The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed: 'Eye of Straw & toe of Cade ... For the ingredients of our cauldron'. Facing them (right) sits the Devil enthroned, holding a trident, with a three-headed scaly monster beside him; he says: "Pour in Streams of Regal Blood Then the Charm is firm & good." Burning pamphlets feed the fire under the cauldron; they are being heaped up by Horne Tooke, from whose mouth issues a label: 'H - T. Tis time tis time tis time'. The next, stirring the contents, says "Thrice! and Twice King's Heads have fallen". The third (? Dr. Towers), [Perhaps Dr. Parr; Towers died 20 May 1799.] flourishing a broom-stick, says, "Thrice the Gallic Wolves have bayed"; he holds an open book: 'Lying Whore \ False Swearing'. Behind the wizards is a procession of the Opposition. The first three (abreast) are Bedford, Norfolk, and Lord Derby. They say respectively: "Where are they! - gone Pocketed the Church and Poorlands The Tythes next" ..."Oh fallen Sovereingty degraded Counseller" ...; "Poor joe is done No test or Corporation Acts" ... The next three are Fox, Erskine, and Tierney; they say respectively: "Where can I hide my secluded Head" ... "Ah woe is me - poor I" ... "Would I had never spoke of the Licentiousness of the Press". Behind them is Burdett, saying, "What can I report to my Friends at the Bastile" .... Behind there is an undifferentiated crowd entering the cave and headed by Thelwall holding a volume of 'Thelwalls Lectures' ... exclaiming, "Tm off to Monmouthshire". The procession is watched by a snaky monster (left). Above their heads and resting on clouds are small figures: the King, allegorically depicted, holding a serpent in each hand. Behind him are Pitt, saying, "Suspend their Bodies", (?) Grenville, (?) Windham, saying "Almighty God has been pleased to grant us a great Victory", and Kenyon, saying "Take them to the Kings Bench & Cold Bath fields" ... The divine ray is inscribed: 'Afflavit Deus et dissipantur \ Your Destruction cometh as a Whirlwind \ Vengeance is ripe.' Four winged demons fly off (right) in the smoke of the cauldron, three have collars on which their names are engraved: 'Robesp[ierre]', 'Voltaire', and 'Price'. An ape dressed as a newsboy, with 'Courier' on his cap (..., blows his horn towards the cauldron. Behind him, in the extreme right corner, is an open book: 'Analitical Review \ Fallen never to rise again.' The seditious papers which feed the fire are: 'Equali[ty]'; 'Blasphemy Sedition'; 'Sophims' [sic]; 'Heresy'; 'Atheism'; 'Resistance is Prudence'; 'Belshams History'; 'Whig Club'; 'The Vipers of Monarchy and Aristocracy will soon be strangled by the Infant Democracy' ... 'Fraud'; 'Third of September' [see BMSat 8122]; 'Rights of Nature' [by Thelwall, attacking Burke, 1796]; '21st of January' ... 'Frends Atheism'; 'Quigleys Dying Speech'... 'O'Connors Manifesto' ... 'Oakleys Pyrology'; 'Deism'; 'Kings can do good Joel Barlow'; 'Uritaranism' [sic]; 'Sedition'; 'France is free'; 'Duty of Insurrection'; 'Darwins topsy turvy Plants and Animals Destruction' [cf. BMSat 9240]; 'Kings are S------TS' [serpents, as in Barlow's 'Conspiracy of Kings', pub. J. Johnson, 1792]; 'Political Liberty'. 1 February 1799 Etching and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Press: attack on radical press -- Potions -- Allusion to the Whig Club -- Reference to Kosciuszko uprising, Poland, 1794 --Reference to Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450 -- Reference to Jack Straw and Wat Tyler -- Reference to the Great Rebellion, 1381 -- Reference to the Duke of Bedford's family
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint altered: 'J. Wright, Piccadilly' after publication date burnished from plate., Frontispiece from: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. London, 1799, v. 2., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 1st, 1799, for the Anti Jacobin Review, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Subject (Topic):
Caves, Devil, Demons, Monkeys, Monsters, Vice, and Wizards
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 26.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., and Mounted on page 74.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
"Dissenters are engaged in burning churches and attacking the clergy. In the foreground a stout bishop on his knees is being kicked and assailed by men with bludgeons; beside him is a book: 'Refutation of Dr Price'. He exclaims, raising his hands, "Murder, fire, thieves". One of his assailants says, "Make room for the Apostle of Liberty"; the other, "God assisting us nothing is to be feared". Under this group is inscribed: 'And when they had smote the Shepherd, the Sheep were scattered'. Behind (right) a Gothic building, from which extends a sign of the Mitre and Crown, is being demolished. Price sits astride on the beam supporting the sign; in one hand is an open book, 'Love of our Country', in the other is a firebrand inscribed 'The Flame of Liberty'. Beneath, two men in steeple-crowned hats are feeding a fire with faggots, whose flame and smoke, inscribed '39 Articles', ascends in a thick cloud. Next the burning building, and on the extreme right, is a porch (over a doorway) in which stands Fox, blowing a horn and pointing down to a placard over the doorway: 'Places under Government to be disposed of. NB, Several Faro and E.O. Tables in good Condition'. An adjacent placard is: 'day next charity sermon by Revd chas Fox'. A group of eager fanatics with lank hair rushes towards the doorway, holding up to Fox money-bags inscribed '30.000', '10.000' and '20.000.' In the foreground (right) are two fanatics struggling for the bag of the Great Seal; one raises a mace inscribed 'Brotherly Love' to strike his opponent; under his foot is a paper: 