"A composite figure with two heads, one that of Lord Howe, the other that of George III, stands between two groups of naval officers; both heads are in profile. The King turns to the right, taking a petition from a kneeling officer with a wooden leg and saying "I never interfere with your first Lord no never". Five officers standing behind this petitioner say (left to right): "I see I shall lose my Rank after all my long Services"; "I am set aside altho' I've lost a Son & one Eye"; "Humbugd by Jove by [the] old Jesuit"; "Had I my Arm again Fd find a better Country"; "Brothers, Our Lords & Commons will not suffer this Game". The last speaker has one leg and stands with a crutch. Howe, scowling with downcast head, says, "Go, go, I can do nothing. It is his Majesty's pleasure, that------" An officer steps forward holding out a petition, he says, "Rascall". Four others standing behind the petitioner say (left to right): "He's fond of Manoeuvres if ever so bad, you know him"; "The King's pleasure! That's a Falsity added to a mean Finesse"; "Our Navy has now two Heads & no Helm, rare Work"; "Vultus est Index Animi".--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The last number of the year in the imprint statement has been engraved over with another number. The British Museum online catalogue suggests that a '6' was amended to a '7'., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Howe, Richard Howe,--Earl,--1726-1799--Caricatures and cartoons., and Humphrey, G. (George), 1773?-1831?, publisher.
"A stagecoach stopped outside an inn with the sign of the horse at right, another coach being driven at speed at centre, a man in a leisuredly cabriolet at left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition.
Description:
For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate reissued ca. 1803 with the title: A stage coach. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.164., and Title from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Deer-hunting, a landscape scene; at a river in thick woodland, a stag in the water is pursued by the pack of hounds, two huntsmen on horses approaching through the water at right, several others on the banks at left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and Title from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212., Month and possibly day in publication line partially burnished from plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title from Grego.
Publisher:
J. Harris
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Part of imprint lightly printed and illegible., and Title devised by curator.
Publisher:
J. Harris
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title and publisher from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
