Leaf 13. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, dressed only in breeches, tries to flee from the Devil who caught him by the leg and is shearing off the hair from his chest. On the left, in front of the "India House" a group of elated men dance around a burning stake to which is tied a fox. A reference to the rejection of the India Bill in the House of Lords and the demise of the Coalition government
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "a" in the word "and" is etched backwards., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6283 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Several letters in imprint statement, as well as the digit "7" in "1783," are etched backwards., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 109-10., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: Defeat of India Bill -- India House., and On leaf 13 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published 22 Decr. 1783 by Humphrys, Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Foxes, Burning at the stake, and Scissors & shears
Title etched below image., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: The Lancet
Publisher:
Geo. Newbold, 303 & 304, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Death (Personification)., Obstetrics, Horses, Coffins, Snuff, and Devil
Title etched below image., Place of publication derived from street address., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: The Lancet.
Publisher:
Published Jany 1st 1831 by F.G. Harding 24 Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Death (Personification)., Obstetrics, Horses, Coffins, Snuff, and Devil
A clergyman, with a rampturous look on his face, sits in a chair, a book opened in his hands, as a bag of gold spills onto the table in front of him. Next to him in another chair a bearded man, with horns in his curly hair, long whiskers and fangs protruding from his growling mouth, slyly pulls the coins toward his edge of the table. The open page of the hymn book In his hand reads, "O money, thou art my support 'tis thou that dost me feed. Let fools but give me this one thing and nothing else I need."
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '19' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A satirical print mocking a scene in the Temple Church, Bristol, where clerics including Joseph Easterbrook, attemped an exorcism on a man named George Lukins, with various attendees expressing concern and support. A ballad seller waves in his right hand a sheet "A miracle or the devil, his own enemy" and in his left hand four sheets with legible titles referencing Elizabeth Canning, the Rabbit Woman, Cock Lane Ghost, and Stockell wonders. A "Methodist Cant" sits on a "Devils Nest" in the lower right as one demon emerges from the egg with a speech balloon "Our Master Hath deceived us, Oh!"
Description:
Title etched below image., In banner across base of image: Hocus pocus, an exhibition of fools & rogues., "Plate the 1st."--Lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 29 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lukins, George., Lukins, George,, and Easterbrook, Joseph, -1791,
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Demons, Exorcism, Physicians, Prayer, and Carts & wagons
"A lawyer on the left and a stout government minister on the right, seated at a table and clinking glasses with the Devil who is assisting them; the room is littered with money bags labelled 'Perquisites in Office' etc. and bills labelled 'Contrivance to raise New Taxes' etc.; the mace lying in the left foreground and a picture on the wall of the five loaves and two fish."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
En emploi
Description:
Title from text below image, in English and French., After Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.1.194., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print numbered "540": Out of Place. Hors d'emploi., Numbered "539" in lower left corner., No. 28 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Corruption, Devil, Government officials, Lawyers, Money, Offices, and Toasting
Depiction of a man suffering from indigestion, suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Remnants of food surround him; dinner invitations are scattered on the floor
Description:
Title etched below image., 'A. Crowquill' was a psuedonym used jointly by Alfred Henry Forrester and Charles Robert Forrester., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 12 February 1825 by S. Knight, see no. 14904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835].
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Indigestion, Devil, House furnishings, Demons, and Pain
Depiction of a man suffering from indigestion, suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Remnants of food surround him; dinner invitations are scattered on the floor
Description:
Title etched below image., 'A. Crowquill' was a psuedonym used jointly by Alfred Henry Forrester and Charles Robert Forrester., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 12 February 1825 by S. Knight, see no. 14904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835].
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Indigestion, Devil, House furnishings, Demons, and Pain
"John Bull sits in a double pair of stocks, his ankles heavily shackled. His wrists are linked by a huge padlock inscribed Million £800 000 000 [National Debt]. He sits on bales of Taxes; to his back is tied a huge bundle of Last Wars Taxes. His clothes are tattered; three pockets hang inside out, inscribed To Let. At his side (left), and in profile to the right, kneels a noble Spaniard, in very theatrical dress, with trunk hose, cloak, and ruff. He has a spear from which hangs a pennant inscribed Libertas. He puts his hands together in a gesture of prayer: I come once again, and on my kneens [sic] to implore your Aid, we are indeed grateful for former Services, and beleive that you fought purely for Spain and not for yourselves--Save us from our pretended Friends they are worse then Enemies--Save us, and the World, from the destruction of Liberty--. John bites his thumbs despairingly; he answers: I pity you, but I can only give you advice, when you came to me before, I was a Strong Man, and free, but I am now exhausted in saving you, and destroying your great Enemy--See how I am fetter'd--! My Creditors enchain me--! look at my Debt and pity me!-- At his feet a heavy pair of leg-irons lies across many papers inscribed Debt and Taxes. He sits under an oak-tree; from a partly-withered bough hang his cartouche-box and bayonet-belt. In the middle distance (right) Louis XVIII sits astride a cannon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 12797), on a gun-carriage drawn rapidly up a slope by the Tsar and the Emperor of Austria. Both wear uniform and crowns, that of the latter topped by a fool's cap. Both cry: War! War!! War! and blood!! Alexander holds a sword in one hand, a bayoneted musket in the other; Francis holds a sword and a pistol, against his shoulder is the shaft of a flag inscribed Holy Alliance. Louis XVIII leans back, flannelled legs extended, two pistols in his belt, a sword in one hand, a musket in the other. Before him on the cannon is a bowl of soup, &c. The Pope walks at his right, holding a string attached to his nose. The King: By the Powers I shall fall, and lose my Balance Stop!! Stop! I say don't pull so hard you'll rupture [your scored through] Eu rope, this is not suited to my Taste [scored through] Gout I am already crippled and cannot bear it Stop!!!-- The Pope, who wears his tiara and holds his crosier against his shoulder, answers: Fear not, I'll let you into Heaven, through the back door my dear Son. Keys hang from his neck. Behind the cannon runs the Devil pushing at the King's posterior with a trident; he says: They cannot go on without me so I bring up the rear!! Beside the cannon run tiny frogs in uniform with muskets, &c. A slightly bigger one holding a sword may represent Angoulême. Cannon fire at them from a fort on a hill."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
John Bull flourishing in a dignified attitude of strict neutrality
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with initials "A.J." added in lower right and the words "with Spain" added to speech bubble immediately to the right of the stocks in center of image. For an earlier state lacking these additions, see no. 14520 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street & 74 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, and Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Public debt, Taxes, Trees, Rocks, Stocks (Punishment), Forts & fortifications, Cannons, Devil, and Frogs
