"Ministerial rats with human heads scamper about a barn, searching for food. John Bull, a yokel in a smock and holding a pitchfork, holds open one leaf of the door facing the spectator, to watch their antics with amusement. George III, in profile to the right., puts a hand his shoulder, and says: "What! What! looking for Grain, eh! looking for grain; it's all gone, all gone all gone, quite Empty." John answers: "Why, these Hungry Rats thought to have had some fine pickings, I warrant, but egad they'll he woundedly mistaken, tho'f they seem to want it nationly; but that dom'd Scotchman [Melville] carried off a rare lot of it & as to poor Billy the Butler [Pitt] why he was so fond of a drop of Black Snap, [Perjorative for thick, sweet port. Partridge, 'Slang Dict.', 1938.] that when he and his friends, not at it, d'ye see, the rest of the Servants did as they pleased, poor Rogues I'se afraid they'll Undermine the Barn they're so main Hungry." The rats are on a smaller scale. On the extreme left., Lord Derby peeps from a bin inscribed 'Treasury', saying, "Why I suppose the Old Rat Died because there was nothing to feed upon." Moira climbs down a tilted sieve, Grenville sniffs at an upturned '[T]reasury' tub on which Lord Ellenborough sulkily reposes. Grey scampers towards an empty lantern but Windham has dragged out its candle and is nibbling at it. Sheridan races towards the candle from the r. Behind him is Erskine, looking sly. A bulky animal wearing a garter ribbon, probably the Marquis of Buckingham, lies with its head inside an empty '[T]reasury' sack. Fox and Bedford nibble at a pile of tattered and folded sacks on which is Lord Spencer, looking down at them. In the background are three other rightats, whose heads are less characterized: those on the left may be Sidmouth and Lauderdale; one nibbling a bundle of straw (r.) resembles Burdett."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm..
Publisher:
Pubd. March, 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print published originally by S.W. Fores in 1800., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Place and date of publication from other prints in the series., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds -- Hunting: fox hunt.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print published originally by S.W. Fores in 1800., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by S.W. Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker from other prints from the series., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds.
"Social satire: a lady stands tying her bonnet before a mirror, her daughter behind her, telling a man she is about to call on "Captain Swagger", who insulted her saying he would "Kiss [her] to Death" if she paid any more of the bills she owed him, to see if he will carry out his threat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable printmaker attribution to Nicolaus Heideloff from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.189., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners.
Plate [125] 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'; Elizabeth in her bedchamer seated casually at left, one of her slippers kicked off, wrapped in ermine with her hair loose, which she holds away from her face while looking at Essex, kneeling at right, three attendants behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Interview between Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [125] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, and Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601,
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print originally published by S.W. Fores in 1801., Plate is part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
"John Bull, a plebeian, stout and dishevelled, lies on his back on a tangle of large roses with vicious thorns. These are on a heap of stones and under the stump of a decayed oak tree (left). He exclaims: "Oh Lord! Oh Lord! if this be the Bed of Roses they make such a noise about I'd sooner lye with the Old Sow and her Farrow in the Dog Days! - My Dame will roar woundidly when she comes to bed! Ecod it's as bad as lying on a Harrow upside down." The stones (left to right) are 'Expedition to Holland' [1799, see British Museum Satires No. 9412, &c], 'Expedition to Ferrol', 'Jobs and Contracts', 'Pension List', 'Indemnity for the past & Security for the Future', 'No Peace possible with the child and Champion of Jacobinism', 'Places', 'Subsidies'. The roses are: 'Candle Tax', 'Hair Powder Tax', 'Hat Tax', 'Paper Tax', 'Snuff Tax', 'Game Tax', 'Wine Tax', 'Property Tax', 'Salt Tax', 'Land Tax', 'Stamp Tax', 'Assessed Taxes', 'Income Tax', 'Table Beer Tax', 'House Tax', 'Window Tax', 'Excise Duty', 'Horse Tax', 'Tobacco Tax', 'Soap Tax', 'Servant Tax', 'Malt Tax', 'Hop Tax', 'Sugar Tax', 'Legacy Tax', 'Tea Tax', 'Cyder Tax'. On the two extremities of the 'bed' are clusters of thorny buds; these are inscribed '1807', '1808', and [once] '1809', those on the left being labelled 'National Debt'. In the distance St. Paul's is indicated. Bushes on the right are wind-swept."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull on a bed of roses
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark: 181[0?].
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1806 by Wm. Holland, Cockspur Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Roses, Thorns, and Taxes
John Bull's first visit to his old friend the new secretary
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Dogs -- Politics., Mounted to 29 x 40 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Title from caption below image., Two lines of text below title: Till woe is me so lubberly, the press gang came and pressed me., Numbered "Plate 2" above title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. as the Act directs Septr. 8, 1806, by James Linnell, No. 2, Streatham Strt., Charlotte Strt., Bloomsbury
Four employees of a hatter force their employer into a bath of black dye. One of the journeymen holds a beaver by its tail as it cries "He robbed me of my coat, and blam'd others for it." A young apprentice entering from the right holds out a fish to the beaver. In the foreground a black demon whose speech balloon reads, "Push him through my lads. I'll adopt him as one of my children."
Alternative Title:
Advertising reward proved to be a bad plan, by dipping the master's made black as his man
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: Ruse & Turner 1805.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Hat industry, People associated with manual labor, Employee-employer relations, Dyes, Demons, Beavers, Gallows, and Irons (Pressing)
