"A rural scene with a hustings where ailing men are being brought to vote and the able-bodied are amusing themselves with a drawing of one of the candidates, an execution broadside and a gin bottle; in the middle ground a coach bearing the sign of the Union Flag has collapsed, but its female passenger (Britannia) is unable to gain the attention of her coachmen who are absorbed in a card game; beyond, a bridge across a river is crowded with a riotous procession"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Third in a series Four prints of an election., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Dedication engraved below image: To the Honble. Sr. Edward Walpole, Knight of the Bath. This plate is most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servant Willm. Hogarth.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Card games, Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Political elections, and Riots
Plate 41. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A rural scene with a hustings where ailing men are being brought to vote and the able-bodied are amusing themselves with a drawing of one of the candidates, an execution broadside and a gin bottle; in the middle ground a coach bearing the sign of the Union Flag has collapsed, but its female passenger (Britannia) is unable to gain the attention of her coachmen who are absorbed in a card game; beyond, a bridge across a river is crowded with a riotous procession."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Third state with the words 'Milicia Bill' on the coat pocket of the crippled voter in the left foreground., Third in a series Four prints of an election., and Dedication engraved below image: To the Honble. Sr. Edward Walpole, Knight of the Bath. This plate is most humbly Inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servant Willm. Hogarth.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Card games, Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Political elections, and Riots
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 7 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Bull stands defiantly in the center of a crowd of angry men -- military officers, gentlemen of various ages, tradesmen, and an amputee -- most of whom hold out bills ranging between £50 and £5000; the speech bubbles above their heads read: "King's taxes"; "Police rate"; "Parish rates"; "Excise duties"; "Tithes church rates pew rents & Easter doos [sic]"; "Sundres &c." John Bull's response reads, "Damme ye had better devour me., ye voratious crew. Am I never to have my hands out of my pocket again, but 't wont last long lads. I shall soon be in the Gazette & then ye lazy drones ye must work hard for you own livings." The man with a large belly on the lower right carries a little dog under his arm
Description:
Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Paper watermarked: J.R. 1828., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation, Anger, Crowds, Demonstrations, Dogs, Men, Military officers, and Obesity
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 111., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: state carriage -- Coachmen: state coachmen -- Petitions: City of London, March 14, 1770 -- Popularity: popularity of George III -- Spectators: enthusiastic spectators., and Mounted to 19 x 31 cm.
Title from caption below image., Year of publication in imprint written in ms., A companion print to: The chosen candidate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published (for the proprietor) by James Bulcock, 17 Park Walk, Chelsea and W. Day, lithog., 17 Gale Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Elections, Anger, Corruption, Crowds, Political elections, and Signs (Notices)
"The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheelers being visible on the extreme right. These are trampling on Britannia who lies prostrate, her shield and broken spear beneath her. Four footmen in striped liveries stand behind, one holding the straps; the others hold each other's waists: Loughborough, the Lord Chancellor, wearing his wig, stands next the coach; behind him is Grenville, then Dundas, wearing a plaid and with a bottle projecting from his coat-pocket. Last is Pepper Arden wearing a judge's wig. All, like Pitt, wear jockey-caps. Lord Lansdowne (right), a sansculotte, composedly fires a blunderbuss point-blank through the coach window, aiming at the King. Fox and Sheridan, facing Lansdowne, run beside the coach, holding on to it. Both are tattered ruffians brandishing clubs, but wear breeches. The other three assailants cling to the spokes of the back wheel to stop the coach: (left to right) the Duke of Grafton, neatly dressed and wearing a cocked hat with tricolour cockade, Lord Stanhope, and little Lord Lauderdale, both wearing bonnets-rouges. Behind, a sea of heads indicates the mob; they carry a tricolour flag inscribed 'Peace and Bread' and a loaf draped with black and spiked on a pitchfork. A cat, stones, and eggs shower on the coach, the crown on the top of which is broken."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Mob -- Attack on George III's coach on October 29, 1795 -- Coaches: royal state coach -- Crowns: broken crown -- Guns: blunderbass -- Domestic service: footmen -- Hats: jockey caps -- Bonnets rouges., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
Subject (Topic):
Assassination attempts, Britannia (Symbolic character), Carriages & coaches, Cats, Coach drivers, Crowds, Riots, Sansculottes, and Servants
Two quack doctors address the crowd from raised platforms with the help of their zanies. On the left, Dr. Pittardo (Pitt) is aided by the Duke of Richmond, and George Rose, the new Secretary of the Treasury. On the right, Dr. Renardo (Fox) is helped by Burke holding an address "To the independent electors of West[minster]" and Lord North distributing "motion pills for members." In the crowd below Fox's stage is his staunch supporter, Sam House ("an MT house"). Two of the buildings in the background are inscribed, "India House" and "St. Stephens" [i.e., The House of Commons].
