In an outdoor setting, George III examines through his quizzing glass a giant boulder with three bust portraits on it, each described below. On the left, in profile, is the Duke of Portland, with vague expression, "Supposed to be the head of a Patrician ... that never contained much brain ..." In the middle, full face, with angrily drawn brows, is Fox, "... turbulent and factious Tribune of great abilities which he exerted occasionally for and against Government ..." To the right, in profile, is a complacent looking Lord North, "... a Tribune of Patrician ancestors ..." who "... had the Art to impose himself upon the People for an honest disinterested man ..."
Alternative Title:
Lately discovered in the ruins of a temple once dedicated to liberty by the Britons
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attributed to Colley by George who also suggests a possible attribution to Gillray., and Mounted to 29 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by M. Thomas, Princes Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Magnifying glasses, Boulders, and Clothing & dress
The complacently smiling Charles Fox walks across a cobblestone street towards an arched gateway resembling the entrance to the St. James's Palace, carrying the East India House on his shoulders. A note stuck in his pocket and two other ones that he walks on, as well as the papers falling out of the house, refer to the first of his East India bills that met with violent opposition
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 30.5 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 24.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 20 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 25th Novr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Management, Politics and government, Building models, and Gates
The complacently smiling Charles Fox walks across a cobblestone street towards an arched gateway resembling the entrance to the St. James's Palace, carrying the East India House on his shoulders. A note stuck in his pocket and two other ones that he walks on, as well as the papers falling out of the house, refer to the first of his East India bills that met with violent opposition
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 33 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 25th Novr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Management, Politics and government, Building models, and Gates
The complacently smiling Charles Fox walks across a cobblestone street towards an arched gateway resembling the entrance to the St. James's Palace, carrying the East India House on his shoulders. A note stuck in his pocket and two other ones that he walks on, as well as the papers falling out of the house, refer to the first of his East India bills that met with violent opposition
Description:
Title etched below image. and Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Publisher:
Published 25th Novr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Management, Politics and government, Building models, and Gates
George III sleeps on his throne while Fox introduces Lord North to the Devil pulling him by his neck cloth. On the right Sandwich and Germain, members of the previous administration, are being carried off by a demon through a doorway labelled Pandaemonium, as Mansfield and Bute are hurried in the same direction
Alternative Title:
Warm berth for the old administration
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with altered date in imprint; originally published April 2, 1782, by W. Brown., Text etched below title: Take the wicked from before the king, & his throne shall be establish'd in righteousness., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 2d, 1783, by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Devil, Sleeping, Thrones, and Clothing & dress
Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne., Mounted on page 1 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.9 x 43.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne., and Mounted on page 13 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
In a churchyard, tombstones, adorned on top with the heads of prominent politicians, are engraved with epitaphs in their memory
Alternative Title:
Political churchyard
Description:
Title from caption etched above image. and Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pub according t [sic] Act by B. Pownall. No. 6 Pallmall
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793.
