"A man (left) leads by a rope the foremost of a crowd of prisoners sentenced to transportation who follow him from left to right. The two foremost are bearded Jews. Behind comes a knock-kneed youth taking a pinch of snuff; a man behind him is gnawing a large bone. There are ten prisoners in all. The background is part of the façade of Newgate prison."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '465' in lower left corner., No. 21 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering. Mounted to 38.6 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Sheridan and Fox are prisoners behind a bar on which they lean. Burke towers above them, with a stern frown, seizing each by the hair. He says: ""Behold the abettors of Revolutions, see "the authors of Plots & conspiracies, & take cognizance of the enemies of both "Church & State; - "I know them all, & have a while upheld, the unyok'd "humour of their Wickedness," - I have bore [sic] with them 'till the measure "of their iniquity is full; but now, I will bare them before ye Justice of injured "humanity, - I will prove unequivocally, that there exists at the present "moment, a junto of Miscreant Jacobites [sic], who are aiming at the Over-"throw of the British Constitution" - Vide Burkes Speech on the Quebec Bill - ". Sheridan (left) in profile to the left, his hands clasped, says with a terrified expression, "Ha! what's that? miscreant Jacobites! - plots Conspiracies! Revolution! - O! Damnation! we're all found out! - ah Joseph! Joseph! I fear you've brought up your Neck for a fine Collar!" Fox (right), his head bowed under Burke's hand, his handkerchief to his eyes, says, "O the devil! I'm quite overcome, & stupified with Grief! to think that the Man who has been my dearest Friend, and my Chum in all infamy, for Twenty five years, should now turn Snitch at last! good-lack-a-day!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Father of the gang turnd. kings evidence and Father of the gang turned king's evidence
Description:
Title from text in bottom part of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Burke's speech on Quebec Bill -- Coalition: denounced in 1791 -- Spectacles -- Literature: Sheridan's School for scandal., and Watermark: Strasburg lily, dated 1805.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Jacobites, Politicians, Impeachments, Prisoners, Debates, Eyeglasses, Crying, and Handkerchiefs
"Sheridan and Fox are prisoners behind a bar on which they lean. Burke towers above them, with a stern frown, seizing each by the hair. He says: ""Behold the abettors of Revolutions, see "the authors of Plots & conspiracies, & take cognizance of the enemies of both "Church & State; - "I know them all, & have a while upheld, the unyok'd "humour of their Wickedness," - I have bore [sic] with them 'till the measure "of their iniquity is full; but now, I will bare them before ye Justice of injured "humanity, - I will prove unequivocally, that there exists at the present "moment, a junto of Miscreant Jacobites [sic], who are aiming at the Over-"throw of the British Constitution" - Vide Burkes Speech on the Quebec Bill - ". Sheridan (left) in profile to the left, his hands clasped, says with a terrified expression, "Ha! what's that? miscreant Jacobites! - plots Conspiracies! Revolution! - O! Damnation! we're all found out! - ah Joseph! Joseph! I fear you've brought up your Neck for a fine Collar!" Fox (right), his head bowed under Burke's hand, his handkerchief to his eyes, says, "O the devil! I'm quite overcome, & stupified with Grief! to think that the Man who has been my dearest Friend, and my Chum in all infamy, for Twenty five years, should now turn Snitch at last! good-lack-a-day!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Father of the gang turnd. kings evidence and Father of the gang turned king's evidence
Description:
Title from text in bottom part of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Burke's speech on Quebec Bill -- Coalition: denounced in 1791 -- Spectacles -- Literature: Sheridan's School for scandal., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 31.1 x 39.7 cm, on sheet 32.1 x 41.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Jacobites, Politicians, Impeachments, Prisoners, Debates, Eyeglasses, Crying, and Handkerchiefs
Terrible massacre de femmes dont l'histoire na jamais donne l'example
Description:
Title etched above image., Publisher and place of publication derived from Revolutions de Paris., Date from item., In margin top left and right: Rev. de Paris ; No. 165. P. 430., From: Révolutions de Paris, 1-8 September 1792., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Louis Marie Prudhomme
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Salpêtrière (Hospital).
Subject (Topic):
Massacres, Hospitals, Crowds, Soldiers, Prisoners, Homicides, Prostitutes, and History
In this anti-Jacobin, pro-Girondist print, seven prisoners, in various postures of distress and exclamation are seated on stools in a prison cell. Each one wears a feathered Liberty cap and each is tied to the cell wall by a rope around his neck. The cell is bare save a circular grated window in its top left corner. Speech bubbles hover above each prisoner reading: “Oh Damn it! Is this proper treatment for the Commissioners of a great nation?”, “Oh curse him this false Dumourier.”, “He has finaly trapt us”, “no hole to creep out at”, “Now I feel for the poor prisoners in the Temple”, “It’s all up. With us”, “Oh I could beat my brains out for making the motion that as brought us like asses to it”. The print alludes to the arrest of Charles Dumouriez who despite having played a key role in the victory of the Battle of Valmy in 1972 suffered a significant defeat in the Battle of Neerwinden (March 1793) at the hands of the Austrians which fuelled suspicion amongst the Jacobins of his loyalties. Believing that Dumouriez harboured royalist sympathies several commissioners representing the National Convention were sent to investigate him. Instead of cooperating with the investigation, Dumouriez turned against the deputies and the Minister of War (Pierre Riel de Beurnonville), arresting the commissioners and handing them over to the Austrian forces
Alternative Title:
Commissioners become hostages and French vermin in the German trap
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from the reference to events occurring in 1793., Reversed English copy, with English text, of a French print entitled "A qui Mal veut, Mal arrive." For the original French print, see Princeton University Library Graphic Arts Collection, call no.: GA 2012.01066., Text beneath title: Being a representation of the present situation of the commissioners, Bournonville, Memoire, Villeneuve, Camus, Lamarque, Luinette and Bancal who were sent to arrest Dumouriez, but the tables being turned upon them they were delivered up to the Austrians and by them imprisoned where they may reflect on the long and cruel confinement they subjected their unfortunate monarch to previous to his martyrdom., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Aitken, No. 14 Castle Street, Leicester Fields, London
Subject (Geographic):
France and Austria
Subject (Name):
Dumouriez, Charles François Du Périer, 1739-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Girondists, Prisons, Cells (Rooms & spaces), Prisoners, Liberty cap, History, Campaigns, Foreign public opinion, British, and Foreign relations
"Two prostitutes sit weeping on a bank (left); two heavily shackled convicts stand beside them (right). A jailer with a pistol in his belt standing behind the women points sternly to a ship in the background. On a hill in the background a body hangs from a tiny gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered in lower left corner: 79., From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
Subject (Topic):
Penal transportation, Gallows, Handguns, Prisoners, Prostitutes, Shackles, Ships, and British
Plate [175] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Percy Kirke standing in a yard, gesturning towards building at left defiantly as two women kneeling at right plead with him, a prisoner being taken away behind at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Treachery of Colonel Kirke, 1685
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Plate [175] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 52 Box D305
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A prisoner (the foreman) bound in chains and 'Thimble' stand before two justices, writing furiously in open volumes, and respond to the exclamation "You're upon oath Sir!"
Description:
Title from pencil inscription in the artist's hand below image. and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Judges, Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, and Prisoners
Title etched below image., Lower left corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. II, Chap. XXV., Illustration to Adventures of Roderick Random., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias), and Fleet Prison (London, England)
Title etched below image., Lower left corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. II, Chap. XXV., Illustration to Adventures of Roderick Random., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 27.4 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 29 x 36.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias), and Fleet Prison (London, England)
