In seven scenes in a design of two tiers, citizens dispute the oppressive fees imposed by a zealous tax collector who taxes bugs, pets, a bulbous nose and a runny nose, corns on a foot, and a man's skin. In the scene on the upper right, the tax collector penalizes a man whom he accuses of evading tax as he defecates in a bush
Alternative Title:
Taxes as they will be!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Black people, Birds, Birdcages, Cats, Defecation, Dogs, Servants, Single women, and Tax payers
Shown full-length, a short man in ill-fitting uniform stands before a cannon. He leans on one sword and has another very large one swung behind his back
Description:
Title etched above imprint and below text., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five lines of text below image and above title: Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put into the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another? Why, make an officer of him., Publisher's statement below image: Prints & drawings lent on the plan of a circulating library, folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Dwarfs, Military uniforms, British, and Swords
Shown full-length, a short man in ill-fitting uniform stands before a cannon. He leans on one sword and has another very large one swung behind his back
Description:
Title etched above imprint at the end of five lines of text., Printmaker from another state in Lewis Walpole collection. This state also lacks the publisher's statement following printmaker's statement. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library 796.01.01.02.2., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left side and top., Five lines of text below image and preceding title: Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put into the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another? Why, make an officer of him., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With printseller's stamp: S.W. Fores.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Dwarfs, Military uniforms, British, and Swords
Title from engraved text above image., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Numbered 'Plate 42' in upper left corner., 'Page'--Upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward. 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms: burlesque arms -- clergy: monks -- Emblems: man on an eagle -- Scrolls -- Executions -- Military uniforms: Hussars' uniform -- Brazen Head -- Reference to Katterfelto -- Weapons: bows -- Literature: R.E. Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels ..., 1786., and Plate numbering and placement instructions erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Munchausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von, 1720-1797
"John Bull (left), a stout countryman wearing jack-boots, rides (right to left) through a wood on a wretched hack, ready to fall under his weight. Pitt kneels on the ground (right) in profile to the left, aiming a blunderbuss (which is supported on crossed sticks) point-blank at John; it is inscribed 'Standing Army'. He masquerades as a beggar: his dress is tattered, on the ground is his hat, containing coins; he says: "Good Sir, for Charity's sake \ "have Pity upon a poor ruin'd Man; - \ "drop if you please, a few bits of \ "Money into the Hat, & you shall \ "be rewarded hereafter -" From his coat-pocket project a cocked pistol and a paper: 'Forced Loan in reserve'. He points to a document on the ground beside him: 'Humble Petition, for Voluntary - Contribution Subscriptions & new Taxes, to save the Distres'd from taking worse Courses.' John Bull has dropped his righteins and holds his hat, full of guineas; he looks with melancholy distrust at Pitt, but drops guineas into his hat. His horse, disfigured with sores, is evidently the white horse of Hanover, its head-band is red and blue, the Windsor uniform (cf. BMSat 8691, &c). From the bushes behind Pitt emerge the heads and shoulders of (right to left) Dundas, Grenville, and Burke, each with a pistol levelled at John Bull. Dundas wears Highland dress, Grenville peer's robes and a grenadier's cap with the letters 'Wm R' (cf. BMSats 7479, 7494, &c.): he looks down reflectively at Pitt instead of at his victim, implying that he is his cousin's henchman; Burke has a pen in his hat. On the left is a signpost pointing (right) 'From Constitution Hill' (cf. BMSat 8287) and (left) 'To Slavery Slough by Beggary Corner.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull escaping a forced loan
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Highwaymen -- Beggars -- Weapons: blunderbuss -- Pistols -- Petitions -- Reference to Loyaly Loan -- Symbols: White Horse of Hanover -- Coins: guineas -- Signposts., and Mounted to 32 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Title from item., Artist and printmaker from the original edition in the Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 16 published under the title "Samsonic Lodge." Cf. British Museum catalogue., Probably from the Carlton House magazine., Restrike of the left side only of No. 7749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Societies: Samsonic Society -- Emblems: beehive as the Samsonic Society's emblem -- Interiors: Pied Horse, Chiswell Street -- Smoking: pipes -- Pets: dogs -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Samsonic chairs -- Wooden legs -- Sir Brook Watson, 1st bart., 1735-1807.
"A fat parson (left), burlesqued, sits in an arm-chair in profile to the right, left hand extended, addressing a naked and thin old man who sits grimly on a stool, hands on knees. They face each other in profile. The parson is drink-blotched, a full glass is in his right hand, on the table is a bottle of 'Port', he raises both feet from the ground. Care has a long beard, unkempt hair, and glares fiercely at the parson"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of carricatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: parsons -- Personifications: 'Care' -- Wine: port -- Jews -- Furnishings: slipcover., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
"A band of assailants led by an irate bishop approaches from the right, to the attack of a stone building, a corner of the lower part of which is on the left. A closed door is inscribed 'Office of Justice'; from an open window immediately above it a man leans out, pistol in hand, saying, "This is my House this is my Castle". Two women kneel beside the stout bishop, one clutches his arm to restrain him, the other weeps; a third standing behind also weeps. Two parsons with clenched fists stand behind the bishop, one, who is fat, says "Turn him out"; the other, who is lean, says: "Ill thrach the Dog I'll box him what Dare to act contrary to the Opinions of his Spiritual Dictator, no not even in his Temporals, Turn him out." A third equally irate parson stands alone on the left of the door. A crowd with clubs and banners brings up the rear behind the clergy; the most conspicuous are two footmen in livery. The three banners are: 'Church Millitant', 'Unqualified Submission to our Spiritual Guides', and 'All Obedience.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Messengers of peace
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: NB. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Assaults -- Offices: diocese deputy registrar -- Parsons -- Samuel Grindley., Watermark: Strasburg bend., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 6, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of text below image: Justice: Well, then you avou you have been married seven years ..., Plate numbered '167' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers: justices -- Food: bacon -- Civil uniforms: epaulettes with aglets -- Male dress: aglets -- Customs: claiming the flitch of bacon., and Watermark: (partial) Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Published 8th Feby. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Lady Archer (left) and Lady Buckinghamshire (right) stand in the pillory as in BMSat 8876, their heads turned in profile towards each other. Lady Archer wears a feathered hat, riding-habit, and boots (cf. BMSat 7973, &c.); Lady Buckinghamshire wears feathers in her hair, her broad breast is immodestly bare, her face is patched. She stands on tip-toe on the top of her Faro 'Bank Box'. The shadow beneath the edge of the platform forms the base of the design; in front of it stands Lord Kenyon, half length, in wig and gown, ringing a hand-bell inscribed 'K' and shouting; he holds a large scroll: "Oh Yes - Oh Yes - this is to give notice that several silly Women in the Parish of St Giles, St James & St Georges [see BMSat 8880], have caus'd much Distress & uneasiness in Family by Keeping bad Houses late hours, & by Shuffling & cutting have Obtain'd divers valuabl Articles - Whoever will bring before me -""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: NB. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Printseller's stamp in the lower right of plate, partially trimmed: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, and Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802
