Three members of the 'Society for Constitutional Information' dine on a roast beef labeled "Extract from John Bull." The roast is carved by Dr. Towers, the Society's pamphleteer who looks to his right at Charles Howard, Lord Surrey. They are joined at the table by Samuel House, popular Wardour Street publican whose inseparable great foaming tankard is carried in by a thin, fashionably dressed waiter
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 31 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Dent, No. 116 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799., House, Samuel, -1785., Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815., and Society for Constitutional Information (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Eating & drinking, Drinking vessels, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Charles Fox hangs by the neck from a large balloon with the image of the East India House on it. He has a fox's tail inscribed, "The man of the people." Below on the left stands a female figure of Justice with the face of George III. Under his feet are sheets of paper inscribed, "Coalition" and "East India Bill." In the right hand he holds a scale with half royal crown on one side and "America' on the other. Lifting the cloth that covered his eyes, the King blows the balloon away. Opposite the King, Lord North kneels on the ground, a "Letter of dismission" next to him. He begs George to keep him in office
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Cattermoul, No. 376 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Balloons (Aircraft), and Clothing & dress
Depicts on the right the German dancing master Jansen playing the fiddle, as his pupil faces him with raised right arm and hat in left hand, a smaller youth standing sleepily on the left
Alternative Title:
Maitre de ballet allemand
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Lying on his stomach, a giant Lord North appraises the ship Britannia which is heeling over by the shore, as he encourages the members of his cabinet to pillage it. Diminutive figures of Fox, Portland, possibly Stormont, and Burke, stand on his back holding large sacks of loot. To the right on the ground stands "Sir" Jeffery Dunstan, the popular "Mayor of Garratt," and used wig seller, saying, "Old Whigs and Sham Whigs."
Alternative Title:
Ministry upon a broad bottom
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., From The Rambler's magazine. See British Museum catalogue., and Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796., and Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Ships, Robberies, Peddlers, and Clothing & dress
A crowded Quaker meeting hall in which many of the congregation, seated in the pews and stalls or in the gallery, are sleeping or yawning as one man and one woman argue
Description:
Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in impreint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Later reversed version of: A short examination of the spirit of Quakerism (1770). Cf. No. 4794 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. Nov. 28th, 1781, by HHumphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Friends' meeting houses, and Clothing & dress
A Prince of Wales holds his hat and a tasselled cane in his left hand while his rightt hand is in the pocket of the breeches pocket. His coat, breeches, waistcoat, and stockings are all striped, alluding to the picture of a braying zebra on the wall behind him and above a settee. A zebra belonging to his mother, Queen Charlotte, was referred to as "the Queen's ass", and her affection for the Prince was well-known
Alternative Title:
Queen's ass
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub'd April 17, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The caricatured audience, plebeian in its appearance, along with the subject of an upcoming debate announced on the side of the rostrum, further ridicule this well-known debating society
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image. and Cf. No. 6331 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Debates and debating, Audiences, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The caricatured audience, plebeian in its appearance, along with the subject of an upcoming debate announced on the side of the rostrum, further ridicule this well-known debating society
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 18 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25, 1783, by W Humphrey, No 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Debates and debating, Audiences, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
