An air balloon with the basket in the shape of a boat; two passengers on the left, one on the right holding an oar; four balloons surround the mast with a fully rigged sail
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: The European magazine, 1789, opp. p. 96., Mounted to 24 x 16 cm., and Publication year erased and written in manuscript.
A very plain, elderly man peers through a quizzing glass at an upright Egyptian mummy. He gapes in astonishment at finding the mummy grinning at him. The mummy case is on the left. Below in front of it are a tall vase and a recumbent Sphinx with a very pretty contemporary face and hair-do.
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's announcement at bottom of plate: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints. Admit. 1 shillg., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Printmaker's name partially erased from this impression; matted to 62 x 47 cm.
"The Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the forbidding Thurlow, dressed as a doctor, who stands (left) on his right. Thurlow points authoritatively to the potatoes with the head of his cane, saying, "Take back the Irish Potatoes". The Prince says with a peevish expression: "If I must not have the roast Beef [the English Regency] let me have ye Potatoes Doctor I have paid for them". On the extreme right, behind Leinster, Sheridan, with a melancholy expression, tries to take a dish containing a sirloin from a beefeater, who says, "This belongs to my Master Sir." In the foreground (left) Weltje (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7509), dressed as a cook, stands looking at the Prince, his hands clasped in dismay, saying, "By Got now we sail not heb our Desert". Two colonnades of pillars recede in perspective behind the Prince; on the plinth of one is a relief of Tantalus vainly trying to drink from the vessel at his lips. In the foreground (centre) are two dogs coupled together, one is Burke, in spectacles, looking hungrily at the bare table, the other is Fox, turning his back on the table and straining away from Burke. The Prince's chair is surmounted by his coronet and feathers. On a chain round Leinster's neck hangs a crowned Irish harp attached to the order of St. Patrick with its significant motto, 'Quis separa[bit].'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Temporary local subject terms: Ireland & the Irish -- Mythology: Tantalus -- Literature: allusion to Cervantes, Don Quixote -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 30.1 x 34 cm, on sheet 32 x 36.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 51 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"The Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the forbidding Thurlow, dressed as a doctor, who stands (left) on his right. Thurlow points authoritatively to the potatoes with the head of his cane, saying, "Take back the Irish Potatoes". The Prince says with a peevish expression: "If I must not have the roast Beef [the English Regency] let me have ye Potatoes Doctor I have paid for them". On the extreme right, behind Leinster, Sheridan, with a melancholy expression, tries to take a dish containing a sirloin from a beefeater, who says, "This belongs to my Master Sir." In the foreground (left) Weltje (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7509), dressed as a cook, stands looking at the Prince, his hands clasped in dismay, saying, "By Got now we sail not heb our Desert". Two colonnades of pillars recede in perspective behind the Prince; on the plinth of one is a relief of Tantalus vainly trying to drink from the vessel at his lips. In the foreground (centre) are two dogs coupled together, one is Burke, in spectacles, looking hungrily at the bare table, the other is Fox, turning his back on the table and straining away from Burke. The Prince's chair is surmounted by his coronet and feathers. On a chain round Leinster's neck hangs a crowned Irish harp attached to the order of St. Patrick with its significant motto, 'Quis separa[bit].'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Temporary local subject terms: Ireland & the Irish -- Mythology: Tantalus -- Literature: allusion to Cervantes, Don Quixote -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers., and Mounted on page 69.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"The Prince of Wales is seated in a magnificent dining-hall before a bare table. The Duke of Leinster (right) offers him across the table a dish of 'Potatoes from Leinster'; the Prince extends his arms to take them, but turns his head to look at the forbidding Thurlow, dressed as a doctor, who stands (left) on his right. Thurlow points authoritatively to the potatoes with the head of his cane, saying, "Take back the Irish Potatoes". The Prince says with a peevish expression: "If I must not have the roast Beef [the English Regency] let me have ye Potatoes Doctor I have paid for them". On the extreme right, behind Leinster, Sheridan, with a melancholy expression, tries to take a dish containing a sirloin from a beefeater, who says, "This belongs to my Master Sir." In the foreground (left) Weltje (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7509), dressed as a cook, stands looking at the Prince, his hands clasped in dismay, saying, "By Got now we sail not heb our Desert". Two colonnades of pillars recede in perspective behind the Prince; on the plinth of one is a relief of Tantalus vainly trying to drink from the vessel at his lips. In the foreground (centre) are two dogs coupled together, one is Burke, in spectacles, looking hungrily at the bare table, the other is Fox, turning his back on the table and straining away from Burke. The Prince's chair is surmounted by his coronet and feathers. On a chain round Leinster's neck hangs a crowned Irish harp attached to the order of St. Patrick with its significant motto, 'Quis separa[bit].'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Temporary local subject terms: Ireland & the Irish -- Mythology: Tantalus -- Literature: allusion to Cervantes, Don Quixote -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis
