"A design divided by a vertical line on one side of which is Burke (right) declaiming with raised arms and downcast head; on the other (left) a scene in India illustrating his speech. An Indian, Cheyt Singh, looks over a high stone wall whose parapet is decorated with plants in vases, saying, 'Gadzooker He has taken my Hooker'. On the ground beneath the wall are two hookahs puffing out smoke, and the leg of a seated soldier, his body being cut off by the edge of the design. Burke, facing right, exclaims, 'Guilty of not suffering him to smoke for the space of two Days.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Possibly a reissue; the digit "4" in "14th" in imprint has been etched over a mostly-burnished digit "3"., and Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Chait, Singh, rajah of Benares, fl. 1775-1781
Title from item., Later state, with additions to title, as described in British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Music: 'Ballanamonioro' by Charles Morris, 1745-1838 -- Music: 'God save great George, our king' by Henry Carey, 1690?-1743 -- Opposition to Irish Propositions -- Music: concertos -- Coalition., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Published 25th April 1785 by Thomas Cornell, [Bruton] Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814
"Major Scott (right) hauls at a broad ribbon round Hastings's neck by which he is being drawn up to a gibbet. The ribbon, which passes over a pulley, is inscribed 'Defence of W. Hasti--gs Esqr'. To each of Hastings's feet a large money-bag is attached inscribed respectively 'Rupees' and 'Pagodas'. Hastings looks with terror towards an Indian with a noose round his neck who emerges from flames and smoke, saying, "I am Nuncomar's Spirit, Hast**gs - follow me!". Small demons in the flames show that Nuncomar is in Hell. The top of the gibbet is decorated with the mask of Burke looking towards Hastings with a satisfied smile. The King and Queen stand together on the left, mourning the fate of Hastings. The Queen is much caricatured as a lean hag, clasping her hands and turning up her eyes; she is pregnant. Under the King's arm is a large packet inscribed 'Bulse'. Hastings, Scott, and the King wear oriental dress with turbans, that of the King surmounted by a crown. In the background an oriental town is in ruins but flies the British flag; tiny corpses lie in front of the buildings, two of which are Chinese pagodas resembling the one at Kew."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Temporary local subject terms: Trials: Warren Hastings -- Ghosts: Nuncomar -- Bulse -- Rupees -- Pagodas.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Scott, Major 1747-1819 (John),, and Nandakumara, Mahārāja, d. 1775
"A strip design. Beneath the figures are inscriptions indicating their identity. The procession is preceded on the extreme right by Hall the apothecary, one of Fox's chief supporters in Westminster, who holds the abortive 'Regency Bill'. A medical instrument protrudes from his coat-pocket; he is 'Apozem, Clerk, & Apothecary'. ... After him in priest's robes and wearing a Jesuit's biretta walks Burke, 'Ignatius Loyola' (cf. BMSat 6026), holding an 'Ode upon his Majesty Recovery'. ... The coffin is carried on the shoulders of six men with bulls' heads, hoofs, and tails, wearing coronets and shedding tears; three only are depicted, though the hoofs of the three on the left side of the coffin are indicated; it is 'The Body of the deceased supported by six Irish Bulls'. They wear a duke's, an earl's, and a baron's coronet, and say: "[1] Pullalaloo - Pullalalo - oh.', [2] Oh! - Ogh! - Oh!; [3] Oh Pullalalo - ogh". On the coffin is a coronet with the Prince's feathers flanked by an empty purse and dice and dice-box. Four ragged little girls holding nosegays walk as pall-bearers, two before the coffin and two behind it. They are '(bis) Unfledg'd Noviciates of Sf Giles's or, Charley's delight'. ... They are followed by Mrs. Fitzherbert in long trailing weeds, a rosary and crucifix hanging from her waist. She is 'Chief Mourner - The Princess of W-----s'. ... She clasps her hands despairingly. ... She is followed by Sheridan and Fox, wearing cloaks and carrying hats with mourning-scarves; they are: 'Second Mourners', 'The Rival Jacobites'. ... The next couple are Weltje and a hairdresser, Mails. ... The procession is followed by a nude and very emaciated demon (left), playing the fiddle and capering as he sings, grinning. He is the 'Blue and Buff Train Bearer.' ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Tempoary local subject terms: Bills: withdrawal of the Regency Bill -- Irish Commissioners.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556., Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Lothian, William John Ker, Marquis of, 1737-1815, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Hats, Funeral processions, and Mourning clothing & dress
Edmund Burke kneels holding a crucifix and rosary as protection from the two ghosts of Mirabeau and Price who stand before him drapped in sheets surrounded by clouds. They hold out to him copies of his Reflections on the French Revolution, damning him for the crime of writing such opinions. An old woman on the right holds a chamber-pot under her petticoats and sprinkles Burke, "old Loyola", with the water from a feathered aspergillum asserting that "this holy water' will protect him, an old accusation that he was a cancealed Roman Catholic
