"Ministers sit at a round dinner-table guzzling guineas, while through the window is seen a hungry mob. Pitt, in profile to the left, sits on the right, a large fish made of guineas on a dish before him, of which he shovels huge lumps into his gaping mouth; he sits on a 'Treasury' chest which is closed by a padlock inscribed 'WP'. Opposite him on the extreme left, seated on the woolsack, is Loughborough, indicated by an elongated Chancellor's wig in back view (cf. BMSat 6796); he clutches a large bowl of 'Royal Turtle Soup', holding a large ladle-full of guineas to his mouth. The others sit on the farther side of the table: Grenville next Loughborough, Dundas in the middle, Pepper Arden next Pitt. Grenville stoops, putting his mouth on the level of his dishful of guineas. Dundas, wearing a plaid, gnaws a fish which he holds in both hands. Arden, between Pitt and Dundas, holds a lump of coins on his fork. Between him and Dundas are three bottles labelled 'Bur[gundy]', 'Champaign', 'Port'. On the table are sauce-boats and small dishes full of guineas. Before Dundas are two glasses of wine. At the near side of the table, between Loughborough and Pitt, is a group of three sacks on each side of which is a large wine-cooler filled with bottles. The central sack is: 'Product of New Taxes upon John Bulls Property'. On its mouth rests a small basket of potatoes inscribed 'Potatoe Bread to be given in Charity'. The other sacks are labelled 'Secret Service Money'. Behind (right), three steaming dishes are being brought in, held high by footmen (their heads obscured): a haunch of venison, a sirloin, and a large bird. They wear, not livery, but the Windsor uniform, and the symmetrical pair immediately behind Pitt are probably the two Treasury Secretaries, Rose and Long; this is supported by Gillray's 'Lilliputian Substitutes' (1801). On the wall are two placards: 'Proclamation for a General Fast, in order to avert the impending Famine and Substitutes for Bread Venison, Roast Beef, Poultry, Turtle Soup, Fish, boild in Wine, Ragouts, Jellies &c. Burgundy, Champaign, Tokay, &c, &c.' The heads of men wearing bonnets-rouges are seen through the window; they hold up a loaf on a pole with a scroll inscribed '14 Pence pr Quartern' and two placards: 'Petition from the Starving Swine' (see BMSat 8500, &c.) and 'Grant us the Crumbs which drop from your Table'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorables saving the loaves & dividing the fishes
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched below title: To the charitable committee, for reducing the high price of corn by providing substitutes for bread in their own families ..., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Bible, reference to loaves and fishes -- Food: bread -- Fish -- Turtle soup -- Wine: champagne -- Burgundy -- Tokay -- Port -- Dishes -- Sauce boat -- Furnishings: wine coolers -- Taxes, 1795 -- Allusion to John Bull -- Money: guineas as food -- Treasury bench -- Crowds: hungry mob -- Secret Service money -- General fast, 1795, satirized -- Ministerialists -- Poverty vs. abundance ., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 24th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"A game of marbles (taw, cf. BMSat 7393) for the crown is in progress; the Prince of Wales is dressed as a toddling child in petticoats but is larger in scale than the other figures; he leans towards Fox, Sheridan, and Burke (who are aiming at the crown) but is restrained by Pitt (right) who holds him in leading-strings, saying, "Hold, Not so fast Georgy". The Prince wears one of the cushioned caps ('puddings') then used to protect children's heads; in it are three feathers. The crown is at his feet, surrounded by a ring of marbles. Fox and Sheridan kneel side by side; Fox is about to play, saying, "My Game for a Crown". Sheridan, holding his marble, says, "Knuckle down and dont funck, [To funk = to advance the hand unfairly in playing marbles. Partridge, 'Dict. of Slang', 1937.] Charley". Burke stands behind them, leaning eagerly forward, saying, "My turn next Sherry". He wears a Jesuit's biretta (cf. BMSat 6026). Pitt, 'chapeau-bras', wears court dress. Behind the Prince is a circular stand on wheels for supporting a toddling child."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Temporary local subject terms: Clerical hats: Jesuit's biretta -- Hats: Child's cushioned cap or 'pudding' -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Vehicles: go-cart -- Leading-strings -- Games: marbles -- Crowns -- George IV as a toddler -- Regency restrictions -- Regency crisis, 1788 -- Satire on children., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"The interior of a dairy: George III (left), in shirt-sleeves, is churning; the Queen, dressed as a farmer's wife, sits in the window counting the coins which the Princess Royal pours on to the table. The Princess has a basket on her arm and is dressed like a country-girl. The Queen says, "Bless me, Child, you have made a very bad market! Good Heavens is it possible the people can be so unreasonable these plentiful times to expect six eggs for a groat! You shall tramp to