Thomas Powys, sleeping in a chair on the left, and Charles Marsham, with a tankard, two of the country gentlemen urging the union between Fox and Pitt, preside over a maypole dance in front of the "St. Albans" tavern, their meeting place. The maypole is decorated with a sleeping head of George III. Dancers include members of the Coalition cabinet, pictured with devil's horns: Charles Fox, with a fox's body, Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, and the Duke of Portland, and members of the preceding cabinet, pictured with haloes: Lord Thurlow, in a judge's robe, a smiling Lord Shelburne, and the Duke of Richmond. They are watched on the left by the "nurse North," with horns, holding baby Pitt, with a halo, and on the right, by the Prince of Wales, dancing to his own tune he is playing on a pipe and a drum
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800., and Romney, Charles Marsham, Earl of, 1744-1811.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Taverns (Inns), May poles, Dance, and Clothing & dress
A group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figures are numbered 1-7.
Description:
Title etched below image., A plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 31., Copy of A. de La Mottraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., On page 14 in volume 1., and Ms. note at top margin in Steevens's hand: Copy.
Depiction of the dance probably performed by the Illinois to strengthen peace between the tribes. The Calumet, a large pipe, was usually presented to the honoured guest. The tribe surrounds the circle in which two men dance with arrows above their heads; the circle includes arrangements of bows and arrows and tomahawks
Description:
Title etched below image., From a series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture: The mariner's marvellous magazine, or, Wonders of the ocean; containing the most remarkable adventures and relations of mariners in various parts of the globe. [London] : Published by Thomas Tegg ..., 1809., Numbered '21' in upper right corner from:, and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Dance, Pipes (Smoking), Rites & ceremonies, and Tomahawks
Title from caption below image., Heading above design: The minuet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Violin -- Dancing instruction -- Children.
Engraved t.-p., On cover: Eleventh edition., and Possibly the Thomas Wilson, dancing master at the King's Theatre in the early part of the 19th century, who wrote several works on dancing. cf. C.W. Beaumont. Bibliography of dancing. London, 1929.
Publisher:
Page & Son
Subject (Name):
Professor of dancing from the King's theatre and Wilson, Thomas, dancing master
In a tavern, sailors in uniform are carousing; one dances with a woman in the centre, as another plays a violin on the left in front of diamond-patterned casement windows; others are drinking (mugs in hand) or smoking clay pipes. A couple kiss and embrace in the background. A ship model hangs from the ceiling. A fat dog (or cat?) lies at the feet of the musician
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and verses. Missing text and sheet dimensions supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.1068., Below title is a song of sixty-nine lines in three columns 'A Sailor's life's a life of woe, ... And swig the flowing Can., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 21st April 1791 by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dance, Eating & drinking, Kissing, Model ships, Musicians, Sailors, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat
Alternative Title:
Oddities. Song
Description:
Title from item., One of the songs from Charles Dibdin's 'The oddities', first presented in 1789., First line reads: A sailor's life's a life of woe., Imprint transposed from above around lower edge of image and from the bottom of the sheet., Anonymous. By Charles Dibdin., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons
Depicts a fox (Charles James Fox) hanging from a gibbet around which dance members of the Conway family, headed by a blindfolded General Conway who is led by the nose by Shelburne. The Conways are all depicted as rats, with the exception of General Conway and his brother Lord Hertford. Shelburne is shown Janus-like with two faces, his own and that of the Devil. Refers to the resignation of Fox after Shelburne's appointment and Conway's support of the latter. A sequel to British Museum satire 5966
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Hon. Edward Conway, Cannon of Christ Church, 1757-1785 -- Ministries: fall of Rockingham's ministry --Literature: allusion to Little Red Riding Hood -- Conway family as rats -- Mottoes: sic transit gloria mund.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 2d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Rats, Foxes, Blindfolds, Gallows, Devil, and Dance
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Title etched below image., Image size including ruled lines: 245 x 345 mm., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Caricatures and cartoons, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Leaf 43. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.808., 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. 2, page 363., and On leaf 43 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
