Leaf 19. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duchess of Devonshire, carrying Fox on her back, approaches an alehouse. The host, a black man named 'Mungo', stands on his doorstep delightedly filling a glass for the Duchess; a fat disreputable slattern stands behind him. The Duchess, who supports herself by a large staff, holds a full purse in her hand, saying, "For the good of the Constitution give me a Glass of Gin", the suggestion being that she will pay a large sum for the gin to secure a vote (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6548). Her hat with ostrich plumes and fox's brush has a favour inscribed 'Fox ForNi'. Fox, one hand resting on her shoulder, waves his hat; they are both in profile to the right. Over the doorway of the alehouse (or perhaps brothel) is inscribed 'Mungo's Hotel Dealer in British Spirits'; the woman says, "Give the poor Man a Vote my Dear he is a good Man for the Ladies". A dog beside her barks at the visitors. The gabled roofs and casement windows indicated in the background suggest that this is an old and disreputable part of Westminster, resembling Peter Street as in British Museum Satires No. 6548. The crowd, which is very freely sketched, also suggests a low neighbourhood; a man and woman walk or dance along, their arms round each other's shoulders; he flourishes a full tankard. An excited group shout and wave their hats round two tall standards: one, 'Fox and Liberty all over the world', above two crossed executioner's axes, the other, 'Rights of the Commons' and 'No Prerogative', with a cap of Liberty on the pole."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike, with etched lines added to plate to cover the bosoms of both women. For an early reissue of the plate by William Humphrey, see no. 6526 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate originally issued with the imprint "Pub. April 27th, 1784, by E. Darchery, St. James's Street". Cf. New York Public Library, Caricatures collected by Horace Walpole (catalog ID: b16513354), Walpole 64., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 127-8., Temporary local subject terms: Prudery: Plate altered., and On leaf 19 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Publishd. by Wm. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
"Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of office, can be discerned behind the screen reflected in the glass. From the left side of the screen an electoral candidate walks towards a voter grasping him by his right hand and with his left slipping a purse into the man's pocket. The voter is identified in the verses as a member of a corporation in a borough where only such members could vote; his leg is shackled by a chain. His wife listens to a clergyman who stands in a doorway assuring her "bribery no sin". The devil hovers over the candidate touching the voter on the shoulder and holding a blank scroll. Two boys in the foreground point to the transaction, one holding a wooden shoe, symbol of the oppressive French regime. The screen itself is adorned with little stars, at the top the years 1715-1722 are marked on the seven folds and the names of various acts passed by the previous government, "Quarantine Act .../South Sea Act/Act to indemnify S.S. V[illai]ns/Part of ye Succession Act repeal'd/Septennial Act".--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Election carried by bribery and the devil
Description:
Title from caption in ribbon above image., Questionable attribution to Hogarth in unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four stanzas of verse below image: Here's a minion sent down to a corporate town, in hopes to be newly elected ... That betrays the whole kingdom to slav'ry.", Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 33 x 44 cm., and Dated '1722' in unknown contemporary hand after title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
"Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of office, can be discerned behind the screen reflected in the glass. From the left side of the screen an electoral candidate walks towards a voter grasping him by his right hand and with his left slipping a purse into the man's pocket. The voter is identified in the verses as a member of a corporation in a borough where only such members could vote; his leg is shackled by a chain. His wife listens to a clergyman who stands in a doorway assuring her "bribery no sin". The devil hovers over the candidate touching the voter on the shoulder and holding a blank scroll. Two boys in the foreground point to the transaction, one holding a wooden shoe, symbol of the oppressive French regime. The screen itself is adorned with little stars, at the top the years 1715-1722 are marked on the seven folds and the names of various acts passed by the previous government, "Quarantine Act .../South Sea Act/Act to indemnify S.S. V[illai]ns/Part of ye Succession Act repeal'd/Septennial Act".--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Election carried by bribery and the devil
Description:
Title from caption in ribbon above image., Questionable attribution to Hogarth in unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four stanzas of verse below image: Here's a minion sent down to a corporate town, in hopes to be newly elected ... That betrays the whole kingdom to slav'ry.", and Imperfect impression: sheet trimmed to 162 x 175 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
Five men stand round six chamber-pots, arranged in two piles of three, each inscribed 'Poll Book 1784' and supported on a rectangular block or table on which the title is engraved. Each man holds his nose. One (left) in profile to the right, who holds a spoon, is vomiting; he says: "I already am sick Of this poisonous trick The busines so thick T'would weary old Nick With spoon or stick Right from wrong to pick." His vis-à-vis (right), who stirs the contents of a pot with a spoon, says: "The cause I may gain, Though with labour and pain I can hardly refrain From puking amain Thro such fillth for to tag Is wares [sic] than euphorbium bag" (an allusion to the bag thrown at Fox in Westminster Hall, see BMSat 6426, &c). The other three stand together behind the table; the central one says, "A hogo here is. Worse than Cats pis Than Devils Spew. Or Asafoetida." Two demons hold out a net which stretches behind the scrutineers. One (left) says: "Ay Brother and by my tail, The Sheriffs shall admit no bail." The other (right) says: "Spread the net and you shall see Many a false oath will come to me."
Alternative Title:
Examination of the filth
Description:
Title etched in image., Attributed to printmaker only identified as 'Phillips' in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Plinths -- Nets -- Demons -- Scrutiny: Westminster election, 1784, begun on April 23, 1784 -- Allusion to the euphorbium bag thrown at Fox in Westminster Hall on February 14, 1784 -- Poll books as chamber pots -- Cutlery: Spoons.