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly by Rowlandson (see Grego, p. 293) or by Henry Wigstead or William Holland (see British Museum catalogue)., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 17, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de, 1749-1791, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
Catholics, Public opinion, Anti-Catholicism, Aspergillums, Chamber pots, and Ghosts
"A sequel to British Museum satires no. 6438. George III, seated on a balloon, points downwards with his sceptre to an image of Pitt (right) as a naked child, on a column which is inscribed 'Family Presumption'. The king looks down at North, Fox, and Burke, saying, "I command you O Shadrach Mesech & Abednego!" The three stand (left) in attitudes expressing intense self-righteousness; they say: "Know O King we will not worship [the] Golden Image"; on each head rests a tongue of flame. They stand outside a dilapidated building on the extreme left inscribed 'St Stephens', shored up by a beam, whose base is at their feet, inscribed 'Resolutions Unrescinded'. From its coping-stone flies an ensign flag inscribed 'Firm S.P.Q.B.' The king's balloon is inscribed 'Prerogative'; its lower axis emits a blast inscribed 'Gracious Answer'. Behind the balloon and Pitt are clouds inscribed 'Breath of Popularity'. Pitt stands sucking his finger (cf. British Museum satires no. 6417); on his head is a sugar-loaf surmounted by a flag inscribed 'Feby 28', an emblem of the Grocers' Company which had entertained him on that day, see British Museum satires no. 6442. Kneeling figures do obeisance before the image of Pitt, those in the foreground representing the least reputable trades: a lamplighter (left), with his ladder and oil-can, kneels in profile to the right; a butcher prostrates himself; a chimney-sweep kneels with clasped hands; a ragged scavenger, his shovel and basket beside him, kneels in profile to the left, the basket stands on a paper inscribed '[Worshipfu]ll Company of Scavenger[s]'. In the foreground lie papers inscribed 'Garret Address' (an allusion to the mock elections of Garratt), 'Address', and 'The worshipfull Company of Chimney Sweepers'. A crowd of kneeling figures (left) is worshipping the idol; they hold standards, three of which are inscribed 'Bristol', 'Westminster', and 'London', representing the addresses to the king which had been compared by Fox to those made to Charles II, see British Museum Satires no. 6438, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Annibal Scratch" is the pseudonym of Samuel Collings., Only tentative attribution to Samuel Collings in the British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image, one column on either side of title: A gilded image & before it, a mob on marrow-bones adore it ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Traces of former blue mounting on verso., and British Museum duplicate (indicated by stamp on verso with initials JKR). With original 1[s] price in ink, with figures identified in ink in Hawkin's hand according to Andrew Edmunds.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Surrey.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Grocers' Company (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Elections, Local elections, Adoration, Balloons (Aircraft), Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Crowds, Idols, Occuptations, and Scavenging
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top., Two lines of text below title: The Prince and his party were drove to the summit of a hill ..., Temporary local subject terms: Military reviews: Sydenham Common, June 23, 1792 -- Military uniforms: dragoons -- Weapons: sabres -- Muskets., Watermark: J Taylor., Names of subjects and that of the printmaker printed on mat below image., and 1 print on laid paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 32 x 46 cm., matted to 47 x 63 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. June 28, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top., Two lines of text below title: The Prince and his party were drove to the summit of a hill ..., Temporary local subject terms: Military reviews: Sydenham Common, June 23, 1792 -- Military uniforms: dragoons -- Weapons: sabres -- Muskets., and Watermark: J Taylor.
Publisher:
Pub. June 28, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Title etched below image., Unverified attribution to Dent from local card catalog., Publication information from the Library of Congress copy. Cf. LC 3:42., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dissenters -- Symbols: dove of peace -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- Dice and dice-box -- Reference to St. Stephen's Chapel -- Reference to the House of Commons -- Literature: reference to Richard Price's Observations on civil liberty -- Literature: reference to Edmund Burke's A philosophical inquiry into the origin of the sublime and beautiful -- Acts: repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, March 2, 1790 -- Thirty-nine articles -- Votes: majority 189 on repeal of Test and Corporation Act., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
