Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Statement following imprint: NB. Folios of caricatures, &cc lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Whips -- Spears -- Military uniforms: St. James's Volunteers., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Pitt, a naked spectral creature, advances menacingly towards Fox, who is scarcely caricatured, and who holds his ground, right leg raised as if about to kick, snapping his fingers in Pitt's face. Pitt (left) is very thin and tall, with large head and glaring eyeballs. Fox holds out his three-cornered hat in his left hand as if speaking in the House of Commons; his waistcoat is unbuttoned, allowing his shirt to escape."--British
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Sabre -- Trident -- St. Vincent., Watermark: A. Stace 1797., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22d., 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Text following publisher's statement: Folios of careatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: Dog Tax, April 1796 -- Excise: duty on sherry and port -- Budgets: Pitt's budget, 1796 -- Gibbets., Watermark: Strasburg bend; initials below obscured by coloring in the design., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. May 10, 1796, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Title from item., Attribution to Cruikshank from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's announcement following imprint: Where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures in the kingdom, also the head and hand of Count Struenzee. Admitt. 1 s., Temporary local subject terms: John Jeffries, fl. 1790 -- Elizabeth Jeffries, fl. 1790 -- Monsters: George Hanger, Baron Coleraine as 'The Monster'., Watermark., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 18, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Pitt and Dundas are tipsily carousing at a rectangular table from which the cloth has been removed. Pitt, wearing spurred top-boots, sits on the corner of the table in profile to the left, his chair behind him at the head of the table. Dundas (left), wearing a plaid across his shoulders, sits full-face, turning his head in profile to the right, and waving a tobacco-pipe towards Pitt. They touch glasses, each holding his glass in the left hand; Pitt tries to fill them, but with the bottle reversed, spilling its contents. On the table is a decanter of 'Brandy', a bottle on its side, a clutter of empty bottles, glasses, Pitt's broken pipe, and a plate of food. In the foreground are bottles in a wine-cooler, and under the table is a chamber-pot on which is a figure of Britannia. Above the heads of the topers: '"Send us Victorious, "Happy and Glorious, "Long to Reign. - go it my Boy! "Billy my Boy, all my Joy, - God save the King!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Evening scene three times a week at Wimbleton
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on the sides., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 27th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Str
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Bottles, Chamber pots, Glassware, Intoxication, Pipes (Smoking), and Wine
"A design in two compartments; between the two titles is etched: ['Fatal Effects of the French Defeat']. On the left Fox hangs himself in a ramshackle garret. His neck is in a noose which hangs from a beam, his right foot rests on a low stool, his left hand holds the rope. He leans back with an expression of terror, dropping an 'Account of the Republican Overthrow'. On the wall (left) is a half length portrait of 'Pichegru' holding a sabre. The poverty of the room is indicated by peeling plaster showing patches of bricks, by the raftered roof, and a small casement window (right). On the right Pitt and Dundas drown themselves in wine. Both are on the floor; they have overturned a round table behind them from which the sliding bottles pour their contents over Pitt, who holds up a brimming glass in his left hand. He leans against an overturned chair holding a paper: 'News of the Victory over the Carmagnols'; he looks up smiling. Dundas sits behind and on the right, in profile to the right, more serious and more intent. He drinks with concentration, spilling his wine and waving his wig above his head. He wears a plaid over his coat. On the wall is an oval bust portrait of 'George IIId', the head cut off by the upper edge of the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Drowning and Fatal effects of the French defeat
Description:
Title etched at bottom of images., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Suicides -- Interiors: garrets -- Furniture: footstools -- Drunkenness -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Gen. Pichegru -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of George III.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pichegru, Charles, 1761-1804
Pitt, leaping through the air and surrounded by demons, pursues (left to right) fleeing swine with human heads. In his right hand he flourishes a scourge with three weighted lashes, two inscribed 'Powder Tax', the third 'Wig Tax'. The swine wear wigs or have long hair. In his left hand he holds a sceptre terminating in a spike with which he prods a pig who turns round to snarl. Two of the attendant demons breathe fire and hold firebrands. A small demon prods with a triden, and seizes the tail of, a large pig who leaps through the air, its wig flying from its head. Another demon rides a pig, flourishing a scourge. Four birds (right) fly away. Pitt is grotesquely caricatured as are the heads of the swine
Alternative Title:
Hell broke loose, Billy and his gang working the swine
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., A satire on the Powder tax and on Burke's phrase "the swinish multitude"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Hair powder, Taxation, Taxatiion, Demons, and Swine
"Design in an oval. half length portrait of Pitt in the House of Commons, standing at the table on which are books and two documents inscribed 'Parliamentary Reform' and 'Commutation Act'. Three shadowy seated figures watch him: Fox (left) says, "Oh that I had him at Brooks's! I'd Reform him". Next, a man wearing a hat says, "If I had him at Deal I'd soon Smuggle him - Oh that poor Charley had continued in, He'd never suppress our trade". The third says, "He has made a Bankrupt of me. Oh that I could Adulterate". (The smuggled tea had been much adulterated.) Above the design is etched, 'Save, oh Save my Country!!! My Fathers' dying words I never can forget.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Tax: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Parliamentary reform, 1785 -- Allusion to Pitt's suppression of smuggling -- Allusion to Pitt's suppression of tea adulteration -- Literature: quotation from William Pitt, 1708-1778., and Mounted to 26 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 18, 1785, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"Political satire; under a sinking sun in which is drawn a crown, with the words "Obscured, not lost", a masked figure with a crow-bar labelled "Begum Sophistry" and the Prince Regent with a broken axe labelled "Presumptive Rights" try to break down the door of the Treasury, while another picks the lock, labelled "G R" with keys labelled "Tropes"; behind them stands a man in black with a lantern labelled "Loyalty", a belt labelled "Truth" and a clapper labelled "Vox Populi"; from the window of the Treasury, Pitt attacks the house-breakers with a blunderbuss labelled "Constitution"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Housebreaking before sunset
Description:
Title etched below image., "Pr. 1s."--Below image, lower right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Pick axes -- Padlocks -- Swords -- Masks -- Guns -- Setting sun -- Watchman's lanterns -- Emblems: King's monogram on the padlock., Watermark: Fleur de lis on crowned shield, with initials G R below., and Mounted to 44 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 6t 1789 by R. Butters, 79 Fleet Stt
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
