Protestant St. George too much for all the talons, or, the beast with seven heads and Beast with seven heads
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Title from words etched in the frame of the doorway in the left of the design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Beneath the design are etched the subjects and the characters illustrated., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Taxes: Window Tax, 1784 -- American Indians -- Ireland -- Irish harp -- Milk pails -- Literature: "The House that Jack Built" -- Literature: quotation from John Milton's Samson Agonistes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Jenkinson, Charles, 1727-1808, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Lord Lansdowne sits at a small writing-table, pen in hand, a number of papers before him. Three Jews (left) stand obsequiously on his right, but he turns with his enigmatic smile towards a French post-boy (right), a grotesque dwarfish man with long queue and jack-boots holding his whip and hat, who holds out to him with a cunning smile a paper inscribed: 'My dear Lord Paris 7th Jany 1783 I am happy to hear you have so nearly concluded your Alley Arrangements. The Preliminaries shall be signed coute que coute by the Time you desire, & you may rely on the Courier's arrival on the Eve of the 23d yours truly Billy Paradice [William Eden.]' Under Lansdowne's elbow is a paper inscribed 'Memorandums Pay off the Mortgage on Jesuits Colledge in Berkeley Square - Pay off Solomons any for 500£ pr Annm Inquire what Tayt will take for my Bond for 3000£ given for furniture sold at Christyes'. The foremost Jew holds out to Lansdowne a paper ... On a shelf, inscribed 'Waste Paper', in the upper right corner of the design, are three large bundles of papers: 'Ordnance Estimates', 'State of the National Debt', and 'Civil List'; two piles of documents hang from the shelf. On the wall above Lansdowne's head are two bust portraits: 'John Calvin', wearing a steeple-crowned hat, gown, and bands, and 'Ignatius Loyola', a profile portrait of Burke wearing a Jesuit's biretta as in British Museum Satires No. 6026, &c. 12."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Counterfeit signature; print by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to within thread margins of plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Treaties -- Commerical Treaty with France -- National debt -- Civil list -- Military Ordinance -- Allusion to J. Bond -- Allusion to St. Ignatious Loyola -- Allusion to John Calvin -- French post-boy -- Jesuits -- Allusion to William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, 1744-1814.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1787, by R. Phillips, Southwke., London
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Ethnic stereotypes, Tables, Writing materials, Boots, and Whips
"Lord Lansdowne is about to force down the throat of the Duke of Richmond a part of his model fortifications which are on a dish beside him. These are in the form of a semicircle of gun-embrasures, each marked with a letter of the word '[F]ORTIFICATION'; Lansdowne stands behind Richmond, who is seated, holding him by the arm, with the letter 'F' in a spoon which he holds before Richmond's mouth; Richmond starts back in alarm. The blind Barré, touching the wall to guide himself, enters from the right, leading by the empty right sleeve a lean and erect military officer with a wooden leg, who holds a long spear. On Richmond's table is a paper: 'Morning Post Tuesday March 6th 1787. Marquis La . . s . . . n; This Letter if his Grace thought proper, he would send him under cover to refresh his convenient & accomodating Memory------ Lords Debates' On the wall (left) behind the table is a plan of fortifications inscribed 'Cherbourg', above it is a scroll inscribed 'en le rose je fleurie' (the Lennox motto, cf. BMSat 7160)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Publisher's name written in ink in a contemporary hand in place of Fores's name, which has been erased from imprint.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 2d, 1787 by [J. Jarvis, Richmond Buildings]
Subject (Name):
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
Title from item., Illustration to: The dialogue between a premier and his journeyman., Placement instructions in upper left corner: Vol. II No. IX., Plate from: The town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Junr., 1769-1796, v. 2, p. 137., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Mrs. Cornelys's house at Soho Square -- Masquerades: masquerade given by Mrs. Cornelys on Februrary 14, 1770 -- Costume: masquerade -- Captain Watson -- Costume: jockey -- Costume: Harlequin.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
"Shelburne (left), as the kettle, looks at Fox (right), the porridge-pot, who is running away. Shelburne's body is in the form of a kettle, much blackened underneath; the handle, attached to his chest and shoulders, extends over his head. He has a complacent smile and holds out his hands, pointing towards Fox; his left foot is on the neck of a goose, which lies on its back on the ground. He is saying, "Oh do but look how black his Arse is!" Fox (right) with the head of a fox, his body a large circular pot, blackened underneath, is running away with an alarmed expression, his hands held up, his tongue hanging out. In the centre of the design, between the two figures is a sign-post, its arm, pointing to the right, is terminated by a well-drawn hand holding a die in its fingers, but pointing with its fore-finger in the direction in which Fox is running. The arm of the post is inscribed "TO BROOKS'S"; from it hangs a rope with a noose at the end of it. On the post is hung up a placard inscribed "To be Lett- either as a Gibbet or Direction Post". A landscape with bushes forms the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., "J.P. Leatherhead" probably a fictitious name. Not identified in British Museum catalogue., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Clubs: Brooks -- Geese as Westminster electors -- Signs: signposts., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1782, by P.J. Leatherhead
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of the actress Mrs. Abington (nee Frances Barton, 1737-1815) numbered 2, and Lord Shelburne, later Marquis of Lansdowne numbered 3.
