"Several scenes combined in one design. The Associations of various counties to present petitions and form committees to demand reforms are represented in the upper right portion of the plate: A procession of men walks (right to left), their leader holding a standard with the arms of the county inscribed "County of York 30 Decr 1779" (the date of the meeting at which it was agreed to present a petition and prepare a plan for an Association to secure reform). He holds a paper inscribed "Petition" and says, "Virtue & Fortitude shall Guide us". Representatives of the other petitioning and associating counties follow, with the appropriate dates on labels issuing from their mouths: ...". The last man carries an ensign flag on which is inscribed "London Newcastle upon Tyne Bristol Westminster &c. &c. &c." Beneath the procession is engraved "Immortal Gods! What Honor waits the men who save their Country from impending Ruin." The leader is probably intended for Sir George Savile. On the left George III is seated in his closet; a young man stands before him addressing, not the king, but an imaginary audience, saying, "The only Patriot His Power is too Confined". This is perhaps intended for Lord George Gordon's private interview with the King on 27 Jan. 1780; ... . Outside the door of the royal closet and facing the petitioners is a monster with wings and three heads, breathing fire. In the lower right, ... Britannia sits on a ruinous stone pedestal which is being further undermined by a female figure with a forked tail and the legs of a satyr; she is applying a lever to its base saying, "And shall not I, Corruption is my name, Undermine the British Constitution". Lord North attacks the pedestal with a pickaxe, saying, "I will assist you Sister in the same Design". Bute, in Highland dress with the Garter ribbon and star, flourishes a broadsword, while he takes from Britannia the staff and cap of Liberty; he says, "Away wi ye to the Deel Where is your Liberty now". Britannia, holding her shield and 'Magna Carta', says to the marching petitioners above her head, "Tis you alone my Friends who can revive my Drooping Hopes & save me from Distraction". Behind Britannia (left) and in a glory of rays stands a man inscribed "Chatham" with outstretched arms, saying "O Cleanse Yon Augean Stable". He points towards the design beneath the king's closet. This represents the House of Commons (left); the Speaker in his chair, members seated on each side of a table. It is seen through two pillars, up one (right) climbs an alligator, round the other is a serpent with a branch of apples in its mouth. Above is inscribed "Ruled by Powerful Influence". A procession of members walks (left to right) from the House up a path leading to the door of the king's closet above. They carry scrolls inscribed "25 000"; "5000"; "£40,000"; "15,000 £10,000, £50 000". One says, "Secure in the Enjoyment of Places Pensions & Emoluments of Office we fear not the Clamour of Yorkshire Clodpoles"; another says, "God help the Rich the Poor can beg". Their leader carries an "Address of Thanks". Beneath this gang of ministerialists a mythological figure leaning against an anchor and a gushing water-conduit (? Neptune) says,"Is there not some Chosen Curses, ... Public Treasure Wasted in Corrupting the Morals of the People". He is saying, "No New Taxes but a Retrenchment of Public Expences.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Public virtue displayed in a contrasted view
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Danl. Wilson at No. 20 Portugal Street Lincolns Inn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Savile, George, Sir, 1726-1784., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793., and Neptune (Roman deity),
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Petitions, and Dragons
Caption title., Dates top right: Scarborough, June 8, 1790., First line: Resolved, that the selling either hats or gloves with the proper stamps ought to be ..., Signed by 18 people, listed in two columns., and Formerly mounted in a volume; stub still attached on verso. On paper with crowned Britannia watermark and horizontal chain lines. For further information, consult library staff.
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
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., 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)., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit., p. 449., and On page 122 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate to: 16 x 8.3 cm.
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
Signed: Don Quixote de la Mancha, Knight of the Lions., At the foot: Given at our sty, No.47, Hay-Market, St. James's; the address of Richard Lee., First published as 'Licence for the guinea pigs to wear powder'., At head of title: (One penny)., In this edition the last line ends: "sty as above"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by R. Lee
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Hair preparations, Taxation, Hairdressing, Equipment and supplies, Toilet preparations, Anglo-French War, 1793-1802, and Finance
Caption title., An address to Lord Hood and Pitt expressing outrage at a riot of sailors in Westminster and the damage done to the tradesmen in the area, on top of the grinding taxes imposed by the Pitt admisitration., Signed: An independent shopkeeper., "Bond-Street, Friday evening, July 25, 1788.", Westminster election handbill., Not in ESTC., and Partial watermark. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, and England.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Retail trade, Taxation, Public opinion, and Sailors
Manuscript on parchment of Cistercian statutes. In two sections, of the early fourteenth and late fifteenth century respectively. The manuscript is damaged by moisture, badly affecting parts of the text and the colours of the decoration
Description:
In Latin., Script: first section copied by a single hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, with an addition written in Gothic documentary script. Second section copied by a single hand in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda) with unlooped d, and an addition in Gothica Cursiva Currens., First section: yellow heightening of majuscules. Red headings. Alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials, with blue and red penwork respectively extending into the left margin. Some initials and majuscules are inscribed with human faces. On f. 1r the text is framed by a simple blue and red border. The opening letters of the acrostical verses in the second section have been retraced in red ink., Second section: red headings and chapter numbers, but otherwise no decoration., and Binding: Quarter binding s. XX: brown morocco spine and oak boards. Spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled morocco title label mounted on a piece of parchment (of the previous binding?) with the inscription: “OFFICIA ECCLESIASTICA”. On the front board a bronze bas-relief of Christ on the Cross (Russia, s. XVIII?) has been mounted.
Design in two compartments contrasting on the left the poverty and depravity of "French Liberty" with the opulence of the British on the right "British Slavery." The thin, ragged sansculotte with a liberty cap on his head, warms his bare, talon-like feet before a fire, while eating his dinner of raw onions. Behind him snails overflow his chamber pot; above the fireplace a "Map of French Conquests". At his feet a sword lies across a violin like a bow. He extolls the virtues of the National Assembly and new won liberties. In contrast on the right, an obese, red-faced Englishman sits in a luxurious room before a table laden with a tankard of hock and a large joint of beef. His shoes are slashed to relieve his bloated, gouty feet. A gold statute of Britannia adorns the wall above him. He curses his ministry for imposing taxes and starving the British people
Alternative Title:
British slavery
Description:
Title etched below image. and Two images on one plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. December 21st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France, France., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
History, Taxation, Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Poverty, Rugs, Taxes, and Wealth
Pitt, leaping through the air and surrounded by demons, pursues (left to right) fleeing swine with human heads. In his right hand he flourishes a scourge with three weighted lashes, two inscribed 'Powder Tax', the third 'Wig Tax'. The swine wear wigs or have long hair. In his left hand he holds a sceptre terminating in a spike with which he prods a pig who turns round to snarl. Two of the attendant demons breathe fire and hold firebrands. A small demon prods with a triden, and seizes the tail of, a large pig who leaps through the air, its wig flying from its head. Another demon rides a pig, flourishing a scourge. Four birds (right) fly away. Pitt is grotesquely caricatured as are the heads of the swine
Alternative Title:
Hell broke loose, Billy and his gang working the swine
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Signed at bottom of image with artist W. O'Keeffe's monogram., and A satire on the Powder tax and on Burke's phrase "the swinish multitude".
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Hair powder, Taxation, Taxatiion, Demons, and Swine
"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.
