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1.
Gaby Grin, the eccentric clown illuminating the entrance to Old Gutter Lane. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[December 1810]
Call Number:
810.12.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image, in letterpress., Publication date from manuscript note below title., Several lines of letterpress text below title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 40 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clowns, Lanterns, and Tolls
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Gaby Grin, the eccentric clown illuminating the entrance to Old Gutter Lane. [graphic]

2.
John Bulls turnpike gate [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[15 May 1805]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Pope (left), on a small ass decked with trappings, faces John Bull, who stands as toll-keeper before a closed five-barred gate. From the other side of the gate a path leads to a country church on a hill, irradiated, and framed by the semicircular inscription: 'King - Church and Constitution'. The Pope, except that he wears a Papal crown instead of a mitre, resembles St. Patrick in caricature (where he often rides an ass). He is aquiline and bearded, holds a crosier, and wears a cope. His ass has blinkers, on which a satyr's mask is freely drawn. He leans towards John, saying, "Mr Bull, I have been to Paris - and seen all the fine sights there - I now want to have a peep at that little Church on the Hill - therefore let me pass the turnpike." John (right), a fat yokel, looks up at the Pope with a suspicious scowl, pointing over his shoulder at a large open book, 'Test Oath', which is on a book-rest attached to the gate-post. He says: "If you want to go through - pay the Toll, what the devil do you think I keep a turnpike gate for?" Behind the Pope stand four dissenting ministers anxiously watching the interview. Three say sanctimoniously : "Though I boast not gaudy trappings, - nor am I mounted on Ass back, - yet if he goeth through verily I should like to go through also!"; "Verily so should I."; "We should all like to go through".."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The Pope and John Bull written with black ink in contemporary hand., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 15, 1805, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Street, Adelphi
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820. and Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Quakers, John Bull (Symbolic character), Donkeys, Toll roads, and Tolls
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John Bulls turnpike gate [graphic].