"A design in two compartments; between the two titles is etched: ['Fatal Effects of the French Defeat']. On the left Fox hangs himself in a ramshackle garret. His neck is in a noose which hangs from a beam, his right foot rests on a low stool, his left hand holds the rope. He leans back with an expression of terror, dropping an 'Account of the Republican Overthrow'. On the wall (left) is a half length portrait of 'Pichegru' holding a sabre. The poverty of the room is indicated by peeling plaster showing patches of bricks, by the raftered roof, and a small casement window (right). On the right Pitt and Dundas drown themselves in wine. Both are on the floor; they have overturned a round table behind them from which the sliding bottles pour their contents over Pitt, who holds up a brimming glass in his left hand. He leans against an overturned chair holding a paper: 'News of the Victory over the Carmagnols'; he looks up smiling. Dundas sits behind and on the right, in profile to the right, more serious and more intent. He drinks with concentration, spilling his wine and waving his wig above his head. He wears a plaid over his coat. On the wall is an oval bust portrait of 'George IIId', the head cut off by the upper edge of the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Drowning and Fatal effects of the French defeat
Description:
Title etched at bottom of images., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Suicides -- Interiors: garrets -- Furniture: footstools -- Drunkenness -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Gen. Pichegru -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of George III.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pichegru, Charles, 1761-1804
"A small thin man, his hands in his waistcoat pockets, stands full-face between two robust courtesans. One (left), dressed in the fashion of the day with high-waisted dress, and tall feathers in her hair, a large fan hanging from her wrist, seizes his right arm. The other, a burly woman (right) wearing a hat and pelisse, puts her hand on his right shoulder; in her left hand is a birch-rod."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: courtesan's dress -- Hats -- Fans -- Rods: birch rod -- Headdresses -- Watches., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pub. July 4th 1795, by S.W. Fores, corner Sackville St., Piccadilly
Title engraved above image., Tentative attribution to James Sayers?, Caption below title: A representation of the ice, in the fountain of Garden Court in the Temple, on Monday, the 26th of Jany. 1795 ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Judges -- Wigs.
Publisher:
Published 16th March 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Pitt, leaping through the air and surrounded by demons, pursues (left to right) fleeing swine with human heads. In his right hand he flourishes a scourge with three weighted lashes, two inscribed 'Powder Tax', the third 'Wig Tax'. The swine wear wigs or have long hair. In his left hand he holds a sceptre terminating in a spike with which he prods a pig who turns round to snarl. Two of the attendant demons breathe fire and hold firebrands. A small demon prods with a triden, and seizes the tail of, a large pig who leaps through the air, its wig flying from its head. Another demon rides a pig, flourishing a scourge. Four birds (right) fly away. Pitt is grotesquely caricatured as are the heads of the swine
Alternative Title:
Hell broke loose, Billy and his gang working the swine
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Signed at bottom of image with artist W. O'Keeffe's monogram., and A satire on the Powder tax and on Burke's phrase "the swinish multitude".
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Hair powder, Taxation, Taxatiion, Demons, and Swine
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of text below title: An Irish gentleman, deranged in his mind, made two attempts one morning to drown himself ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Irishmen: laborer -- Suicide -- Buildings: churches -- Young men -- Fences: stile.
"Design in an oval; a man (half-length) in profile to the right, slyly holds his thumb and forefinger against his nose. His hair falls on his collar from under a powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Numbered "386" in lower left corner., No. 18 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and Sheet trimmed with loss of numbering: 386.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"An obese butcher (three-quarter length), in profile to the left, leans back from the waist, sucking a long pipe held in his right hand. His ill-fitting wig is perched on a bald head. He wears apron and oversleeves, a steel hanging from his waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades -- Dutchmen -- Tools: butchers' steel., Leaf 5 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.8 x 14.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"An obese butcher (three-quarter length), in profile to the left, leans back from the waist, sucking a long pipe held in his right hand. His ill-fitting wig is perched on a bald head. He wears apron and oversleeves, a steel hanging from his waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades -- Dutchmen -- Tools: butchers' steel.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Temporary local subject terms: Debts: Prince of Wales's debts -- Jews -- Miniatures: miniature portraits as jewelry -- Ink-pots., and Collector's stamp on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below.
Publisher:
Pub. August 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
