"A design divided into two portions by a vertical line and a slanting line which diverges to the right from the vertical line forming with it an obtuse angle. On the left of this division are the Speaker and three members of the House of Commons; on the right the Chancellor and three peers. Only a small part of the Speaker and his chair are visible on the extreme left. Fox stands facing him, his right hand extended, his left on his hip, a scroll inscribed 'Consuetudo et Lex Parliamenti' issues from his mouth. Burke stands with his back to Fox, scowling with folded arms; his scroll is inscribed 'Tropes Figures and a long Speech'. Sheridan stands in back view, facing Burke and bending forward, his scroll is 'Speech all Point'. The figures on the right have similar attitudes to those on the left, only the extreme left of the Chancellor and Woolsack being visible. Loughborough, in back view, wearing a judge's wig and gown, says "Lex Parliamenti"; Stormont says "Long Speech". Lord Derby, turning to the right in a mincing attitude, says, "Point de tout"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Each patriots speech another speech affords, the C----ns have their echo in the L---ds; thus Opposition proves the assertion true, that even shadows have their shadows too., 1 print : etching and aquatint on laid paper ; plate mark 19.8 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 17.9 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 44 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 31st March 1788 by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and East India Company.
"A design divided into two portions by a vertical line and a slanting line which diverges to the right from the vertical line forming with it an obtuse angle. On the left of this division are the Speaker and three members of the House of Commons; on the right the Chancellor and three peers. Only a small part of the Speaker and his chair are visible on the extreme left. Fox stands facing him, his right hand extended, his left on his hip, a scroll inscribed 'Consuetudo et Lex Parliamenti' issues from his mouth. Burke stands with his back to Fox, scowling with folded arms; his scroll is inscribed 'Tropes Figures and a long Speech'. Sheridan stands in back view, facing Burke and bending forward, his scroll is 'Speech all Point'. The figures on the right have similar attitudes to those on the left, only the extreme left of the Chancellor and Woolsack being visible. Loughborough, in back view, wearing a judge's wig and gown, says "Lex Parliamenti"; Stormont says "Long Speech". Lord Derby, turning to the right in a mincing attitude, says, "Point de tout"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Each patriots speech another speech affords, the C----ns have their echo in the L---ds; thus Opposition proves the assertion true, that even shadows have their shadows too., and Mounted on page 61 with two other prints.
Publisher:
Publd. 31st March 1788 by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and East India Company.
"A design divided into two portions by a vertical line and a slanting line which diverges to the right from the vertical line forming with it an obtuse angle. On the left of this division are the Speaker and three members of the House of Commons; on the right the Chancellor and three peers. Only a small part of the Speaker and his chair are visible on the extreme left. Fox stands facing him, his right hand extended, his left on his hip, a scroll inscribed 'Consuetudo et Lex Parliamenti' issues from his mouth. Burke stands with his back to Fox, scowling with folded arms; his scroll is inscribed 'Tropes Figures and a long Speech'. Sheridan stands in back view, facing Burke and bending forward, his scroll is 'Speech all Point'. The figures on the right have similar attitudes to those on the left, only the extreme left of the Chancellor and Woolsack being visible. Loughborough, in back view, wearing a judge's wig and gown, says "Lex Parliamenti"; Stormont says "Long Speech". Lord Derby, turning to the right in a mincing attitude, says, "Point de tout"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Each patriots speech another speech affords, the C----ns have their echo in the L---ds; thus Opposition proves the assertion true, that even shadows have their shadows too., Another version, with identical text and only slight differences in image, of no. 7289 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted to 38 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publd. 31st March 1788 by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and East India Company.
Title from item., Arranged in a semi-circular design, as for a fan., Variant state of no. 7440 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Women's costumes.
Title from item., Attribution in the British Museum catalogue to Townsley Stubbs pencilled on verso of print., Reissue of British Museum catalogue no. 6943 with Prince's speech altered, although the original balloon lines are still visible., Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages -- Round table -- Decanters -- Glasses -- Food: Fruit -- Pictures amplify subject: Marriage -- Coins -- Curtains -- Clergy: Bishops -- Speeches: Toasts -- Punch bowls -- Bottles -- Naval uniforms -- Military uniforms -- Dice box -- Music book -- Carlton House interior view., and Watermark in center of sheet: L. Taylor.
