"A number of men with asses' heads sit round a table signing a petition. They are upon a platform in a ramshackle room; a ladder rests against its left corner; on the ladder appear the head and shoulders of Fox in back view; he holds strings attached to the noses of the asses. The ass seated at the head of the table (left) hands down to him a 'Petition to the House of Commons for Delay [signed] Ign[or]amus'. An ass holds a long document, the 'Commercial Treaty with France', which falls across the table on to the ground; on his right shoulder an ass rests his head; another on the left sleeps with his head resting on a pile of books on the table. A spectacled ass writes busily; next him, at the end of the table (right), an ass leans back asleep. The nose of a braying ass appears through a door on the extreme right. Behind the table an ass places a notice on the wall: 'Chamber of Commerce at a Meeting held the 10th of February Resolved'. This partly covers another bill: 'Chamber [of] Commerce at a Meeting 9th Decr 1786 Resolv[ed]'. On a shelf (left) a figure of Mercury with a wooden leg dances, flourishing a caduceus; the right hand is broken off; behind it part of a vase is visible inscribed 'Wedgwood'. Figure and vase are on a pedestal inscribed 'Ex Quovis Ligno non fit Mercurius'. A casement window with broken panes and a raftered ceiling indicate the squalor of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Assemblée des not-ables anglois and Assemblée des notables anglois
Description:
Title etched in bottom center of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject.
Publisher:
Publd. the 14th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France.
Subject (Name):
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795. and France.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foreign economic relations, Mercury (Roman deity), and Donkeys
Leaf 45. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a thin Frenchman kneels beseechingly while five women pull his pigtail, pinch his nose and threaten him with a mop."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Thomas Colley in the British Museum online catalogue., Restrike, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate. For an earlier issue of the plate, published in 1781, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.18., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 45 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
"A clumsy lumbering diligence, with four horses, leaves the porte-cochère of an inn, part of whose ornate façade is on the left. The sign, 'Le Qoque [sic] en Pate', hangs from a wrought-iron bracket. Two postilions ride the near horses, flourishing their whips. The coach is full inside and out with typical French characters, humorously drawn, soldiers, monks, and women, with couples absorbed in conversation. An old couple beg from the passengers. A lean sow with small pigs scampers beside the coach. In the background (left) is the west end of a small church with a Calvary beside it at which nuns kneel in prayer; a group of monks approaches holding a cross. Down the hill leading from inn and church a post-chaise and pair and a post-boy on a horse are galloping, the latter wearing the huge 'milk-churn' boots which astonished visitors to France. A row of very ancient gabled houses forms part of the background, while on the extreme right is a large building of more recent date."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paris diligence
Description:
Title from caption below item. and For a later state with imprint and plate number, see no. 11624 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Carriages & coaches, Cities & town life, Christianity, Crucifixions, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Passengers, Pigs, and Stagecoaches
A medley of representations of newspapers, playing cards, and letters (To Mr. Geo. Bickham, engraver & drawing mar. ...). The newspaper ornament includes the figure of Cardinal Fleury who grasps a label "Dunkirk". George II is depicted as the King of Diamonds while his favorite Sophia Walmoden, Countess of Yarmouth is shown as the Queen of Diamonds. Sir Robert Walple's face is shown as the Knave of Diamonds. The creed is in the form of a rebus
Alternative Title:
Champion, or Evening advertiser and His political creed
Description:
Title engraved within image., Title of the medley: His political creed., Date from British Museum catalogue., Original imprint mostly burnished, but legible: "Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head, Strand, Sept. 30 1744.", and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Caption title. and No other recorded copy of this work identified at time of cataloging.
Publisher:
Printed for H. Humphrey, no. 27, St. James's Street,
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Hoche, Lazare,--1768-1797., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R
Subject (Topic):
Generals. and Generals--France--Early works to 1800.
"Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge of a cliff, looking in alarm at a medallion with a laureated head lettered, "Admiral Vernon"; under his arm is a scroll, lettered, "His iron will geet ye better of my Gold./G[o]d, he'll take all our Aquisitions in America." July 1740. Behind Fleury is a wall covered in graffiti: a gallows from which hangs a fat man (Walpole) lettered, "No matter yt he is long than ye Gallow's"; a man with the head of a bird who pushes a wheelbarrow; a windmill; a donkey laden with a pack; the heady of an angry Spaniard with a bird on his hat; another Spaniard, whole-length, leaning on a stick, a dog biting the tail of his cloak and two birds flying around his head; in the middle of the wall is a circular opening through which can be seen "Poor Hosier's Fleet"; a cock lettered, "Crown'd twice", stands on the wall. A pole rises from the wall, bearing a severed head, lettering identifies this as "Wall/Pole"; a ribbon hangs from the mouth lettered, "What Pity is it we can die but Once to serve our Country/Ad. Cato." Behind the wall on the right, is an imposing building flying the union flag; three crowns rest on clouds, and lightning flashes in the sky. The scene is set in a rococo frame with verses below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Preferment of the barber's block
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Bickham the Younger by British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: --Age thou art sham'd! Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! ..., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
Subject (Topic):
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
"Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge of a cliff, looking in alarm at a medallion with a laureated head lettered, "Admiral Vernon"; under his arm is a scroll, lettered, "His iron will geet ye better of my Gold./G[o]d, he'll take all our Aquisitions in America." July 1740. Behind Fleury is a wall covered in graffiti: a gallows from which hangs a fat man (Walpole) lettered, "No matter yt he is long than ye Gallow's"; a man with the head of a bird who pushes a wheelbarrow; a windmill; a donkey laden with a pack; the heady of an angry Spaniard with a bird on his hat; another Spaniard, whole-length, leaning on a stick, a dog biting the tail of his cloak and two birds flying around his head; in the middle of the wall is a circular opening through which can be seen "Poor Hosier's Fleet"; a cock lettered, "Crown'd twice", stands on the wall. A pole rises from the wall, bearing a severed head, lettering identifies this as "Wall/Pole"; a ribbon hangs from the mouth lettered, "What Pity is it we can die but Once to serve our Country/Ad. Cato." Behind the wall on the right, is an imposing building flying the union flag; three crowns rest on clouds, and lightning flashes in the sky. The scene is set in a rococo frame with verses below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Preferment of the barber's block
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Bickham the Younger by British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: --Age thou art sham'd! Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! ..., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
Subject (Topic):
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
Three generations of a family gather around a humble hearth, forming an image of domestic happiness in a modest setting. The father, seated on a chair set in front of a fireplace, lifts a small child. The mother is seated to his right, holding the hand of one of child while a third plays a drum set on chair. An old man leans on the chair that holds the drum, a bed visible behind him, while at his feet lies a game bag containing a rabbit. On the mantlepiece a cat sleeps beside a lantern
Description:
Title from caption etched below image. and A print in reverse after Etienne Aubry's Paternal love which was exhibited in Paris in 1775.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
France. and France
Subject (Topic):
Family life, Social conditions, Children & adults, Domestic life, Interiors, Clothing & dress, Drums, Lanterns, and Chairs
"Five British sailors make a furious attack on six French soldiers, grotesque and terrified creatures, whom the sailors humiliate and insult. Their officer (left), who holds a British flag, is threatened by a sailor with clenched fists, and excretes, terrified. A sailor with a scourge slashes the bared posteriors of a Frenchman who grovels on the ground, saying, "oh le pauvre Commandant"; he says, "Now foutre you'l take 2 Merchants Ships for a fleet of Men of War again". A Frenchman, nearly throttled by an angry sailor, cries "Ca-ira Ca-ira". A sailor pulls the queue of the drummer, to whom he offers a piece of tobacco, saying, "here you B--g--r heres a stale Quid for you Instead of Hartshorn". A sailor on the extreme right pulls the queue of a Frenchman and raises his club to strike; the latter says, "oh Diable we was Make de Dam Mistake Parblue". The sailor answers, "aye aye D------n Your Eyes Ill make you Blue and Black too". In the background (left) are buildings inscribed 'Nantes'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vision interpreted
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire about an incident at Nantes, 29 June 1791., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. July 15, 1791, by S. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Nantes (France), France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Topic):
History, Relations, Arms & armament, Defecation, Drums (Musical instruments), Fighting, Flags, British, National emblems, Rifles, Sailors, French, and Whips
