Two ladders placed against a tall brick wall signed, "Treasury," reach an open window at the top. In it stands a man, perhaps the Duke of Portland, with a yoke on his shoulders and bunches of grapes hanging from each end. At the top of the ladders are, from left, Fox and North, both reaching for the grapes while at the same time emptying their bowels. Their excrement falls into the mouths of those climbing immediately after them; on Fox's ladder it is Sheridan. This process is repeated down to the last climbers. Each ladder is supported by a group of men gaping toward its top with their mouths open in expectation of the spoils
Alternative Title:
Political gapers
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by E. Rich, July 5 1783, No. 55 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Ladders, Windows, Climbing, Grapes, Defecation, and Clothing & dress
"A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 13895. The Queen has reached the top of the column; she is blindfolded and wears a fool's cap; but the column is shattered by the radicals, and she falls backwards, dropping sceptre and firebrand. The pedestal tilts, the column is broken in three, and the summit is being hauled down by a rope tugged at by a cheering mob of radicals with pikes. Flames and towering clouds of smoke ascend from a large fire at its base, on which a Bible inscribed 'I H S' and books of 'Laws' and 'Religion' are burning. The Black Dwarf (Wooler, see British Museum Satires No. 12988), kneeling, blows it with bellows. Crown, Bible, and cushion fall from the column. Hunt cheers the catastrophe, waving his cap, as do others. There is a tricolour banner topped by a skull and inscribed 'Blood & Plunder'. Cobbett (?) is now on the top of the Queen's ladder, with (?) Wood who cheers from a lower rung."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State from British Museum catalogue. For an earlier state published 28 October 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine, see no. 13902 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Companion print to: The radical ladder., and Mounted on page 5 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Wooler, T. J. 1786?-1853 (Thomas Jonathan),, and Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
Subject (Topic):
Ladders, Columns, Torches, Crowns, Bibles, Liberty cap, Blindfolds, Fires, Bellows, and Crowds
In the center of a broad city street, a gaily-dressed lamplighter carries his ladder as he walks to the right. In his right hand he carries a can with burning end and a pair of scissors with a chain in a case hangs from his waist. In the distance (left) is a large building with a church spire rising behind, and on the right a pillar with a lamp and iron rail above a brick wall
Description:
Title from caption above verses etched below image: "By Mr. Dibdin.", Verse in three columns below title begins: "I'm jolly Dick the lamplighter, they say the sun's my dad, and truly I believe it sir, for I'm a pretty lad ...", Numbered "602" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Purchased by British Museum in 2010. For similar, see British Museum number 1935,0522.1.36 in the online catalogue., No. 41 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cities & towns, Ladders, Lampposts, and People associated with manual labor
"An exterior scene set among ruins; to left the naked buttocks of Gulliver to whom an enema is being administered by a crowd of Lilliputians; to right their prime minister, carried in a thimble, supervises operations while beyond a rat carries off a child."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver
Description:
Printmaker, state and publisher from Paulson., Lettered below image with title followed by the quote: Nll Mrrg, Cht Nf. ndw Lps ccpc &c.&c. shd b. Prgd. See Gullivers Speech to the Honble. House of Vulgaria in Lilliput., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Originally published in 1726 as 'The Punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver', this state was reissued with a new title in 1757 by Robert Sayer, who owned the plate, for which and further comment see 1858,0417.543. This state, with the publication line removed, was included in Sayer's collection of 1768, alongside the Hudibras series., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters., and On page 163 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Name):
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Subject (Topic):
Enema, Ladders, Adoration, Children, Rats, Preachers, Pulpits, and Chamber pots
"Queen Caroline reaches the top step of a flimsy double-ladder, pushed by the foremost of a train of gnome-like Jacobins who scramble up behind her or wait (right) to ascend. She holds a blazing firebrand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14145) emitting clouds of smoke, with which she tries to reach the royal crown (irradiated), which rests on a cushion and Bible, on the summit of a pillar representing the Constitution. A mitre and crosier are carved on the pillar which is spiralled with a band inscribed (reading upwards) 'Commons', 'Lords', 'King'. On the square base are the equally balanced scales of Justice. The Queen wears a feathered hat and an enormously long cloak, under which the Radicals on the ladder are sheltering. These wear caps of Liberty (or Folly) with tricolour cockades; one has a dagger, one a pike, one (Hunt) a bludgeon, one holds the shaft of a banner, inscribed 'Democracy Republic', topped by a cap of Liberty. The rungs of the ladder are: 'Spa Fields Riot'; 'Smithfield', Hunt climbs from one to the other; 'Hunts Procession'; 'Peter[loo]'; 'Cato Stre[et', see No. 13707, &c.]; 'Queens Arrival' [see No. 13730, &c.]; 'Radical Address' [see British Museum Satires No. 13934, &c.]; 'Mob Government' [the top]. The back of the ladder (reading downwards): 'Revolution'; 'Anarchy'; 'Ruin'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State from British Museum catalogue. For an earlier state published October 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine, see no. 13895 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Companion print to: The funeral pile., and Mounted on page 4 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Spa Fields Riot, London, England, 1816, Ladders, Columns, Torches, Crowns, Bibles, Capes (Clothing), and Liberty cap
