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1. "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.12.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three documents: [1] 'Navy of England to be retaind viz: 50000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes.' [2] '10 000 heavy reasons for giving the Enemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports.' [3] 'Advantages of cold oeconomy'. Below these are bunches of turnips, carrots, a cabbage, the whole terminating in a pendent bonnet-rouge. Sinclair is fashionably dressed, wearing a hat, half-boots, ill-fitting coat, and overcoat almost to the ankles. On a heavily draped writing-table (right) are three large volumes: 'Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging and Pursuits of Agriculture.' A paper: 'The Apostate Laird - a Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Arm' Chair. On the wall (right) is a picture of three pigs feeding at a trough of 'Democratic Verbosity'; this is 'Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude' [see BMSat 8500, &c.]. Beside it is a placard: 'Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic Principle of the Stilliards of Egalité'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- "Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Flags: British flag -- Food: vegetables -- Bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Writing materials: inkstand., Watermark: 1794 J Whatman., and Subject identified in contemporary hand below title.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]
2. A bouncer. A belcher [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [20 January 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.01.20.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Belcher
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female Costume: Fur wrap -- Male Costume, 1802., and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Janry. 20, 1802 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Fur garments, Muffs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bouncer. A belcher [graphic].
3. A list of the regicides, who voted in the National Convention, for the murder of Louis XVI. King of France, and their fate
- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 82 795R
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- "Broadside on the execution of Louis XVI; with a hand-coloured aquatint pasted to a list printed in four black-bordered columns, the (printed) title as above. Fortune, blindfolded, with winged feet, pushes her wheel on the summit of the globe, which emerges from clouds and is decorated by three large fleur-de-lis. She runs in profile to the right, her draperies floating behind her. On the lower left circumference of the wheel, about to move upwards, are a crown and a cross; on its summit are two papers inscribed 'Tallien' and 'Merlin'. On the right, and beginning to descend, is a bonnet-rouge. On the lower right circumference, about to be crushed, are papers inscribed 'Collot d'Herbois' and (almost at the lowest point) 'Barrere'. Each column is again divided into four, headed: 'Names', 'Departments', 'When arrested', 'Fate'. Beneath this long list are two shorter ones: 'A List of those, who, without having Voted for the King's Murder, have made themselves eminent in the French Revolution, and have been recompensed', i.e. have been guillotined or have committed suicide. This is followed by a list of 'French Republican Generals, who have received a reward for their services, during the French Revolution'. Most have been guillotined, others have died by suicide or otherwise, some have merely been arrested. 'Dumourier' appears as 'Deserter'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Price below imprint: Price Three Shillings., With an engraved and coloured symbolic illustration pasted at the head., Watermark: J. Whatman 1794., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for the author, by H. Reynell, No. 21, Piccadilly, and sold by S.W. Fores, No. 3, Piccadilly, near the Hay-Market
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
- Subject (Topic):
- Regicides and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A list of the regicides, who voted in the National Convention, for the murder of Louis XVI. King of France, and their fate
4. A muddy a sketch in Bond Street! / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 April 1800]
- Call Number:
- 800.04.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coaches -- Coaches: muddy -- Domestic service: coachman -- Footmen -- Young women -- Male dress, 1800 -- Street scenes: Bond Street.
- Publisher:
- Pub. April 3, 1800, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A muddy a sketch in Bond Street! / [graphic]
5. A new Irish jaunting carr : the tandem, or, Billy in his sulky / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Feb. 20, 1799.
- Call Number:
- 799.02.20.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- New Irish jaunting car, Tandem, or, Billy in his sulky, and Billy in his sulky
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent., and Temporary local subject terms: Unions: reference to the Union of Ireland and Great Britain -- Resolutions: reference to Irish resolutions, 1798 -- Unions: reference to Irish objections to the union -- Slogans: voice of the people -- Vehicles: sulky -- Signs: singposts -- Bulls -- Paddy Bull (Symbolic character) -- Whips.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new Irish jaunting carr : the tandem, or, Billy in his sulky / [graphic]
6. A new prop for a rickety stool [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Feb. 28, 1798.
- Call Number:
- 798.02.28.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two lovers embrace within a small shed inscribed 'Strong Box' supported on a pole; a tailor with huge shears is about to cut the pole, saying, "I'll upset the basket". The open doors of the shed are 'Modesty' and 'Chastity'. Behind is sketched an equestrian statue with a railing, indicating a London square. On the right is a room, flanked on the left by a high folding screen on which are bills with the titles of chap-books or songs relating to tailors, the uppermost being 'The Brighton Taylor' (see BMSat 6942, &c). In the room five men with horns sprouting from their heads approach a (?) lawyer sitting at a writing-table, who says, "Say & seal, I say said & sealed". One stands on a three-legged stool, two legs of which have been replaced by moneybags, each inscribed '£2,500'. He says: "Joys that none but a married man can know - would that there was a Taylor here to measure them, but it would cost five thousand - " [Other inscriptions have not been transcribed.] An old man with a crutch looks round the screen at the lovers, saying, "D------d good Trade Ill go & get married too."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Adultery -- Cuckolds -- Divorce: crim con damages -- Trades: tailors -- Lawyers -- Barbers -- London square., Watermark: J Whatman 1794., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Divorce, Adultery, Barbers, Couples, Hugging, Lawyers, and Tailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new prop for a rickety stool [graphic]
7. An independent reply en militaire [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [5 June 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.06.05.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures lent for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Shopkeepers -- Male dress: Shopkeeper's dress -- Pets: Performing dogs., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1794.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 5th 1798 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An independent reply en militaire [graphic].
8. Elegant attitudes for fugel men [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [13 February 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.02.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the top half of the image, three soldiers in full dress uniform assume exaggerated, ballet-like poses, their rifles in hand; each pose is identified above, left to right: 'shoulder arms', 'present arms', and order arms'. In the lower half, two soldiers also pose: 'charge bayonet' and 'at ease'.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "J.B. Gearing" unidentified; fictitious name?, Printseller's announcement following imprint: "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.", Dedication below title: "Dedicated to the volunteer associations of Great Britain by their obedient humble servant J.B. Gearing.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman 1794.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 13th by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballet, Military maneuvers, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Elegant attitudes for fugel men [graphic]
9. Harpyes defiling the feast [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 May 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.05.07.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "'The Feast' is a steaming sirloin in a dish inscribed John Bull's Comfort, flanked by (left) a frothing tankard decorated with the Royal Arms and (right) a plum-pudding. The three harpies, Tierney (left), Shuckburgh, and Jekyll (right), malignantly vomit and excrete on the feast. Tierney hovers over the tankard, Shuckburgh over the beef; Jekyll, with webbed wings and barrister's wig and bands, is planted on the pudding. All do their worst to the beef, against the dish of which lies a carving-knife and fork."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Harpies defiling the feast
- Description:
- Title etched below image., No. 3 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology., and Temporary local subject terms: Roast beef -- Table settings: utensils -- Food: plum pudding -- Dishes: tankard with royal arms -- Mythology: harpies -- Reference to John Bull.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Harpyes defiling the feast [graphic]
