"A family, grouped round a small round table, see with consternation that the candle has a large blue flame. They are an elderly woman who is sewing, an elderly man in a smock frock, a youth, a small child, and a dog, whose raised head appears in the foreground. Behind the woman (left) stands a ghost in white drapery, with a beard and corpse-like face, glaring down at the group."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of carricatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: J Whatman 1794., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. July 30, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A clergyman stands facing the viewer with an expression of abdication of responsibility
Description:
Title from dialogue in image., Publication date from card catalog., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '241' 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: Manifestations of leap year -- Young women -- Young men -- Female dress, 1800 -- Male dress, 1800.
Publisher:
Published 18th March 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Fox and Sheridan sit with their feet in the stocks, each smoking a short pipe. Fox directs a fierce glare at Pitt, who stands (right) in profile to the (left), correct and impassive, holding a tall constable's staff. Pitt is grotesquely thin; he wears a large round hat over his bag-wig, and a long old-fashioned coat with wide cuffs
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd by W. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Stocks (Punishment), Law enforcement officers, Politicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent., Temporary local subject terms: Irish Rebellion, 1798 -- Ulster protestants: Peep of Day Boys -- Sun -- Fire: pyres -- Holyhead, Scotland., and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"The stout Prince of Orange, in profile to the left, shuffles along the pavement, holding the arm of his thin secretary, Nassalin. His eye is almost closed, his right hand, holding a stick, is thrust in his coat pocket. Both are plainly dressed, wearing powdered hair with small tails, and round hats with broad brims. Nassalin is hunchbacked."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pylades and Orestes
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Nassalin, fl. 1797, Secretary to the Prince of Orange -- Walking staves -- Hunchbacks, and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street & St. James's Street
A man, cane in hand, walks away with a look of scorn on his face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet with: Astonishment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A man, cane in hand, walks away with a look of scorn on his face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet with: Astonishment., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
