"Fox stands on a dais at the head of a rough table, the seat from which he has risen is magnificent, above it is the inscription 'Vive la Libertè' surmounted by a bonnet-rouge. He is held up (left) by Combe, the Lord Mayor, a pompous figure in gown and chain, and (right) by Erskine. The former holds a 'Petition to ye Throne; - or a new way to Combe the Ministers Wig'; the latter grasps a bottle of 'Brand[y]'. Fox is melancholy, and his swollen legs cannot support unaided his vast bulk. Before him is a frothing pot of 'Whitbread's Entire' (cf. BMSat 8638). Only the guests on Fox's right and left are visible; they are Grey (or perhaps Byng), [Incorrectly identified in Wright and Evans as Sir J. Sinclair. Identifications of Grey by Lord Holland appear conclusive, but he is identified in 'London und Paris' as Byng, M.P. for Middlesex, and he resembles the Byng of BMSat 8782.] turning to watch his chief, and Tierney, looking gloomily before him. Behind Tierney are the heads of a butcher, with marrow-bone and cleaver, and a chimney-sweep with brush and shovel. All listen intently to Fox, who says: "Gentlemen, you see I'm grown quite an Old Man in your Service! Twenty Years I've served you, & always upon the same Principles; - I rejoic'd at the Success of our Enemies in the American War! - & the War against the Virtuous French Republic has always met with my most determined opposition! - but the Infamous Ministry will not make Peace with our Enemies, & are determin'd to keep Me out of their Councils & out of Place! - therefore Gentlemen! as their Principles are quite different from mine, & as I am now too Old to form myself according to their Systems, my attendance in Parliament is useless: - & to say the truth, I feel that my season of action is past, & I must leave to younger Men to Act, for alas! my failings & weaknesses will not let me now recognise what is for the best!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Last dying speech of the Westminster representative ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at the top and bottom., Temporary local subject terms: Speeches: C.J. Fox's speech, October 10, 1800 -- Allusion to the War of American Independence -- Allusion to Napoleonic wars-- Taverns: Shakespeare Tavern, London -- Lord Mayor of London -- Chairs: thrones -- Emblems: cap of liberty as bonnet rouge -- Dishes: tankards -- Beverages: Whitbread's Entire (beer) -- Reference to Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815 -- Petitions: London Livery's petition -- Furniture: chairs -- Spirits: brandy -- Harvey Christian Combe, 1752-1818., and Mounted to 48 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. October 13th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Byng, George, 1764-1847
Title from item., Publication date extrapolated from that of the book for which this plate was etched., Plate from: Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons ... / by James Caulfield. London : H. R. Young and T. H. Whitely,1819-1820, v. 3, opp. p. 151., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ancient customs: marital oath.
Title from item., Place of publication surmised by place of resident of subject., On leaf 169 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary manuscript annotation in ink fills the blank: 1080.
Three figures on horseback, riding right to left. Closest to the viewer is large man holding a whip at his side and wearing a hat; next is the figure of Death as a skeleton, wearing a crown and with head turned towards the large man, grinning; and farthest away is a scowling undertaker, holding a whip and with a broad ribbon on his hat
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Richard Newton is suggested in local catalog record., Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reversed version of print published by S.W. Fores in 1796; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.393. See also the reduced copy by Charles Williams that was published in 1806 (No. 10665 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Undertakers, Horseback riding, Whips, and Crowns
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folio's [sic] of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds.
Publisher:
Pub May 20th, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Women -- Black women -- Reference to Divorce Bill, 1800., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 12, 1800, by Hixon, 355 Strand (near Exeter change)
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 5' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: This passion is represented by an antiquarian contemplating an unique., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, p. 655., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Antiquarians -- Antiques., Matted to 49 x 36 cm., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: RA.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A fat ugly woman sits squarely on a stool, in stays and petticoat with clumsy ungartered stockings. Three women, grotesquely ugly, advance towards her, one with a cap, the other with a petticoat, a third with a chamber-pot. On the ground are combs, hair-tongs, tankard, pin-cushion, fan, and garters, one inscribed 'Set thy thoughts on things above'. Said to be a satire on 'some vulgar fashionable'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1800 -- Female fashion -- Pincushions -- Tankards -- Garters -- Hair-tongs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Venus (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Vanity and pride, Clothing & dress, Fans (Accessories), Drinking vessels, Chamber pots, and Combs
"A fat ugly woman sits squarely on a stool, in stays and petticoat with clumsy ungartered stockings. Three women, grotesquely ugly, advance towards her, one with a cap, the other with a petticoat, a third with a chamber-pot. On the ground are combs, hair-tongs, tankard, pin-cushion, fan, and garters, one inscribed 'Set thy thoughts on things above'. Said to be a satire on 'some vulgar fashionable'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1800 -- Female fashion -- Pincushions -- Tankards -- Garters -- Hair-tongs., and 1 print : etching and stipple engraving with aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.6 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Venus (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Vanity and pride, Clothing & dress, Fans (Accessories), Drinking vessels, Chamber pots, and Combs