"Queen Caroline reaches the top step of a flimsy double-ladder, pushed by the foremost of a train of gnome-like Jacobins who scramble up behind her or wait (right) to ascend. She holds a blazing firebrand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14145) emitting clouds of smoke, with which she tries to reach the royal crown (irradiated), which rests on a cushion and Bible, on the summit of a pillar representing the Constitution. A mitre and crosier are carved on the pillar which is spiralled with a band inscribed (reading upwards) 'Commons', 'Lords', 'King'. On the square base are the equally balanced scales of Justice. The Queen wears a feathered hat and an enormously long cloak, under which the Radicals on the ladder are sheltering. These wear caps of Liberty (or Folly) with tricolour cockades; one has a dagger, one a pike, one (Hunt) a bludgeon, one holds the shaft of a banner, inscribed 'Democracy Republic', topped by a cap of Liberty. The rungs of the ladder are: 'Spa Fields Riot'; 'Smithfield', Hunt climbs from one to the other; 'Hunts Procession'; 'Peter[loo]'; 'Cato Stre[et', see No. 13707, &c.]; 'Queens Arrival' [see No. 13730, &c.]; 'Radical Address' [see British Museum Satires No. 13934, &c.]; 'Mob Government' [the top]. The back of the ladder (reading downwards): 'Revolution'; 'Anarchy'; 'Ruin'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a smaller version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., A smaller version of this design, signed "G. Cruikshank fect.", was published October 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine; see no. 13895 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10. This larger version is briefly mentioned at the end of the above catalogue entry: "An enlarged version was published by Humphrey, 12 Aug. 1821 ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Jacobins -- Firebrands -- Royal crowns -- Constitution -- Mitre and crosier -- Scales of justice -- Cap of folly -- Daggers -- Weapons: pike, bludgeon -- Sticks: bludgeon., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 39.1 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 40 x 25 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Imperfect; digit "1" in the day of publication "12" in imprint has been erased from sheet., and Manuscript "61" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Spa Fields Riot, London, England, 1816, Ladders, Columns, Torches, Crowns, Bibles, Capes (Clothing), Liberty cap, Daggers, and Scales
Title from item., Publication date, based on dates of the passage of the Boston Port Act and Quebec Bill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Québec (Province).
Subject (Topic):
Boston Port Bill, 1774, Clergy, Crutches, Eyeglasses, Gout, Hammers, Hypodermic syringes, Ladders, and Money
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '232' in lower left corner., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Trades: applewomen -- Livestock: rampaging pigs -- Trimmers.
Publisher:
Published 20th May 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Medicine shows, Stages (Platforms)., Spectators, Dentistry, Clowns, Patent medicines, Ladders, and Snakes
"Frontispiece from Wolcot's 'Benevolent Epistle to Sylvanus Urban alias Master John Nichols, Printer, . . . 1790'. Nichols (left) has just risen in anger from his chair and looks to the left, resting his clenched fists on two large volumes placed on a small roughly made table, on which is also an ink-pot with pens. These are 'Q. Eliz: Prog:' and 'Anecdotes of Mr B.' [Bowyer]. In the background is Parnassus, with the Temple of Fame, on which is poised a figure of Fame blowing a trumpet. Against the mountain rests a tall ladder up which a dog has scrambled, but is still far from the summit. A man on stilts advances towards the mountain, an 'Essay on Old Maids' projects from his pocket, showing that he is William Hayley; a paper inscribed 'Eudora' falls from him. On the ground are: a letter 'ToMr.N--c--ll'; a book: 'Gentlemans Magazine', and papers; 'Charade', 'Conundrum Riddle', 'Rebus', 'Mr Badcocks Letters'. Beneath the design is engraved:'With anger foaming and of vengeance full, Why belloweth John Nichols like a bull?'"--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece from: A benevolent epistle to Sylvanus Urban, alias Master John Nichols ... / by Peter Pindar. London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1790., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to The Gentleman's magazine -- Mythology: Parnassus -- Figure of Fame -- Temple of Fame., and Mounted to 33 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
G. Kearsley
Subject (Name):
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819., Hayley, William, 1745-1820, and Nichols, John, 1745-1826
