Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Chimney-sweeps -- Taxes: reference to hair powder tax.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1, 1795, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
"A short fat man, much caricatured, stands directed slightly to the right, looking at the spectator, his fingers spread in a deprecatory gesture. He is grotesquely dressed in an attempt to follow the fashion. His long breeches reach almost to his ankles, and resemble trousers. He wears a bulky ill-fitting spencer (see BMSat 8192) over his coat. His hat is round with a curved brim, his swathed neckcloth terminates in a bow. His short striped waistcoat does not reach below the ends of his neckcloth. From it hangs a ribbon in place of a watch and seals. Under his left arm is a bludgeon. Beside him (right) is a small dog. Beneath the title: 'Did you ever see such a Fool as my Wife has made of me?'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Variant state, with artist's name and expansion of printseller's address added to the plate. Cf. No. 8760 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1, 1795, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
"Pitt as, a Roman charioteer, wearing a laurel wreath, is seated in an ornate chariot drawn (left to right) by the British Lion and the White Horse of Hanover (cf. BMSat 8691). He holds the reins, but scarcely controls the galloping pair. One foot rests on a shield bearing a fanged serpent, and wreathed with serpents, inscribed: 'Exit Python Republicanus'. Behind him is a book decorated with a lyre inscribed 'Magna Charta'. Ornate projections from the back of the chariot support the disk of the 'Sun of the Constitution': the Hebrew letters for Jehovah are surrounded by the words COMMONS . KING . LORDS; this is irradiated, the royal arms being etched partly on the sun, partly on its rays, and immediately behind Pitt. Two cherubs fly behind the chariot and on the extreme left; one holds up a 'Bible', the other a family tree of the 'Brunswick Succession': from the base, inscribed 'Ge III', rises 'G IV', from whose circle sprout five stems; beneath is inscribed: 'And future Kings, and Monarchs yet unborn'. A fringed cloth on the back of the horse is covered by the royal arms; one on the lion has Britannia, seated as on coins, but holding up a dagger in one hand, a birch-rod in the other. Both animals dash furiously forward in pursuit of the Opposition. The horse snorts fire; from his forehead thunderbolts dart towards the fugitives. The chariot is on an ascending slope of smooth cloud, lit by the 'Sun of the Constitution' (cf. BMSat 8287, &c.) and strewn with roses which fall from the draperies of Justice, who floats before the chariot, leading it on, her head surrounded by a scroll inscribed 'Honorable Peace, or Everlasting War'. In her left hand she holds up her balanced scales, in her right she grasps a flag-staff on which the British flag floats above a tattered tricolour pennant, inscribed 'Republic'. From under the dark and turbulent edges of the cloud-path the Opposition flee into the void. On the extreme left is the half length figure of a monstrous hag, her hair composed of serpents spitting fire, with a fillet inscribed 'The Whig Club'. In her right hand she holds one of the serpents which issue from her pendent breasts, in the left is an almost extinguished firebrand. She glares up in impotent rage. Beneath the horse and lion (right) are the heads and shoulders of (left to right) Sheridan, Fox, and Stanhope, their hair streaming behind them; each drops a dagger from his raised right hand. Sheridan and Fox have expressions of gloomy terror, Stanhope is melancholy but composed. In the abyss beneath the clouds are three small winged creatures: an owl (left) with the head of Lansdowne, two bats, one with the head of M. A. Taylor, the other (right) with that of Erskine. In their flight they have left behind them on the path of cloud three papers: 'Plan for inflaming the Dissenters in Scotland'; 'A scheme for raising the Catholicks in Ireland' (cf. BMSat 8632); 'Jacobin Prophecies for breeding Sedition in England' (an allusion to Brothers, see BMSat 8627, &c). A second group flees upwards away from the thunderbolts of the Hanoverian horse; from the head of each falls a bonnet-rouge whose peak terminates in a (fool's) bell (cf. BMSat 9374). They are Lauderdale, with clasped hands, the Duke of Norfolk looking round apprehensively, above him the Duke of Grafton, and above again Lord Derby. [Lord Holland gives alternative identifications: Stanhope is Francis, and Grafton is Stanhope. These two, however, closely resemble other heads by Gillray of Stanhope and Grafton.] Above their heads and among the clouds are fleeing serpents, a bonnet-rouge, a book: 'Irruption of the Goths and Vandals. 2d Edition', and a scroll whose ragged edges merge in cloud: 'Patriotick Propositions. Peace, Peace on any Terms. Fraternisation Unconditional Submission No Law, no King, No God.' Another branch of cloud diverges to the left behind Justice. Its upper part is covered with wrecked ships and tiny fleeing figures. These are little sansculottes, all with large bonnets-rouges, one naked, others barelegged except for boots or sabots. They drop their swords."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sun of the Constitution rising superior to the clouds of Opposition
