"Scene at the door of a rustic inn. Two soldiers (seated) and a handsome girl drink punch together. She stands, wearing the cocked hat and sword-belt of an officer who holds her hand; a child plays with the sword. An old woman chalks up the score. A bugler (left) rides off with a led horse. The sign is the 'King's Head', a profile portrait of George III."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: He won't be a soldier., Plate numbered "No. 1" above title., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: inns -- Serving maids -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Soldiers: bugler -- Children -- Inns: King's Head -- Pictures: portrait of George III -- Emblems: horseshoe., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1798, at Ackermann's Gallery, No. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 12' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 26' in 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: Sight-seeing -- Pictures: portraits -- Picture frames -- Allusion to cuckolds -- Fireplaces: grate., and Watermark: 1798.
"Fox kneels in profile to the right with bent back before an altar, his hands together. His unpowdered hair is cropped. From his pocket projects a book: 'New Constitut[ion]'. The altar, draped with a cloth on which crossed daggers are embroidered, is raised on a stone step. On it is a guillotine, dripping blood. To this is tied with a tricolour sash two tables, resembling those of the Ten Commandments, but of the 'DROIT DE L'HOMME: I. Right to Worship whom we please. II. Right to create & bow down to any thing we chuse to set up. III. Right to use in vain any Name we like. IV. Right to work Nine Days in the Week, & do what we please on the Tenth: V. Right to honor both Father & Mother, when we find it necessary. VI. Right to Kill. VII. Right to commit Adultery. VIII. Right to Plunder. IX. Right to bear what Witness we please. X. Right to covet our Neighbour[s] House & all that is his.' On the altar in front of the guillotine stand three roughly made posts on rectangular pedestals. The centre one (in place of a crucifix), inscribed 'Exit Homo', is surmounted by a large cap of 'Egalité' with a tricolour cockade; at its base is a skull and cross-bones. On the other posts are busts: (left) 'Robert- \ speire'; to the post are nailed two bleeding hands; (right) 'Buona \ -parte'. The altar and guillotine are backed by draped and fringed curtains. From the upper left corner of the design a shaft of light surrounded by clouds descends towards Fox. In this are the winged heads of six members of the Opposition, all wearing bonnets-rouges and looking towards the 'Droit de l'Homme'. In front is Norfolk, next and on the left is Lansdowne with an inscrutable smile. They are followed by Bedford; above him are Tierney and Lauderdale. Last, and on a smaller scale, is the malevolent head of Nicholls."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Members of the Opposition -- St. Ann's Hill -- Shrines -- Guillotine -- Cap of Liberty as bonnet rouge -- Literature: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Allusion to the Ten Commandments.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 26th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
"No. 4; scene at the door of a rustic inn, a large Union Jack floating over the doorway. An officer puts a cocked hat on the head of an ungainly yokel; another flirts with a pretty girl; they sit together on a bench (right), a dog gazing up at them. A smart drummer-boy beats his drum; behind, a peasant in a smock wears a cocked hat. In the doorway the fat host pours out wine; the sign is 'The Old Flask'. In the background (right) a sergeant drills a very awkward squad of four."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Soldiers recruiting
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate numbered "No. 4" above title., Temporary local subject terms: Soldiers -- Inns -- Drummer boys -- Drinking -- Dogs -- Flirting., Watermark: E & P 1797., Mounted on modern secondary support., and Printseller's stamp below printmaker's signature: RA.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1, 1798, at Ackermanns Gallery, No. 101 Strand
Title printed below plate., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Text of the tale printed in three columns below title: Hazard, a careless fellow, known at every gambling house in town was oft in want of money, yet could never bear to run in debt ..., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dining room -- Glass: decanter -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Ancestral knights -- Genealogy -- Young women -- Domestic service: footmen -- Reference to marriage contract., and Watermark: 1796.
Publisher:
Published 12th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: St. George: William Pitt as St. George -- Dragons -- Bulls -- Frenchmen as roosters -- Pug dog as Holland -- Spaniel as Spain -- Austrian double-headed eagle -- Russian bear -- Crescents., and Contemporary ms. annotations on front.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 5, 1798 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: St. George: William Pitt as St. George -- Dragons -- Bulls -- Frenchmen as roosters -- Pug dog as Holland -- Spaniel as Spain -- Austrian double-headed eagle -- Russian bear -- Crescents., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 5, 1798 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
"Fox flees in terror through the doorway of the House of Commons, taking an enormous stride. Beside him runs a thin demoniac greyhound, Grey, wearing a collar: 'Opposition Grey-Hound'. A small animal runs behind with the head of M. A. Taylor. Through the doorway are seen half the Speaker's chair and the Opposition benches, while the hands of Pitt, who is speaking, project from the left, holding two scrolls: 'O'Conner's list of Secret Traitors' and 'Destruction of Buonaparte - Capture of the French Navy - End of the Irish Rebellion - Voluntary Associations - Europe Arming - Britannia Ruling the Waves'. His words float towards the dismayed Opposition: 'Read o'er This! - And after this! - And then to Breakfast, with what appetite you may!!!' The Opposition are furtively eating papers: Sheridan eats 'Loyalty of the Irish Nation'; Tierney, 'Homage to the French Con[? stitution]'. Between them is squeezed the hat of C. Fox, indicating that between them they have left little room for their leader. Erskine, the egotist [see BMSat 9246, &c], eats 'my own Loyalty'; Shuckburgh, 'French lib[erty]'; Nicholls, 'a Letter to W Pitt'; Burdett, 'Egalité'; an unidentified member eats 'Peace or Ruin'. All wear hats except Burdett and Erskine. The House is lit by candles burnt to the socket, suggesting an all-night sitting. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prudent secesion and Prudent secession
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text following title: N.B. The background contains a corner of the House next session, with the reasons for secession; also, a democratic déjeuné, (i.e., Opposition eating up their words)., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons -- Opposition: members of the Opposition -- Reference to the Irish Rebellion, 1798 -- Reference to Arthur O'Connor's trial -- Reference to the battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 -- Dogs: greyhounds -- House of Commons: Speaker's chair., Mounted to 33 x 48 cm., and Watermark: 1794 J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 6th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
"The Mameluke rides (right to left) an ill-drawn galloping horse, holding the rein in his teeth. In his right hand is a sabre, with the left he fires a pistol; at his back is a quiver of arrows. Another pistol is thrust through his sash, from which hangs a sheath holding a battle-axe. The horse is curiously flecked in a manner which resembles a leopard-skin under the saddle. The title continues: 'from a Sketch by a French Officer by whom he was taken Prisoner'. Cf. BMSat 9360."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Formerly attributed to Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Temporary local subject terms: Mamelukes -- Weapons: pistol -- Battle-axe -- Sabres -- Horses.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
