Title from item., Plate numbered '218' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Courtship, Draperies, Living rooms, Love letters, Sofas, Wallpapers, Women, Writing materials, and Young adults
"A low platform covered with roses extends almost across the design; from this bed new Ministers advancing from the left are ejecting the old. Roses are scattered on the floor. The central figure is the tall and handsome Castlereagh, author of the phrase, see British Museum satires No. 10558, &c. With a taut two-stringed bow in his left hand, a quiver on his shoulders, he strides across Grenville who is on his back on the bed, and takes 'Candle End[s] & Cheese Paring[s]' from a bag with which Windham tries to make off (see British Museum Satires No. 9735). He says: "I'd have you to know I've two strings to my Bow!! Down, Down, Down, Derry Down!!" [See British Museum satires No. 10426.] Behind him, Portland threatens Grenville (in his peer's robe) with a big block of 'Portland Stone' [see British Museum Satires No. 10718, &c.]. In front of Windham Rose steps forward from the bed to grasp a large rose on the floor: 'Treasurership of the Navy.' This Sheridan, in his Harlequin's suit (see British Museum Satires No. 9916), is crawling towards, saying, "Just got into my first Nap - how - Unfortunate - come Sir fat touch that however." Rose holds up a pair of bellows inscribed 'Sing old Rose & burn the Bellows'. Eldon, in Chancellor's wig and gown, strides from the bed on to the prostrate Erskine, seizing the Purse of the Great Seal, whose cord is still round the latter's arm. He raises the mace to strike the ex-Chancellor, whose wig has fallen off. Erskine says: "Be quiet I'll retire"; he holds a money-bag inscribed '4,000 Pr Anm' [see British Museum Satires No. 10714]. Lauderdale, wearing a plaid, is behind him on the ground. On the extreme left Canning, standing on the bed, holds up a massive club inscribed 'Bon Mots & Repartee by G C--g'; he stoops over Howick pointing at the 'Catholic Bill', which the latter holds. Howick steps from the bed, angrily looking up at Canning (his especial enemy, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10972), but, unlike his colleagues, not devoid of dignity. On the ground between Howick and Sheridan is Petty in his gown, one hand on his 'Budget', a small bag, the other on a sheaf of papers inscribed 'Ways & Means'. He says: "Bless me I wish I was safe in College I'd never have anything more to do with Taxes" [an allusion to his youth, and to the fact that he was M.P. for Cambridge]. In the background (right) are Moira in his cocked hat and Lord Temple who makes off rapidly."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Retaking the bed of roses by storm!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Charles Williams and approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from bottom edge., and Mounted on linen and formerly sewn in an album, with only the holes remaining on the left edge.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, and Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Beds, Roses, Draperies, and Fighting
"Ministers recline on a large low platform, representing a magnificent state bed, which is completely covered with roses. It recedes in perspective from left to right. On the left is Fox, looking sourly over his left shoulder at his neighbour, Sheridan, to say: "This is the most uncomfortable bed I was ever on in my Life and not the least like a bed of Roses - Zound!! what a thorn is running into me - Oh that Bramble - Sherry my Dear how do you find it - ". Sheridan answers: "My dear Charley, I have not had a wink since I have been on it, - curse that Castle man what did he mean by his bed of roses - I am as sore from the tip of my Nose, to the tip of my Toe - as if I had been roling on a quick set-hedge - or stung to death by a swarm of bees at a Hampshire Farmers [an allusion to Cobbett's pen]". Behind Fox, and in profile to the left, Moira, in uniform, with cocked hat and jack-boots, sits up, very erect; he says: "What are Cannons or Bombs or clashing of swords, compared to the pain I endure." Windham, next Sheridan, registering melancholy, says: "I feel more uneasy than if the whole Volunteer force was upon me." Ellenborough, behind Sheridan and Windham, ill-temperedly puts his hand to his wig. Erskine, also in wig and gown, reclines as if exhausted, his eyes closed, his attitude characteristic of his notorious fainting in court (see British Museum Satires No. 7956). He and Grey (Lord Howick from 11 Apr.), who sits behind him, are in profile to the right; the latter says: "It is just such a bed, as I expected the late bungling bed makers would leave us." On the extreme right little Lord Henry Petty (wearing his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown) sits up, angrily holding above his head two handfuls of thorn-branches. He says: "I shall never have done clearing the brambles and Nettles from this Bed, my Budget would not hold one half of them." The low frame of the bed is carved and has a valance of fringed and festooned draperies. At the head are the Royal Arms; looped curtains are suspended above it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on linen and formerly sewn in an album with only the holes remaining on left edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1806 by Walker, 7 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822., and Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Beds, Roses, and Draperies