Alternative Title:
Malagrida
Description:
Titles from text below images., Place of publication from: Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1777, page 9., and Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805. and Abington, Mrs. 1737-1815. (Frances Barton),
Leaf 62. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Man standing stiffly in profile to the right, head thrown back with a contemptuous scowl. His left hand resting on a cane. He wears a low broad-brimmed hat, a tightly-curled wig, buttoned coat, and gloves."--British Museum online catalogue and "The etching appears to be a copy of 'Humility', British Museum Satires No. 4795. The same figure appears conspicuously (attending a quaker's meeting) British Museum Satires No. 4794. He strongly resembles British Museum Satires No. 4682, and is probably intended either for Nash Grose or Lord Lansdowne (then Shelburne) to whom the title would apply, from the well-known name of Malagrida, the notorious Portuguese Jesuit, given to him in the 'Public Advertiser' of 16 Sept. 1767. It is not unlike some portraits of Lansdowne, but is very different from the later caricatures, see British Museum Satires No. 6022, &c."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "18" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Jesuits., Sheet 249 x 154 mm., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. by MDarly
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Grose, Nash, Sir, 1740-1814
Lord North balances smugly on his left foot atop the beam of a pair of scales tipping the balance in favor of a very obese Charles Fox. Fox laughs at Lord Shelburne who remains suspended on the other scale, unable to bring it down despite stamping his feet. He is being enveloped by a cloud of gas labelled "anathema" being excreted by North. Above to the left, George III, blindfolded with a tartan handkerchief, with the crown suspended above his head, reaches out from a cloud to place an enourmous wig on North's head
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 41 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 11th, 1783 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Scales, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
"A flying demon holds the level beam of a pair of scales, on which stand Wilkes (left) and Parson Horne (right). Each stands in the attitude of a fencer, thrusting at the other with an outstretched goose-quill; neither has the advantage. Wilkes wears a bag-wig, Horne is in parson's gown and bands. The demon says: "nicely pois'd indeed". The print illustrates "The Balance of Honour and Patriotism; or a Dialogue between Mr. H------and Mr. ------, in which the Demon of Discord very properly interferes". The dialogue ends with Horne's expressing a wish "that you, good Mr. Devil, had been conducting me to H------ll, before Malagrida [Shelburne] had persuaded me to engage in this d------n'd controversy"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Page number printed above image., and Plate from: The town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Junr., 1771, v. 3, p. 262.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Identified in an old hand on the impression in the British Museum, as Lord L------n. [Lansdowne?]. On another impression he has been identified as Sir Nash Grose. He strongly resembles British Museum sat 4917. He appears to be wearing a legal wig and gown which would make the identification with Sir Nash Grose more probable. The wig resembles that worn by Serjeants at law, see BMSat 5900; (Grose (1740-1814) did not become a serjeant till 1774. D.N.B.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '17' in upper right corner., Subject identified in British Museum catalog as either the Marquis of Landsdowne or Sir Nash Grose., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Oct. 3d, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Grose, Nash, Sir, 1740-1814 and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Leaf 62. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A standing man in profile with wig and hands folded under his cloak."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state and "Identified in an old hand as Lord L------n. [Lansdowne?]. On another impression he has been identified as Sir Nash Grose. He strongly resembles British Museum Satires No. 4917. He appears to be wearing a legal wig and gown which would make the identification with Sir Nash Grose more probable. The wig resembles that worn by Serjeants at law, see British Museum Satires No. 5900; (Grose (1740-1814) did not become a serjeant till 1774. D.N.B.)"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4682 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "17" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Oct. 3d, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Grose, Nash, Sir, 1740-1814
