A fox is being hunted by three dogs encouraged in their attack by two men with whips and a crowd of spectators. A burning sheet signed, "India Bill" is tied to the tail of the fox who turns back to snarl at a hound wearing a collar signed, "Pitt," while a bulldog with a collar signed "Thurlo[w]" and a spaniel with a collar signed "Tem[ple]" atack from the front. In the background is the East India House
Alternative Title:
View holla! from Leadenhall Street
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 30 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 27th, 1784, by W. Wells, No. 132, opposite Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Fox hunting, Spectators, and Clothing & dress
The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Mrs. Robinson (Perdita), drives a high gig drawn by goats with Charles Fox, pictured with a fox's head, riding as postillion. The gig is accompanied by three riders, also on goats. The first of them is Thomas Robinson, Perdita's husband, shown with horns and seated backwards. He is followed by Lord North and Colonel Tarleton
Alternative Title:
Cuckold's comfort
Description:
Title from item. and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub March 14, 1784 by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Tarleton, Lieutenant-General 1754-1833. (Banastre),
Subject (Topic):
Cuckolds, Carriages & coaches, Goats, and Clothing & dress
A fox (representing Charles James Fox) holding a quill pen in the right paw, approaches a platform on the left, upon which is seated a pug dog with a tobacco pipe (representing Holland). Beneath the pug's paw is a document (representing Fox's spurned peace overtures). On the right the head of the King is visible admonishing Fox against such negotiations with the Dutch
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 27 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Barrow, July [the] 25, 1782. No. 11 St. Bride Passage Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Netherlands., Netherlands, Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
In an outdoor setting, Charles Fox, with a fox's head, and Lord North, both kneeling, supplicate Edmund Burke for absolution, in Fox's words, of the "sins not yett committed." Lord North, having confessed that his "sins are manifold and grievious," promises to submit to Burke's "holy injuctions & drink small beer all my life time." Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and biretta, his right hand raised in the act of benediction, points with his left one to the steep hill in front of him, on top of which stands gallows with a body hanging from it, and directs Fox and North to "go & sin no more ..." Behind Burke is another steep hill with a cross on top and a kneeling figure next to it.
Alternative Title:
Holy benediction
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Colley
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Priests, Confessions, and Clothing & dress
Volume 2, page 16. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The roofed gateway of a great man's house. In front of an archway (left) through which appears a staircase, an obese porter stands in profile to the right, lifting up both hands to show the impossibility of access to his master. He is addressing a would-be visitor, middle-aged and stout, who faces him with an insinuating smile, hat in hat, pointing with his right hand towards his companion, a slim young man (right), who stands full-face, his right hand in his breeches pocket. The young man is dressed like, and resembles, the 'Modern Fine Gentleman' in British Museum Satires No. 6342, a companion print. His right hand is in his breeches pocket, his left, holding his hat, rests on the head of his tall cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Companion print to: Front, side view, and back front, of a modern fine gentleman.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 24th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, N. 83 opposite [the] Pantheon, Oxford Street
Volume 2, page 16. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The roofed gateway of a great man's house. In front of an archway (left) through which appears a staircase, an obese porter stands in profile to the right, lifting up both hands to show the impossibility of access to his master. He is addressing a would-be visitor, middle-aged and stout, who faces him with an insinuating smile, hat in hat, pointing with his right hand towards his companion, a slim young man (right), who stands full-face, his right hand in his breeches pocket. The young man is dressed like, and resembles, the 'Modern Fine Gentleman' in British Museum Satires No. 6342, a companion print. His right hand is in his breeches pocket, his left, holding his hat, rests on the head of his tall cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: Front, side view, and back front, of a modern fine gentleman., Mounted on page 16 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and crayon manner on laid paper ; sheet 24.1 x 26.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 24th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, N. 83 opposite [the] Pantheon, Oxford Street
