Plate from the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', ii. 233: On the extreme right the Devil holds up a canvas, 'le Tableau Parlant', which terrifies twelve Irishmen grouped round an oblong table. In their alarm the heavy table has been overturned, some are on the ground, others (left) flee in terror. The Devil, who looks round the edge of his picture, wears a bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Anarchy'; labels hang from his horn: 'Blasph[emy]' and 'Parracide'. He says "Stew it well - It cannot be Overdone for you and me". In the picture, 'Irish Stew I A Favourite Disk for French Palates', two French soldiers superintend the boiling of a Revolutionary Pot, in which stand three naked Irishmen shrieking for mercy; one says: "Liberty of being Stewed"; the other, "Equality - all to be stewed en Masse". Above the table five harpies fly off with a tattered cloth inscribed 'Map of Ireland'. They are intended for the Directors, three having belts inscribed 'Tallien' (not a Director), 'Barras', and 'Le Paux'. On the table is a paper, 'United Irishmen'. The Irishmen make gestures of terror or despair. Most look at the picture, one looks upwards, saying: "Poor Erin How thourt torn to pieces by these five Harpies." A fugitive looks round to say "What your own A. O Connor too!" A lawyer (? Curran): "So much for Republicani[sm] and glorious Independence! No Money! No Lawyer." A monk: "By St Patrick a complete Catholic Emancipation." Three others say: "I now howl in Vain - We are all gone to Pot"; "Brother John [Bull] would not have treated us so -" ; "My Merits with the Republic should have saved me, but I find we must all stew together" [he is perhaps Grattan]; "A Radical Reform by Jasus". Beside the last speaker, a ragged peasant, lies a bundle of pikes, &c.
Description:
Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1799, v. 2, page 233, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: United Irishmen -- Maps: map of Ireland torn by demons -- Reference to the French Revolution -- Allusion to the Directory -- Allusion to anarchy -- Pictures: le tableau parlant., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, for the Anti Jacobin Review
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Barras, Paul,--vicomte de,--1755-1829--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Laurie & Whittle, publisher., and Tallien, Jean-Lambert,--1767-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Depicts Burke wearing spectacles and wig, but in monastic habit as an Irish Jesuit. He is seated on a stool peeling a potato, at a table on which is a chamber pot full of steaming potatoes, and at the other end a keg of whisky supporting a broken crucifix. Beneath the table dance 3 demons. A reference to Burke's resignation after the death of Rockingham, and to his support of the Catholic Relief Act.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Catholic Church--Controversial literature., Darchery, Elizabeth, publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
George III at table with the queen and seated between Lord and Lady Petre with nine other persons while a tall monk stands on the left saying grace. A crucifix and picture of a saint on the wall mark this as an anti-Catholic satire occasioned by the King's visit to Lord Petre in October of 1778 after the passing of the Catholic Relief Act.
Alternative Title:
Peep at Lord Peter's
Description:
Also attributed to Gillray., Date from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
W. M. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Charlotte,--Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain,--1744-1818--Caricatures and cartoons., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, attributed name., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., and Petre, Robert Edward Petre,--Baron,--1742-1801--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism., Clothing & dress--England--1770-1780., Dining tables., Monks. , and Prayer.
"Two fat friars gormandize in a Gothic cloister, seated in easy chairs. A lean old friar or lay brother brings in a sucking-pig. On the ground beside them are a chest of 'Relicks', bottles of 'Tokay' and 'Lackrymy Christi', church plate, with a 'Consecrated Cup' and a paper: 'Absolu[tion] Confess[ion] of Miss Wagtail.' On the wall is pinned a large print, 'Food for the Convent' [see British Museum Satire No. 3777]: a friar walking to the convent door with a large sheaf of corn on his back, from which project the head and feet of a girl. On a window recess are a skull, hour-glass, and cross ..."--Description of an alternate state in British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
I am a friar of orders grey.
Description:
"Sir E. Bunbury" may refer to the artist H.W. Bunbury. See British Museum catalogue., For state numbered "Q. 2", see no. 10924, in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Grego identifies a companion print: Monastic fare., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Title etched below image., Two columns of verse below title: I am a friar of orders grey, And down the vallies I take my way; I pull not blackberry, haw or hip, Good store of ven'son does fill my scrip, My long bead roll I merrily chaunt, Wherever I walk no money I want; And why I'm so plump the reason I'll tell ... "Who leads a good life, is sure to live well." What baron, or squire, or knight of the shire, Lives so well as a holy friar ..., and Verses are a parody of Thomas Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry. See British Museum catalogue.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, attributed name., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Companion print: The holy friar., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Six lines of verse below design: After supper of heaven I dream. But that is faith pullets & clouted [sic] cream ..., and Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
