Satirical frontispiece to a tract entitled "An Address of Thanks to the Broad-Bottoms, for the Good Things they have done, and the Evil Things they have not done, Since their Elevation . ." on the coalition government, called broad-bottomed because it included Tories as well as opposition Whigs, and its failure to keep promises made in opposition to reduce taxes. The bare bottoms of members of the government are shown from the rear piled on top of one another over a pointed arch facing the rising sun. In the centre of the group Sir John Hynde Cotton is recognisable from his profile and his size. The members are defecating on to a group of asses beneath. Each ass carries a load labelled with the name of a tax: salt, land, soap, malt, candles, wine and tea. The burden on one ass is lettered "Septan", i.e. "Septennial", referring to Opposition promises to reduce the years between elections from seven to three. Another ass carries "Lottery" and "Annuities", and another includes in its pack "Black Act" (which created the capital offence of blackening the face, as a disguise, when committing a crime).--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication information from the book for which this plate was printed., Frontispiece from: An address of thanks to the Broad-Bottoms ... . London : Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCXLV [1745]., Two lines of verse below image: Believing, we lifted [the] up among the mighty, yet our drivers have join'd, increasing our loads., "Jeffrey Broadbottom" was a pseudonym of William Guthrie, pamphleteer in the Pelham interest., and Not by Hogarth, as has been claimed. Cf. Felbrigg, p. 122, ref. to Nichols, 3rd edition, p. 449 "a palpable imposition" (to call it by Hogarth).
Publisher:
M. Cooper
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, History, Defecation, Donkeys, and Politicians
Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wooded scene in the immediate suburbs of London, with St. Paul's in the background. Two 'cits' with guns prepare to fire, since their dog points at a bush, behind which, concealed from the sportsmen, squats a man excreting (left). A man holding a powder-flask watches with amusement from the top of a gate (right). Another dog sits in the foreground (right). Beneath the title is engraved: 'Against the Wind he takes his prudent way, While the strong Gale directs him to the prey; Now the warm scent assures the covey near, He treads with caution & he points with fear. Gay. -------------------------clausisque expectat ocellis; θυμπον---------------------------------------------'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 22 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Septr. 1st, 1785, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Marylebone
"Ministers, horribly griped, sit on a vast Green Bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), trying to hatch eggs. The King hits the kneeling Bloomfield in the face, saying 'They shall hatch by G--d!' John Bull and a soldier (see British Museum Satires No. 13850) watch derisively. Behind him is the Pavilion."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sitting committee and Shitting committee
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "i" in "sitting" is formed from the letter "h" with its left side scored through, suggesting the word "shitting.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plat [sic] 7"--Upper left corner., and Mounted on page 25 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
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., Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Bishops, Military officers, Bags, Defecation, and Soldiers
"Ministers, horribly griped, sit on a vast Green Bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), trying to hatch eggs. The King hits the kneeling Bloomfield in the face, saying 'They shall hatch by G--d!' John Bull and a soldier (see British Museum Satires No. 13850) watch derisively. Behind him is the Pavilion."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sitting committee and Shitting committee
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "i" in "sitting" is formed from the letter "h" with its left side scored through, suggesting the word "shitting.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plat [sic] 7"--Upper left corner., 1 print : etching ; sheet 27.1 x 42.1 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "Ivy Mill 1817"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 40 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Bloomfield," "Liverpool," "Wellington," "Eldon," "Londondery [sic]," and "Sidmouth" identified in ink at bottom of sheet; date "July 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted to the left of print.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
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., Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Bishops, Military officers, Bags, Defecation, and Soldiers
Lord North, Charles Fox and Edmund Burke take over the "Committe [sic] Room" of the East India Company. Burke, saying, "I will direct ye," pushes and boots out the door the Directors while Fox, standing in the middle of the room, excretes on the Company's charters. The satisfied-looking North stands next to Fox, his pocket overflowing with notes for large sums of money and stock. Behind them is a long table and the vacated "President's chair." In the corner to the left stand two crates filled with coins and signed "dollars," a bag of rupees and another one containing "a lack" [i.e., lakh, or one hundred thousand]. More coins are spilled on the floor in front of them
Alternative Title:
New ways & means and New ways and means
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Decbr. 81 [sic], 1783, by T. Wiggins, No. 9, Founders Court, Lothbury
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Interiors, Coins, Defecation, Kicking, and Clothing & dress
Within an oval design, Rockingham is shown seated on a close stool labelled "Publick Reservoir". He vomits into a hat held by Burke, while behind him stand Cavendish, Fox, and Thomas Powys, M.P. for Northamptonshire. A satire on Burke's Bill of economical reform
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Possibly a later reprint.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Defecation, Vomiting, and Clothing & dress
Within an oval design, Rockingham is shown seated on a close stool labelled "Publick Reservoir". He vomits into a hat held by Burke, while behind him stand Cavendish, Fox, and Thomas Powys, M.P. for Northamptonshire. A satire on Burke's Bill of economical reform
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.3 x 27.9 cm, on sheet 19.8 x 28.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Defecation, Vomiting, and Clothing & dress
"A stout farmer rides (left to right) past an inn on a cow. The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Ho[rses]'. The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn, and snaps his fingers, saying, "Pitt be D------d". A basket containing poultry hangs from the saddle. Part of the inn is on the left of the design, its sign is a stout man holding a foaming tankard gazing at three sacks, inscribed 'Joe Jolly 1784' (a '7' appears to have been etched over the '4'). Five amused spectators stand by the door; from a window above two men applaud the farmer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue of a print originally published in 1784., Pitt's budget of 1784 imposed an annual tax of 10s. on saddle- and carriage-horses, exempting those used for trade and agriculture. On 27 November 1784 one Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to and from the market of Stockport in protest against the horse-tax. See Chambers, 'Book of Days', ii. 627, where there is a copy of a similar print., and For a variant state, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
"Tipu Sultan (left) gallops (right to left) past Cornwallis who is seated in an ornate chair on the back of an ill-drawn elephant. Tipu, rising in his stirrups, excretes a blast which displaces a boy-mahout on the elephant's neck and strikes Cornwallis. He says, "Now my Lord I'll Tip you the Swamps". The horse excretes a blast directed at the elephant's eye. The elephant, raising its trunk, says, "I wish I could run as fast as he how i would thump him." Cornwallis, with his sabre raised above his head, his left fist clenched, says, "These Monsoons are more Violent than ever I knew them before Boy turn back again." The boy says, "Yes my Lord I am going backwards Pr force." Behind Cornwallis's seat is a box inscribed 'Rice for Gruel during the Monsoons'. Behind Tipu (left) is a circular fort inscribed 'Seringapatam'."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
How to gain a complete victory and say you got safe out of the enemys reach
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and Watermark: I Taylor.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 15, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India and India.
Subject (Name):
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805., Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, and Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799
Subject (Topic):
History, Daggers & swords, Defecation, Elephants, Horses, Military retreats, British, and Urination
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 37 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey wears a white bonnet and sits on a chamber pot with arms crossed across her lap in imitation of an elderly woman facing opposite with her dress raised sitting upon a 'closet stool'. The pair stare and grin at each other
Description:
Title from inscription below image in the artist's hand., Date devised by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Monkeys, Imitation, Bonnets, Women, Urination, and Defecation
