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1. [The monster melo-drama] [graphic]
- Creator:
- De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 December 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.12.04.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A four-footed monster, with four human heads, the long hairy body resembling that of a dog, stand in an open space in front of the theatres of Covent Garden (left) and Drury Lane (right), the latter partly obscured by clouds rising from the ground, and with the statue of Apollo, headless as in British Museum Satires No. 10764. The three main heads are those of Sheridan, saying "Ha, ha, ha," Kemble saying "Oh!!!!!", with a tragic expression, and of a clown (evidently Grimaldi) with painted face and blue wig, saying, "Nice Moon". A dagger is thrust into Kemble's neck, blood gushing from the wound. A fourth head wearing a mask, that of Harlequin, looks over the back of the monster, who wears a Harlequin coat over its fore-legs and the front part of its body. It has a long barbed tail inscribed 'A Tail of Mistery'. The monster's fore-paws rest on a paper: 'Regular Dramas Congreve Beaumont and Fletcher Colman' [attacked in British Museum Satires No. 5064, now a standard author]. A hind-foot rests on 'Shakespear's Works'. Under its body are a number of modern dramatists, some of whom suck from its many teats. They are portraits, and some are identified by the titles of plays by which they stand. On the left. Frederic Reynolds bestrides a large dog (Carlo) by 'The Caravan' [see British Museum Satires No. 10172, &c.]. A man sits on the shoulders of a monk with cloven hoofs in order to reach a teat; the monk (Lewis) stands on 'Wood Daemon' [a 'Grand Romantic Melo-Drama' by M. G. ('Monk') Lewis, first played at Drury Lane 1 Apr. 1807 (cf. British Museum Satires No. 10727)]. Holcroft, wearing spectacles (as in BMSat 9240), stands on the 'Road to Ruin' [see British Museum Satires No. 8073]. Skeffington, wearing long striped pantaloons, stands on his 'Sleeping Beauty' [see British Museum Satires No. 10455]. On the extreme right. Dimond, tall, thin, and foppish, stands on his 'Hunter of the Alps', played at the Haymarket in 1804. There are five other men, less prominent, and unidentified by inscriptions. Behind, an old man (or woman) drives a flock of geese past the arcade of Covent Garden Theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue. and Plate from: The Satirist, v. 1, page 225.
- Publisher:
- Published for the Satirist, Decr. 4th, 1807, by S. Tipper, Leadenhall Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- Covent Garden Theatre,, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837, Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837., Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
- Subject (Topic):
- Harlequin (Fictitious character), Monsters, Dramatists, Theaters, Daggers & swords, and Geese
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The monster melo-drama] [graphic]
2. [Shipload of seasick Opposition savants, or, A Margate hoy] [art original].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G41 no. 6 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Tentative identification of Fox, Sheridan, Moira, Sir John Sinclair, and Sir George Shuckburgh in chairs, leaning against the sides of bunks in a ship, all sleeping or being ill
- Alternative Title:
- Margate hoy
- Description:
- Title from Draper Hill; alternative title from pencil inscription on verso: A Margate hoy. and Date from Draper Hill, who suggests that the drawing is a preliminary for one of the illustrations for the abandoned de luxe edition of Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835, and Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Motion sickness, and Ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Shipload of seasick Opposition savants, or, A Margate hoy] [art original].
3. [Sheridan] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 June 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.06.29.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title assigned by the cataloger., Printmaker identified as possibly Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand identifying Sheridan in lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 29, 1789, by [S.]W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sheridan] [graphic]
4. [Sheridan] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.06.29.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title assigned by British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue as Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Reference to Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 29th June 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sheridan] [graphic]
5. [Four characters from The rivals] [art original].
- Creator:
- Loftie, W., artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, opposite page 102. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Collective title devised by cataloger., Each drawing has the title of Sheridan's play "The Rivals" written in ink above, as well as the depicted actor's name, the name of the character portrayed, the theater name, and the performance date written in ink below., Statement of responsibility "by W. Loftie" added in pencil for each drawing, in lower right corner of sheet., Date from partially trimmed watermark on sheet of upper right drawing: 1794 [J. W]hatman., and Mounted together opposite page 102 (leaf numbered '154' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, and Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Four characters from The rivals] [art original].