Leaf 62. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Man standing stiffly in profile to the right, head thrown back with a contemptuous scowl. His left hand resting on a cane. He wears a low broad-brimmed hat, a tightly-curled wig, buttoned coat, and gloves."--British Museum online catalogue and "The etching appears to be a copy of 'Humility', British Museum Satires No. 4795. The same figure appears conspicuously (attending a quaker's meeting) British Museum Satires No. 4794. He strongly resembles British Museum Satires No. 4682, and is probably intended either for Nash Grose or Lord Lansdowne (then Shelburne) to whom the title would apply, from the well-known name of Malagrida, the notorious Portuguese Jesuit, given to him in the 'Public Advertiser' of 16 Sept. 1767. It is not unlike some portraits of Lansdowne, but is very different from the later caricatures, see British Museum Satires No. 6022, &c."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "18" in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Jesuits.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. by MDarly
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Grose, Nash, Sir, 1740-1814
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mrs. Abington and Lord Shelburne, later Marquis of Lansdowne
Alternative Title:
Alicia
Description:
Joseph Walker succeeded his father Thomas Walker as publisher of ’Hibernian Magazine’ 1775-1805. See LC authority record for Thomas Walker., Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1786. A copy of British Museum no. 5411 in reverse, originally published in Town and country magazine., and Title from item.
"A complicated design: advocates for religious toleration in a church, the pulpit occupied by Priestley, Price, and Lindsey. The central figure is Price, to whom the clerk standing below has passed up in a cleft stick a paper inscribed: 'The Prayers of this Congregation are desired for the Success of the patriot Members of the national Assembly now sitting in France'. Price takes the paper, and, raising his left hand sanctimoniously, says: "And now Let us fervently pray for the Abolition of all unlimited and limit[ed] Monarchy, for the Annihilation of all ecclesiastical Revenues and Endowments, for the Extinction of all Orders of Nobility and all rank and Subordination in civil Society and that Anarchy and Disorder may by our pious Endeavours prevail throughout the Universe - See my Sermon on the Anniversary of the Revolution" (see BMSat 7629, &c). Priestley leans over the left edge of the pulpit, his right arm raised; flames issuing from his mouth expand into four columns of smoke inscribed respectively 'Atheism' (smaller than the others), 'Deism', 'Socinianism', 'Arianism'. This blast strikes an angel carrying a cross; he flies out of a window (left), looking over his shoulder at Priestley with an expression of horror. Through the window is also seen a church steeple, being pulled down by a rope. Seated in a pew below is Fox (left) who looks up at the preacher, smiling; a similar column of smoke issues from his mouth and rises towards Priestley, inscribed 'Hear hear hear'. Lindsey leans over the right side of the pulpit, holding out 'A Table of the Thirty nine Articles' in a frame, this he tears to pieces. The back of the pulpit, above Price's head, is ornamented with an inverted and irradiated triangle containing the letters 'PPL', the initials of the three preachers. Above it is suspended a marquess's coronet with Lord Lansdowne's beehive crest. On the sounding-board are (left) two books: 'Priestley on civil Government' and 'Price on civil Liberty'. Beside them hangs from the roof a striped flag inscribed 'America' (Price's 'Observations on civil liberty . . .' (1776) had encouraged the Declaration of Independence, see BMSat 5644). On the books stands a small demon. Another demon, wearing the steeple-crowned hat of the puritans of the Commonwealth, sits on an open book (right) inscribed 'a Sermon on the Anniversary of the glorious Revolution'. Beneath the pulpit is a pew running across the church from left to right and containing the clerk's desk. In this sits Fox (left); facing him in profile to the left is Dr. Abraham Rees looking through a large magnifying-glass at a large open volume inscribed 'Bacons liber Regis' and 'Cantuar'. On the clerk's desk is a paper: 'Ye are desired to take Notice That a Vestry will be held