"The roofed gateway of a great man's house. In front of an archway (left) through which appears a staircase, an obese porter stands in profile to the right, lifting up both hands to show the impossibility of access to his master. He is addressing a would-be visitor, middle-aged and stout, who faces him with an insinuating smile, hat in hat, pointing with his right hand towards his companion, a slim young man (right), who stands full-face, his right hand in his breeches pocket. The young man is dressed like, and resembles, the 'Modern Fine Gentleman' in British Museum Satires No. 6342, a companion print. His right hand is in his breeches pocket, his left, holding his hat, rests on the head of his tall cane."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement added below image in lower left; previous imprint "London, Publish'd Marh. 24th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, N. 83 opposite [the] Pantheon, Oxford Street" still present below title. Cf. No. 6343 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Companion print to: Front, side view, and back front, of a modern fine gentleman., and Figures identified by ms. notes in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Title from first line of poem engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Former tutle: Legless Jew and fop.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Sharpe
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Fathers and sons, Jews, Dandies, British, Peg legs, and Clothing & dress
In the aftermath of the crisis of early 1783, the past and future ministers are depicted at a table competing for their share in the government. Foremost among them are Fox and North, seated at the top of the table to the left of the King who offers them a loaf signed "Secretary of State." They both hold on to the loaf signed "Treasury," while Lord Shelburne, seated to the King's right, is now empty-handed. In the lower right corner of the image, two dogs identified as "Pay Office Clerks," attempt to sneak away with bags of money, an allusion to Burke's reinstatement of two clerks accused of malversation before his return to the office of paymaster-general and "George III presides at a rectangular table at which sit past and prospective ministers, grasping at the loaves and fishes which lie on the table. On the left side of the table and on the king's right sit Shelburne and his supporters, on the opposite side sit those who have ousted them. The king sits in an ornate chair; on his right sits Shelburne putting his arm on the shoulder of Dunning, who sits on his other side. Shelburne says "I must submit! - may it prove Poison to them say I". Dunning answers "Never mind my Lord - give them rope enough, and they will hang themselves". The king turns to Fox and North, who sit on his left hand, and says, pointing to the table, "pray help your selves Gentlemen". Fox, who has a fox's head, has seized a loaf in each hand, saying "An't please your Maj------ty I'll have these for me & my friends". The loaf under his left hand is inscribed "Treasury"; North, who sits on Fox's left, says, "hold Charley, that's more then comes to your Share". The other two on the right side of the table are Keppel and Burke. Keppel, who is next North, puts his right hand on a loaf; in his left he holds a fish from whose mouth go lines attached to two other fish and another loaf; he is saying "I'm fond of Sea fish". A naval officer opposite him hugs a loaf and grasps the tail of one of the fish on Keppel's line. He is identified in a contemporary hand as Palliser, but is more probably Lord Howe, who was First Lord of the Admiralty from 29 Jan. 1782 (after Keppel's resignation) till 8 April, when he was replaced by Keppel. He is in "profil perdu" but his figure and a black eyebrow suggest Howe. On Keppel's left, and at the right corner of the table, sits Burke grasping a loaf in his right hand, a fish in his left. He is saying "Rhetorick is of no use here! tis catch that catch can". In the foreground (right), at Burke's side, two dogs laden with money-bags are running off to the right. Over them is inscribe "Pay Office Clerks" and (smaller) "Fulham". On the money-bag of one is "£200.000", on that of the other "£100.000". Burke became paymaster-general under Rockingham, resigned office with Fox on Shelburne's appointment, and was again (on 7 April) to become paymaster. On returning to office he reinstated two clerks, Powell and Bembridge, who had recently been dismissed by Barré for malversation, for which he was attacked in parliament on 24 April and 19 May 1783. 'Parl. Hist', xxiii, pp. 900 ff; Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, iii. 77-86. [Possibly the dogs were added in a later issue of the print, as they seem to refer to the scandal over Powell and Bembridge. Powell committed suicide, Bembridge was tried and sentenced.] Opposite Burke, at the near left corner of the table, sits Conway, the Commander-in-Chief, in general's uniform, grasping a fish in one hand, a lobster in the other. He is saying, "I fear they'll not leave me one poor lobster". He had disappointed Fox by not resigning on Shelburne's appointment, he did not however lose office till after the dissolution of Parliament in 1784, when he resigned. In the centre of the table are three unclaimed loaves, the one nearest the king is inscribed "Secretary of State".--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Possiblly by Topham., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reissue of no. 6195 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, with a verse from Shakespeare's "Othello" added under the title.
Publisher:
Pub by E. Achery March 24, 1783, St James Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783., Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
"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