Publisher:
Publd. 11th March 1789 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"Thurlow (right), in profile to the right, kneels in prayer at a table on which the head of the mace is visible. He wears his Chancellor's robes and says, "When I forsake my King, May God forsake me". A demon, clutching his shoulder, says, "Well said Old Boy! You're a true Disciple". Two smaller imps, flying above his head, say, "Oh! rare! he is a precious Brother", and, "How well he has learned his Lesson". Behind him are seated eight bishops, as if in the House of Lords, they say (left to right): [1] "Who w'od have ever thought to have heard him pray"; [2] "What a Hypocrite! a second Cardinal Wolsey!"; [3] "I thought he never called on God but to curse Mankind!" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7320]; [4] "One wo'd almost think he was in earnest"; [5] "Yes if it did not seem so odd To hear him talking about God"; [6] "Surely he thinks to reform"; [7] "Pshaw! Pshaw! he means only to serve this Turn"; [8] "This Farce wo'nt do in these Enlightned Days." A panelled wall forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: bishops -- Demons -- Prayers -- Allusion to Regency crisis -- Allusion to negotaitions between Thurlow and the Prince of Wales, 1788 -- Debates: quotation from Thurlow in House of Lords, Dec. 15, 1788 -- Maces -- Allusion to Thomas Wolsey., and Watermark: countermark initial W.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
"Pitt in the guise of a robber who is about to be hanged. He aims a pistol at the head of a cobbler, saying, "You Rascall, You keep a Shop, and shall pay for it". The cobbler, kneeling hat in hand, in profile to the left, says, "Lord Sir, mines only a Stall, Have mercy on my Wife & Family". Part of his bulk or stall appears behind him (right). Behind Pitt (left) Richmond kneels on the ground, holding out his cocked hat for the coins which the former drops into it; he points to houses of playing-cards which are round him on the ground and represent his scheme of fortifications ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobbler
Description:
Title etched above image., Caption below image: Some account of the life and behavior of William Pett alias Billy the Bamboozler., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., DeGrey's manuscript note on verso., and Watermark: initials F N D [...]
Publisher:
Publishd. January 9th 1789 by H. Humphries, New Bond Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: quacks -- Crutches -- Medicine bottle -- Diseases: gout -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Lord Chatham -- Allusion to Sir Robert Walpole -- Allusion to James Graham -- Allusion to Gustavus Katterfelto -- Conjured: bottle conjurer -- Taxes: satire on excise tax as gout bootiken -- Amputees., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
A satire of Pitt's return to office in 1804. Pitt is shown in the chamber of Britannia. Britannia sits listlessly on a bed, holding a sword in one hand. Next to her, leaning against the bed, is her shield and olive branches. Pitt holds aloft a bottle labelled "Constitutional Restorative" as he kicks another man, a caricature of Addington, through the door. Addington is in the process of dropping a bottle labelled "Composing Draft". With his other foot, Pitt steps on the face of a flailing and prostrate Fox, who holds a bottle labelled "Rebublican Balsam" towards Britannia. From Fox's pocket dice and a dice container labelled "Whig Pills" have fallen. Emerging from behind the bed curtains, the figure of Death, a skeleton with the face and plumed bicorne of Napoleon, overturns a table and upsets bottles of medicine and points his sword toward the unsuspecting Britannia
Description:
Title etched below image. and In paper frame: 450 x 330 mm. Stamped in upper right corner: "84."
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th 1804 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Politics & government
"A pugilistic encounter between the Duke of York (left) and Lt.-Col. Charles Lennox (right), both stripped to the waist. The Duke stands with both fists clenched, saying, "Come on my Lad! don't fall without a Blow! I'll tickle your Mazzard, if you dare to stand up like a Man!" Lennox, on one knee, clutches the arm of his second, the Duke of Richmond, saying, "O save me Nunkle! - O Lord! - O Lord! - O Lord! Your H--h--ss is above my Match! - O Lord - I'm not fit to fight any body above your Footman". Richmond puts out a hand to restrain his nephew, saying with an expression of alarm, "For heavens sake, forbear! we are nothing but a brood of Bastards! Bastards begot - Bastards instructed - Bastards in Mind - Bastards in Valour - in every thing illegitimate - we are neither of Blood, or of Honor, to cope with your Hi-h--ss!!" The Prince of Wales, on the extreme left, is his brother's second; he says, with a contemptuous expression, "Fredrick! cant you tip his bottle holder a sly plump in the Bread-basket?" Behind him is a Union flag; behind Richmond are fortifications flying a French flag, symbolizing his French descent and title ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Battle of the bloods, pure & contaminated and Battle of the bloods, pure and contaminated
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image, following title: Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur, run back & bark because he was with-held, who being suffer'd in the bears fell paw, hath clap'd his tail between his legs & cry'd., "Price 1 sh.", Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Duels: Duke of York and Lt.-Col. Lennox, May 26, 1789 -- Duke of Richmond's fortifications -- Allusion to Charles II -- Flags -- Union Jack -- French flag -- Boxing., and Watermark: countermark S. Lay.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23d, 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1764-1819