on Tuesday to take into Consideration some necessary Reforms both in the Church and State'. Behind and between these two is a shadowy head, partly obliterated by the smoke issuing from Fox, identified as Sir Henry Hoghton. Next him is a woman with the closed eyes and upturned face of an enthusiast; she holds out an open book: 'Margt Nicholson her Book' (see BMSat 6973, &c). Seated in profile to the right is Dr. Kippis. Standing beside him is Lord Stanhope, smiling, his head turned in profile to the left. He tears in half a paper inscribed: 'Acts of Parliamt for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in ye Church and Administration of the Sacraments'. Beneath his elbow is a paper: 'Heads of a Bill for the Abolition of Tithes and other ecclesiastical Endowm[ents]'. In front of the pulpit the central figure is an exciseman standing with his back to the pulpit and looking over his shoulder at Stanhope with a smile. An ink-bottle is attached to his coat, under his arm is a book inscribed 'Excise'. His folded hands rest on the head of a cane, the tip of which is in a chalice which stands at his feet. Under his foot is a paper: 'Order for the Ministration of the holy Communion'. He is gauging a Communion cup, and is evidently Thomas Paine. Next him (right) in back view, kneeling, is a bishop, with enormous lawn sleeves; he is identified by Miss Banks as Edward Law, Bishop of Carlisle, but an open book in front of him is inscribed 'Watson Tracts', suggesting that he is Watson of Llandaff, cf. BMSat 7419. In the foreground on the left a kneeling man is flinging out the contents of an open chest on which are a bishop's escutcheon, and a female figure with a cross and chalice, probably representing religion. He throws out a large book: 'The Book of Common Prayer' to join a book of 'Homilies'. Beside this lie a mitre, a crozier, a chalice, a communion plate with bread at which rats are nibbling, a paper: 'The Communion of Saints, &c.' Looking over the shoulder of this despoiler of the Church is a bearded Jew, his hands raised in admiration, saying, "O vat fine plaat I vil give you de Monies for it Sar." On the right and in profile to the left sits a soldier, with the lank hair and upward gaze of the enthusiast; he holds his sabre by the scabbard. In his right hand is a steeple-crowned hat. Behind him sits a shadowy worshipper, full face, with upturned head and clasped hands. In the foreground on the extreme right a beadle is seated on the floor asleep. His hat is inscribed 'Oliver Condable St James'. Beside him are a dog and an open book: 'Killing no Murder a Sermon for the 30th of January'. Above the back of a pew on the extreme right is part of the back of a wig, identified as that of the Lord Mayor. A large mace is beside it, and a pillar surmounted by the Royal Arms: the lion is headless and in place of the crown is a puritan's steeple-crowned hat. Through a doorway inscribed 'Sanctum Sanctor[um]' is a three quarter length portrait in an oval frame of Oliver Cromwell. From a gallery in the upper right corner of the design, a ruffianly looking man leans over with a clenched fist, saying, "No Test no Bishops". In his left hand is a paper: 'The Rights of the Protestant Dissenters vindicated a Sermon by Jos Priestley.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., First two letters of printmaker's signature form monogram., Eleven lines of verse below image in two columns, one on either side of title: From such implacable tormentors, fanatics, hypocrites, dissenters ..., Temporary local subject terms: Religious dissenters -- Reference to America -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Magnifying glasses -- Religious reforms -- Excisemen -- American flag -- Reference to Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Acts: Repeal of the Test and Corporation Act, March 2, 1790., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 50.2 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 50.6 x 35.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Hoghton, Henry, Sir, 1728-1795, Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Watson, Richard, 1737-1816, and Nicholson, Margaret, approximately 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Flags, Clergy, Architecture, Military uniforms, British, and Hand lenses
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Bourbon Family Compact treaty, 15 August 1761 -- Berkeley Square: Lansdowne House -- Joseph Jekyll, M.P., as a monkey -- John Morris, M.P., as a bear -- Bears -- Monkeys., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 26, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, and Trained animals
