"Satire on politicians; an elegant candidate removes his hat to a portly countryman who rebuffs his approach, mindful of the candidate's vote in favour of the Roman Catholic Relief."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Reissue of a print originally published ca. 1791. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7042.3., "One shilling colour'd"--Lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Catholic emancipation, and Politicians
Title from text above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Caricatured heads.
"The interior of a dairy: George III (left), in shirt-sleeves, is churning; the Queen, dressed as a farmer's wife, sits in the window counting the coins which the Princess Royal pours on to the table. The Princess has a basket on her arm and is dressed like a country-girl. The Queen says, "Bless me, Child, you have made a very bad market! Good Heavens is it possible the people can be so unreasonable these plentiful times to expect six eggs for a groat! You shall tramp to London next market day." The King adds, "A very bad market girl, indeed, a very bad market girl - Limy shall go next" (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6947). Behind the King are shelves with bowls of cream, a furtive cat drinks from one of them. Above them, three milk-scores are chalked on the wall, headed, 'Cartwheel's score', 'The Widow Waggonrut', and 'Mrs Towser'. On the ground (left) is a pile of cheeses. Outside the wide doorway (right) Pitt, elegantly dressed, is milking a cow with a fastidious air; he sings: "I made war with Kate, a buxom Northern Lass: But such my cruel fate - " Thurlow, wearing a smock, stands with his back to Pitt, cracking a whip; he says, "She bid you kiss her A------! Damn the Whip I'll never learn the right smack of a Carter.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Summer amusement at Farmer George's near Windsor
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Richard Newton by Alexander., Publisher's advertisement above image: In Holland's Exhibition Rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of caricatures. Admittance, one shilling., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark in center of sheet: CR.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 9, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, and Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
"General Gunning stands in profile to the right before the door of his house, a bludgeon in his hand, driving before him his wife and daughter both scantily clad, but the latter with feathers in her hair. On the left is a military officer (Bowen) sheathing a sword in a broken sheath; Mrs. Bowen stands behind him. From General Gunning's pocket protrude papers: 'aff. by Mr B' and 'Am by Mr B.' He says "Now I shall save a 1000 a year in Housekeeping & keep as many - [whores] as I like." Miss Gunning says "Oh thus to be persecuted & rob'd of - all for Lorn." Mrs. Gunning says "Oh! my Darling my Angel fear not the machinations of these Combind plotters while you have a Mothers arms to support you". She points towards a woman's face at a window (? or in a picture) over which is etched: 'Here my Inosent shall you find a parants Care to soothe your troubles & every honest means pursued to discover those base dark assas[sins]'. Bowen says "Oh how they did run we have done the Business". His wife says "Aye Aye Clear off did not I do my part well.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Specimen of martial prowess
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher's annoucement following imprint: ... whare [sic] may be seen the compleatist [sic] collection of caricature prints & drawings in the Kingdom. Admite. 1 s & &., Temporary local subject terms: General's uniform -- Captain's uniform -- Bludgeons -- Weapons -- Expulsion -- Allusion to the Gunning scandal -- Capt. Bowen -- Mrs. Bowen., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. March 27, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
Gunning, John, -1797, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, and Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),
"Dr. Price preaches from a ramshackle tub inscribed 'Political Gunpowder', his arms outstretched to the right; from his pocket projects a document inscribed 'Revolution Toasts'. His sermon hangs over the edge of the tub, the upper sheet headed 'Bind the Kings with chains &c.' The tub rests on a large book: 'Calculations' (an allusion to Price's works on population and finance). Beneath the title is engraved : '"Every Man has his Price!" Sir R. Walpole'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image. Series title above image., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., and Plate from the Attic miscellany, v. ii, page 118.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Name):
Price, Richard, 1723-1791 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745.
"Pitt as Don Quixote (and Petruchio) bestrides a sorry rosinante, the white horse of Hanover, scarred and decrepit and apparently at the point of death. Behind him sits the King of Prussia. Holland, as Sancho Panza, on the animal's hind-quarters, clasps Prussia round the waist. The Sultan, on the extreme left, crouches behind the horse, kissing its tail. Pitt, who holds a whip, points a thin mail-clad hand arrogantly at Catherine of Russia (right), a stout woman who has sunk in terror to her knees, but is supported by the Emperor Leopold and by France, a grotesquely lean Frenchman of the old régime, wearing a cocked hat ornamented with fleur-de-lis. Pitt wears Mambrino's helmet (the barber's basin) surmounted by a crown and a feather. He says: ""Katharine, that cap of yours becomes you not; "Off with that bauble, 'tis my royal will." The 'cap' is a crescent in her hair, symbolizing her conquests from Turkey and, more especially, Oczakoff, the place in dispute. Pitt's horse (George III), says, weeping, "Heigho! to have myself thus rid to death, by a Boy & his playmates, merely to frighten an Old Woman - I wish I was back in Hanover to get myself a belly full". A holster on the animal's neck is inscribed 'G.R', but the 'G' has been struck out and replaced by 'P' (to indicate that Pitt has usurped the prerogative of the Crown, cf. BMSat 7479, &c). The King of Prussia, with his chin on Pitt's shoulder, glares fiercely; he holds a drawn sabre and says, "Blood & Dunder, I would give her one good Prussian stroking". Sancho Panza, a fat Dutchman, says, "I'm in a good humour to give her a dram of right Holland's". The crouching Turk cries obsequiously, "Amman! Amman! Anglois, Alia, Alia". Catherine is terrified, she turns away from Pitt exclaiming: ""I see my Lances are but straws; "My strength is weak, my weakness past compare; "And am asham'd, that Women are so simple "To offer War when they should kneel for Peace." France says, "O, by Gar! if Mirabeau was but 'live! Sacre Dieu." The Emperor, who is crowned, and wears a cloak on which is the Habsburg eagle, says, "Das is de devil, to give up all again". Beside Catherine is a sword tying across a plan of a fortress, Oczakow."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
What you will and Modern Quixote
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Don Quixote -- Horse of Hanover -- George III as the Horse of Hanover -- Weapons: sabre -- Horse whip -- Allusion to Oczakow -- Allusion to Triple Alliance (England, Prussia and Holland)., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1747-1792, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Above the engraved poem, an illlustration shows an angry-faced Jove seated in the clouds surrounded by gods and goddesses including Apollo, seated with his lyre and Momus in a hester's cap with bells. Jove holds a fist full of thunderbolts as he glares at the petition at his feet. In the background is a circular temple ablaze with rays of light. Above Pegasus leaps from Mount Helicon
Description:
Title from item., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., and "The constitutional song of the Anacreontic Society, sung by the Chairman or his deputy after the supper which followed the fortnightly concert." See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Music, Societies, etc.--, Gods, Greek, and Petitions
"Above is a ribbon, the central part of which is stiffened by a spring, described as 'Vanbuchel's Spring Garter'. Below are 'Two Views of the exact Size of the Duchess's Shoe': A low-heeled shoe with a pointed toe, decorated with jewels, and a tracing of the sole of the same shoe, which is 5 1/2 in. long."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
York flame
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from the British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 d. color'd.", and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the Duchess of York -- Allusion to Martin van Butchell, 1735-c. 1812 -- Female costume: spring garters -- Shoes: slippers.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 6, 1791, b[y] S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, London
