Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Financial crisis before French Revolution -- Empty treasure chests., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly Nov. 12, 1788
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Necker, Jacues, 1732-1804, Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802, and Loménie de Brienne, Etienne Charles de, 1727-1794
"Louis XVI sits fatly at a table, carving large pieces from a roast bird, a rolled paper in his pocket inscribed 'Route de Melz'; he turns back to an obsequiously grinning officer wearing a wig and ruffled collar and sleeves, who approaches from an open door to right, bowing and presenting an 'Ordre of la municipalite poor l'Arret de Monsieur Louis de Bourbon', the king saying 'Je me f- de tout cela Laisse moi manger tranqillement'; in the doorway are seen a short man with the fleur-de-lis on his arm and a whip who comments, 'Voila but for his dam guts we had been safe out of their reach', and five heavy-looking soldiers, all with skull-and-crossbone motifs on their bearskin hats. To left, Marie Antoinette stands looking in a mirror, adjusting her neckerchief and saying 'Come my dear Louis havn't you finish'd your two Turkeys & drank your six bottles, you know we shall dine at Mont medy', a fine hat on the chair in front of her. Behind to left, the Dauphin sits grimacing on a water-closet, clutching at himself; his nurse approaches him with a beaker and spoon, saying 'aha! mon Petit Bourbon de shi-ten luck be de good Luck'. On the wall, three frames, the first, titled 'Louis 14', shows a preening figure, nude to the waist with a fistful of thunderbolts, standing on the back of a prostrate figure with several others abject at his feet, a temple to right; the second lacks a picture, but has an upside-down notice stuck in it, reading 'Par le roy'; the third, 'Juillet 14 1789', is the storming of the Bastille."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be seen the largest collection of caracatures [sic] in the world, admita[nc]e 1 shilling., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 41 x 56 cm., Watermark., German translation of title in contemporary hand at bottom of sheet., and Numbered in ms. in lower left corner of sheet: 369.
Publisher:
Pub. July 24, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVII, of France, 1785-1795, and Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a collection of 15 letters describing life in England, translated into French, possibly from German. The letters discuss English lotteries; the proliferation of newspapers; the constitution and the difficulty of reconciling ideology with practice; Parliamentary elections; literary societies; and the nobility. One letter describes and deplores the cruelty of amusements such as hunting, cock-fighting, and "combats des gladiateurs"; another letter mocks an English law against the illegal wearing of buttons. A letter dated December 14, 1790 discusses the possibility of the abolition of the slave trade; the author declares it is the most talked-of subject of conversation and expresses his astonishment that the trade still exists and The letters are followed by a lengthy essay explaining the Women's March on Versailles on October 5-6, 1789. The volume is prefaced by a note by the translator, who criticizes the motives of many travel writers; says that he was drawn to this letter-writer for his curiosity and interest in humanity; and explains that the writer published two volumes, the first of letters written in Paris and Versailles during the revolution in 1789, and the second of letters in England
Description:
In French., Binding: full calf., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., England, France, and Versailles (France)
Subject (Name):
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Elections, Hunting, Lotteries, Slave trade, Newspapers, Nobility, Travelers' writings, French, Description and travel, History, Women, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Minerva Press broadside detailing the unfortunate end of Louis XVI on the guillotine, January 21, 1793 in Paris. The broadside includes a woodcut illustration of a man lying face down waiting for the blade of the guillotine to drop; the decree of the French National Convention authorizing the execution of "Louis Capet;" descriptions of his execution and of the guillotine--"the modern beheading machine"--and a few anecdotes indicating "that for some time [the king] had been expecting his fate."