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Roman chariot -- Emblems : British Lion -- Emblems: the Horse of Hanover -- Symbols: figure of Justice -- Flags: British flag -- French republican flag -- Symbols: bonnet rouge -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to George III and George IV -- Britannia -- Royal arms -- Reference to the Brunswick succession -- Reference to Bible -- Whig Club -- Monsters -- Sansculottes -- Reference to Jacobins -- Weapons: daggers -- Cherubs -- Sun of the Constitution -- Reference to the Parliament.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 30th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815
"'The Marriage Settlement' (after the painting by Hogarth in National Gallery); a grand interior where Earl Squander and a city merchant arrange the marriage of their son and daughter; the extravagantly dressed young man looks at his reflection in a glass while his future bride listens to the lawyer's soft words; through the window is a view of a palatial house under construction."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marriage settlement
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Title engraved below image., "Size of picture ft. 3 by 2 ft. in. 4.", Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2692., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 158., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 228.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, London
Title etched below image., After the design by John Nixon, reversed and altered details. See British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from another version published by W. Holland. Cf. No. 8751 in the British Museum catalogue, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: church towers -- Architectural details: roofs., and Mounted to 50 x 32 cm.
"An officer (three-quarter length) in regimentals stands in profile to the left, his right arm raised and fist clenched in angry protest. He says: "You Lie, by G------.!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., One line of text below image: You lie, by G-!, and Mounted to 19 x 13 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
"An officer (three-quarter length, after the Duke of York) in regimentals stands in profile to the left, his right arm raised and fist clenched in angry protest. He says: "You Lie, by G------.!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of eight satirical portraits issued as a set on one sheet., One line of text below image: You lie, by G-!, and On same sheet: Ministerial eloquence; Opposition eloquence; Naval eloquence; Fools eloquence; Billingsgate eloquence; Pulpit eloquence; Bar eloquence.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
"Pitt (half length) stands looking to the right, his right hand held palm upwards. He says: "Our great successes in the East & West Indies, conquest of Corsica; entertain no doubt you will chearfully grant the Supplies for carrying on this just & necessary War.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., and Four lines of text below image: Our great successes in the East & West Indies, conquest of Corsica; entertain no doubt you will chearfully [sic] grant the supplies for carrying on this just & necessary war.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
"Pitt (half length) stands looking to the right, his right hand held palm upwards. He says: "Our great successes in the East & West Indies, conquest of Corsica; entertain no doubt you will chearfully grant the Supplies for carrying on this just & necessary War.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of eight satirical portraits issued as a set on one sheet., Four lines of text below image: Our great successes in the East & West Indies, conquest of Corsica; entertain no doubt you will chearfully [sic] grant the supplies for carrying on this just & necessary war., and On same sheet: Opposition eloquence; Naval eloquence; Military eloquence; Fools eloquence; Billingsgate eloquence; Pulpit eloquence; Bar eloquence.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
A lady sits in an armchair, her head titled back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, giving the appearance of pregnancy, her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. Long locks of hair escaped from the turban, and she holds a fan in her right hand. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom edge., and Manuscript note below image identifies the sitter as Lady Charlotte Cambell.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