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 27 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as [the] Act directs Feby 2, 1784 by B. Walwyn No. 2 Pedlars Acre West Bridge
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., Rose, George, 1744-1818., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and House, Samuel, -1785.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Public speaking, Quacks, and Crowds
"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. All these 'Lilliputians' are on a round table, whose top forms the base of the design except on the right. The terrified Jacobins fall on to papers inscribed 'Libels', 'Address' [twice], 'Sedition'. Alderman Wood steps on the back of one in a frantic effort to escape with the Queen whom he holds in his arms. She is a fat virago, holding up a fire-brand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13895) inscribed 'Sedition', whose smoke rises into the extinguisher, and a large money-bag, '50 000 per Ann', labelled 'Crumbs of Consolation'. Other Jacobins flee to left and right, escaping the extinguisher, but either falling calamitously from the table, or about to be grasped by the hand of Eldon who sits at the table (left). They have banners and caps of Liberty on poles (or pikes). Among the fugitives is a Don Quixote (left) in armour, wearing Mambrino's helmet, galloping off on horseback, holding a banner. A terrified Jacobin (right) drops a 'Tailors Adress'. Ministers watch the approaching extinction with pleasure: Eldon has a grim smile, Sidmouth and Castlereagh behind him register, one eager delight, the other bland satisfaction. Wellington (right), close behind the King, smiles triumphantly, Liverpool beside him, is in profile, surprised, pleased, and imbecile. The King, three-quarter length, is a cynical Adonis, in military uniform. Behind his head is a framed picture: an irradiated sun containing features dispels dark clouds, putting bats, serpent, owl, &c., to flight; beside it is a dark disk containing the features of the Queen, in eclipse (reversing the situation in British Museum Satires No. 14012)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians and King of Brobdingnag and the Lilliputians
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of quoted text below title: "Confound their politick's, frustrate their knavish tricks." "God save the king"!, Text above image: Ah! ha! Madam Q-!, Monsr. W! Messrs. Radicals, Addressers, & Co.!! Where are you now?!!! Ah ha! ha! ha! ha!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 33 of: George Humphrey shop album.
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
"Satire on the dispute between the managers of the Drury Lane Theatre and its players portrayed as if on a stage with heavy curtains drawn up above and on the right. In the centre, Theophilus Cibber stands in a swaggering pose in his role as Pistol (Henry IV and V) and behind him, on the left-hand side of the stage, a group of actors among whom are Benjamin Johnson as Testimony (in the play, Sir Courtly Nice), Miller as a runner holding a short stick, Benjamin Griffin in a large wig and three-cornered hat, Harper as Falstaff holding a sword twisted into a spiral, Heron holding a banner lettered "Liberty & property", and William Mills wearing a Roman helmet with a huge plume. This group confronts John Highmore who holds a scroll lettered "it cost £6000" (referring to the price of his share of the patent for the Theatre); to the left an actor without coat or wig flourishes a wooden sword. Behind Highmore, stand two women: to the right, weeping, Hester Booth, widow of the former patentee who died on 10 May 1733, and, holding a banner lettered "We'l starve em out", Mary Wilks who had inherited her husband's share of the patent the previous year. In front of the curtain on the extreme right sits Colley Cibber, wearing a laurel wreath and holding money bags, smiling as he gestures towards Highmore who had bought his share of the patent. Behind the curtain can be glimpsed the audience with asses' ears and staves. At the back of the scene is a narrow street with the sign of the Rose on which sits a monkey holding a flag lettered, "I am a Gentleman" (quoting Highmore); crowds throng the street and people wave from the roof and windows of the building on the left."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Ttile etched below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., In Steevens's hand in pencil, at top of page above print: Laguerre's etching; below image: Given me by the Revd Mr. Harper, of the Brit Museum. See the four in the next page & Mr. Nichols Book, 3rd edit. p. 180., and On page 55 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), Bridgwater, Roger, active 1745,, Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757,, Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758,, Ellys, John, 1700 or 1701-1757,, Griffin, Benjamin, 1680-1740,, Harper, John, active 1714-1742,, Heron, Mary, active 1736,, Highmore, John, 1694-1759,, Johnson, Benjamin, 1664 or 1665-1742,, Miller, Joe, 1684-1738,, Mills, John, 1670-1736,, Mills, William, 1701-, Santlow, Hester,, Shaw, Hester,, and Wilks, Mary, active 1740-
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Crowds, Industrial arbitration, People associated with arts, entertainment & sports, and Theaters
Satire on Hogarth, being a rejoinder and parody of his print 'The Times plate 1': Showing a city scene
Alternative Title:
The times. Plate 2
Description:
Title etched below image. Plate number below verses., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse in two columns below title: If we're too scrupulously just, what profits in a place of trust ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Map of Newfoundland and Minorca, with signboards: The Cock-Pit -- Bourbon House -- The Patriot Arms -- Old England Coffee House --- Street vendors -- Newspapers: Monitor -- Briton -- Marrowbones and cleavers -- Constables -- Beadles -- Emblems: dove of peace.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, City council members, City & town life, Coffeehouses, Crowds, Law enforcement officers, Newspapers, Pillories, Street vendors, and Weather vanes