Description:
One of several variants; in this edition, the text of the second column begins with the words: "middle of the square, directly facing the gate of the garden of the Tuileries..." See also English short title catalogue, nos. T194096 and T039027., Caption title., Text printed in two columns; text and illustration within double-ruled black border., "Price three-pence.", "Where may be had an exact and authenticated copy of his will, price one-penny"--Lower margin., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed at the Minerva Office, for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, and sold wholesale at one guinea per hundred and And retail by every bookseller, stationer, &c. in England, Scotland and Ireland
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Politics and government, Foreign public opinion, British, and Public opinion
"A large pot stands over a fire on the ground, a number of men stand round it, some throwing ingredients for the soup into it. A man (right) holds a torch to the bottom of the pot saying "I'll sett the whole in a blaze"; another (left) feeds the fire with folded documents inscribed ". . . esq. Bonds", saying "A new way to pay old Debts". His squint and Mephistophelian wig indicate Wilkes. Behind him an obese man looks on with his arms folded and his breeches' pockets hanging out empty; he says, "I cannot do that but I'll vote to burn the Owners". He is probably Charles Fox. A sailor wearing striped trousers hurries away from the pot, into which he is excreting, saying "Heavens a Lee Shore I'd rather face". He is evidently intended for Keppel, known as Admiral Lee Shore (see BMSat 5992, &c.) after the action off Ushant of 27 July 1778 (cf. BMSat 5626, &c), who after his court martial (see BMSat 5536) had protested against serving under Sandwich as First Lord and had been ordered to strike his flag. Next him a man holding a large basket puts a potato into the pot, saying, "G------d fire me now if I've a Potatoe left". He may be Burke (or Barré). Next sits Louis XVI facing the pot; he wears a crown and a coat covered with fleur-de-lys; with one hand he points to the sailor, with the other he holds up a frog, saying, "Dis an dat make ver good Soup". On his left stands a man with turnips (?) under his arm saying, "A very good strengthener - but will it cure. . . ". The next man holds a cow's heel over the pot saying "by Jasus nothing makes better Mutton Broth than a good Cow heel". He is perhaps Barré (or Burke). The Duke of Richmond with a ribbon and star comes up with a coal-scuttle saying "and I'll find Coals". He was the grantee of a duty on coals (granted by Charles II to his grandfather, son of the Duchess of Portsmouth). This was the notorious 'Richmond Shilling' denounced in Paine's 'Rights of Man'. A woman runs forward from the right, her sleeves turned up and wearing an apron and ragged petticoat; she says, "Stop Thief the son of a W------e has stole my Coals". On the extreme left is a grotesque monster or devil, with horns and a barbed tail, at his feet, in profile to the left kneels a bishop, his hands raised in prayer, saying, "We are gathered together in thy name". On the extreme right a spectator looks from a doorway, pointing at the scene and saying "Sing tantararara Rogues all Rogues all"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 16th. 1780 by T. Cornell Printsellers, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 1735-1806., and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
"Windham, not caricatured, lies in bed dreaming, his right hand extended, his left hand against his head. The coverlet is patterned (inconspicuously) with dragons, &c. The bed is surrounded by solid clouds, supporting visions. At its head (right) is an olive branch bent down by the weight of a vulture, which clutches a bleeding hare, while it savagely croaks 'Peace!' On the left Death, a skeleton on stilts formed of spears (skeleton A stilts coloured red), bestraddles a pile of British trophies; one spearpoint pierces a 'List of British Conquests: Cape of Good Hope Malta Egypt West India [Islands]'; the other rests on a tilted dish inscribed 'Oh! the Roast Beef of Old England', from which a sirloin is slipping. The other objects are steaming pudding, an overturned tankard inscribed 'J. Bull's Old Stout', small cask of 'True British Spirits', spilling its contents; two coronets, a mitre, and a mace. The skeleton, reminiscent of Death in BMSat 6699, by Gillray, is in back view, turning a grinning head towards Windham; ['London und Paris' quotes (p. 319), as probably in Gillray's mind, Milton, 'Paradise Lost', ii. 285-7: 'Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd . . .'] it wears a large bonnet rouge and in the right hand is a cord attached to the dripping