London next market day." The King adds, "A very bad market girl, indeed, a very bad market girl - Limy shall go next" (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6947). Behind the King are shelves with bowls of cream, a furtive cat drinks from one of them. Above them, three milk-scores are chalked on the wall, headed, 'Cartwheel's score', 'The Widow Waggonrut', and 'Mrs Towser'. On the ground (left) is a pile of cheeses. Outside the wide doorway (right) Pitt, elegantly dressed, is milking a cow with a fastidious air; he sings: "I made war with Kate, a buxom Northern Lass: But such my cruel fate - " Thurlow, wearing a smock, stands with his back to Pitt, cracking a whip; he says, "She bid you kiss her A------! Damn the Whip I'll never learn the right smack of a Carter.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Summer amusement at Farmer George's near Windsor
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Richard Newton by Alexander., Publisher's advertisement above image: In Holland's Exhibition Rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of caricatures. Admittance, one shilling., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark in center of sheet: CR.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 9, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, and Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
"The King and Queen, much caricatured, sit side by side in a latrine, above which is part of the royal arms, the lion looking down apprehensively and excreting. They look in horror towards Pitt, who rushes in, terrified, from a door (right), holding out a paper inscribed 'News from Sweden', and saying, "Another Monarch done over!" He is grotesquely thin. The King rises slightly, holding his stomach, and saying, "What ? Shot ? What ? what ? what ? Shot! shot! shot!" He wears a nightcap tied with a ribbon inscribed 'Honi Soit qui M . . . '. The Queen is a shrunken and huddled figure; both have grotesquely agitated expressions."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
News of shooting the King of Sweden
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of printing based on that of Bohn's suppressed plates., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Reissue, probably from Bohn, ii, suppressed plates. Cf. No. 8080 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: latrine -- Male costume: royal night cap -- Emblems: burlesqued royal arms -- Allusion to assassination of Gustavus III.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 11th 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Pitt as Don Quixote (and Petruchio) bestrides a sorry rosinante, the white horse of Hanover, scarred and decrepit and apparently at the point of death. Behind him sits the King of Prussia. Holland, as Sancho Panza, on the animal's hind-quarters, clasps Prussia round the waist. The Sultan, on the extreme left, crouches behind the horse, kissing its tail. Pitt, who holds a whip, points a thin mail-clad hand arrogantly at Catherine of Russia (right), a stout woman who has sunk in terror to her knees, but is supported by the Emperor Leopold and by France, a grotesquely lean Frenchman of the old régime, wearing a cocked hat ornamented with fleur-de-lis. Pitt wears Mambrino's helmet (the barber's basin) surmounted by a crown and a feather. He says: ""Katharine, that cap of yours becomes you not; "Off with that bauble, 'tis my royal will." The 'cap' is a crescent in her hair, symbolizing her conquests from Turkey and, more especially, Oczakoff, the place in dispute. Pitt's horse (George III), says, weeping, "Heigho! to have myself thus rid to death, by a Boy & his playmates, merely to frighten an Old Woman - I wish I was back in Hanover to get myself a belly full". A holster on the animal's neck is inscribed 'G.R', but the 'G' has been struck out and replaced by 'P' (to indicate that Pitt has usurped the prerogative of the Crown, cf. BMSat 7479, &c). The King of Prussia, with his chin on Pitt's shoulder, glares fiercely; he holds a drawn sabre and says, "Blood & Dunder, I would give her one good Prussian stroking". Sancho Panza, a fat Dutchman, says, "I'm in a good humour to give her a dram of right Holland's". The crouching Turk cries obsequiously, "Amman! Amman! Anglois, Alia, Alia". Catherine is terrified, she turns away from Pitt exclaiming: ""I see my Lances are but straws; "My strength is weak, my weakness past compare; "And am asham'd, that Women are so simple "To offer War when they should kneel for Peace." France says, "O, by Gar! if Mirabeau was but 'live! Sacre Dieu." The Emperor, who is crowned, and wears a cloak on which is the Habsburg eagle, says, "Das is de devil, to give up all again". Beside Catherine is a sword tying across a plan of a fortress, Oczakow."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
What you will and Modern Quixote