Publisher:
Published 11th April 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Picadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Smith Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Pigot, Hugh, 1721? -1792, and Morris, Charles, 1745-1838
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[August 1813]
Call Number:
813.08.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Mrs Etiquette driving the Prince from the fete at Vauxhall
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Woodward., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fetes -- Sir William MacMahon, 1st Bart., 1776-1837., and In contemporary hand, in ink below corresponding figures on print: Princess of Wales. McMahon. Sheridan. Prince Regent.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1813 by J. Johnston 98 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Title etched below image., "I.C" is the monogram of Isaac Cruikshank., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Statement following imprint: Folios of carecatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Meetings: allusion to London Corresponding Society's meetings near Copenhagen House -- Bills -- Allusion to Treasonable Practices bill -- Allusion to Seditious Meetings bill -- Lilliputians -- Gulliver -- Lighting: lantern -- Candle-snuffer., and Watermark: Edmeads & Pine.
Publisher:
Published Decemr. 1, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Pitt (left), as a toreador, rides a rearing white horse (of Hanover) with a spear directed horizontally against a buil (John Bull) snorting fire and bleeding from many wounds. He wears a short tunic and sash; his saddle-cloth is a leopard-skin on which is a crest: the white horse of Hanover enclosed in a Garter ribbon inscribed 'Honi soit qui mal y pense', and surmounted by a crown. He looks alarmed and spurs his horse viciously. Two tiers of spectators in an arc of the arena are freely sketched. In the upper row George III looking through a glass is in the centre, on his left is the Queen, on his right Loughborough. The man next the Queen is (?) Grenville. In the lower tier Fox is conspicuous with (?) the Prince of Wales on his left; Sheridan stands behind them. The other spectators are members of the Opposition or ragamuffins. Those who can be identified are (right to left): Stanhope, Derby, Grafton, Lansdowne. A chimney-sweep applauds with brush and shovel. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Three lines of text beginning to the left of title and continuing below it: Description from the royal bull fight of 1795. Then entered a bull of the true British breed ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Treason -- Emblems : the White Horse of Hanover -- Male costume: toreador.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 21st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805
"A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., The Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 28.8 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 30.3 x 21.7 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 34 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 29th May 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and East India Company.
"A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., The Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., and Mounted on page 53 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 29th May 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and East India Company.
"A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., The Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject., and On verso in pen in comtemporary hand: Prints of Sayers.
Publisher:
Published 29th May 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and East India Company.
"A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Later state of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 6959.
Publisher:
Publ'd [...] 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
"The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheelers being visible on the extreme right. These are trampling on Britannia who lies prostrate, her shield and broken spear beneath her. Four footmen in striped liveries stand behind, one holding the straps; the others hold each other's waists: Loughborough, the Lord Chancellor, wearing his wig, stands next the coach; behind him is Grenville, then Dundas, wearing a plaid and with a bottle projecting from his coat-pocket. Last is Pepper Arden wearing a judge's wig. All, like Pitt, wear jockey-caps. Lord Lansdowne (right), a sansculotte, composedly fires a blunderbuss point-blank through the coach window, aiming at the King. Fox and Sheridan, facing Lansdowne, run beside the coach, holding on to it. Both are tattered ruffians brandishing clubs, but wear breeches. The other three assailants cling to the spokes of the back wheel to stop the coach: (left to right) the Duke of Grafton, neatly dressed and wearing a cocked hat with tricolour cockade, Lord Stanhope, and little Lord Lauderdale, both wearing bonnets-rouges. Behind, a sea of heads indicates the mob; they carry a tricolour flag inscribed 'Peace and Bread' and a loaf draped with black and spiked on a pitchfork. A cat, stones, and eggs shower on the coach, the crown on the top of which is broken."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Mob -- Attack on George III's coach on October 29, 1795 -- Coaches: royal state coach -- Crowns: broken crown -- Guns: blunderbass -- Domestic service: footmen -- Hats: jockey caps -- Bonnets rouges., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
Subject (Topic):
Assassination attempts, Britannia (Symbolic character), Carriages & coaches, Cats, Coach drivers, Crowds, Riots, Sansculottes, and Servants