Title engraved below image., Numbered '137' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in lower right corner, partially obscured by design.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 253 Fleet Street as the act directs
[approximately 20 April 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 48. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A parody of The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli in which Fox lies prone on a bed with a demon on his chest. Behind them a horse with bulging eyes pokes his head through the bedcurtains. On a table in the foreground are a pair of dice and dice-box
Alternative Title:
Covent Garden nightmare
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike; design has been altered with the addition of a covering over Fox's naked legs, and the erroneous signature "Gillray" has been added in lower left. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6543 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 20 April 1784; see British Museum catalogue., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 129., Temporary local subject terms: Prudery., and On leaf 48 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Beds, Sleeping, Nightmares, Draperies, Demons, and Horses
"The Prince of Orange (left), dressed like a Dutchman in (English) caricature, kneels with arms extended imploringly at the feet of Princess Charlotte (a good portrait). He wears Apollo's wreath, decorated with small oranges, before him is his clumsy flower-pot hat, containing a paper: 'Rules for the game of ye Dutch Pins' (ninepins); beside this is a Jews' harp, a degraded form of Apollo's lyre. His breeches are enormously bulky, and a tobacco-pipe projects from a pocket. He sings: "Lovely Maid, assuage my Anguish! At your feet your true love sighs; Do not let your Dutchman languish, If you frown, alas he dies!" She answers, pointing to his breeches: "From what I feel, and what I see, There's nought about you that bewitches; Unless indeed a charm may be In a Dutchman's great big breeches!!!" She stands beside a table (right) at which she has been sitting. On this are her painting materials, pencil, brushes, cakes of water-colour, porcelain palette, and jar of water, with an open box. Her painting is on a sloping board: a fat Dutchman trudges off, a bundle at his back, in the direction of a sign-post pointing 'To Holland'; he grasps his head despairingly. Behind the Prince a French window with draped curtains gives on to a small balcony. By the window are flowering plants in a jardinière; a sofa stands against the wall; a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 29, 1814, by Wm. Holland, 11 Cockspur St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, William II, King of the Netherlands, 1792-1849, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817., and William II, King of the Netherlands, 1792-1849.
Title from text above image., Publication date inferred from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Three columns of explanatory description below image: A. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, favourite of Edward III ..., Plate numbered '29' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Bedchamber -- Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute -- Monitor -- North Briton -- Furniture: couch -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Quotation from Thomson -- Literature: allusion to Richard III by Shakespeare -- Peter des Roches, d. 1238, Bishop of Winchester., and Mounted to 27 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, Burgh, Hubert de, d. 1243, Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?-1265, and Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Beds, Ghosts, Newspapers, and Draperies
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 26, 1743.
Call Number:
743.03.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an elegant room, eleven old women with caricatured faces sit in a semi-circle. A twelfth woman is standing behind the chair of the woman on extreme left and whispers in her ear. A little lapdog stands in the front of the women yapping at them. In the background, the pediment of the door in the center of the wall is decorated with a bust of a woman in contemporary dress, with a crescent in her hair. The walls are hung with pictures, including winged Time and Cupid
Description:
Title from caption below image., 'Price 6d.'--Following imprint., Six lines of verse in three columns below title: To-morrow and her works defy, lay hold upon the present hour ... Dryden., A companion print to: The assembly of old batchelors., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 25 x 29 cm.
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 389 x 269 mm.
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils.
