The Queen, grossly caricatured, sits on a zebra which stands in a round band-box with a hinged and upturned lid inscribed 'a Present from Bart. Bergami'. The zebra has the (profile) head of Wood, looking with greedy and imbecile satisfaction towards a sieve of food inscribed 'Garden of St Cath[erine]'. This is held out by two hands projecting from the right margin. The Queen, with a grin both calculating and insane, sits full-face, negligently holding reins attached to Wood's mouth, her right hand on her hip. She sits in a smaller (bottomless) band-box which surrounds her entirely from just below her large waist down, with only one leg extended below. She wears a décolletée dress; on her head is an erection of feathers and flowers rising from a circlet inscribed 'Wood'. An owl (cf. British Museum satires no. 14199) flies by her head. In the background is Brandenburgh House, in front of which is a braying ass
Alternative Title:
Queen's ass in a band-box
Description:
Title etched below image., A reversed copy of a print attributed to Theodore Lane that was published 22 January 1821 by G. Humphrey. See no. 14110 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and The letters "ee" have been added in ink to the censored word "Qu-n's" in title, to complete the intended word "Queen's".
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
An E.O. or roulette table lies broken in the street as four men attack it with mallets and other tools. Two attackers, the Bow Street magistrates Addington and Wright, are depicted with donkey's heads. Three constables are also shown, one attempting to stop the violence, the other two joining in the attack. A commentary on the enforcement of anti-gaming laws
Alternative Title:
Westminster just-asses a braying and Downfall of the E.O. table
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: NB. The jack-asses are to be indemnified for all the mischief they do, by the bulls & bears of the city.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 26th, 1782, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Addington, William, Sir, -1811, Wright, Sampson, Sir, -1793, and Bond, John, active 1782
Subject (Topic):
Vandalism, Donkeys, Judges, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
Charles Fox, with a fox's head, seated in an ornate chair resting on two poles, is carried by four men with asses' heads. Several others, also with asses' heads, men and women alike, cheer him enthusiastically displaying various items pertaining to the Westminster election which he won unopposed on April 7. The geese, representing the electors, lead the way holding in their beaks strings attached to the poles. The triumphant procession is watched with disbelief by three owls sitting on a tree branch in the upper right corner of the image
Alternative Title:
Westminster electors chairing their favorite candidate
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by Mrs. Darchery April 16, 1783 St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Donkeys, Geese, Owls, and Clothing & dress
A harnessed lion on the left struggles to pull away from "The Pit of ruin" into which he is being pulled backwards by four other animals whose harnesses are attached to a large hook at the end of his. They represent Spain (spaniel), France (cockerel), United States (rattle snake) and Holland (pug). The lion is hindered by four disoriented donkeys representing the new ministry who yank back on his rope bridle. A two-headed eagle (possibly Russia) hovers above the pit protesting its neutrality
Alternative Title:
Ass-headed and cow-hearted ministry making the British Lion
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A rebus with the words in the title -- ass, cow, and lion -- represented by images., and Mounted to 26 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Barrow, May 8, 1783 White Lion Bull Stairs Surry Side Block Friars Bridge
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foreign relations, Harnesses, Donkeys, Dogs, Roosters, Snakes, Lions, Eagles, Cows, and Clothing & dress
"The seven men ride (right to left) on asses, a signpost (right) pointing 'To Dublin'; they carry 'Regency cakes' in place of potatoes. On the extreme left three men lean eagerly forward, one shouts: "What news, What News the tidings tell make haste and tell us all, Say why are Thus mounted Is Regent come and all." St. Patrick, whose galloping donkey has a head-dress of the Prince of Wales's feathers, answers, "By Jasus I'll tell you all in no time why you must know the K-----g is better than the Reg------t that is all". Next comes Charlemont, identified by his earl's coronet; his donkey kicks violently ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ambassadors extraordinry return on bulls without horns and Ambassadors extraordinary return on bulls without horns
Description:
Title from item., Tentatively attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Irish ambassadors extraordinary!!!, Temporary local subject terms: Irish Commissioners -- Irish Commissioners' address, 1784 -- Clubs: Shillelaghs -- Coronets -- Regency crisis -- Signposts: "To Dublin" -- Emblems: Regency cakes -- Irish asses -- Food: potato cakes -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to George IV -- Allusion to Louis Weltje, 1745-1810 -- Allusion to Francis Willis, 1718-1807 -- James Stuart, fl. 1789 -- Thomas Connolly, ca. 1738-1803 -- William Brabazon Ponsonby, 1744-1806, John O'Neill, 1st Viscount, 1740-1798., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 16th, 1789, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccaddilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728-1799, and Patrick, Saint, 373?-463?
Satirical arms with a donkey as the crest, an owl wearing a cap on its back. The donkey stands upon a "Log" which rests upon a "Bible", a paper marked "Address", and a "Liturgy Petition" with a cross on it. The shield contains various images, including three warships, a tankard of beer, military tents next to cannons, and a ram. Hops and barley (or another grain) are present on either side of shield, akin to supporters. Latin mottos are contained within ribbons at the bottom, and read "furiis in censa feror" and "vir tutis sub umbra viti um."
Description:
Title from text below image., Sometimes found as a tailpiece to, and perhaps issued with, the following work: The attorney-general's charges against the late queen, brought forward in the House of Peers, on Saturday, August 19th, 1820 ... London : G. Humphrey, [1820?]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Watermark: 1819., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 13 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and With pencil annotation "Log-Wood, Brewers Drey[...?]" in upper right margin, in reference to elements of the image.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey?