"The Regent, scarcely caricatured, rides (right to left) a white horse with the (bloated) head of Sheridan, the flank being branded 'P R'. The horse walks along a cobbled street which is strewn with large stones on each of which is the head of a member of the Opposition. Sheridan says: "Never fear, my dear Master, I will carry you through this ugly road in safety--I'll hick all the vile stones aside that would impede your way, and your old Hack, Sherry, you will find able to support you to the last." On the stone under his hoof is the head of Grenville. Two others have already been kicked aside: (?) Holland, and, in the foreground, the Duke of Norfolk. Others (left to right) are: Buckingham (in spectacles) and Whitbread, Grey, Lord Temple, Moira, and Erskine. Others are not characterized. The street leads into 'Manchester Square', showing that the Prince is on his way to Hertford House."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print from which this print was copied
Description:
Title etched below image., Irish copy of a print by Charles Williams, published March 1812 by William Holland. See no. 11859 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject terms: Stones -- Hack horse -- Male costume: riding habit -- Richard Temple Nugent, 1st Duke Buckingham, 1776-1839.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Sidebotham, L. Sackville St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, and Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Horses, Riding habits, and Cobblestone streets
"The Regent, scarcely caricatured, rides (right to left) a white horse with the (bloated) head of Sheridan, the flank being branded 'P R'. The horse walks along a cobbled street which is strewn with large stones on each of which is the head of a member of the Opposition. Sheridan says: "Never fear, my dear Master, I will carry you through this ugly road in safety--I'll hick all the vile stones aside that would impede your way, and your old Hack, Sherry, you will find able to support you to the last." On the stone under his hoof is the head of Grenville. Two others have already been kicked aside: (?) Holland, and, in the foreground, the Duke of Norfolk. Others (left to right) are: Buckingham (in spectacles) and Whitbread, Grey, Lord Temple, Moira, and Erskine. Others are not characterized. The street leads into 'Manchester Square', showing that the Prince is on his way to Hertford House."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalogue., and Sealing wax present on verso; remains of album page at top.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1812 by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, and Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Horses, Riding habits, and Cobblestone streets
"The Regent, scarcely caricatured, rides (right to left) a white horse with the (bloated) head of Sheridan, the flank being branded 'P R'. The horse walks along a cobbled street which is strewn with large stones on each of which is the head of a member of the Opposition. Sheridan says: "Never fear, my dear Master, I will carry you through this ugly road in safety--I'll hick all the vile stones aside that would impede your way, and your old Hack, Sherry, you will find able to support you to the last." On the stone under his hoof is the head of Grenville. Two others have already been kicked aside: (?) Holland, and, in the foreground, the Duke of Norfolk. Others (left to right) are: Buckingham (in spectacles) and Whitbread, Grey, Lord Temple, Moira, and Erskine. Others are not characterized. The street leads into 'Manchester Square', showing that the Prince is on his way to Hertford House."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalogue., 1 print : etching ; sheet 23 x 32.6 cm, Printed on wove paper, hand-colored., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, resulting in loss of bottom half of title from lower edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1812 by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, and Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Horses, Riding habits, and Cobblestone streets
"'French Agents' purchase sheep, cattle, and pigs, which are being driven into boats to be taken to a French ship at anchor. Fox, as the commissary general, stands in profile to the left, holding a bag of 'French Gold' and pouring coins into the hand of the stout and smiling Lansdowne who is dressed as a farmer, and is disposing of a flock of sheep (left). Sheridan stands on Fox's right, clutching a money-bag and gazing fixedly at Lansdowne. Behind them is the taller Grey. These three are fashionably dressed, especially Fox who wears a French cocked hat, long overcoat reaching to his heels, over a frogged coat. The other two wear long coats and bonnets-rouges, with half-boots. Behind them stands their clerk, Erskine, a sansculotte wearing sabots and a bonnet-rouge, with barrister's wig and bands. He writes: 'Republican Purchase'. In the foreground (left) the Duke of Bedford, dressed as a farmer, but wearing fashionable spurred top-boots, sits, complacently counting money, on a sack of 'Superfine Bedfordshire Flour for Paris' (cf. BMSat 8783). Beside him (left) are sacks of 'Fine Bedfordshire Flour' labelled 'For Dieppe' and 'For Ostend'. Behind them and in the middle distance the Duke of Norfolk walks to the right, carrying on his head a steaming dish of 'Norfolk Dumplings'. Near him is the Duke of Grafton driving cattle towards the shore. On the right is a boat containing pigs and a cow. Stanhope sits at the tiller, smoking. He wears a bonnet-rouge with a bag-wig. The boat has a furled sail and flies a tricolour flag inscribed 'Vive la Republique'. Another boat-load of cattle is being rowed towards the French ship. In the foreground is a basket of chickens and geese and a bundle of muskets, across which is a tricolour scroll inscribed 'Provision for French Army. Dissenting Manufacture'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View on the sea coast of England, with French agents smuggling away supplies for France
