"Perceval, as Don Quixote, stands in front of the Treasury, giving his orders for the forthcoming session. Facing him, Ministerial members (right) stand at attention, clasping rolled documents, all inscribed 'Ministerial Military Exercise Aye & No', as if they were muskets; one is in Highland dress. A further phalanx in the background is on Perceval's left. He wears armour, with Mambrino's helmet (the barber's basin) and holds erect a tilting-lance, which serves as staff for the Royal Standard. His left hand, holding a 'Muster Roll', rests on his hip. Behind him, pen in hand, and with a pen behind the ear, the two Treasury Secretaries stand stiffly, each with a large book, one 'Names of Staunch Men', the other 'Names of Deserters'. On the extreme left and in the foreground George Rose stoops over a large 'Military Chest', filled with bank-notes, which he holds out towards the Ministerial troops. On the ground beside him lies a rose labelled 'A Rose in January'. Behind him, lurking in a gateway, is Melville, in Highland dress, with two similarly clad Scots peering over his shoulder. He says: "An Ye should want a set of braw fellows fit for ony service, I ha them here ready for ye". On Perceval's left is a mounted officer (Montrose) holding a paper inscribed 'Treaty for an Armistice for 14 days if Necessary'. Beside him is a mounted trumpeter. Perceval says: "Now my Lads lets see if you are perfect in your Exercise!!! You will stick close right or wrong". All answer "Aye. Nor refuse a good place when it is offered". All answer "No. Of course all I say is truth". All answer "Aye, Nor you wont let the Enemy Contradit me". All answer "No". Perceval: "That will do very well and my Aid de Camps shall register you accordingly remember there is something good at the bottom of the Ches [sic]". ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Don Quixote, comander in chief, reviewing his troops previous to the campain and Don Quixote, commander in chief, reviewing his troops previous to the campaign
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1810 by Walker, 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Montrose, James Graham, Duke of, 1755-1836, Quixote, Don (Fictitious character), and Great Britain. Treasury
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Ethnic stereotypes, Military officers, Armor, Flags, Trumpets, Chests, and Money
Title from captions below images., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786., and Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1778. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, no. 5505, originally published in Town and country magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by T. Walker No. 79 Dame Street
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a merchant's wife and her alleged lover, James Marquis of Graham later 4th Duke of Montrose
Alternative Title:
Favourite of the fair and Mrs. Pope
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered above each image: No. XXII and No. XXIII, respectively., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" from the Town and Country Magazine, 1782 p. 401.
Full length portrait of Marquis of Graham on left standing back to back with the Earl of Buchan. Both wear Highland dress
Description:
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., and Printmaker, title, place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Montrose, James Graham, Duke of, 1755-1836. and Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
Full length portrait of Marquis of Graham on left standing back to back with the Earl of Buchan. Both wear Highland dress
Description:
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Printmaker and title from book., Numbered in upper right of plate: 116., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Montrose, James Graham, Duke of, 1755-1836. and Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
