"Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a list of eight names ('alias' repeated seven times) beginning: 'Mr Thos Ogle (the Notorious Swindler) - by which Name he Married Two Wives', and ending: 'Vide - his Examinations before the Magistrates of Bow Street in Novr 1801'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from quotation etched above image., Text below title: Townsend, Pole. Officer, Bow Street., Temporary local subject terms: Swindler -- Thomas Ogle -- Major Semple -- William Smith -- Thomas Robison -- Batty -- Captain Johnson -- Thomas Bashford -- Robertson -- Lieut. Colt. Cs. Pullen., and Watermark: J Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 18th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker identified based on unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: farm cottage -- Fences: gate -- Scare crows -- Female dress, 1799 -- Female dress: poke bonnet -- Male dress, 1799., and Mounted.
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Three paragraphs of text and printer's line printed in letterpress below title: Generous and exhilarating Bacchus, pour down, I beseech thee, ..., Printmaker from unverified data from card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 42.4 x 25.5 cm, Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printer's line., and Watermark: J. Ruse.
Publisher:
Pub'd. June 4th, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Pitt (l.) in volunteer uniform, bayonet in hand, looks over the fortified wall of Walmer Castle into a French gunboat immediately below; he asks: "Who goes there?" The boat, which has a sail (r.), is in the foreground, the stern cut off by the r. margin. Napoleon seated in the bows on the single cannon, sabre in hand, looks over his right. shoulder in consternation, saying, "Ah - Begar! - dot man alive still - turn about Citoyens - for there will be no good to be done - I know his tricks of old!!" Beside him are two officers, one seated, the other trembling with bent knees. On the r. are three frightened Grenadiers, holding muskets. Behind Pitt are castle buildings, flying a large Union flag. Tiny soldiers are indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Boneys peep into Walmer castle!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Military Uniform: Volunteer -- Bayonet -- Guns: Bayonet -- Walmer Castle -- French Gunboat -- Weapons: Sabre -- Muskets -- Swords: Sabre -- French Military Officers -- French Grenadiers -- Muskets -- Flags: Union Jack., and Watermark: J Ruse.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 22, 1803, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, No. 50
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
"The lion, with the face and wig of Melville, lies gazing up, blood falling on the papers under his paws: 'Plans for Manning tfthe Navy - List of ships built in 1804 ... of ye Line'; 'Abolition of Impress'. He is struck down by the blast from a blunderbuss whose muzzle is a tankard inscribed 'Whitbreads Entire'. This is fired by St. Vincent who crouches (left) behind a withered tree. The blast issues from a circle of froth inscribed 'Report'. Part of it, inscribed 'Condemnation without Trial', passes above the lion and strikes Britannia to the heart. She is leaning against an ancient but flourishing oak on the extreme right. The blast that strikes Melville is inscribed 'Invectives', 'Popular Clamour', 'Envy', 'Disappointed Jacobins', 'Malice'. On the upper part of the withered tree sits a monkey with the head of Wilberforce, holding up an open book: 'Solution of Vital Xianity', but directing at Melville a blast from his posteriors inscribed 'Cant! - Envy! - Abuse! - Hypocrisy! - Cruelty.' Three asses are kicking up their heels at Melville as they scamper off towards the mountainous background. The nearest has the head of Sidmouth, with ass's ears. He is laden with panniers inscribed 'Physick for the Lion.'; these are heaped with medicine-bottles, one labelled 'Emetic for ye Lion'; there are also a 'Clyster for the Lion', and a box of 'opening Pills' (cf. BMSat 9849), The other asses are Hily Addington and Bragge, cf. BMSat 9986. The latter (right) turns his head to say: "Very highly indebted to the Lion, brother Heeley!" His panniers are inscribed 'Provisions for the Doctors Family' and 'Trifles procured thro' the Lions Generosity'; they are piled high with papers: 'Pension to Brother Brag &...'; 'Annuity to all our Cousins'; '£40000 pr Ann'; 'Sinecure'; 'Pension for Aunts'; 'Pension for Brother Hely'; 'Pension'. The other ass (Hiley) answers: "Then give him another kick, Brother Braggey". He is laden with a sack of 'Candid Whorehound'. The lion is also assailed by a fox (Fox) who viciously bites his hindquarters, and by a serpent with the head of Grey (Whitbread's brother-in-law) who bites his neck. Three small rats, wearing legal wigs and bands (right), run viciously toward the lion; they are (left to right): Jekyll (see BMSat 9179), Erskine, and Robert Adair, an ardent Foxite, cf. BMSat 7158. A dog, its collar inscribed 'Kinard' (Kinnaird), bites the lion's tail, while one foot is in a plate containing a bare bone, and inscribed 'Melville-Castle' with a coronet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of quoted text following title: "And now, all the sculking herd of the forest, some out of insolence, others in revenge ..." Vide, Aesop's fables., and Mounted to 31 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 16th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, and Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