'Repeal of the Test Act'. In the background (left) is a group of figures engaged in demolishing a church with pickaxes; a rope pulls over the cross on the steeple. Two of this group look towards Price: a parson inscribed 'P------ly' (Priestley) waves his hat, saying, "Make haste to pull down that old Whore and we'll build a new one in its place"; a lean man, fashionably dressed (evidently Stanhope), extends his arms, saying, "Address to Assemblee national"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state with similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Later state, with the original title "The test" burnished out and replaced with new title. Cf. No. 7629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Publisher's advertisement above design: In Fores's Caricature Museum is the compleatest collection in the kingdom. Also the head and hand of Count Struenzee. Admittance 1s., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Three lines of verse on either side of title: Bell and the dragon's chaplains were ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: sermon On the Love of Our Country, by Richard Price -- Sermons: Richard Price, November 4, 1789 -- Repeal of Test and Corporation Acts, March 2, 1790 -- Maces -- Bags of money -- Clergy: bishops -- Signs: mitre and crown -- Emblems: mitre -- Crown -- Great Seal -- Burning of 39 articles -- Clubs: cudgels -- Steeple hats -- Pick-axes -- Buildings: churches -- Firebrand torches -- Literature: quotation from Bible, I Kings 22.17, II Ch. 18.16 -- Addresses: Price's address to the National Assembly of France, July 21, 1790 -- Horns.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 20, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and England and Wales.
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Limitation of actions, Axes, Bishops, Churches, and Musical instruments
"Portrait of Dr Richard Price after West (Staley 687); seated almost three-quarter length to the left, holding a paper at his lap and his glasses in his right hand, a volume of 'Butler's Analogy' beside him at right, a bookcase behind at left; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Text in image on paper in sitter's hand: "Dear Sir...Philadelphia...1786."
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs 4 June 1793 & sold by T. Holloway, Newington Street, Middlesex, near London, E. Harding in Pall Mall, and R. Wilkinson in Cornhill
"design in two strips, one headed the intention, the other (below), the fact. Each strip is divided into three compartments of unequal width. [1] Two councils sit, each round a circular table. On the left is 'An Infernal Council'. The Devil, irradiated, presides at a meeting of six demons. He says "Such is the Plan Now choose your Parts". The three on his right hand say (right to left): "Blasphemy Atheism & P-----st-----y [Priestley] are mine. I will assist B--r--g--n [? Barrington] F-----zh------t [Fitzherbert] & the Catholicks in their Bigotry & Ambition. And I Pr------e [Price] & such as are full of Disaffection & Treason". The three on the Devil's left say (right to left): "I will patronize L--ns--y [Lindsey] Speciousness Low Cunning. &c. I will help K-----p------s [Kippis] &c. to furnish the press with suitable Trash. And I will be at hand to assist whenever I am Wanted." The other conclave is 'A Nocturnal Council'. A monk and six ministers sit round a table. A minister resembling Price says, "A Republick is the best Form of Government". On his left is the monk, who says, "All religious Establishment is absurd, (aside) except Popery". On Price's right, and in profile to the left, is Priestley, saying, "And thus we will lay Gun Powder Grain by Grain till we blow up the Constitution". Lindsey, on the extreme right, says, "We must become Bad Citizens before they will grant us the Privileges of good Ones". The other three, who are in back view, say respectively: "We must propose a Test to the Candidates; Meanwhile we must send a Deputation to other Ministers"; and "We must promise Fox our Support at the next general Election". Priestley wrote that he was assisted by friends of the hierarchy in the 'disposition of grains of gunpowder' which would certainly blow it up. 'Letters to the rightev. Edward Burn'. This was quoted by Burke in the debate. 'Parl. Hist.', xxviii. 438. (Cf. BMSat 7632, &c.) But it appears that he quoted from a printed extract circulated with misleading omissions. See 'An Arranged Catalogue of the several Publications . . .' 1790, p. 30 n. (B.M.L. 126, i. g.). The dissenters had agreed to resolutions declaring that at the (pending) general election they would support only men 'Well affected to the cause of civil and religious liberty'. This Pitt denounced as the imposition of a test. 'Parl. Hist.', xxviii. 408-9; see also p. 444. See BMSat 7630. [2] The next design is 'The Deputation Rejected'. A man (left), hat in hand, approaches four ministers wearing bands and three-cornered hats, who turn away from him; their spokesman says: "We plainly perceive that Popery and Infidelity will be the Result of your Measures - therefore - we will not join you." They are probably Methodists. [3] The third design is 'A Future K-----g & Q------n at their Devotion'. A king and queen wearing crowns and royal robes kneel at a console table supported by a harpy, which serves as altar (right). On it is a crucifix, above it hangs a half length portrait of a Pope. Burke in monastic robes (cf. BMSat 6026) enters through a door (left), saying, "Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace . . for mine Eyes have seen thy Salvation." The king and queen do not appear to be portraits (though probably intended for the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert). Burke, who had absented