6. Working over the flats in trouble'd water [graphic].
- Creator:
- Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- July 1st, 1812.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sheridan, in Harlequin dress (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9916), rows an open boat, over which large waves are breaking, towards a rock on the horizon inscribed 'Cape Clear', The others in the boat are (left to right) Moira, in the bows, Yarmouth pumping hard, the Regent, McMahon, and Lady Hertford who steers with an oar. Her identity is made unmistakable by a scarf streaming from her décolletée dress, inscribed 'Manchester Stuff [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11878]. She says: Pull away Sherry--Til steer you--into--Blanket Bay'. Next her sits the Prince, vomiting, his head held by McMahon, who says, "This is Sorry--Work indeed." His hat, trimmed with his feathers and motto, 'Ich Dien', flies from his head, puffed by blasts from three winged (portrait) heads, two perhaps intended for Burdett and Whitbread. Sheridan says to Yarmouth: "Pump a way My Noble dont Flinch." Moira bestrides the bows of the boat clasping the flag-staff from which flies a Union Jack; he says: "I'll keep a good look-out a head for My Honours sake." Three other winds (unrecognizable), inscribed 'Mother Careys Chickens', blow against him (cf. British Museum Satires No. 11050). On the horizon, surrounded with breakers, are buildings: (left) 'Yarmouth Peer', and (right) above Lady Hertford, 'Cuckolds-point', surmounted by a head with wide-spreading horns."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint., Imprint statement separated into two halves, one on each side of title., Plate numbered "152" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shilling coloured."--Lower left corner of design., and Leaf 7 in volume 3.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Working over the flats in trouble'd water [graphic].
7. William the Conqueror's triumphal entry!!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Dec. 1796.
- Call Number:
- 796.12.00.01+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt sits astride a huge pile of bundles strapped to the back of a bull (John Bull); he is about to enter a high archway inscribed 'Trea[sury]'. His pose and expression combine jauntiness with dignity. His head is in profile to the right, his right hand on his hip, he wears a large bag to his wig, and while pressing his hat under his left arm holds the (slack) reins of the bull; his long thin leg hangs considerably above the bull's back, owing to the height of the bundles. The sturdy bull, though with downcast head and closed eyes, is not weighed down with his burden. Dundas (right), in Highland dress, marches grinning in front of the bull, playing the bagpipes which are inscribed 'Union Pipes' and have a transparent bag filled with coins. The bull's burden consists of ten superimposed bundles, inscribed with figures relating to the Loyalty Loan. Some of these are '50 000!, 30 000!, East India Company 2 000 000!!!, Duke of Queensbury 100-000!, 100 000!, Pit[t] D. dass 10000 [partly obscured by Pitt's foot], 50000, Duke of Bridgewater 100 000!, Corporation of London 100 000!' Behind the bull and on the extreme left are crowded together four British Jacobins, much caricatured, wearing bonnets-rouges and looking up at Pitt with anger and dismay. Their heads rise vertically one behind the other; the foremost and lowest is Fox, clenching his fist, next Sheridan in profile; then Stanhope, the fourth a mere scrawl."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 40.5 x 27.8 cm., Hand-colored. On laid paper with watermark: Strasburg bend with date 1798., and On the verso: an impression the outline for the print in black ink.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803., and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Finance, Public, Economic conditions, John Bull (Symbolic character), Debts, Public, Loyalty Loan, and Musical instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > William the Conqueror's triumphal entry!!! [graphic]
