Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Mrs. Dawkins, fl. 1788 as Gloc -- Miss Pigott, fl. 1788 as Glum -- Regency crisis., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pub Nov 16 1788 by SW Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"Warren Hastings, in oriental dress, kneels full-face on one knee between two cards; he holds out in each hand a lozenge, the diamond of a pack of cards: that on his right is a knave with the head of Thurlow, that on his left is a king with the head of George III (cf. BMSat 6969). Neither card has an indication of the suit: the hand of each appears ready to grasp the diamond held out by Hastings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to J. Baldrey from British Museum catalogue., Text in upper left corner: Plate 1., Temporary local subject terms: Oriental costume -- Playing cards -- Court cards -- Knave and King -- Print owned by Horace Walpole (NYPL) -- Male costume, oriental -- India -- Alleged bribery of Hasting's supporters., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.0 x 30.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Mounted on leaf 24 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1788, for S. Doughty and Co., No. 19 Holborn
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
"Warren Hastings, in oriental dress, kneels full-face on one knee between two cards; he holds out in each hand a lozenge, the diamond of a pack of cards: that on his right is a knave with the head of Thurlow, that on his left is a king with the head of George III (cf. BMSat 6969). Neither card has an indication of the suit: the hand of each appears ready to grasp the diamond held out by Hastings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to J. Baldrey from British Museum catalogue., Text in upper left corner: Plate 1., and Temporary local subject terms: Oriental costume -- Playing cards -- Court cards -- Knave and King -- Print owned by Horace Walpole (NYPL) -- Male costume, oriental -- India -- Alleged bribery of Hasting's supporters.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1788, for S. Doughty and Co., No. 19 Holborn
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Design in oval. In a ballroom, Lord North, dressed as a lady in hooped petticoats and wearing his Garter ribbon, is dancing with Charles Fox who holds his hat in his left hand. Behind them sits Lord Chancellor Thurlow playing the bagpipes while at the same time receiving a bag of money handed him by Britannia who sits next to him. Thurlow retained the chancellor's office through two administrations preceding the North-Fox coalition before he was forced by Fox to resign. The bag of money may refer to the pension he was then granted
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by E. Dachery March 29, 1783, St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Dance, Bagpipes, and Clothing & dress
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Debates: Stanhope, House of Lords, June 9, 1789 -- Bills: defeated bill for relieving members of the Church of England, June 9, 1789 -- Furniture: chairs -- Coronets -- Fool's cap -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Parody of a schoolroom -- Clergy: bishops -- Lawyers: chancellors -- Wheelbarrows -- Spades -- Pick-axes., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Published June 18, 1789, by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 and Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
"The design follows that of British Museum Satires No. 7313 which it parodies. Hastings (three quarter length), in profile to the right, holds out his hands to demonstrate the objects which are seen in the diminishing rays of his camera obscura, and which reflect (in the foreground) the objects from the upper part of the design. These are [1] an 'Elephant' chained to a British flag devouring an Indian and trampling on the body of another; [2] 'Mount Ossa', a conical mountain. [3] 'Begums in Tears': a British officer raises his sword to smite a kneeling Indian woman whom he holds by the hair; other women kneel at his feet; on the ground is a decapitated infant. A wagon, with a British flag, inscribed 'Plunder' drives off in the background. [4] 'a Whale' spouting. In the rays of the camera obscura these objects, much reduced, are respectively inscribed: 'a Flea', 'a Wart'. 'Skin'd Mice'. 'An Ouzle'. Three persons (half length) stand on the right watching the reflected scenes: Thurlow says "Charmingly diminish'd". Queen Charlotte, decked with jewels, clasps her hands, saying with a pleased smile, "Poor Mice! I shall cry my Eyes out". George III looks through an opera-glass, saying, '"Very like an Ouzle"'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in bottom part of image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Text below title, in lower right: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 9th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Flags, British, Elephants, Mountains, Military officers, Carts & wagons, Decapitations, Daggers & swords, and Whales
Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies, America (shownas an Indian), France, Spain and Holland run away with the spoils
Alternative Title:
Britannia's assassination, or, The republicans amusement and Republicans amusement
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from The art of poetry on a new plan by Oliver Goldsmith, 1761, v. 2, p. 147., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 29.2 x 45.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 10th, 1782, by E. D'Archery, St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Vandalism, and Sculpture
Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies, America (shownas an Indian), France, Spain and Holland run away with the spoils
Alternative Title:
Britannia's assassination, or, The republicans amusement and Republicans amusement
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from The art of poetry on a new plan by Oliver Goldsmith, 1761, v. 2, p. 147., 1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 25 x 36 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 10th, 1782, by E. D'Archery, St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Vandalism, and Sculpture
Leaf 7. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies, America (shownas an Indian), France, Spain and Holland run away with the spoils
Alternative Title:
Britannia's assassination, or, The republicans amusement and Republicans amusement
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with "Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner of design. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5987 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 35., and On leaf 7 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 10th, 1782, by E. D'Archery, St. James Street and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Vandalism, and Sculpture
