"Sheridan leads the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society, who are performing on a small, elegant stage, rising (without orchestra) from the boards in the foreground where these enemies advance. He is dressed as Harle...
Alternative Title:
Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets
Description:
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Publisher:
Publish'd April 2d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Lewis, William Thomas, 1746?-1812, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839
"Lady Salisbury stands on a mound holding up a fox's brush. She has outstripped the hounds who rush towards her, the foremost just about to reach her. She turns her head in profile to the left; her long dark hair streams down her back; she wears a hun...
Alternative Title:
Diana returned from the chace
Description:
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Publish'd March 16th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835
"A crowded scene, the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society are dressing and rehearsing. The design may derive from Hogarth's 'Actresses dressing in a Barn' (BMSat 2403), Gillray stressing the contrast between his luxurious mise-en-scène and the squalor of...
Alternative Title:
Peep at the green room
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Pubd. Feby. 18th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Abercorn, John James Hamilton, Marquess of, 1756-1818, Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
"Ten ladies, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes etched beneath the design, their proposed offices etched above their heads. ... '(1) First Lady of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.' The 'Duc - ss of Gor-n' (Pitt's friend...
Description:
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Pubd. Febry. 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St. ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Richmond, Mary, Duchess of, 1740-1796, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Lady Wallace, -1803, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Lade, Letitia, Lady, -1825, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
"A reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Fox to various groups of the Opposition, [With one or two exceptions the identifications are those of Miss Banks; the characterization is excellent, and most are unmistakeable.] in which the arrangement has political...
Alternative Title:
Grand cooperative meeting at St. Ann's Hill
Description:
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Publisher:
Publish'd June 18th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855, Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Gordon, Jane Maxwell Gordon, Duchess of, d. 1812, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
A satire on the Prince of Wales's relations with Lady Salisbury, the pair shown holding hands on the right, while her husband, drawn as a block of stone, stamps angrily in the center. Between them is Mrs. Robinson, who had been deserted by the Prince,...
Alternative Title:
Monuments lately discovered on Salisbury Plain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Salisbury Plain (England) and England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, and Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
A satire on the Prince of Wales's relations with Lady Salisbury, the pair shown holding hands on the right, while her husband, drawn as a block of stone, stamps angrily in the center. Between them is Mrs. Robinson, who had been deserted by the Prince,...
Alternative Title:
Monuments lately discovered on Salisbury Plain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Salisbury Plain (England) and England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, and Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
"Musicians are grouped round the almost spherical Lady Buckinghamshire, who sits at the piano in profile to the right, playing and singing. In back view and on the extreme right sits Colonel Greville, playing a fiddle; from his coat pocket hangs a pap...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839
"A fantastic representation of the supper at the ball given by the eleven Knights of the Bath installed on 19 May in Westminster Abbey, see BMSat 7318. Full accounts appeared in the newspapers, and the scene depicted appears intended for 'the Prince o...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Hastings, Anna Maria Apollonia von Chapuset, 1747-1837, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797, Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807., Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800
"A fantastic representation of the supper at the ball given by the eleven Knights of the Bath installed on 19 May in Westminster Abbey, see BMSat 7318. Full accounts appeared in the newspapers, and the scene depicted appears intended for 'the Prince o...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Hastings, Anna Maria Apollonia von Chapuset, 1747-1837, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797, Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807., Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800