8. William the Conqueror's triumphal entry!!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Dec. 1796.
- Call Number:
- 796.12.00.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt sits astride a huge pile of bundles strapped to the back of a bull (John Bull); he is about to enter a high archway inscribed 'Trea[sury]'. His pose and expression combine jauntiness with dignity. His head is in profile to the right, his right hand on his hip, he wears a large bag to his wig, and while pressing his hat under his left arm holds the (slack) reins of the bull; his long thin leg hangs considerably above the bull's back, owing to the height of the bundles. The sturdy bull, though with downcast head and closed eyes, is not weighed down with his burden. Dundas (right), in Highland dress, marches grinning in front of the bull, playing the bagpipes which are inscribed 'Union Pipes' and have a transparent bag filled with coins. The bull's burden consists of ten superimposed bundles, inscribed with figures relating to the Loyalty Loan. Some of these are '50 000!, 30 000!, East India Company 2 000 000!!!, Duke of Queensbury 100-000!, 100 000!, Pit[t] D. dass 10000 [partly obscured by Pitt's foot], 50000, Duke of Bridgewater 100 000!, Corporation of London 100 000!' Behind the bull and on the extreme left are crowded together four British Jacobins, much caricatured, wearing bonnets-rouges and looking up at Pitt with anger and dismay. Their heads rise vertically one behind the other; the foremost and lowest is Fox, clenching his fist, next Sheridan in profile; then Stanhope, the fourth a mere scrawl."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: Strasburg bend with date 1798?, and Mounted to 42 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803., and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Finance, Public, Economic conditions, John Bull (Symbolic character), Debts, Public, Loyalty Loan, and Musical instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > William the Conqueror's triumphal entry!!! [graphic]
9. Who kills first for a crown [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 May 1790]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A design in two compartments, one above the other, the title between them. In both a pack of hounds with human heads chases a crowned stag; in one the stag is George III, in the other (below) Louis XVI. [1] The stag (left) is beside a signpost pointing 'To Windsor', [written in ink] Windsor Castle appearing on the extreme left. The huntsman (right) is the Prince of Wales riding on the heels of the last hound, his whip outstretched. The foremost hound, who has almost reached the stag is Sheridan, next is (?) Lord Sandwich, or perhaps the Duke of Queensberry, next Fox. [The head has a feminine appearance, and has been identified by Grego as Mrs. Fitzherbert. But black eyebrows and traces of 'gunpowder jowl' indicate Fox, whose absence would be inexplicable.] The next pair are a judge (? Loughborough) and Powys. The last two are Burke and Lord Stormont. Beside the Prince, his back to the other dogs, and urinating as a sign of contempt, is Pitt, turning his head to scowl up at the Prince. [2] The names of the hounds have been written in a contemporary hand beneath the print. The stag (right) has been reached by the hounds, three of whom are biting him. He has passed a signpost 'A Versailles'. The foremost hound is 'M. de Limon'; close behind are 'Le Baron de Talleyrand' furiously biting the stag's shoulder, and 'Le Comte de Vauban'; the next two, 'Le Comte de La Touche' and 'le Marquis de Sillery'. The last two are women: 'la Comtesse de Blot' and 'la Comtesse de Buffon' who wears feathers in her hair, and turns her head to gaze at Orleans, the huntsman, whose mistress she was. Orleans rides a clumsy hack, blowing a horn, and is dressed in the French manner, with the boots and whip of a French postilion (in place of his accustomed English riding-dress). His long queue streams out behind him."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text etched in center of design; letter "r" in "first" etched above line and inserted with a caret., Attributed to Rowlandson in British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisment follows publication information: ... where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures &c. in the Kingdom, also the head & hand of Count Struenzee. Admittce. 1s., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imperfect; urination stream of dog in far right of upper compartment has been erased from sheet., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 29, 1790, by S.W Fores N. 3 Piccadilly ...
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Latouche-Tréville, Louis-René de, 1745-1804, Vauban, Jacques Anne Joseph Le Prestre, comte de, 1754-1816, Genlis Sillery, Charles Alexis Pierre Brulart de, marquis de, 1737-1793, Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Limon, Geoffroi, marquis de, -1799, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Powys, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Who kills first for a crown [graphic].
