"Satire on servants; a scene in a pantry with a liveried servant retreating in horror from a stout woman, probably a cook; he holds his hand to his face which sports two black eyes and she, scowling in fury, extends her right fist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Holland's caricatuee exhibition is now open. Admittance one shilling"--Text above image., Six lines of verse below title: By two black eyes my heart was won, sure never wretch was more undone! To Celia with my suit I came, But she regardless of her prize, Thought proper to reward my flame, By two balck eyes!!!., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to: 43 x 33 cm., and Stamped 'E' on verso, lower left. Mounted to: 43 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Black eyes, Fear, Fists, Pantries, and Servants
"John Bull, blindfolded, is being robbed and bullied by the powers of Europe who are urged on by Pitt. He stands in back view, without his coat, leaning forward with outstretched arms, wearing the wrinkled gaiters by which Gillray denotes the countryman (cf. BMSat 8141, &c). The Emperor (left), wearing a crown and a long ermine-lined robe decorated with a Habsburg eagle, leans forward from the left, and furtively picks his pocket. He holds a document inscribed 'Imperial Loan'. Prussia, as a Death's Head hussar, stands full-face near the Emperor and snaps his fingers at John Bull, holding out in triumph a money-bag inscribed '£2000000'. On the right John is assailed by France and Holland: a lean and ragged sansculotte with clenched fists kicks him behind; a fat Dutchman, holding a tobacco-pipe, puffs a blast of smoke in his face. On the extreme left Pitt stands in profile to the right, holding John Bull's coat and putting his hand into its pocket, he says: "Go it, my Honies, go it! Supple him a little! Supple him!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Too many for John Bull
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Games: blindman's buff -- Loans: British loan to emperor Francis I, 1794 -- Prussia -- Holland -- France -- Sansculottes -- Military uniforms: Prussian uniforms.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 12th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835
Plate [7] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Boadicea standing at right addressing a crowd of men weilding weapons at left, leaning on a shoulder of a weeping girl beside her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [7] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Boadicea standing at right addressing a crowd of men weilding weapons at left, leaning on a shoulder of a weeping girl beside her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 48 x 33 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [7] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of lettering at the end of title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Domestic services: French servants -- English servants.
"A tall handsome lady walks diagonally forwards from left to right, her left hand on the arm of a much shorter companion with a larger head, perhaps a young girl. The latter, though her dress is simple, has a grotesquely high bunch of erect feathers in her turban, and holds a large fan. The tall lady is wearing a fashionable turbine with tall feathers at the front, a high-waisted dress, with voluminous petticoats and a flowing train. Drapery is twisted round her waist and festooned about her skirts. In the background ladies with erect feathers in their hair are freely sketched. An officer in back view leads a lady by the hand, an enormous cocked hat in his left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text below title: "Delightful task! to teach the young idea how to shoot!", Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: headdress -- Lady Katherine or Lady Elizabeth Manners., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831
Title from item., Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Eight lines of verse in three columns below title: Sir, will you please to walk before? ... ., Plate numbered '155' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Domestic service: footmen -- Waiters -- Blacks -- Quizzing glasses -- Food: fowl -- Tarts.
Publisher:
Published 7th Aug. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Plate numbered '166' in lower left corner., Three lines of text below title: Farmer, when do you think the cause will be finished ..., and One of a series of Drolls.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 15th 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"A large and plebeian crowd is being addressed from three roughly made platforms, one being in the middle distance, another in the background. In the foreground (right) a man, supposed to be Thelwall, leans from his rostrum in profile to the left, shouting, with clenched fists, and raised right arm. Behind him stands a ragged barber, a comb in his lank hair, holding out a paper: 'Resolutions of the London Corresponding Society'. Next him, a man with the high-crowned hat and bands of a dissenting minister holds a tattered umbrella over the orator. A man on the steps leading to the platform, wearing a bonnet-rouge (the only one in the crowd) has a vague resemblance to Fox. From the next platform (left) a butcher, supposed to be Gale Jones, bawls at the crowd with raised right arm. Beside him stand a man holding a scroll inscribed 'Rights of Citizens'. The third orator is a tiny figure (Hodgson) with both arms raised. All the platforms are surrounded by crowds, and hats and arms are being waved by those addressed by the butcher. In the foreground (left) a man sits holding out for signature a document which is supported on a barrel of 'Real Democratic Gin by Thelwal & Co.' Three little chimney-sweepers stand round it, one of whom, holding a pen, has just made his mark on the 'Remonstrance', below the signatures of 'Jack Cade', 'Wat Tyler', 'Jack Straw'. All wear caps with the name of their master on a brass plate (according to the Chimney-Sweepers' Act of 1788); this is 'Thelwall'. A fat woman sells a dram to one of the crowd. Another presides over a portable roulette or E.O. table, a 'teetotum', inscribed 'Equality & no Sedition Bill'; three barefooted urchins are staking their pence. The heads in general do not appear to be portraits, but in the centre of the design, with his back to the woman selling drams, is Priestley, caricatured, standing with folded arms facing Thelwall. There is a landscape background with trees up which spectators have climbed. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text, running on both sides of title: "I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap upon it." Shakspeare., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 16th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Jones, John Gale, 1769-1838, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Hodgson, Richard, 1760-1816, and London Corresponding Society.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of the press, Meetings, Petition, Right of., Sedition, Political crimes and offenses, Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Crowds, Podiums, Political parades & rallies, and Working class
Title from text in image., Place of publication Neale's known place of business. ., Date of publication supplied by cataloger based on date Neele went into partnership with his son, 1815?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