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom., and Temporary local subject terms: Smuggling -- Money: French gold -- Bonnets rouges -- Ships -- Cattle -- Sheep -- Pigs -- Muskets -- Allusion to sansculottes -- Opposition.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 11th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
"Leaders of the Opposition (left) turn a windlass which drags towards the shore a fantastic and enormous raft laden with French troops. They push against horizontal levers which pass through the broad centre-post on which the rope is wound; on the top of this Lauderdale, in Highland dress and on a smaller scale than the others, plays the bagpipes, from which issue the words: 'Over the Water & over the Sea, And over the Raft to Charlie.' He capers to his tune; a tricolour flag flies from his instrument. The most prominent figure is Fox, advancing full-face, and looking to the raft with a satisfied smile; he says, "Pull away Citizens". Behind him, the rope between them, is Bedford in riding-dress; under his arm is a book: 'Bedford on Agriculter' (cf. BMSat 8648). Opposite Fox is Tierney, saying, "We must take care to keep clear of the Rope". From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Borough Influence' (he was M.P. for Southwark, 'the Borough', cf. BMSat 9045). Sheridan, pushing hard in profile to the left, says: "Ah! The Rope We must avoid it if possible". Norfolk, on the extreme left, puts a hand on Tierney's lever; he says: "Hark Ther's a Storm coming. I hear Thunder." They walk on a circular track by the edge of a cliff. On the ground is a large open book: 'President of the Directory CIF. [Fox] Deputy a Bedfordshire Bull [cf. BMSat 8684]'. On it lies a 'Norfolk Cheese'. Behind (left) is a gallows inscribed 'Tierney' (almost obliterated) from which hangs a corpse. In the background is a hill on the summit of which is an encampment with massed troops flying the British flag. The raft nears the shore but is about to be overwhelmed by vast waves blown up by blasts from the mouths of Dundas, the King, and Pitt, whose heads emerge from dark clouds. Dundas, in profile to the left, aims his blast at the windlass; in it (right to left) are the names: 'Jack Ketch'; 'Addington, Bond, Staples [Bow Street justices]'; 'Macnamara Fugion, Macmanus, Townsend, Jelous' [Bow Street officers or 'runners']. The King and Pitt aim directly at the raft; from the mouth of the former (full-face) issue the names 'St Vincent, Pasley, Duncan, Pellew, Nelson'; from that of Pitt (in profile to the right): 'Trollope, Thomson, Bridport, Onslow, Pringle'. In the centre of the raft is a massive fortress manned with troops; from it flies a huge tricolour flag inscribed 'Liberty and Equality'. The fort is surrounded by tents; outside there are soldiers in close formation with bayonets. The outer edge is flanked by turrets, each having a (tricolour) flag inscribed: 'Plunder'; 'Regecides Paricides'; 'Deism Atheism'; 'Robbery'; 'Murder & Ravishmt'; 'Torture'; 'Blood & Rapine'; 'Cruelty & lust'; 'Barbar[ity]'. The motive force is given by wheels worked by windmills, and by large oars. In the bows is a guillotine surmounted by a bonnet-rouge; another guillotine decorates the stern. Behind the raft (left) advance ships of war. In the foreground, flying over the agitated sea like stormy petrels, are three winged heads (right to left): Erskine, Stanhope, and (?) Thelwall. Lauderdale, Fox, Sheridan, Norfolk, and Stanhope wear bonnets-rouges."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Republican crew disappointed
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
"Richard Brothers, dressed as a sansculotte and with the face of a maniac, carries on his back a 'Bundle of the Elect' from which protrude the heads and legs of Fox, Sheridan, Stanhope (in profile to the right), and Lansdowne (in profile to the left). In his left hand is an open book: 'Revelation', and a sword of flame, his right hand points up an ascending path to the 'Gate of Jerusalem' (right); this is a gallows from which hang three nooses; behind it are flames in which demons are flying. He tramples on a seven-headed monster (the Beast of 'Revelation'): on one head, that of the Pope, he puts his foot, another prostrate human head wears a crown and so does the head of a beast breathing fire. The other four heads are those of demons. Two beams of light slant from his forehead, 'Assignats' project from his coat-pocket. Behind walk Jews, the most prominent a pedlar with an open box of trinkets. Beside them walks a fat, disreputable woman holding a bottle inscribed 'Everlasting Life' and a glass. From her pocket hangs a ballad: 'Isabell Wake a new Song to the tune of a Two penny Loaf'. In the foreground (right) St. Paul's, the Monument, a spire and houses are being engulfed in a fiery pit and are breaking to pieces (according to Brothers' prophecy). On the horizon (right) is the sea with the masts of wrecked ships projecting from the waves. Immediately above Brothers is an owl with an olive-branch in its beak, a halo poised whirlpool-like on a point above its head; it clutches a paper inscribed 'Peace'. On the right is the sun, its disk containing a staring face, wearing a bonnet-rouge, and surrounded by the points of a star which drip blood. On the left is a crescent moon in which is a fissure, its arc borders a shaded disk; round this grotesque demons dance in a ring, holding hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: beast of Revelation -- Bonnets-rouges -- Sansculottes -- Jerusalem -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- Gallows -- Peddlars -- Demons -- Jews.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 5th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Brothers, Richard, 1757-1824
Title from item., Printmaker's name suggested In the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Chalice -- Sir John McMahon (1754-1817)., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm. ;written in later hand in ink along bottom: Sheridan Buckingham Temple Grenville.
Publisher:
Pubd April 13th 1812 by Wm Holland No 11 Cockspur St.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
