"Portrait (whole-length) of Sam House seated in an arm-chair, a wineglass in his right hand, his left hand on his hip. At his right side, on a small rectangular table, is a punch-bowl inscribed "Fox for eve[r]". He is in his well-known dress, see BMSat 5696, &c, and wears ungartered stockings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue. Also attributed to Charles Knight; see British Museum online catalogue., Text below title: Libertas et natule [sic] solum., and Mounted on leaf 9a (i.e. verso of leaf 8) of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Published July 12, 1781, by C. Knight, Berwick Street
A stout publican (Samuel House) holding a tankard with initials SH in his right hand and a pipe in his left is standing in front of his house. He wears waistcoat with sleeves, without a coat and wig; his breeches are unbuttoned at the knees. Behind him is a large barrel on which is written "Fox for Ever Huzza." A man smoking a pipe is seated below the window in which sit two other men, one with a pipe. Another man is vomiting out the second window
Alternative Title:
Sir Samuel House
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark at the bottom with loss of imprint., First state, with printmaker's name on plate., Date of publication from nos. 5696 and 5697 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, volume 5., and Sheet trimmed.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
House, Samuel, -1785. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Drinking vessels, Tobacco pipes, Barrels, Birdcages, Vomiting, and Clothing & dress
Title from caption etched below image., The number '4' etched over the number '3' in the imprint line., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Crowns: ducal coronet -- Sam House -- Dishes: foaming tankard -- Masks -- Election favors -- Coins -- Fountains -- Allusion to Ralph Payne, Baron Lavington, 1739-1807., and Mounted to 30 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 17, 1784, by H. MacPhail, No. 68 H'h. Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Portland, Dorothy Cavendish, Duchess of, 1750-1794, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Cancassing, and Political elections
"The candidates for Middlesex and their supporters race (right to left) to Brentford. The foremost rider is Wilkes on a horse wearing a royal crown (indicating George III); he holds up the cap of 'Liberty' on its staff. Half a length behind, and nearer the spectator, is Mainwaring, holding up a sword whose blade is inscribed 'Justice'. His horse's human head is blindfolded, in its mouth is a pair of scales; in one balance is 'Byng Dunston', in the other and heavier, 'Wilkes Manwaring'. The horse probably represents Justice, its rider was a well-known Middlesex Justice and chairman of the Middlesex Sessions. Behind Wilkes, his horse's head hidden, is a rider not identified, he has lost his stirrups and clutches his saddle with both hands. Behind these three and in the centre of the design is George Byng, the friend of Fox and the Prince of Wales, M.P. for Middlesex since 1780. He rides a pair of horses (representing the Coalition), standing with one foot on the saddle of each; the near horse has the head of Fox, the other that of North; the tail of the near horse is a fox's brush inscribed 'Grace'. The fore legs of the pair touch a paper inscribed 'Test'. Byng's whip is inscribed 'Coalition' and he is saying, "Spur them up behind Doctor, or I shall lose the race", addressing Hall, the Westminster apothecary, who rides like a hobby horse a pair of crutches tied with a ribbon; in place of a hat he wears a mortar inscribed 'All [sic] Blue and Buff'; he holds up his pestle as if it were a whip. Behind Byng, Jeffery Dunstan rides an ass with long ears and the head of Sam House; he looks round to address the Duchess of Devonshire who is the last of the cavalcade. The Duchess (right) rides astride, her bunched-up skirt showing spurred half-boots. Her horse has the head of the Earl of Surrey; she says, "Byng for ever - and may the Hearty Cock ever stand stout in our sarvice". Dunstan says, "Well said my Dutchess - Charly's Whipper-in for ever. Huzza". The Duchess wears a heavily trimmed hat in which is a large election favour and four fox's tails, each inscribed 'Byng'. On the extreme left is a sign-post pointing 'To Brentford'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Middlesex (England), and England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821, Byng, George, ca. 1735-1789, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, House, Samuel, -1785, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Elections, Crutches, Donkeys, Hobby horses, Horse racing, Horses, Justice, Liberty cap, Pharmacists, Political elections, Scales, Symbols, and Traffic signs & signals
