Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves."
Alternative Title:
Coal-heavers
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Coins, Obesity, Bags, and Clothing & dress
Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in plate: 326., Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud., and Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A Methodist minister standing before a building, possibly meant to represent Whitefield's tabernacle in Tottenham Court Rd., is confronted by two women, an older one who gestures toward the church and a young one, fashionably dressed and pulling him toward the public house on the right. The sign on the latter reads "The old goat new Reviv[ed]" and before it stands a donkey between two bales of hay
Alternative Title:
Divinity in danger
Description:
Title from item. and A reduced and reversed copy of The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak (George 4609) designed by J. Collet.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Full length view of a young woman standing in profile looking to the right and front. Her hair forms an enormous pyramid and at its apex is pinned a frilled cap with long streamers of lace and ribbon. On the projection at the back of her skirt sits a poodle wearing a bow of ribbon. In her right hand she holds a spray of moss rose-buds. She wears an apron and a skirt which shows her ankles
Alternative Title:
Chloe's cushion
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer; J. (John) Walker, was located at no. 13 Parliament St., London from 1776-1778., and Mounted to 35 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Pub'd Novr. 19, 1776 by J. Walker, No. 13 Parliament St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Skirts, Hairstyles, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Three men are seated around a table, from left to right a squire wearing spectacles and reading aloud from the Daily Advertiser, a parson in the center smoking a pipe and raising a glass of punch, and a barber with his wig askew on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally issued March 7, 1777; believed to be Gillray's first etching., and Mounted to 30 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 11, 1784, 227 Strand, London, by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Reading, Wigs, Tobacco pipes, Barbers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 100. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old man, whole length in profile facing to the right, walks along a country road holding his hat and a very long stick with a face carved at the top. He carries a book in his pocket
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "20" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 21, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 100. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old man, whole length in profile facing to the right, walks along a country road holding his hat and a very long stick with a face carved at the top. He carries a book in his pocket
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "20" in upper right corner., Second of three plates on leaf 100., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.2 x 12.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 21, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Thomas Powys, sleeping in a chair on the left, and Charles Marsham, with a tankard, two of the country gentlemen urging the union between Fox and Pitt, preside over a maypole dance in front of the "St. Albans" tavern, their meeting place. The maypole is decorated with a sleeping head of George III. Dancers include members of the Coalition cabinet, pictured with devil's horns: Charles Fox, with a fox's body, Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, and the Duke of Portland, and members of the preceding cabinet, pictured with haloes: Lord Thurlow, in a judge's robe, a smiling Lord Shelburne, and the Duke of Richmond. They are watched on the left by the "nurse North," with horns, holding baby Pitt, with a halo, and on the right, by the Prince of Wales, dancing to his own tune he is playing on a pipe and a drum
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800., and Romney, Charles Marsham, Earl of, 1744-1811.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Taverns (Inns), May poles, Dance, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 89. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, whole length in profile facing right, walks towards the right down an incline in the countryside. He holds a long gun in both his hands and has a game bag across his body
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 19, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
