"Lennox leans back on a sofa, his pistol in his hand, looking up with a melancholy expression. A lady (left) holds a smelling-bottle to his nose; the Duke of Richmond (right), leaning on one end of the sofa, regards his nephew anxiously. Lennox says: "I had been happy, if the Gen'ral Camp Foot-soldiers, all, had pull'd my Nose in private, So it had not been told; O, now for ever Farewell the Plumed Troops & the big War, The spirit-stirring Drum & the ear piercing fife, The Royal Banner & all quality, Pride, Pomp, & Circumstance of glorious War Farewell! Your Hero's reputations gone!" The lady, Lady Charlotte Gordon (who married Lennox, see BMSat 7594), says: "O my dear shiv'ring L. .. . x [These words have been ostensibly obliterated by cross-hatching which leaves them legible and makes them conspicuous.]! do compose yourself, for the sake of your dear Charlotte! Ah! that hot-blooded-fellow has fright'ned him into an Ague - come do take a sniff at your Charlotte's smelling-bottle, the Bonny Duchess says that my smelling Bottle is a nice Thing to raise a Man's courage, I long for you to take hold of it, my dear L ... x. [These words have been ostensibly obliterated by cross-hatching which leaves them legible and makes them conspicuous.] Richmond says, "Don't fret yourself my dear Nephew, [These words have been ostensibly obliterated by cross-hatching which leaves them legible and makes them conspicuous.] you have behaved like a Man of Spirit & Honor; - your putting up with a public Insult when you could have resented it, shews your magnanimity! your pretending not to remember the words of the insult, shews your harmless disposition! - your Letters to the Club, your good-sense! - their being sent a week before the Duel, your want of malice! as it gave his Highness's friends an opportunity to secure him from your resentment, by putting you under arrest! - your firing first, proves your spirit! - your not waiting to be shot at, your discretion! - & your being satisfied with only attempting the life of the son of your **** proves your Loyalty, & generosity! - therefore, my dear Boy, take comfort, get the better of this Ague, which you are thrown into by pulling the trigger, &, if you are kick'd out of one Regiment, Nunkle will beg another for you, as a reward for your Gallantry & good-will to the house of Hanover!!!" Pitt (left) looks round a door, saying, "Heav'ns L . . . x [These words have been ostensibly obliterated by cross-hatching which leaves them legible and makes them conspicuous.] what's the matter? I hope you've succeeded in lessening the number of my Plagues.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene immediately after the duel
Description:
Title etched below image; the word 'coward' has scratched out with numerous etched lines but is still legible., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1 sh./6 plain.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: lieutenant-colonel, 35th Foot -- Duels: Duke of York and Lt.-Col. Lennox -- Guns: pistols -- Medicinal: smelling bottles -- Furniture: sofas -- Charlotte (Gordon), Duchess of Richmond, 1768-1842., Watermark: Armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and monogram LS below., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 29th, 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1764-1819, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Richmond and Lennox, Charlotte Gordon, Duchess of, 1768-1842, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Leaf 73. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A charming lady, elegantly dressed, plays the harp and sings close to her unconscious husband, asleep in a stiff arm-chair. Pose and expression are both provoked and provocative. Behind her (right) is a square piano with an open music-book, at her feet a lute-like instrument and a music-book. An oval fire-screen protects the man's head from a blazing fire in a fire-place of Adam type. A picture of (?) Apollo with a lyre is in an ornate frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 9677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 266-7., and On leaf 73 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Sleeping, Chairs, Harps, Stringed instruments, Pianos, Fire screens, and Fireplaces
A man sits in a chair at a table reading about the French Revolution in The Gazetteer (newspaper). The candle in his right hand smokes heavily and is burnt down to a low stub. His tricorne hat is on the table and his walking stick is visibly leaning on the table
Description:
Title from item., Cf. William Hogarth's A politician, no. 1., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Newspapers, Reading, History, and Foreign public opinion
A satire, protesting the apparent embezzlement of city funds, depicts the members of the Corporation of Rochester with asses' heads herded back to Rochester by indignant townsmen
Alternative Title:
Mare foal'd of her folly and Mare foaled of her folly
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank. See British Museum catalogue., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 18 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Rochester (Kent, England)
Subject (Topic):
Donkeys, Embezzlement, and Politics and government
"A strip design. Beneath the figures are inscriptions indicating their identity. The procession is preceded on the extreme right by Hall the apothecary, one of Fox's chief supporters in Westminster, who holds the abortive 'Regency Bill'. A medical instrument protrudes from his coat-pocket; he is 'Apozem, Clerk, & Apothecary'. ... After him in priest's robes and wearing a Jesuit's biretta walks Burke, 'Ignatius Loyola' (cf. BMSat 6026), holding an 'Ode upon his Majesty Recovery'. ... The coffin is carried on the shoulders of six men with bulls' heads, hoofs, and tails, wearing coronets and shedding tears; three only are depicted, though the hoofs of the three on the left side of the coffin are indicated; it is 'The Body of the deceased supported by six Irish Bulls'. They wear a duke's, an earl's, and a baron's coronet, and say: "[1] Pullalaloo - Pullalalo - oh.', [2] Oh! - Ogh! - Oh!; [3] Oh Pullalalo - ogh". On the coffin is a coronet with the Prince's feathers flanked by an empty purse and dice and dice-box. Four ragged little girls holding nosegays walk as pall-bearers, two before the coffin and two behind it. They are '(bis) Unfledg'd Noviciates of Sf Giles's or, Charley's delight'. ... They are followed by Mrs. Fitzherbert in long trailing weeds, a rosary and crucifix hanging from her waist. She is 'Chief Mourner - The Princess of W-----s'. ... She clasps her hands despairingly. ... She is followed by Sheridan and Fox, wearing cloaks and carrying hats with mourning-scarves; they are: 'Second Mourners', 'The Rival Jacobites'. ... The next couple are Weltje and a hairdresser, Mails. ... The procession is followed by a nude and very emaciated demon (left), playing the fiddle and capering as he sings, grinning. He is the 'Blue and Buff Train Bearer.' ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Tempoary local subject terms: Bills: withdrawal of the Regency Bill -- Irish Commissioners.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556., Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Lothian, William John Ker, Marquis of, 1737-1815, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Hats, Funeral processions, and Mourning clothing & dress
"Five heads surround a taper whose flame is the head in profile to the left of George III. The taper rises from the centre of a crown which rests on a tasselled cushion in the foreground. On the left is Sheridan in profile, his face disfigured by drink, puffing angrily; next is Fox facing three-quarter length to the right, with a fierce expression. Next is the Prince of Wales, alarmed and rather fierce; beside him is Mrs. Fitzherbert, wearing breeches round her shoulders, one leg terminating in a garter inscribed 'Honi Soit...' The ribbon of her night-cap is decorated with the Prince's feathers and 'Ich dien'. On the extreme right is Grey, puffing intently, his blast directed at the back of the King's head. All the others puff awry, and the light burns steadily. All the men wear night-caps and shirts open at the neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not by Isaac Cruikshank. See British Museum catalogue., Date of imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's announcement following imprint: Where may be seen the largest collection of caratures [sic] in the world. Admitnce 1shg., and Mounted to 33 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 3 by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
France, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Regency, and Sleepwear
"Pitt as the modern Egbert (king of the West Saxons, d. 839) is rowed by four kings, and tows behind him a small boat in which the Prince of Wales is seated, his wrists and ankles chained. Pitt, who steers, is seated high in the stern of the 'Treasury Barge', he wears a combined coronet and mitre, and says to his four oarsmen, 'Pull together Boys'. They are Thurlow (stroke), Buckingham, Dundas, and Richmond (bow). All wear crowns on their heads and badges like those of watermen on their sleeves. Thurlow, stripped to the waist, his badge a rose, says, "Damme! I've got precedence of the Young Lion"; he rows with the Chancellor's mace. Buckingham (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), an Irish harp on his coat-sleeve, rows with a shillelagh, saying, "I'll answer for the Shelalagh without Authority". Dundas, wearing a thistle badge, rows with a long spoon, saying, "He shall remember old Nemo impune". Richmond, wearing a fleur-de-lis badge (he was due d'Aubigny), rows with a cannon (emblem of the ordnance, cf. BMSat 6921, &c), saying, "We'll shew him Gallic Faith." They row on one side of the boat only. A large flag in the stern of Pitt's boat has his crest (reversed), a stork grasping an anchor, with the motto: 'Devil take the Right P.W. [Prince William]'. The Prince wears a coronet with three feathers; he says, "I feel not for myself but for my country". His boat flies a flag with Pitt's crest above a flag with the royal arms. In the background is the river bank with trees, a church (the House of Commons) flying a (blank) flag (right), and (left) the dome of St. Paul's."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King of kings
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego., State with additions to the plate., Watermark: L Taylor., and Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Charles Bronwn [sic], Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
"Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) in bed, supported on her right elbow, looks fixedly towards a warming-pan held by a stout woman who approaches the foot of the bed. In the perforations of the pan are stuck three ostrich feathers; a monk, holding up a crucifix, gazes down at it. Mrs. Fitzherbert wears a large frilled cap and a nightdress with ruffles. The fringed bed-curtains are looped up. On the extreme right is part of a draped table on which are a cup, bowl, and a large urn (probably materials for caudle). On the wall are three pictures: one, the 'Royal Hunt', a man galloping beside hounds; this has the motto 'Ich Ich' (in place of 'Ich dien') with three ostrich feathers. It is flanked by two profile heads facing each other: one is 'Wig', the other 'Torey', but they do not appear to be portraits. The carpet is patterned with Prince of Wales's feathers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attribution to Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's announcement following imprint: The compleatest [sic] collection in the kingdom. Admitce 1 Shilling., and Watermark: countermark W.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 17, 1789 by S.W. Fores at his Caricatura Exhibition Rooms, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Births, Canopy beds, Crucifixes, Monks, and Rugs
A cartoon illustrating the first reactions in England to the news of the fall of the Bastille. On the right, the radiant figure of Liberty sits enthroned on the ruins of the Bastille. Kneeling on one knee before her, Louis XVI holds up to her his crown; inscribed below him are the words "A repentant monarch." Following behind him are six figures in chains, each clearly identified: Orléans and Necker, Marie Antoinette, two German counselors, and a figure suggestive of Mrs. Schwellenberg. La Fayette and the ranks of the National Guard bring up the rear. All around them are cheering crowds
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 2 sh. plain.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 3d, 1789, by J. Aitken, N. 14 Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834, and Bastille.
Subject (Topic):
Liberty, History, and Foreign public opinion, British