Three members of the 'Society for Constitutional Information' dine on a roast beef labeled "Extract from John Bull." The roast is carved by Dr. Towers, the Society's pamphleteer who looks to his right at Charles Howard, Lord Surrey. They are joined at the table by Samuel House, popular Wardour Street publican whose inseparable great foaming tankard is carried in by a thin, fashionably dressed waiter
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Dent, No. 116 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799., House, Samuel, -1785., Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815., and Society for Constitutional Information (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Eating & drinking, Drinking vessels, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Three members of the 'Society for Constitutional Information' dine on a roast beef labeled "Extract from John Bull." The roast is carved by Dr. Towers, the Society's pamphleteer who looks to his right at Charles Howard, Lord Surrey. They are joined at the table by Samuel House, popular Wardour Street publican whose inseparable great foaming tankard is carried in by a thin, fashionably dressed waiter
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 31 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Dent, No. 116 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799., House, Samuel, -1785., Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815., and Society for Constitutional Information (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Eating & drinking, Drinking vessels, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Phillips identified as printmaker in British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Processions -- Chairing: of Fox, May 17, 1784 -- Covent Garden: Piazza -- Spectators -- Demons -- Musical instruments: trumpets -- Horns -- Flags -- Butchers -- Cleavers -- Coffins -- Mottos: 'Memento mori' -- Asses -- Allusion to scrutiny -- Allusions to High Bailiffs -- Tree of Good and Evil -- Cheering crowds -- Musicians., Watermark: Fleur-de-lis., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Published by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, and House, Samuel, -1785
A smiling Charles Fox, as Guy Vaux, seated in a chair resting on two poles, is carried by Hall, the apothecary, and Sam House, two of his staunch supporters. He holds in one hand a dark lantern, inscribed, "amor patriae," and in the other a bundle of matches "for the new Parliament." Sam House, dressed in his customary open shirt and ungartered stockings, wears a hat with an election favor signed, "Vaux." Hall has on his head a mortar with pestle instead of a hat. Anti-Fox verses are etched below the image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., House, Samuel, -1785., Hall, Edward, active 1784-1790., and Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political elections, Chairs, Lanterns, and Clothing & dress
"Sir Cecil Wray (left) is being drummed away from the hustings; Sam House, the central figure, beats a drum, looking at Wray. On the right, ignoring Wray, stands Fox addressing the populace, a cheering crowd behind him; he holds a flag on which is the figure of Britannia seated, holding the staff and cap of Liberty, and the words 'Champion of the People'. He says, "Friends & Fellow Citizens I cannot find words to express my feelings to you upon this Victory". Wray walks beside a procession which marches to Sam House's drum. It is headed by Chelsea pensioners with wooden legs, who scowl at him; one carries a crutch over his shoulder. They have two flags, inscribed respectively 'May all public Deserters feel public Resentment' (Wray had deserted the cause of Fox who nominated him for Westminster in 1782, see British Museum Satires No. 5998), and 'Chealsea Hospital'. They are followed by a detachment of maidservants, with a flag inscribed 'Tax on Maid Servants'; they carry over their shoulders a broom, a brush, a mop, a shovel. A crowd cheers frantically, hats are waved at the procession and at Fox. Behind Fox is part of the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, the scene of his triumph at the hustings, see British Museum Satires No. 6590, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Westminster deserter drummed out of the regiment
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Plate from: The history of the Westminster election., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Churches: St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Proposed tax on maidservants -- Chelsea Hospital pensioners -- Hustings -- Drumming for the hustings -- Slogans: 'Champion of the people' -- Veterans., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 26.2 x 36.4 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 79 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Drums (Musical instruments), Brooms, Cheering, Crowds, Crutches, and Servants