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Don Quixote -- Horse of Hanover -- George III as the Horse of Hanover -- Weapons: sabre -- Horse whip -- Allusion to Oczakow -- Allusion to Triple Alliance (England, Prussia and Holland)., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1747-1792, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"By the efforts of Pitt, who directs Addington, and of a jester wearing cap and bells, an earthenware jug representing George III is lowered into the sea and fatally damaged by striking a rock inscribed 'Malte'. 'Addington' is a man of straw (his body formed of a bundle of straw), a puppet attached to a pole placarded with his name; Pitt (left) pulls threads attached to the dangling arms and legs, but looks round horrified at the disaster resulting from his machinations. The jester crouches on a rock (right); under his foot is a document: 'Traité d'Amiens' [see British Musueum Satires No. 9852, &c.]; he holds in both hands the rope, lowering the royal pitcher, but the other end of the rope is round Addington's hand and thus is manipulated by Pitt. Malta is a small castellated island with a church and a sharp rock which has gashed the pitcher just where it is decorated with a dog-like lion from whose head a crown falls. The mouth of the pitcher is a profile portrait of George III crowned, and looking down with angry dismay at the fatal rock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Rue du Coq, Saint Honoré
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
"A sitting of the Board of Control (established by Pitt's India Act 1784): Dundas, Pitt, and Sydney are seated behind a narrow cloth-covered table, but Dundas (left) monopolizes the business, while Pitt, his back to Dundas, plays push-pin with Sydney who is on the extreme right. Pitt complacently defeats Sydney who starts back in dismay at the position of the pins. Dundas turns his head in profile towards four ragamuffins in Highland dress who enter from the left. These, but not the members of the Board, are caricatured. The foremost, with shaggy hair, torn garments, and bare feet, scratches himself (cf. BMSat 5940) as he presents a petition with an eager grimace. ... A second petitioner carries a spade, a third scratches his head with an anxious expression. Dundas receives them with favour, holding out his hand for the petition. ... The only actual director named is the Hon. William Elphinstone, formerly commander of an Indiaman, member of a family which (later) had many honourable associations with India. ... The papers in front of Pitt and Sydney, with their pens and ink-stands, have been thrown to the floor to make room for their game, and are in shadow. Three are inscribed: 'Sir Elijah Impey', 'Major Scot &c &c &c', and 'War[ren] Hastings Esq.' On the wall, on each side of a candelabra, are two pictures: one (left) is 'Robbing'; Fox puts a pistol to the head of a stout Englishman who holds a document inscribed 'India Patronage'. The other (right) is 'Stealing'; Pitt picks the pocket of a sleeping oriental, taking from it a roll: 'India Patronage'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Board of Control and Blessings of a Scotch dictator
Description:
Title etched below image., Counterfeit signature; print by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: East India Company, Board of Control -- East India Company, Proprietors of stock -- Pictures amplyfing subject -- Livery companies -- Games: push pin -- Scotland -- Scotchmen -- Allusion to Sir Elijah Impey, 1732-1809 -- Allusion to John Scott-Waring -- Allusion to William Fullerton Elphistone, 1744-1835., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1787, by R. Phillips, Southwarke
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, and Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image., Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 33 x 46 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint; mounted to 34 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal shows, Leopards, and Lions
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image., and Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal shows, Leopards, and Lions
"Pitt (right), as a butcher, stands arrogantly behind his block, holding up a leg of mutton to a hungry, lean, and dismayed John Bull, who stands with bent knees (left), his right hand groping in his breeches pocket. Pitt says: "A Crown, - take it, or leave't". His cleaver lies on his blood-stained block, on the front of which are two placards side by side: 'Prices of Provision. 1795 Journeymans Wages - 1795 Mutton 10 1/2d £b. Carpenters 12sh pr Week Lamb 11 D° Shoemakers 10sh D° Veal 11 1/2 D° Bakers 9sh D° Beef 12 D° Gardeners 8sh D° Small Beer - 2d pr Quart Smiths 8sh D° Bread 12d Husbandmen 7sh D° pr Quarter Loaf God save the King'. Behind Pitt is the pent-house roof of the shop or stall from the front of which hang joints of meat and pieces of offal. The lower story of a house forms a background (left). John Bull wears the dress and wrinkled gaiters of a yokel. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse, titled Billy the Butcher's Advice to John Bull, etched on a separate plate that is printed below the plate with the image: Since bread is so dear, (and you say you must eat) ..., and Mounted to 46 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Food prices, Butcher's shops, and Butchers