"A carriage (right) drives at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace; Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing the pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now, or never! - aha the Coast is clearing!------drive! drive! you dog!" He has a sly smile. The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Lansdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es] Geometriam'. The coachman and three footmen who stand behind have enormous feather-trimmed cocked hats in the French fashion, with bag-wigs. Running behind the carriage with outstretched arms are: Fox, saying, "Stop! stop! - & take me in, - Stop!"; Sheridan saying, "And me too! stop", and (very small) M. A. Taylor, saying, "And me". In the background a similar carriage is driving yet more rapidly out of the Palace gateway; the tiny figures are recognizable: Dundas, the coachman, has dropped the reins, the horses are running away; Pitt, terror-stricken, puts his arms through the windows. Both look up at a dove with an olive-branch which flies over their heads towards the gateway. In the background are part of the Palace and the houses at the SW. corner of St. James's Street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coaches -- London: St. James's Palace -- Domestic service: footmen -- Coachmen -- Pavement -- Symbols: dove with an olive-branch -- Nicknames: Shelburne as Malagrida -- Allusion to Gabriel Malagrida, 1689-1761., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. March 16th by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
"A reissue ... of BMSat 6250 (1783), on the coalition of Fox and North, Humphrey's imprint scored through but legible. The application to current politics (if intended) is obscure: Fox, saying "Damn the Tories!!!", triumphs over Shelburne, with the help of North (d. 1792)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate originally published with the imprint: Pubd. July 11th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand. Original imprint has been scored through with etched lines but is still visible in lower left corner of image. Cf. No. 6250 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Scales of Justice -- George III as figure of Justice -- Crowns -- Allusion to Whigs -- Allusion to Tories -- Obesity., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
"The King and Queen (left), seated under a canopy decorated with a crown and the royal arms, listen enraptured to a concert; the performers are arranged in a pyramid on the right. Numbers on the figures refer to notes engraved beneath the design. George III leans back, his hands clasped, eyes turned ecstatically upwards; he wears a laurel wreath and his head is surrounded by a star-shaped halo. The Queen sits upright with an eager expression, beating time; her hair and scraggy neck are covered with jewels (cf. BMSat 6978, &c). On the extreme left, and on the King's right, stands Pitt, very erect, a rattle in his right hand, blowing a whistle attached to a child's coral and bells. Behind the Queen are two ladies: '4', lean and ugly, holds an ear-trumpet to her ear; ['5'], who is stout, holds a parakeet on her finger. This group is: '1 Mr P------t'. '2 K------'. '3 Q------'. '4 Mad. Schw---gh--n' [Schwellenberg]. '5 Miss Jeff-----s' [Elizabeth Jefferyes or Jeffries, a Maid of Honour]. The royal party are on a circular carpet. On the roof of the canopy sits a demon holding up a purse in each hand, emblem of the supposed avarice of the King and Queen, a favourite subject with Gillray, cf. BMSat 7166, and see BMSat 7836, &c. Three demon hounds, inscribed 'G. R. Windsor', chase a realistically drawn fox (Fox), to whose tail is tied (by a ribbon inscribed 'Coalition') a pot with the features of North. The performers are arranged behind a low semicircular barrier. A stout man with a goat's head is asleep on the left, his hands clasped on his breast; from his pocket protrudes a paper inscribed 'Road to Wynnstay' (cf. BMSat 7068, &c). He is '6 Sr W. W. W-----ne' [Williams-Wynn], one of the founders of 'The Concert of Antient Music'. A demon child and an infant with butterfly-wings sit together on the barrier, singing from one book. A braying ass holding a book is '7 Mr Assb-----ge' (Ashbridge, a celebrated kettle-drummer). A bird of prey (? an owl) wearing a large cap stands on the barrier, a piece of music under its claws inscribed 'Anointed Solomon, King over all, E------'. She is '8 Mad. Mara.' Next '7' is seated a large ox supporting a music-book on his hoofs. He is 'J------h B--tes' (Joah Bates, originator (1776) and conductor of 'The Concert of Antient Music'). In the second