"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
Title from caption below image., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of six groups of figures in two rows, with lines of text etched above each group., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 8., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Cavalry uniforms -- Horsemanship -- Yeomen., and J. Whatman 1828.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 7th, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom and left., Numbered 'Plate. 38' in upper left corner., 'Page 99' in 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: Innkeepers -- Male dress: apron -- Smoking., and Watermark: R & E 1799.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 19, 1796, by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom., Numbered 'Plate 34' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 96', in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Barrel-organ.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Numbered 'Plate 35' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 96', in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Harpsichord -- Sheet music -- Bracelet with miniature portrait.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 19, 1796, by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom and left., Numbered 'Plate. 36' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 99' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: waistcoat -- Male dress: neck-cloth.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Numbered 'Plate 37' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 99', in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: hostess -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Decorative design: pugilistic scene.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 19, 1796, by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 28' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 68' in 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: Newspapers: 'The Sun' -- Newspapers: 'Cronicle' [sic] -- Newspapers: 'Times' -- Newsmen -- Butchers -- Bristol., and Watermark: R & E 1799.
"Plate 29 [but numbered 30] to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Three elderly men, one holding a pipe, sit fast asleep, framed in an open casement window of the Globe inn. A date in a medallion, '161 - ', is above the window. Sketched at Torrington, a place 'supremely dull'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and sides., Numbered 'Plate 29' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 78' in 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: Inns: 'Globe' at Torrington -- Torrington: Globe Inn -- Architectural details: windows -- Sleeping., and First digit in number in upper left altered to either '3' or '6'.
