A image of a man with a bundle of pages in his right hand, shown full-length, striding to the left wtih determination. His left hand is in his pocket
Description:
Title devised by the cataloger., False attribution to JS [James Sayer]?, Identified as Charles Grey in black ink in a contemporary hand., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Manuscript note in contemporary hand identifying Grey in lower right corner., and Mounted to 23 x 16 cm.
Publisher:
Published July 4, 1789, by [S.]W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title devised by cataloger., Printed on one sheet with: A mis-fire at the Constitution., Originally printed on a separate sheet and included with a set of eight satirical portraits published in May 1794 in which the members of the Opposition are travestied as French republicans. The sheet was cut along the lower edge of the cap in order to place it on the head of each of the portrayed politicians. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., nos. 8450-7., Variant state of No. 8449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Sans culottes -- French Revolution., and Mounted to 49 x 34 cm.
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Wool sacks.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 27th 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Title assigned by British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue as Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Reference to Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial.
Publisher:
Publish'd 29th June 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street
Title assigned by the cataloger., Printmaker identified as possibly Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand identifying Sheridan in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 29, 1789, by [S.]W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title supplied by cataloger., "Long Live the King!" etched in banner below cameo., Caption inside oval shape: "This ticket will admit / One of the Common Council of this City into - the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on Thursday, the 23rd, of April 1789, to attend His Majesty on the Solemn Occasion of a Thanksgiving, for the Happy Restoration of his Health.", and On leaf numbered 23 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
"A caricature portrait of Pitt speaking in the House of Commons in profile to the right. In his right hand is a document: 'Regency Restrictions' (see British Museum Satires No. 7488, &c.); his hat is under his left arm, his left hand is held out. He bends forward, his right leg advanced."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; title based on that given in the British Museum catalogue., Questionable attribution to Gillray from the British Museum catalogue., An imitation of the whole length portraits of Sayers. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Speeches: Pitt's on Regency Bill, 1789 -- Bills: Regency Bill -- Opposition to Regency Bill -- Allusion to Regency restrictions.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 17, 1789, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