blade of a guillotine. This emerges from clouds beside the blazing dome of St. Paul's, from which the ball and cross are falling. On the extreme left is the Tower of London flying the French flag. By the foot of the bed stands a fat demon with barbed tail, webbed wings, and the features of Fox; he plays a guitar and sings delightedly: "Caira! - Caira! - Ca-i-r-a!" [cf. BMSat 10566, where he has discarded the song]. By the near side of the bed sits (on a chamber-pot) a small figure, Justice, with bowed head registering despair, her scales broken and dismantled, her sword, inscribed 'Justicia', broken. Emerging from clouds are four figures: Hawkesbury, with a sulky, youthful profile, writes 'Peace' on Britannia's 'Death-Warrant'. Behind him stands Pitt guiding his hand, a finger to his lips. Near them Bonaparte, scarcely caricatured, stands arrogantly, holding a rope which is round the neck of Britannia, while he points imperiously towards the guillotine on his right. She stands full face, weeping, her wrists shackled, with a broken shield and trident. Behind her is a (captured) fleet, in full sail, with tricolour flags. Above their heads flies a demoniac Fame, blowing two trumpets. Two groups of tiny decapitated figures kneel at the head of the bed, appealing to the sleeper. The French are on Windham's right, those in the front row being evidently (left to right) the Dauphin, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Mme Elisabeth; the King holds out a placard: 'Oh! Remember Our Cause! poor Ghosts of French Ladies and Gentlemen.' Behind, two bishops are conspicuous. On Windham's left are men in peers' robes; their placard is inscribed: 'Ah! See what is to become of Us poor English Men of Consequence'. In the foreground are two groups of (Opposition) politicians with the heads of rats. One eats from a dish of 'Cheese Parings', the other from a coffer of 'Candle Ends', inscribed 'Treasury' [both phrases derive from a speech by Windham in which he is alleged to have derided paltry economies, an old gibe, see BMSat 9515 and 'Windham Papers', ii. 178]. Both are filled with papers inscribed 'Place', 'Pension', 'Sinecure', 'Office'. The former group are identified (in Gillray's hand) [On a slip evidently written for Miss Banks, pasted to an impression from the Banks Collection.] as Erskine, Sheridan, Tierney, Norfolk, and Bedford; the latter are Nicholls, Grafton, Stanhope, and the Earl of Oxford (who is unmistakably Burdett), Sir G. Shuckburgh. Running towards the dish (left) are M. A. Taylor and Derby, (right) Jekyll (resembling Col. Walpole)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 9th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Elisabeth, Princess of France, 1764-1794, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
Title from item., Printmaker and publication year from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns - Scepters -- French Constitution -- Reference to John Bull -- Reference to George IV, 1762-1830., Watermark: J Whatman., and Matted to 47 x 63 cm.; subjects identified in a later hand below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 3d by S. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, and Mirabeau, vicomte de, 1754-1795
"A confused design: in the centre the kings of England (left) and Prussia (right) sit together under a canopy; they turn their heads in profile, gazing intently at each other. Behind George III's chair a British sailor lounges, behind Frederick's a Prussian grenadier with a musket stands erect. Frederick holds the ends of two chains attached to the necks of the Habsburg eagle beneath the feet of the two kings; the two beaks of the bird hold a scroll inscribed 'Universal Monarchy'; with its claws it strikes fiercely at the prostrate bodies of a man and woman, evidently intended for inhabitants of the United Provinces. Beneath the bird is the word 'Austria'. On the sides of the canopy under which the kings sit are shields, one (left) inscribed 'Hanover Brunswick Hesse', the other (right), 'Saxony Deux Pont Mayence &c', representing German States under the control or influence of England and of Prussia. On the left and right of the two kings, as if supporters to an escutcheon, are whole length figures on a large scale of military officers; each holds the hilt of his sword, saying, "Whilst you agree I am ready". One (left) is the 'Reigg Duke of Brunswick', the other 'Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick'. In the lower right corner of the design a Frenchman wearing a bag-wig milks a cow inscribed 'Holland'; a dog barks at him angrily. Next the cow a man seated on the ground, probably intended for the Stadtholder, holds up his hands imploringly to the two kings, saying, "Pray protect me". Isolated figures round the two