Subject Heading: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 / Subject (Topic): Public speaking

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1. A hasty sketch of yesterday's business [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [3 March 1784]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 23. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A headless Charles Fox holding his hat in the right hand and a handkerchief in his left, is shown addressing the House of Commons. Below the image is etched a burlesque of his most recent speeches that referred to the attempts at promoting a coalition between him and William Pitt and the debate on his motion to request the removal of the ministers: "'Mr ----- in one of the most animated Speeches he ever made in his Life engaged the Attention of the whole house - he began with saying That he should have sat a silent Spectator of the business of the day if a very personal Attack had not been made upon him by calling him the Head of a Faction, he assured the Gentleman nothing was farther from his Heart, all now wished for was a Union upon a broad basis, upon a fair, tho' not an equal footing, and if the Right honourable Gentleman over the Way would but submit to a Capitulation ..."
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 23.5 x 16.3 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 18.2 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 23 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Published 3d March 1784 by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government and Public speaking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A hasty sketch of yesterday's business [graphic]

2. A hasty sketch of yesterday's business [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [3 March 1784]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 23. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A headless Charles Fox holding his hat in the right hand and a handkerchief in his left, is shown addressing the House of Commons. Below the image is etched a burlesque of his most recent speeches that referred to the attempts at promoting a coalition between him and William Pitt and the debate on his motion to request the removal of the ministers: "'Mr ----- in one of the most animated Speeches he ever made in his Life engaged the Attention of the whole house - he began with saying That he should have sat a silent Spectator of the business of the day if a very personal Attack had not been made upon him by calling him the Head of a Faction, he assured the Gentleman nothing was farther from his Heart, all now wished for was a Union upon a broad basis, upon a fair, tho' not an equal footing, and if the Right honourable Gentleman over the Way would but submit to a Capitulation ..."
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on Page 37 with two other prints.
Publisher:: Published 3d March 1784 by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government and Public speaking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A hasty sketch of yesterday's business [graphic]

3. A hasty sketch of yesterday's business [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [3 March 1784]
Call Number:: 784.03.03.01 Impression 1
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 23. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A headless Charles Fox holding his hat in the right hand and a handkerchief in his left, is shown addressing the House of Commons. Below the image is etched a burlesque of his most recent speeches that referred to the attempts at promoting a coalition between him and William Pitt and the debate on his motion to request the removal of the ministers: "'Mr ----- in one of the most animated Speeches he ever made in his Life engaged the Attention of the whole house - he began with saying That he should have sat a silent Spectator of the business of the day if a very personal Attack had not been made upon him by calling him the Head of a Faction, he assured the Gentleman nothing was farther from his Heart, all now wished for was a Union upon a broad basis, upon a fair, tho' not an equal footing, and if the Right honourable Gentleman over the Way would but submit to a Capitulation ..."
Description:: Title etched below image. and Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Publisher:: Published 3d March 1784 by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government and Public speaking
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A hasty sketch of yesterday's business [graphic]

4. Cicero in Catilinam [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1785]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 26. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., 1 print : etching with drypoint and stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 34.3 x 28.5 cm, on sheet 36.7 x 29.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 26 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cicero in Catilinam [graphic]

5. Cicero in Catilinam [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1785]
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 26. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., and Mounted on page 41.
Publisher:: Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cicero in Catilinam [graphic]

6. Cicero in Catilinam [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1785]
Call Number:: 785.03.17.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: Leaf 26. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following title: Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c. &c., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Speakers of the House of Commons -- Literature: Quotation referencing Catilinam, I.i.1., and Mounted to 47 x 34 cm.
Publisher:: Published 17th March 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, Hatsell, John, 1743-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Politicians, Public speaking, Benches, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cicero in Catilinam [graphic]

7. Morning preparation [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [24 February 1785] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 10. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike, with "Gillray fecit" added in lower left corner. For an earlier state of the plate, see no. 6790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 72., and On leaf 10 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic]

8. Morning preparation [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [25 February 1785]
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Mounted on verso of leaf 91., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper ; plate mark 36 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 39.3 x 25.9 cm, mounted to 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].

9. Morning preparation [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [25 February 1785]
Call Number:: 785.02.25.01+
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 37 x 31 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic].