"Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the 'Irish Channel'; on a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shield and spear beside a pile of bales of goods and a cornucopia from which pour coins and jewels; she holds out a scroll: 'Union of Security Trade & Liberty'. She looks appealingly towards Pat, her right hand on her breast, one foot trampling on a book inscribed 'Discord' and a venomous snake. Tierney, Fox, and M. A. Taylor look out from behind bushes, gazing fixedly at Pat: Fox says, his hand before his mouth: "Hip! my old Friend Pat! - hip! - a word in your Ear! take care of yourself Pat! - or you'll be ruin'd past Redemption - dont you see that this damn'd Union is only meant to make a Slave of you! - do but look how that cursed Hag is forging Fetters to bind you, & preparing her knapsack to carry off your Property, & to Ravish your whole Country, Man, Woman & Child! - why you are blind sure! - rouse yourself Man! raise all the Lawyers & spur up the Corporations, Fight to the last drop of blood, & part with the last Potatoe to preserve your Property & Independence -" Tierney says "beware Pat", Taylor echoes "beware." Pat is a sturdy fellow with bare legs; his clothes are ragged, his broken spear lies beside him. Behind (right) is a building in flames. He says: "Plunder & Knapsacks! & Ravishments, & ruin of little Ireland! - why - by St Patrick, its very odd, now! for the old Girl seems to me, to be offering me her Heart & her Hand, & her Trade & the use of her Shelalee to defend me into the bargain! - by Jasus! if you was not my old friend, Charley, I should think you meant to bother me with your Whisperings to put the old Lady in a passion, that we may not buss one another, or be Friends any more.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Whisper across the Channel
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Irish Sea -- Irish Union, 1798 -- Pat Bull -- Expressions of speech: Irish 'Bother'., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 36.1 cm, on sheet 27.9 x 39.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 79 of volume 4 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 24th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego., Publication information based on similar plates in the same series., Third of 24 plates from: Rowlandson, T. Hungarian & Highland broad sword [London] : H. Angelo, 1799., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint., and Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 5 of 14 volumes.
"One of a set of four hunting-scenes with punning titles, with the same signatures and imprint; they have pleasant landscape backgrounds, with clouds. A rider (left) has been flung over his horse's head and lies on his face screaming; the horse falls into a deep ditch edged by a fence (right). From one pocket spout the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other two hounds are tugging a cold chicken, other hounds are making with fierce intentness towards the chicken. A second rider just behind the fence pulls up his horse in alarm, a third in the background leaps over fence and ditch. See BMSats 9589-91; cf. BMSat 9592, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntsmens' skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Food: chicken -- Beverage: wine -- Hounds., and Window mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"One of a set of four hunting-scenes with punning titles, with the same signatures and imprint; they have pleasant landscape backgrounds, with clouds. A rider (left) has been flung over his horse's head and lies on his face screaming; the horse falls into a deep ditch edged by a fence (right). From one pocket spout the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other two hounds are tugging a cold chicken, other hounds are making with fierce intentness towards the chicken. A second rider just behind the fence pulls up his horse in alarm, a third in the background leaps over fence and ditch. See BMSats 9589-91; cf. BMSat 9592, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntsmens' skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Food: chicken -- Beverage: wine -- Hounds., 1 print : etching & soft ground etching with stipple & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.0 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 38.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 28 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A rider leans back in the saddle tugging hard at his rein; he is riding over the hounds which are yelping and squealing. Behind (right) a huntsman gallops up, shouting at the man and the hounds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntmen's skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Hounds., and Window mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by Hh. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A rider leans back in the saddle tugging hard at his rein; he is riding over the hounds which are yelping and squealing. Behind (right) a huntsman gallops up, shouting at the man and the hounds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntmen's skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Hounds., 1 print : etching, soft ground etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.0 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 38.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 29 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by Hh. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"Three riders are being violently thrown off their horses, in grotesque attitudes, by the hounds who have caused two horses to fall and the third to rear."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntsmens' skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Hounds., and Window mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"Three riders are being violently thrown off their horses, in grotesque attitudes, by the hounds who have caused two horses to fall and the third to rear."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntsmens' skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Hounds., 1 print : etching, soft ground etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.0 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 38.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
Title etched below image., Reissue; first published in 1788, as indicated by date in artist's signature. See Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
