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
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
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
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
"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
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
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Engraved text "W. Holland , No. 50 Oxford Street" following the date "March 10th" crossed out and Humphrey's name supplied in manuscript on right below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Regency crisis -- Thrones -- Crowns -- Pictures amplifying subjects -- Homage.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th 1789 as the act directs H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
A reduced copy probably from a book and resembling the folding plates to the 'Hibernian Magazine'. The groups are arranged from left to right as in British Museum satire no. 7301, but each figure is reversed and the groups are in two rows, one above the other
Alternative Title:
Picture of the times
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication based earlier state. See British Museum catalogue., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
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, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Smith Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
Title from item., Text under title: with explanatory notes designed and sketched for the inspection of all modern professors and inscribed to H.W. Bunbury, Esq., Motto above imprint: Est[?] quod else videris., and Temporary local subject terms: Anodyne necklace -- Gambling games: dice box
Publisher:
Pubd by W. Dent, May 30th, 1788 and sold by W. Dickie opposite Exeter Change Strand and W. Moor No. 48 New Bond Street, London
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Title etched below image., Day in imprint may have been re-etched from 10 to 29., Fourteen persons or groups forming discrete images arranged in two rows, each with caption in English and French., Temporary local subject terms: Lady Sarah Archer -- Captain Barclay., Ms. identifications on mounting sheet by W.S. Lewis., Mounted to 43 x 106 cm., and Attributed to Cruikshank on mat in an unknown hand.
Publisher:
Pub. July 29 1788 by S.W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
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, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Humphries, Richard, d. 1827, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, Pigot, Hugh, 1721? -1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Townshend, John, Lord, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