Publisher:
Publish'd by S. Fores, No. 3, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Great Britain. Parliament
Title from item., Printmaker 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., and Temporary local subject terms: Justice (Symbolic character) -- Royal Arms -- Scrutiny -- High Bailiff -- Crowns -- Allusion to House of Commons -- Allusion to royal prerogative -- Allusion to Grenville's Act -- Quills.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
A satyr in the character of Time, holding a hour-glass and scythe, reclines on top a sarcophagus. On the front is a medallion of Sir Robert Walpole. On either side Lord Sundon and Sir C. Wager are shown weeping. In the clouds above amid angels sits the Prince of Wales holding a bludgeon in one hand and pointing to a figure (Mr. Edwin). The Prince is accompanied by the figure of Justice holding a set of scales
Alternative Title:
Triumph of Justice
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., "Engrav'd according to act of Parliament.", Dedication at top of image: To the independent electors of Westminster., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Sundon, William Clayton, Baron, 1671-1752, and Wager, Charles, Sir, 1666-1743
Political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue for: The history of the Westminster election, with folds in the plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Signs: Sign-posts -- Allusion to George III.
Publisher:
Pub. 19 May, 1784, by WH, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Donkeys, Horses, and Political elections
"A canvassing scene in a poor and disreputable district of Westminster, indicated by 'Peter Street' on the corner of the house. The Duchess of Devonshire canvasses a cobbler; she sits supported on Fox's knee, putting one foot on a cobbler's stall that he may do some imaginary repairs, for which she lavishly pays the man's wife, who leans forward, both hands held together to receive coins. The cobbler and his wife are behind a stall protected by a pent-house roof. On this is a notice, 'Shoes made and mended by Bob. Stichitt Cobler to her Grace the Tramping Dutchess NB Dogs Wormd Cats Gelded'. From an open casement window above it a man leans out waving a fox's brush; he holds a tankard and a long clay pipe in his left hand. Beside him a woman holds her head to vomit from the window, her elbows supported on the sill. A dog lies under the cobbler's stall. Fox, his right knee on his hat on the ground, the other supporting the duchess, turns round to give his right hand to a ragged man to whose mouth Sam House holds a tankard, his other hand pressed on the elector's head, who is shown by his long shovel to be a scavenger. Behind, a chimneysweeper with his brushes and his boy with brush and shovel are amused spectators. These figures fill the space to the left of Fox and the duchess. Behind are the irregular gabled roofs and casement windows of old Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cobling voters and abject canvassers
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate reissued for The history of the Westminster election. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: London: Peter Street -- Old Westminster -- Gabled roofs -- Casement windows -- Coblers' stalls -- Dishes: Tankards -- Clay pipes -- Shovels.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
"Fox and Burke (half length) seen through the barred window of a brick building in which they are imprisoned. They are Hudibras and his squire as in British Museum Satires No. 6361, but in a prison instead of in the stocks. Above the barred aperture is inscribed 'Bailiffs for Middlesex' showing that it is a sponging-house for debtors (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6483, &c). Outside stands the Duchess of Devonshire looking at them over her right shoulder. She wears a hat with a 'Fox' favour, trimmed with feathers and fox's tails as in the canvassing caricatures, but wears a plain riding-dress of masculine cut [Cf. 'Her Grace sometimes rides about in a black riding habit, which is very convenient in case she should be obliged to enter into contact with a Chimneysweeper'. A newspaper paragraph quoted in 'Westminster Election', p. 246.] instead of the usual voluminous petticoats. Her left hand rests on a tasselled cane. She is Hudibras's Lady who visited the pair in prison and released them; her words are etched beneath the design: 'O heavens! quoth she, can this be true? I do begin to fear 'tis you: Not by your individual whiskers, But by your dialect and discourse. That never spoke to man or beast In notions vulgarly exprest: But what malignant star alas! Has brought you both to this sad pass? Hudibras, canto I mo.' [i.e. Part II, canto 1]. On the brick wall of the prison bills are posted: 'Several Pouting lips to be hired by the day by Deven'; [ One of the advertisements for Hood and Wray ran: 'To be hired for the day, several pair of ruby pouting lips, of the first quality, [etc. etc.].' 'Westminster Election', p. 99.] Hood Ray Fox; 'Hood and Wray for ever; Leakes justly famous pills for curing the veneral . . . [cf. British Museum Satires No. 6530]; No Coalition No Bribery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Sir Cecil Wray, 1734-1805 -- Allusion to Samuel Hood, 1724-1816 -- Allusion to Walter Leake, fl. 1772- -- Literature: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, Hudibras, part II, canto 1 -- Medicine: Leake's pills for curing venereal disease -- Signs: 'Bailiffs for Middlesex' above prison window -- Placards on prison walls -- Coalitions: Allusion to Fox-North coalition, 1783 -- Female costume -- Election favors -- Debtors' prisons -- Sponging houses -- Walking staves -- Quackery: Leake, Walter, fl. 1772-., and Partial watermark in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd by I. Notice, Oxford Road
Subject (Geographic):
England) and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Political elections, Prisons, and Riding habits
"Alderman Sawbridge stands in profile to the left; he bends forward, holding out his hat in his left hand; in his right is a paper inscribed 'Motion for Reform in the Representation'."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : soft-ground etching on wove paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 11 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 6 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Sawbridge.
Publisher:
Publd. by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795 and Great Britain. Parliament
