Title etched below image., Date from manuscript annotation in lower right corner of sheet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 1 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Names of figures depicted in the print are written at bottom of sheet and on mounting leaf, in red ink and pencil, in two different hands; date "Jan. 1820" written in black ink in lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Adultery, Scandals, Thrones, Ships, Devil, Gallows, and Shackles
Heading to a printed broadside in support of Queen Caroline, with a depiction of the Queen in the upper left, riding in a chariot pulled by a lion under a banner reading "Innocence and Triumph." The Italian witnesses against her are being led in chains to the gallows, the man at the back of the line remaking "This is past a joke O! Majocc"; a hangman smoking a pipe awaits them at the top of a ladder, noose in hand. Three figures with bags over their heads are already hanging, with a fourth hanged figure being fed by a devil with a pitchfork into the flaming mouth of a demon on the right, a "Green Bag" falling into the flames next to him. Another victim is skewered by a second devil standing inside the demon's mouth; the words "Milan Commission Receiving Office" are written amid the flames. A John Bull figure with a walking stick watches the scene from the right, remarking: "Well now if this h'ant a sight that pleases John Bull - Go & be hang'd to ye you Italian scoundels - come to swear an innocent womans life away." In the center foreground, a dog tears at a second "Green Bag" with its mouth
Alternative Title:
Exaltation of my jockey & his brave confederates and Exaltation of my jockey and his brave confederates
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Remnants of etched title are visible beneath image, suggesting that the plate was originally larger and cut down at some point., Date of publication from manuscript note "Aug. 1820" in ink beneath lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Song printed in letterpress in two columns below title, beginning with the line "Oh, there never was such times!" and ending "Here's the triumph of brave Caroline our Queen O.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., and Mounted on leaf 58 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Witnesses, Shackles, Chariots, Lions, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Ladders, Devil, Demons, Fire, Bags, and Dogs
Title from item., Attribution to Paul Sandby from Gunn., Third state, with an addition of a gallows on far right. See British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from earlier states., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., "Price 6"., and Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Newspapers: Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.'
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Anglo-French War, 1755-1763, Barbers, Engravers, Devil, Wigs, and Gallows
"A tailor on his raised shop-board (right) kneels in terror at the apparition of an emaciated corpse-like man and a fat pig with its throat cut standing on its hind-legs. Beneath the shop-board the head and shoulders of the Devil emerge from the flames of Hell; he holds a trident and a bulky roll of cloth inscribed 'Cabbage' (cf. BMSat 8035, &c.), implying that the tailor's pilfering has not been restricted to scraps of material. (The place where tailors kept their 'cabbage' was termed Hell; see Grose, 'Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue'). The tailor wears a nightcap and apron; round his neck is a tape-measure; he says (excreting), "o Lord o Lord I am in a nasty Condition". A small demon (right) holds his nose. Beside the tailor are his goose, lying on a garment (which is burning from the heat of the iron); the heel of a loaf with a knife, onions and cucumbers lie next a paper inscribed 'sick and in prison and he [word erased, comforted] me'. reside an ink-pot are an open book: 'The Benevolent Society Benifet of \ Survivership', and a paper: 'Advice to overseers respecting the poor'. The corpse stands in back view holding out a minatory hand and turning his nead in profile to the right; he asks "who starved me to Death". The pig says "you have been the Cause of my death". A man on the extreme left looks through a door, saying, "Aye Aye this comes of your ingratitude for my saving your life". On the wall which forms a background are (left to right) two pictures, two broadside ballads, and a print: [1] The lower part of a picture of 'Howard' shows the legs of a man walking past a barred prison window, through which look two faces. (News was received on 26 Feb. of the death of John Howard, the prison reformer, 'Gent. Mag.', 1790, i. 276, but this Howard appears to be the corpse.) [2] 'A Song by Tom Stitch on the Windsor Corporation'. [3] 'A Song in Ridicule of my best Friend.' [4] A print of a gibbet from which hangs a noose inscribed 'The Desert.' [5] A large picture: 'Windsor Charity'; the tailor stands in a prison cell, pointing to an emaciated man lying on straw, turning to a woman who kneels at his feet, he says, clenching his fist, "let him Die & be d--d." The woman says, "for God sake don't Suffer my Poor father to Starve". The dying man says "I perish for want"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tailor befrited and Ghosts
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Dated in contemporary hand in lower right corner: 'Sept. 1790.', Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and monogram W below.
Depicts a fox (Charles James Fox) hanging from a gibbet around which dance members of the Conway family, headed by a blindfolded General Conway who is led by the nose by Shelburne. The Conways are all depicted as rats, with the exception of General Conway and his brother Lord Hertford. Shelburne is shown Janus-like with two faces, his own and that of the Devil. Refers to the resignation of Fox after Shelburne's appointment and Conway's support of the latter. A sequel to British Museum satire 5966
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Hon. Edward Conway, Cannon of Christ Church, 1757-1785 -- Ministries: fall of Rockingham's ministry --Literature: allusion to Little Red Riding Hood -- Conway family as rats -- Mottoes: sic transit gloria mund., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 25.0 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 27.3 x 38.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 37 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 2d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Rats, Foxes, Blindfolds, Gallows, Devil, and Dance
Depicts a fox (Charles James Fox) hanging from a gibbet around which dance members of the Conway family, headed by a blindfolded General Conway who is led by the nose by Shelburne. The Conways are all depicted as rats, with the exception of General Conway and his brother Lord Hertford. Shelburne is shown Janus-like with two faces, his own and that of the Devil. Refers to the resignation of Fox after Shelburne's appointment and Conway's support of the latter. A sequel to British Museum satire 5966
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Hon. Edward Conway, Cannon of Christ Church, 1757-1785 -- Ministries: fall of Rockingham's ministry --Literature: allusion to Little Red Riding Hood -- Conway family as rats -- Mottoes: sic transit gloria mund.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 2d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Rats, Foxes, Blindfolds, Gallows, Devil, and Dance
Leaf 32. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two-part satire on the resignation of Lord Bute, April 1763. On the left is a scene of execution, headed "Excise", with Bute, identified by his plaid waistcoat, hanging from an apple tree (referring to the Cider Bill), a devil sitting on the branch above him wears a large boot (a pun on Bute) on one leg, the other ending in a claw; two men below exult. In the centre a man (evidently another representation of Bute as he wears a large boot on one leg and on the other leg wears a garter lettered "Honi ..." as in the scene on the right) lies across a fire while another pumps a pair of bellows to fan the flames; three farmers standing behind the fire and another to the right rejoice at Bute's downfall. On the right, another devil reciting the proverb, "Harm watch, Harm catch", one leg ending in a hammer, sits on top of a gallows from which hangs a fox (Henry Fox) wighted down by money bags tied around his neck. On the right is a scene set in a grand interior, headed "Resignation, in which Princess Augusta sprawls weeping in a chair her breasts partly exposed while a devil delves into Bute's breeches as he drags him through a door through which flames and smoke can be seen, the Duke of Cumberland brandishes a sword in his right hand and pushes Bute with his left; he is encouraged by a nephew, Edward, Duke of York, at lower right, a lusty goat, one of whose hands is a claw, looks on with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Give the devil his due, Excise, and Resignation
Description:
Title etched below image, between the verses., Design consists of two images, each with a caption title above., Restrike, with final four lines of title burnished from plate. For original issue, published by J. Williams in 1763, see no. 4026 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Eight lines of verse below each image; the verses on the left begin: With greater joy, his L- see, like Judas hanging on a tree ..., and On leaf 32 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Ferdinand VII, seated on a throne on a low platform inscribed "TIRANIA", is flanked by two advisers, the Devil on the left and a friar on the right. At the friar's feet, in the foreground, a demon burns newspapers with a firebrand. Tortures of the Inquisition are seen in the background
Description:
Title from text in image., A close copy, with same imprint but with other inscriptions translated into Spanish, of a print by George Cruikshank entitled "The curse of Spain". Cf. No. 13009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Six lines of text below image: En tanto que los bravos españoles, Derramaban su sangre por Fernando, El á Napoleon felicitaba, Por las victorias que en el suelo hispano, Sus sanguinárias huestes conseguian-- Ved las hazañas de este Monstruo infando. La Ferdinanda. Lib. 1. v. 129., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1303., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 868., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1818.
Publisher:
Washington
Subject (Name):
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
The new ministry of Keppel, Conway, Burke, Fox and Richmond (together with Pitt the Younger) is depicted on the left riding small posts like hobby-horses, their identities indicated by numbers with a corresponding key beneath the design. On the right the members of the old ministry (Sandwich, Amherst, North and Mansfield) are shown entering the jaws of Hell, prodded by the Devil with a pitchfork. In the center is a dome on 5 pillars, the temple of the Constitution
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W Richardson, No. 68 High Holborn London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806. and Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Gallows, Pillories, Hell, Devil, and Cannons
