Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits'.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 1st, 1787 for the proprietor by Bull & Jeffryes Printsellers, No. 18 Ludgate Hill
Title from item., Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'xxxii' and 'xxxiii'., Originally used in: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, p. 483., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on one side., and Temporary local subject terms: Actress -- Mrs. Martyr -- Drunken peer.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Decr. 1, 1787 by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street
"A fashionably dressed man and woman (half length) face each other in profile. The outline of the man's projecting shirt-frill resembles that of projecting gauze which covers the lady's bust, see British Mumeaum Satires Nos. 7021, 7099, &c. In the space between them two pouter-pigeons stand facing each other. On the man's coat are large buttons inscribed respectively 'A' 'B' 'C' 'D'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 24th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Pigeons
"John Bull, grotesquely stout, is pressed downwards by a large rolled document which rests on his head inscribed 'Revision 3000 Resolutions Simplefication'. This roll is pressed down by three persons who rest their hands on it, their legs in the air, as if jumping to increase the pressure which has already so much compressed John Bull, concertina-fashion, that his arms reach the ground, and his contour is quasi-rectangular. The central figure is Pitt, saying, "Come, boys, since they say we have well begun, Let's bear hard till the whole's comprest in one". The other two are probably Rose and Steele, the Treasury Secretaries. The words 'Stamps' and 'Incidents' are inscribed on John Bull's shoulders, 'Custom' and 'Excise' (crossing each other) on his body."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified tentatively in British Museum catalog., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the speech of George III on January 23, 1787 -- Variety of taxes -- Tax reforms -- Consolidation of duties bill, February 26, 1778 -- Treasury secretary., and Partial watermark on left edge.
Publisher:
Pub'd for the proprietor, by E. Macklew, No. 9, Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Rose, George, 1744-1818, and Steele, Thomas, 1753-1823
"A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum catalogue, description of a variant state with different title
Alternative Title:
Cooks, scullions, hear me every mother's son and Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Variant state, with different title, of a plate issued with the title: Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat. Cf. No. 7187 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Peter Pindar's The Lousiad.
A soldier with a sword in his right hand has his left hand under the chin of a young lady who holds his gun in her left arm. Another soldier grins from behind a chair on which sits a drum. A monkey sits on a music book on a stool
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '145' in lower right corner., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Robert Sayer, Chart, Map, & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Drums, Parlors, and Pets
"A youth walks right to left, but looking to front, holding a long stick or staff. His hair hangs loosely on his shoulders, his dress is careless, with shirt open at the neck, breeches unbuttoned at the knees, and the buckles of his shoes unlatched."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Companion print to: London refinement., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jan. 1, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title is on an ornamental scroll with tassels. Words to accompany song are inscribed in three columns below main design. Birds and bleeding heart are above and between the inscription., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Song -- Flowers: Bleeding heart -- Birds.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 9, 1787 by C. Sheppard, No. 19 Lambeth Hill, Doctors Commons
One of many satires on the morganatic marriage of George IV and Mrs. Fitzherbert. on the left Mrs. Fitzherbert as Dido sits on a funeral pyre made up of phallic-shaped logs and watches the Prince of Wales sail away in a small boat whose flag is inscribed with the word 'Windsor' [Castle]. The wind which fills the ragged sail of the boat appears to be produced by a blast from the mouths of Dundas and Pitt, whose profile heads are on the extreme left. It is directed at Dido's head, and has blown off a royal crown, an orb and sceptre, and a coronet decorated with the Prince of Wales's feathers. With a tragic gesture she holds out in her right hand a mutilated crucifix. Her breast is bare and her girdle of 'Chastity' is broken. At her feet lie emblems of Popery: a sharp-toothed harrow inscribed 'For the conversion of Heretics', shackles, a pair of birch-rods, an axe, a scourge, and a rosary and crucifix. The pyre seems to be made of money-bags. The boat is the 'Honor'; the Prince is seated between Fox, who holds the tiller, and Burke, who holds the sail; his arms are folded and he looks over his shoulder at Fox, saying, "I never saw her in my Life". Fox echoes "No, never in all his Life, Damme"; Burke, wearing a Jesuit's biretta, says "Never", and North, who sits beside him, apparently asleep, says "No, never". After the title is engraved: 'Sic transit gloria Reginae' (pardoy of "Sic transit gloria mundi"). See British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 274 x 371 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Virgil., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
"Diogenes as an elderly man, walking with a stick and a gourd at his waist-band, to right, holding out a lantern, with a dog going ahead of him; trees behind to left, a small building with steps leading to the door, across a fence in fields to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '125' in lower right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Greek philosopher.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as [the] act directs
