Plate from the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', ii. 233: On the extreme right the Devil holds up a canvas, 'le Tableau Parlant', which terrifies twelve Irishmen grouped round an oblong table. In their alarm the heavy table has been overturned, some are on the ground, others (left) flee in terror. The Devil, who looks round the edge of his picture, wears a bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Anarchy'; labels hang from his horn: 'Blasph[emy]' and 'Parracide'. He says "Stew it well - It cannot be Overdone for you and me". In the picture, 'Irish Stew I A Favourite Disk for French Palates', two French soldiers superintend the boiling of a Revolutionary Pot, in which stand three naked Irishmen shrieking for mercy; one says: "Liberty of being Stewed"; the other, "Equality - all to be stewed en Masse". Above the table five harpies fly off with a tattered cloth inscribed 'Map of Ireland'. They are intended for the Directors, three having belts inscribed 'Tallien' (not a Director), 'Barras', and 'Le Paux'. On the table is a paper, 'United Irishmen'. The Irishmen make gestures of terror or despair. Most look at the picture, one looks upwards, saying: "Poor Erin How thourt torn to pieces by these five Harpies." A fugitive looks round to say "What your own A. O Connor too!" A lawyer (? Curran): "So much for Republicani[sm] and glorious Independence! No Money! No Lawyer." A monk: "By St Patrick a complete Catholic Emancipation." Three others say: "I now howl in Vain - We are all gone to Pot"; "Brother John [Bull] would not have treated us so -" ; "My Merits with the Republic should have saved me, but I find we must all stew together" [he is perhaps Grattan]; "A Radical Reform by Jasus". Beside the last speaker, a ragged peasant, lies a bundle of pikes, &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1799, v. 2, page 233, Temporary local subject terms: United Irishmen -- Maps: map of Ireland torn by demons -- Reference to the French Revolution -- Allusion to the Directory -- Allusion to anarchy -- Pictures: le tableau parlant., and Mounted to 31 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1799, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, for the Anti Jacobin Review
Subject (Name):
Barras, Paul, vicomte de, 1755-1829 and Tallien, Jean-Lambert, 1767-1820
An angry wife confronts her astonished husband with a letter from his paramour in which she suggests a rendezvous in the garden after the wife has gone to bed
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Earlier edition of print described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 14., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with date 1798 below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., One line of text within design: This horse is certainly an astronomer! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: riding habit., 1 print : etcing and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of series title and number., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
"Plate 1; a man with a green coat, thick gloves, boots, bicorn hat and whip riding one of a pair of horses pulling a covered cart on wheels marked "Ammunition Waggon" on a country lane."--British Museum online catalogue, description of alternate state
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a series of prints depicting Suvorov's Russian Army, probably title plate., Date following the word "published" and last portion of Suvorff's name burnished from plate?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Russian uniforms -- Vehicles: ammunition waggon -- Harnesses -- Reference to Gen. Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Suvorov (1730-1800).
A rhymed rebus purporting to be a reply to a sailor's letter from his girl, describing her fears for him upon hearing of a storm at sea, her joy at getting his letter, and her promise to remain true to him despite having other suitors
Description:
Title from item., A letter in the form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'to' by a toe, 'sailor' by a figure of a sailor, 'letter' by an envelope., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '76,' supplied in contemporary manuscript., and Watermark: 1814.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 17[...], by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Hieroglyphics, Love letters, and Military uniforms
Title from text in image., Publication date based on watermark., Certainly published after 1794, date in which Robert Laurie and James Whittle formed their partnership., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved rhymed letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: "macaroni" by an image of macaroni, "lady" by an image of a woman dressed in a macaroni style., Later state by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5079 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Lewis Walpole prints 799.10.21.02: Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '70,' supplied in contemporary manuscript., Temporary local subject terms: Hieroglyphs -- Letters., and Watermark: Horn with monogram JM below.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 1770, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
A rhymed rebus, purporting to be a letter from a sailor to his girl, describing his adventures in a terrible storm at sea
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The following words in the title are represented by an image: sailor by an image of a sailor, ship by an image of a ship, to by a toe, 'heart' in 'sweetheart' by a heart., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: horn with monogram JM below.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Correspondence, Hieroglyphics, and Military uniforms
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom., Publication date erased from this impression and supplied in contemporary hand as 'Decr. 1, 1812'., One of the series of prints depicting Suvorov's Russian Army., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prints and drawings lent to copy., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bayonets, Flags, Russian, Forts & fortifications, Military uniforms, Rifles, and Spears
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prints & drawings lent to copy., One of the series of prints depicting Suvorov's Russian Army., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Russian officer -- Military uniforms: Russian private -- Guns: cannons -- Weapons -- Fortifications.
Title etched below image., Imprint burnished from plate. Imprint from other prints in the series., One of the series of prints depicting Suvorov's Russian Army., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Russian officer, Cossacks -- Military uniforms: subaltern, Russian Cossacks -- Weapons.
