A man in ragged clothes stands facing right, hunched forward under the weight of a basket of 'Rents' and 'Taxes' strapped to his back. His legs are shackled, his mouth is closed by a padlock, and his hands are tied behind him. Image enclosed within a circle
Alternative Title:
Freeborn Englishman
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker is likely the publisher Thomas Spence's son William, who was born in the early 1780s and died in 1797. See Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for Thomas Spence., Probably a copy, with alterations, of a print published circa 1795 entitled "A freeborn Englishman, the admiration of the world, the envy of surrounding nations, &c. &c." See description for No. 8710 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Thomas Spence seems to have also issued copper tokens in 1796 with depictions of a similar shackled figure on one side. See for example British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: T.6498., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Publishd. by T. Spence, Turn Stile, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Poverty, Poor persons, Locks (Hardware), Shackles, and Taxes
"A lean and ugly old man sits in profile to the right, bending forward towards an immense volume which lies open on a table in front of an open sash-window (right). On the page is a fly at which he gesticulates. He wears a night-cap and a loose robe over an old-fashioned laced waistcoat, short breeches, and high-quartered shoes. Above his head hangs a large stuffed crocodile, and in a frame on the wall are butterflies and insects. The 'virtuoso' (? naturalist) is examining the works of Linnaeus 'for a description of an uncommon species of insect'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 41' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric Excursions, or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance Character & Country in ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Variant state with title. Cf. No. 8968 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, and Temporary local subject terms: Virtuosi -- Allusion to Linnaeus -- Collections: insects -- Taxodermy: crocodile -- Male dress: dressing gown -- Male dress: nightcap -- Eyeglasses.
Title from engraved text above image., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Numbered 'Plate 42' in upper left corner., 'Page'--Upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward. 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms: burlesque arms -- clergy: monks -- Emblems: man on an eagle -- Scrolls -- Executions -- Military uniforms: Hussars' uniform -- Brazen Head -- Reference to Katterfelto -- Weapons: bows -- Literature: R.E. Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels ..., 1786., and Plate numbering and placement instructions erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Munchausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von, 1720-1797
"Three men gorge at a dinner-table laden with food and wine. A fat man with the table-cloth tucked under his chin gnaws a bone. A more elegant man (left), perhaps the 'President' of BMSat 8850, but wearing ear-rings, offers a bare bone to a little ragged boy. A third (right) drinks. A man-servant stands behind, another (right) with bludgeon and clenched fist drives back a starving couple who stand in the doorway making gestures of supplication. Above the design: 'Charité bien ordonnée commence par soimême'. Text, 'James', ii. 15, 16. Similar prints in England are directed against parish officers, cf. BMSat 6877."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charité bien ordonnée commence par soimême
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "11" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Committees: public assistance -- Opulence vs. poverty -- Glutony vs. starvation -- Food: roast -- Beverages: wine., and Letterpress explanation lacking.
"Two men, wearing patched and ragged clothes, stand together. One (left) stands full-face, arms folded, shoulders hunched, staring to the right with fierce despair. From his pocket issues a bulky document: 'By Law I'm Ruin'd quite'. The other (right) stands in profile to the left, his left hand in his coat-pocket from which hang papers inscribed: 'Spent all my Money & Lost my Cause'; 'Mortgage'; 'Officer's Fees'. He looks down with an expression of angry melancholy."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Doe & Richd. Roe, brothers in law and John Doe and Richd. Roe, brothers in law
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Law: legal fees., Leaf 62 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.8 x 16.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"A sailor (right) and a fat, ugly, disreputable woman (left) dance with tipsy joviality. They face each other, each holding the other's left hand. He holds up a small covered jug (holding the publican's dram). Her feet appear through tattered shoes and stockings; one eye is closed. He wears a round hat, pigtail, short jacket, petticoat, and long striped stockings."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
My Poll and my partner Joe
Description:
Title etched below image., Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray., Illustration to a popular song by Charles Dibdin: The waterman., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Ballads: My Poll & my partner Joe -- Dancing -- Containers: dram-pot.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 18th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Queensberry (right), walking beside a buxom young milliner, puts out an arm to touch her. His left hand is in a large muff. He wears a star and from his coat-pocket issue bottles labelled 'Renovating Balsam' and 'Velno's Vegetable Syrup' (see British Museum Satires No. 7592). She carries an arched-topped coffer (as in British Museum Satires No. 4923) and seems not unwilling."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old Quiz the old goat of Piccadilly
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: A shining star - in the British Peerage, and a usefull ornament to society. Fudge., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress -- Trades: Milliners -- Velno's vegetable syrup -- Renovating balsam -- Containers: Milliners' coffer., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Velno's Syrup., Leaf 9 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 25th, 1796, by R. Dighton, Charing Cross
"A coach without passengers or driver proceeds (right to left) with the wheels sunk in sand (resembling water). Beside it trudge the driver (left), the guard with his blunderbuss, and two men passengers. On a bank above the road, two ladies and two men run in the same direction. On the roof of the coach are band-boxes and a turtle; on the door a swan with two necks (sign of the famous coaching-inn in Lad Lane)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and right sides., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country in different parts of England & South Wales. London : Published by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row, 1796., "Plate 45" etched in upper left; "Page 109" etched in upper right., Printed on paper watermarked "1813". Window mounted to 44 x 28 cm., and Mounted opposite page 18 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Caricature of Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley, showing him dressed in a long black coat and hat, wearing a white apron and buckled shoes, carrying a basket over his left arm and balancing a large board stacked with bread rolls on his head with his right
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Pencil note "Line 239" in lower right corner. Mounted on an old album sheet, on which is written "Rt. Honble. Pepper Arden. - Page 152" in ink beneath print.
"Pitt sits astride a huge pile of bundles strapped to the back of a bull (John Bull); he is about to enter a high archway inscribed 'Trea[sury]'. His pose and expression combine jauntiness with dignity. His head is in profile to the right, his right hand on his hip, he wears a large bag to his wig, and while pressing his hat under his left arm holds the (slack) reins of the bull; his long thin leg hangs considerably above the bull's back, owing to the height of the bundles. The sturdy bull, though with downcast head and closed eyes, is not weighed down with his burden. Dundas (right), in Highland dress, marches grinning in front of the bull, playing the bagpipes which are inscribed 'Union Pipes' and have a transparent bag filled with coins. The bull's burden consists of ten superimposed bundles, inscribed with figures relating to the Loyalty Loan. Some of these are '50 000!, 30 000!, East India Company 2 000 000!!!, Duke of Queensbury 100-000!, 100 000!, Pit[t] D. dass 10000 [partly obscured by Pitt's foot], 50000, Duke of Bridgewater 100 000!, Corporation of London 100 000!' Behind the bull and on the extreme left are crowded together four British Jacobins, much caricatured, wearing bonnets-rouges and looking up at Pitt with anger and dismay. Their heads rise vertically one behind the other; the foremost and lowest is Fox, clenching his fist, next Sheridan in profile; then Stanhope, the fourth a mere scrawl."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 40.5 x 27.8 cm., Hand-colored. On laid paper with watermark: Strasburg bend with date 1798., and On the verso: an impression the outline for the print in black ink.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Finance, Public, Economic conditions, John Bull (Symbolic character), Debts, Public, Loyalty Loan, and Musical instruments