row of performers (right to left) is a group (behind '7' and '8') of three fishwives: '10, D------ R------d'. the Duke of Richmond, with a basket of fish on his head, arms akimbo, is scolding '11, M-----s La--sd--e' (Marquis Lansdowne), while '12, Col. B--r-' (Barré), his eyes closed, joins in the dispute. An allusion to the altercation in the House of Lords over Richmond's proposed fortifications (see BMSat 7149 etc.). Next, realistically drawn, is '13 Sir J. M--why' (Mawbey), holding under his arm a squeaking pig whose tail he is twisting as if it were a musical instrument. Mawbey, as a distiller, was famous for keeping large quantities of hogs, see BMSats 5746, 7506, &c. Two lawyers sing from the same music; they are '14 Atty Genl' (Arden) and '15 Sollr Genl' (Macdonald). Behind their heads, and towards the apex of the pyramid, stand two judges facing each other, each holding a chimney-sweep's shovel and brush which they strike together in the manner of chimney-sweeps on May Day. They are '16. D--n--as' (Dundas) and '17. Ld L--ghb--gh' (Loughborough). The former's shovel is decorated with a thistle, the latter's with a man hanging from a gibbet, with the date '1745' and 'Kenn Com' in allusion to the Jacobites executed on Kennington Common, one of whom was Sir John Wedderburn. The apex of the pyramid is '18. Ch--n--ll--r', Thurlow, standing with a fierce expression; he holds up a pair of birch-rods above the bare posteriors of two terrified boys who serve as kettle-drums. Two squalling and fighting cats hang from the ceiling by ribbons attached to their tails. Beneath the design is engraved: '------Monarchs, who with Rapture wild, Hear their own Praise with Mouths of gaping Wonder, And control each Crotchet of the Birth-day Thunder. Peter Pindar.' The satire illustrates this and other passages from 'Ode upon Ode', which attack Pitt for obsequiousness to the King, and the King and Queen for their parsimony in attending the Concerts of Antient Music as subscribers instead of having concerts at their palace: '- Monarchs, who with oeconomic Fury Force all the tuneful World to Tot'n'am Lane.' Mawbey is mentioned: 'Strains! that Sir Joseph Mawbey deem'd divine, Sweet as the Quavers of his fattest Swine.' Wynn also: 'The sleek Welsh Deity who Music knows- The Alexander of the Tot'n'am Troops.' Richmond is mentioned: 'Mad as his Military Grace For fortifying ev'ry Place . . .' The cats: 'How like the Notes of Cats, a vocal Pair.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with numbers and explanatory notes, hairs on the queen's face and further stippling on the king's face., Publication date inferred from watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Sir John Wedderburn, 1704-1746? -- Chimney sweep's implements -- Singing lawyers -- Squeking pigs -- Fighting cats -- Dispute over Richmond's fortifications -- Child demons -- Ribbon of coalition -- Circular carpets -- Royal canopies -- Demon hounds -- Royal parsimony -- Birds: paraket -- Owls -- Kensington Common -- Literature: allusion to Peter Pindar's Ode upon ode -- Concerts: Antient music, 1787 -- Music: Serenata 'Solomon' by William Boyce -- Emblems -- Allusion to Jacobites -- Children: bous a kettle drums -- Richmond as a fishwoman -- Music books -- Performers in pyramid shape -- Star-shaped haloes -- Birch rods -- Toys: coral and bells -- Cherubs., Watermark: R A 1801 on the left side of sheet; fleur-de-lis on the right side., Matted to 56 x 71 cm., and Verso of former mount (49 x 60 cm), now laid in, with image in reverse of La belle assemblee.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 10th, 1787 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1749-1789, Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Mawbey, Joseph, Sir, 1730-1798, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Jefferyes, Elizabeth, active 1787-1791, Ashbridge, John, -1799, Bates, Joah, 1741-1799, and Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
"The Devil (or a satyr) crouches behind a magic lantern whose handle he is turning. Its light is thrown on a draped sheet, speared to the wall by a fork. Facing the lantern, life-size and realistic, but apparently displayed by the lantern, stand (left to right) Fox, Sheridan, and Lansdowne. Each stands as if speaking in Parliament: Fox, with right hand in his breeches pocket, left fist raised for a downward thrust; Sheridan stooping forward as if expounding, right forefinger extended, left fist half raised; Lansdowne smiling blandly. The Devil points at Fox; an angry man at his side (right) threatens Fox with fist and bludgeon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816