Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
Alternative Title:
Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and On left above design: Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, History, Naval, Admirals, French, British, Sailors, and Clothing & dress
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Regent, in tight and dandified admiral's full-dress uniform, wearing a cocked hat, is carried by two bathing women (cf. British Museum Satires no. 8432) from a bathing-machine (right) to the barge 'Royal George', for transit to the royal yacht. Just behind is the machine, inscribed 'The Best Machines in Brighton'; from it two naked girls look towards the departing prince. A sailor standing in the barge, which flies the Royal Standard, seizes the Regent's ankles; one foot is gouty and swollen; he says to the man standing behind him (left): "My eyes jack this here craft will never carry him--we should bring the sheers and reeve a tackle for him in the long boat--!!" A naval officer stands beside the sailor, and shouts an order to the man behind: "shove the Barge further a stern & be d--d to you--what you about a head there." The Regent has an arm round the neck of each woman and grasps the plump breast of the nearer one who is comely. He says: "Do my dear Girls put me on board safe, I shall Tell Paget to give you some Grog--I have been almost suffocated in that infernal Bathing Machine--mind my foot." One bathing-woman says: "Faith he's no joke Judy the devil a heavier Burthen in all the country"; her comelier companion answers: "By my own soul I'd rather carry such a nice neat beautiful young Gentleman, than the best basket of mackerel that ever was at Billingsgate." The sailor on the left uses a pole to manipulate the barge, the bow of which is cut off by the left margin. He wears a tight blue jacket to the (pinched) waist, with red collar and cuffs, white trousers, and top-hat with a badge: 'Royal George'. With a grimace he says: "D--n these soldiers jackets I can't move in em--I suppose we shall all be lobsters by & bye!!" Behind (right) are the chalk cliffs of Brighton, with tiny figures waving their hats; one woman is seated on a donkey holding up a parasol."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal embarkation, or, Bearing Britannia's hope from a bathing machine to the royal barge, Bearing Brittannia's hope from a bathing machine to the royal barge, and Bearing Britannia's hope from a bathing machine to the royal barge
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "361" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., and Leaf 73 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 19th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Royal George (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Shipwrecks, Bathing, Admirals, British, Military officers, Military uniforms, and Sailors
Admirals Rodney, De Grasse, Vaudreuil and Bougainville, numbered 1-4 respectively, shown with Rodney standing on the right taking snuff, as Vaudreuil holds a chamber pot being used by De Grasse. Bougainville runs off to the left taking snuff. Names of the subjects are given in a key below design
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 3d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Vaudreuil, Louis Philippe de Rigaud, marquis de, 1724-1802, and Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, comte, 1729-1811
Subject (Topic):
Admirals, French, British, Military uniforms, Chamber pots, Snuff, and Defecation
Admiral Rodney is depicted vigorously attacking a large dragon which clutches his leg. The dragon's wings are decorated with fleur-de-lys and it breathes fire and frogs (alluding to Rodney's 1782 victory over the French fleet, a triumph which was not well-received by the Ministry). On the left Charles James Fox attempts to stay Rodney, offering him a baron's coronet and saying "... you have done enough, I will now make a Lord of you, and you shall have the happiness of never being heard of again."
Alternative Title:
Saint George and the dragon
Description:
Title from item. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 13th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Admirals, British, Dragons, Military uniforms, and Clothing & dress
George III on horseback charges into the scene from the left, his enemies fleeing before him and his pack of dogs each named after a British admiral. Spain in slashed doublet is farthest right, attacked by a dog whose collar is inscribed Elliot, while France in a polka dot suit, bag wig and crown leaps over a fence with a dog (Rodney?) at his heels. A Dutchman has fallen onto his back and three other dogs (labelled Pigot, How[e], and Park[er] are about to overtake him
Alternative Title:
Royal sportsman running down the enemies of Great Britain and Lewis Baboon taking a flying leap
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue, no. 6043., Sheet trimmed., Possibly a later state of no. 6043 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Mounted to 24 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Richardson Decr. 9, 1782 near Surry St. Strand
"Portrait, three-quarter length, directed to right, right hand on a cannon, left hand on his sword-hilt, hat under left arm, wearing a long wig, coat and long jacket, the cravat tucked underneath, with the end pulled through below the top two buttons, facing and looking to front, on a sea-shore, with ships firing in the background to right; after Gibson; before retouching and price added"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honourable Nicholas Haddock Esquire
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1497., and Mounted on sheet 49.0 x 32.0 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
"Fox, wearing a military cocked hat, with civilian dress, threatens Prussia (or Frederick William III) with his sabre, while he puts a foot on the sword that Prussia has dropped. The latter, a grotesque figure with a long pigtail and moustaches, kneels terrified at his feet, clasping his hands in supplication. His Death's Head Hussar cap falls from his thrown-back head; he wears a fur-trimmed cloak and tunic, with a badge of the Prussian Eagle on his sleeve, with half-boots and extravagant spurs. Fox says, with an expression of sour and calculating contempt, " - O you Prussian Marauder, you! - what I've caught you at last? - what, You took me for a double-faced-Talleyrand! did you? - did you think I was like yourself, to Look One way & Row another? - what you thought because I make Loyal Speeches now, that I must be a Turncoat? - O you Frenchified Villain! - I'll teach you to humbug & insult my poor, dear, dear Master? - & to join with such Rascals as Boney, & O'Conner!" Prussia exclaims, terrified, "indeed! indeed! indeed! I could not help it. - " Meanwhile, Napoleon, holding his sabre, and wearing feathered bicorne, with spurred jack-boots, furtively hastens up to Fox from behind, to read the open book which the latter displays to him behind his back: 'State of the Nation'.
Alternative Title:
Magnanimous minister chastising Prussian perfidy and Magnanimous minister chastiseing Prussian perfidy
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text following title: "Vide Morning Chronicle.", and Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10560
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Admirals, British, Military uniforms, and Clothing & dress
"Portrait of Sir Samuel Hood, half-length, slightly turned to the right, one hand on his hip, dressed in gold-laced naval uniform with epaulettes upon his shoulders, the star of an order upon his breast and a medal hanging from a thick ribbon about his neck, a sash across his breast, a black stock about his neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 623 (leaf numbered '60' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published May 10, 1813, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
