A series of ten images showing the rise and fall of the Fox-North Coalition. In the first image, Charles Fox, shown as a fox, speaks to the crowd in front of the Covent Garden Church. In the second one, Lord North, the 'country gentleman' leading shee...
Alternative Title:
Two new sliders for the state magic lantern
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 29th Decr. 1783 by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Foxes, Public speaking, Balloons (Aircraft), Gallows, and Hell
A series of ten images showing the rise and fall of the Fox-North Coalition. In the first image, Charles Fox, shown as a fox, speaks to the crowd in front of the Covent Garden Church. In the second one, Lord North, the 'country gentleman' leading shee...
Alternative Title:
Two new sliders for the state magic lantern
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 29th Decr. 1783 by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Foxes, Public speaking, Balloons (Aircraft), Gallows, and Hell
Depiction of the rescue of the English aeronaut Major John Money, who stands on the partially submerged gondola of an air balloon amid rolling waves beneath an overcast night sky. To his right, two men in a rowboat hold their hands out towards him; on...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
R. Barlow?
Subject (Name):
Money, John, 1739 or 1740-1817,
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning accidents, Balloons (Aircraft), Rowboats, and Rescues
"A young man being hauled out of the water by men in a fishing boat, one holding onto a pole he clutches, another supported by his companions, as he reaches out over the side of the boat to seize the drowning man's jacket; with three gentlemen in a bo...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs June 4th, 1787, by Thos. Milton, No. 40 Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, and by J. James Barralet, in Dublin
Subject (Name):
MacGwire, Richard, active 1785,
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning accidents, Balloons (Aircraft), Fishing boats, and Rescues
"Fantastic scene at a London street corner which abuts on open country, the roadway deep in mud. A coach and pair advances left to right; the coachman has laid down reins and whip to read the Times through spectacles, the footman standing behind is de...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 23 1828 by G. Humphrey St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Steam, Storefronts, and Street vendors
Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a gian...