Subject (Topic):
Coats of arms, Donkeys, Owls, Warships, Sheep, Drinking vessels, Beer, Tents, and Cannons
Title etched below image., Page number in upper left corner burnished from plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of an illustration to v.2, p. 50 of Baron Munchausen, with page number removed and alterations within design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: wicker carriage.
Publisher:
Published for H.D. Symonds, Pater-noster Row, London
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Donkeys, Houses, Lions, and Balloons (Aircraft)
"Satire on the Jacobite rebellion, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, and the pro-French and Catholic measures he was expected to introduce. The Prince walks through a market place wearing a tartan kilt and a coat covered in fleur-de-lis; he is proceeded by a drummer and followed by Scots troops carrying Lochaber axes all of whom wear cockades on their Scots bonnets. At a butcher's stall on the right, proclaiming 'Flesh for such as haue Licences', a bishop buys a piece of beef from a woman who chops it up with a cleaver. Beside this is a stall selling 'FINE PLUMP FROGS for a Fricace'e, specimens of which hang from rods over the stall while a young woman arranges more on her counter; next is a Frenchman offering 'Woode(n) Shoes A la mod(e) PARIS' from a selection on a table before him. Above the final stall two angels hold a notice, adorned with the Papal arms, advertising 'Holy RELICKS from JERSULEM ITALY FRANCE SPAIN & other Catholick Countries to be Sold or Chang'd for old Silver by Antonio Maria Francesco Credo' while in the stall beneath a monk stands before a pile of sculls holding a broken femur; the wares for sale include a rosary, a cross, a knife, 'Queen Maries shoes', bits of bones, one of which is labelled 'Legg of St. Andrew', another, 'Arme of St Ninion', and notices advertise, 'The VIRG(in's) MILK', 'Angels Sweat', 'Saints Teeth'; in front of the stall a dog holds a 'Bone of St Dominick' in its teeth. In the foreground, on the left, a group of Scotsmen, one playing the bagpipes, sits outside an inn from which hangs the sign of the 'FRENCH YOKE', while another enters carrying over his shoulder a heavy bag lettered 'CONTRIBUTION MONEY'. On the balcony of the in inn stand Cardinal Tencin, the Pope, holding a cross and a crown, and a monk; lettering at their feet reads, 'FRENCH BRANDY & ITALIAN WINES imported by P.BENIDICT C. TENCIN'. A street sweeper sweeps up papers lettered 'Magna Charta', 'Bank Notes', 'India Bills', and 'Scotch Directory for Worship', 'The HOLY BIBLE' and 'The BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER'. Behind him a Scotsman gives a coin to a monk in exchange for papers lettered 'Indulgences for 100 Years' and 'Pardons for Sins Past'; a French priest standing beside him, a white Jacobite cockade in his hat, carries a pedlar's tray laden with bottles and balls lettered, Poison Gaggs and Spanish Padlocks'. In the centre, a barefoot boy drives a donkey with panniers on top of which are papers lettered 'Petition for a General Spunge', 'Petition to dissolve the Union', 'Petitions of your true Friends', 'Petition to Restore Abby Lands and for Clanships'. On the right, a young woman, also barefoot, kneels by a basket, with the label 'Royal Nosegays' offering for sale bunches of thistles and lilies. In the background is a market cross on which hangs a paper lettered 'J[ames] R[ex]', with the sign of a fleur-de-lis, 'MANIFESTO by the Power of France and Spain Rome Sept 2 sign'd Okely'. Beyond is a chapel with a thatched roof in the doorway of which a woman kneels before a monk standing behind three thistles; on the front of the chapel, under the sign of a host over a chalice with St Peter's keys and the papal tiara, is a large notice promising 'Full Indulgences, MIRACLES Done here by the Holy Fathers of the INQUISITION Three Thistles grow out of a hard Stone'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Highland fair
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified from address., Publisher's announcement following imprint: ... & a 100 sortmt., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: The Pretender's manifesto by Pierre Guerin de Tencin, 1679-1758 -- Frogs for sale -- Trades: frog seller -- Flower seller -- Wooden shoe seller -- Clerical sellers -- Donkey driver -- French yoke -- Market cross with a sign on it -- Booths in market place -- Brooms -- Hoaxes -- Jacobites -- Enslaved person in wooden shoes -- Money: contributions -- Market signs -- Tavern sign: French Yoke -- Documents being swept away -- Angels holding sign.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden ...
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dogs, Donkeys, Petitions, Frogs, Street vendors, Markets, Sweeping & dusting, Chapels, Skulls, Bones (Anatomy), and Signs (Notices)
Leaf 48. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"'Cits' gallop (right to left) across a rough field near London, with one or two mongrel dogs under the horses' hooves. One leaps a small piece of water over the head of a man who has fallen in. A fat man is flung upwards from his prostrate horse. In the background is a 'cit's country box' surrounded by a wall, above which projects a gazebo, in the Chinese taste (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8208 by Bunbury). Tiny figures watch from a window and from the wall. Near the wall ride two little chimney-sweeps on an ass, and a woman on a broken-kneed horse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1810, see no. 11646 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., 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, page 371., and On leaf 48 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Hunting, Accidents, Gazebos, Chimney sweeps, Donkeys, and Dogs
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
