272., and Sequel to no. 6334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1783, by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810.
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Spectators, Animals, and Clergy
"Dr. James Graham, the famous quack, stands on a small platform or pedestal, addressing an audience of both sexes who sit and stand in front of him. He stands rather to the right of the design looking left, his right hand raised, his left holding a rolled paper as in British Museum satire no. 6324. He wears a bag-wig and ruffled shirt. Those of the audience whose faces are visible are probably portraits, but only Fox, Wilkes, and (?) Perdita Robinson can be identified. Three persons sit on a raised seat immediately under the lecturer and with their backs towards him: a young man puts his arm round a lady who draws back with a coy expression; the third is Fox who sits gloomily impassive, his head supported on his hand, perhaps annoyed at the way in which Mrs. Robinson looks towards the man standing next her, who stands on the extreme right in profile to the left. He is slim and wears the fashionable riding-dress but is very ugly. Two rows of people sit on forms facing the lecturer. Others stand on the left. Wilkes is in profile to the right, an elderly beau with receding hair, sunken eyes, and broken teeth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Docter himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s. and Doctor himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s.
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of verse below title: How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue, how sweet his lectures neither sd. nor sung. Pope., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Dr. Graham and Capt. Topham are identified in black ink contemporary hand, perhaps that of James Gillray., and Mounted to: 38 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 12, 1783, by R. Rusted, No. 3 Bridge St., Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
An enraged elephant with Lord North's face runs along Leadenhall Street chased by a group of opponents of the India Bill. They are led by the King who prods the elephant's hind leg with a spiked stick. The unseated Fox, falling head downwards, is about to hit the "East India Bill" which lies on the pavement, on which a dog is urinating. On the left, Burke, having dropped the elephant's rope and trumpet, runs away tripping over a large bundle, "Plans of Oeconomy." In the background, Pitt shores up the facade of the India House with a large beam
Description:
Title etched below image. and A sequel to British Museum satire no. 6276, and an imitation of that print by another artist.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, 24 Decr. 1783 by D. Brown
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Elephants, Trumpets, and Chasing
A stork with the head of Shelburne is shown with its beak buried in the long neck of a glass jar labeled "The Treasury Jar". He smiles triumphantly as he picks up the gold guineas at the bottom; around his neck is the Garter ribbon. To his left is a fox with the bushy eyebrows, bulbous nose, and hairy chin of Charles Fox; he stands with his paws on the jar and a melancholy expression at the inaccessible treasure
Description:
Title from caption below image., Originally published in 14 January 1783 by William Richardson. Cf. No. 6166 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Humphrey Jany. 14, 1783, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Great Britain. Treasury.
In an outdoor setting, Charles Fox, with a fox's head, and Lord North, both kneeling, supplicate Edmund Burke for absolution, in Fox's words, of the "sins not yett committed." Lord North, having confessed that his "sins are manifold and grievious," promises to submit to Burke's "holy injuctions & drink small beer all my life time." Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and biretta, his right hand raised in the act of benediction, points with his left one to the steep hill in front of him, on top of which stands gallows with a body hanging from it, and directs Fox and North to "go & sin no more ..." Behind Burke is another steep hill with a cross on top and a kneeling figure next to it.
Alternative Title:
Holy benediction
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Colley
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Priests, Confessions, and Clothing & dress
Volume 2, page 16. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The roofed gateway of a great man's house. In front of an archway (left) through which appears a staircase, an obese porter stands in profile to the right, lifting up both hands to show the impossibility of access to his master. He is addressing a would-be visitor, middle-aged and stout, who faces him with an insinuating smile, hat in hat, pointing with his right hand towards his companion, a slim young man (right), who stands full-face, his right hand in his breeches pocket. The young man is dressed like, and resembles, the 'Modern Fine Gentleman' in British Museum Satires No. 6342, a companion print. His right hand is in his breeches pocket, his left, holding his hat, rests on the head of his tall cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Companion print to: Front, side view, and back front, of a modern fine gentleman.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 24th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, N. 83 opposite [the] Pantheon, Oxford Street
Volume 2, page 16. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The roofed gateway of a great man's house. In front of an archway (left) through which appears a staircase, an obese porter stands in profile to the right, lifting up both hands to show the impossibility of access to his master. He is addressing a would-be visitor, middle-aged and stout, who faces him with an insinuating smile, hat in hat, pointing with his right hand towards his companion, a slim young man (right), who stands full-face, his right hand in his breeches pocket. The young man is dressed like, and resembles, the 'Modern Fine Gentleman' in British Museum Satires No. 6342, a companion print. His right hand is in his breeches pocket, his left, holding his hat, rests on the head of his tall cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: Front, side view, and back front, of a modern fine gentleman., Mounted on page 16 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and crayon manner on laid paper ; sheet 24.1 x 26.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 24th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, N. 83 opposite [the] Pantheon, Oxford Street