sides and upper edge of the design represent the other Powers of Europe: a crowned bear (left) inscribed 'Russia', couchant, looks greedily towards a much smaller bear inscribed 'Poland'. Russia says, "Tortur'd by Ambition - back'd by Brother Joseph"; Poland answers, "I am not muzzled". The bust of an oriental wearing a turban (Turkey) looks over its shoulder (across Poland) towards Russia, saying, "By the great Prophet thou art but a Woman". A crowned monkey with a sceptre and shield, representing Louis XVI, is seated on a globe inscribed 'Holland', saying, "Mundus vult decipi". Down the right side of the print are three crowned busts looking towards the two kings: Sardinia says, "You shall not Settle without me"; Spain says, "Oh. give me the Rock" (cf. BMSat 6025, &c), Portugal says, "Oh! buy my Wine" (an allusion to the preference to Portuguese wines, given by the Methuen treaty and threatened by the pending commercial treaty with France). On the left side Sweden says, "I am in the pay of France"; Denmark says, "I lay by at present"."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego and British Museum Catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.0 x 36.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th 1786 by S. Hedges No. 91 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, 1735-1806, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia, 1726-1796, Maria I, Queen of Portugal, 1734-1816, Gustav III, King of Sweden, 1746-1792, Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, and Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789
"A confused design: in the centre the kings of England (left) and Prussia (right) sit together under a canopy; they turn their heads in profile, gazing intently at each other. Behind George III's chair a British sailor lounges, behind Frederick's a Prussian grenadier with a musket stands erect. Frederick holds the ends of two chains attached to the necks of the Habsburg eagle beneath the feet of the two kings; the two beaks of the bird hold a scroll inscribed 'Universal Monarchy'; with its claws it strikes fiercely at the prostrate bodies of a man and woman, evidently intended for inhabitants of the United Provinces. Beneath the bird is the word 'Austria'. On the sides of the canopy under which the kings sit are shields, one (left) inscribed 'Hanover Brunswick Hesse', the other (right), 'Saxony Deux Pont Mayence &c', representing German States under the control or influence of England and of Prussia. On the left and right of the two kings, as if supporters to an escutcheon, are whole length figures on a large scale of military officers; each holds the hilt of his sword, saying, "Whilst you agree I am ready". One (left) is the 'Reigg Duke of Brunswick', the other 'Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick'. In the lower right corner of the design a Frenchman wearing a bag-wig milks a cow inscribed 'Holland'; a dog barks at him angrily. Next the cow a man seated on the ground, probably intended for the Stadtholder, holds up his hands imploringly to the two kings, saying, "Pray protect me". Isolated figures round the two sides and upper edge of the design represent the other Powers of Europe: a crowned bear (left) inscribed 'Russia', couchant, looks greedily towards a much smaller bear inscribed 'Poland'. Russia says, "Tortur'd by Ambition - back'd by Brother Joseph"; Poland answers, "I am not muzzled". The bust of an oriental wearing a turban (Turkey) looks over its shoulder (across Poland) towards Russia, saying, "By the great Prophet thou art but a Woman". A crowned monkey with a sceptre and shield, representing Louis XVI, is seated on a globe inscribed 'Holland', saying, "Mundus vult decipi". Down the right side of the print are three crowned busts looking towards the two kings: Sardinia says, "You shall not Settle without me"; Spain says, "Oh. give me the Rock" (cf. BMSat 6025, &c), Portugal says, "Oh! buy my Wine" (an allusion to the preference to Portuguese wines, given by the Methuen treaty and threatened by the pending commercial treaty with France). On the left side Sweden says, "I am in the pay of France"; Denmark says, "I lay by at present"."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego and British Museum Catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 27.5 x 37.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 37 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th 1786 by S. Hedges No. 91 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, 1735-1806, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia, 1726-1796, Maria I, Queen of Portugal, 1734-1816, Gustav III, King of Sweden, 1746-1792, Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, and Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789