himself from the House during the debates on repeal of 1787 and 1788, voted against the motion. [4] In the lower strip the first design is 'The Mortifying Report'. Fox (left) holds out to four men standing behind a circular table a large placard inscribed: 'For the Repeal 105 Against It 294 Majority 189' (they are the chief members of the 'Nocturnal Council' above): the monk says "It is our determination never to Rest until we enjoy Civil and Military Power". Stanhope says "I am now resolved to try it in our House". Price, raising his fist, says, "Nothing will be done for us 'till some great Calamity again Alarm our fears, or some great abuse of Power provoke our Resentment". Priestley says: "The Conversion of S--l--s D------n to Atheism was but an Introduction to what I intended to do on ye Repeal". For Silas Deane see BMSats 6288, 6303. He died suddenly, 23 Sept. 1789, 'having ruined himself and family, and deranged France and America with the charming words, Liberty, Constitution and Rights'. 'Gent. Mag.' 1789, p. 867. [5] 'The Death bed Avowal of S--l--s D------e*' A man lies in a large four-post bed; a parson wearing a surplice stands behind it, his hands raised in horror, saying, "No God! who taught you that Doctrine?" He answers "Dr P------s-----y. *The Particulars of this awful & interesting Conversion to Atheism may be seen in a Pamphlet entitled Theodosius, & sold with or without the Print" (marginal note). Deane died on board the Boston packet in the Downs, having intended to visit Canada. In 'Theodosius' is related a supposed conversation and dying confession of Silas Deane. This was quoted in the 'Gent. Mag.' 1790, p. 383 (May) with a contradiction by Priestley, ibid., pp. 384, 385, who stated that he had never had any conversation on religion with Deane. For Priestley and death cf. BMSats 5644, 7892. [6] The last scene is 'FINIS'. A swarm of flying demons with webbed wings drag, by threads attached to their noses, the seven members of the 'Nocturnal Council' towards the flames of Hell (right). One says to Price, the foremost, "Come along most learned Doctor I have always led you by the Nose - so dont mind it now". Another says, "I fear they will set H------l in an Uproar". Three others say respectively: "How the Dogs Quarrel, they'll get to fighting soon"; "Here comes the precious Set, & a fine parcel of Divinity it is"; and "They are such seditious Rascals, they will strive to overturn Our Government". On the extreme left a seventh demon kicks the rearmost (Priestley), saying, "Get along Joey 'tis too late to recant Now besides we love you too well to part with you". Priestley says "O! S-----s D------n! [Silas Deane] Oh Mercy! Pardon! I recant I recant". The next two turn round furiously towards Priestley, saying, "Dog! I'll ease my Tortures by tormenting You", and, "Blasphemous Villain! Your Curs'd Sophistry brought me here." The next two say "Oh Conscience! Horror! - Miserable Wretch!" and "Oh H-----l! H------l! hide me from myself". The monk says to Price, who is the leader of the group, "Curse your Republican Cant - you have ruined the Cause". Price answers, "No - tis admitting ye Whore of Babilon into ye Confediracy have undone us.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below images., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be seen the compleatest collection of comick & satirical prints in the kingdom. Admittance one shilling., Two lines of text below title: This print is humbly dedicated to the Church of England & to the great body of worthy dissenters who refused to join ..., Design consists of six captioned panels in two horizontal strips, the upper strip entitled "The intention" and the lower strip entitled "The fact.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Sedition -- Furniture: Bed -- Acts: Reference to the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, March 2, 1790 -- Clergy: Monk -- Popery -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Mythology: Harpies -- Altars -- Crucifixes -- Votes on the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts -- Horace Walpole refers to subject., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 18, 1790, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Priestly, Joseph 1733-1804, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Deane, Silas, 1737-1789, and Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Dissenters -- Executions: hangings -- Clergy: bishops -- Clergy: parsons -- Demons -- Watering cans -- Cannons -- Buildings: exterior of a Gothic church -- Serpents -- Expressions of speech: wolf in sheep's clothing -- Expressions of speech: dignitaries of Church as caterpillars., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1868?]
Call Number:
868.00.00.02 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."
Alternative Title:
Atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations"
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Caricature history of the Georges ... / by Thomas Wright .... London : J.C. Hotten, [1868], p. 452., Reduced copy of a print with the same title by Gillray, published by H. Humphrey in 1790. See no. 7686 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Figure of Richard Price identified by ms. note in pencil below image.
Publisher:
J.C. Hotten?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's chair. Burke holds in his hands a crucifix and crown and balances on his head a copy of his book "Reflections on the revolution in France". Two books lay on the floor-- "Treatise on the ill effects of Order & governance in Society" and "Sermon preached Novr. 4, 1789 ... before the Revolution Society."
Alternative Title:
Atheistical revolutionist disturbed in his midnight calculations
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
