"George IV (three-quarter length), surrounded by admiring Ministers, holds up a big extinguisher made of paper and inscribed 'Speech from the Throne', which he is about to place over a crowd of tiny Jacobins who surround the Queen and Alderman Wood. A...
Alternative Title:
King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians and King of Brobdingnag and the Lilliputians
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 7th, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Fire extinguishers, Tables, Crowds, Documents, Torches, Money, Banners, Liberty cap, and Military uniforms
"Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. A sequel to No. 13764. George IV, a whiskered infant, lies feverish and fractious in a cot decorated with Chinese figures and hung with bells. He is surrounded by Ministers. Sidmouth, holding a doctor's ...
Alternative Title:
Great babe taken ill
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Published by C.E. Pritchard, Islington Green
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political satire, English, Cots, Bells, Sick children, Staffs (Sticks), Lawyers, Pharmacists, Medicines, Rocking chairs, Toys, and Fireplaces
"The King stands waist-deep in a broad-based Green Bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), holding up his arms, and exclaiming: "A Rat! A Rat! my Kingdom for a Rat!!!" Huge rats climb up the bag and nibble at it, others run towards it, or emerge f...
Alternative Title:
How to get out of the bag
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published August 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
Leach, John, John Bull (Symbolic character), Rats, Bags, Politicians, Devil, Shovels, Dogs, and Kennels
"Conspirators prepare an explosion in the vaults of the House of Commons (or of a building symbolizing the Constitution). Massive triple pillars support Gothic arches, the inscription [used by George as a title] etched across the centre pillar round w...
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
"A sequel to BMSat 10540. George III, as a farmer in a smock, drives his pigs, now very plump, out of his farmyard and down a cliff into a turbulent sea. They have burst through a rotten paling; the foremost are struggling in huge waves, the last, the...
Alternative Title:
Broad bottom'd litter running headlong into [the] sea of perdition
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 18th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Fitzpatrick, Richard, 1747-1813, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, and Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818
"John Bull sits full face holding a bowl of soup, between Addington, the cook, and the protesting Windham on the extreme right. On the left Pitt sits in profile to the left before an enormous kitchen fire, over which hangs a giant cauldron; he blows t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Bowls (Tableware), Soups, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Kitchens, Cauldrons, Fireplaces, Bellows, Aprons, and Cooking utensils
"The Queen (left), irradiated, wearing a gown patterned with astrological symbols, and holding a wand inscribed 'Vox Populi', steps from a circle of cloud, an apparition which terrifies the King and three of his Ministers (left). The King wears corona...
Publisher:
Pub. July 13, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
"The Queen (left), irradiated, wearing a gown patterned with astrological symbols, and holding a wand inscribed 'Vox Populi', steps from a circle of cloud, an apparition which terrifies the King and three of his Ministers (left). The King wears corona...
Publisher:
Pub. July 13, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
"Britannia, massive, but childlike, sleeps in a large wicker cradle, rocked by Addington, dressed as an elderly woman, who is seated on a low stool (right). Hawkesbury, a thin and spinsterish nursemaid, (left) approaches the foot of the cradle holding...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 4th, 1802, by Js. Gillray, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
"Britannia, massive, but childlike, sleeps in a large wicker cradle, rocked by Addington, dressed as an elderly woman, who is seated on a low stool (right). Hawkesbury, a thin and spinsterish nursemaid, (left) approaches the foot of the cradle holding...
Description:
Title from caption etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Nurseries (Rooms & spaces), and Washstands
