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A series of caricatures by various artists. Originally pasted into a bound volume but removed during conservation work.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured impressions) by Isaac Cruikshank. Illustration to a lampoon on the Gunning scandal. A series of portraits following [1] a letter directed to 'His Grace the D ... of' [Marlborough], beneath which is inscribed: 'This is the Note that Nobody wrote!' [2] A groom (T.Q.L.) standing with folded arms: 'This is the Groom that carried the Note that Nobody wrote'. [3] Bust portrait of a stout woman in profile to the left: 'This is Madam Gun... g so very cunning that...

Scope and Contents Political satire. In a bakery, George III is shown putting into a baking oven a group of three heads wearing peers' coronets. He is assisted by Queen Charlotte and Pitt. On the table to the left are four more heads wearing coronets with more heads on the shelves to the left of the oven. Speech balloon above Pitt reads, "Blast this roll. it is the crookedest son of a bitch that ever came out of an oven." The king's speech balloon reads, "Such a batch and such a match, there never was I swear...

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Satire with three rows of small figures representing different types of MP, each uttering characteristic expressions. Hand-coloured etching. Description from The British Museum.

Scope and Contents Lord Lonsdale with the head of a wolf sits in his carriage, from which the horses have been taken, and is drawn (left to right) by men past a row of two-storied cottages which are falling to pieces. He wears an earl's coronet, and a military coat with a shirt frill; from his rapacious mouth issue the words "Dear Gentlemen this is too much, now you really distress me". A large earl's coronet is on the carriage door. A hind wheel rolls over an open book, 'Peter Pindar'. A stout fierce-looking...

Scope and Contents A middle-aged man (right) leads by strings attached to their coats, seven elderly men, the Antiquities of Malmesbury. He says, "I'll wait on you Gentlemen I knows what it is to Sarve". The first two have each a shrunken leg, lengthened by a block under the shoe; one says to the other, grinning, "for here I go up up up & there you go down down downe". His companion, a fat parson, answers, "Aye Aye Moses, you and I have seen many tips & downs in this world, never mind we will have a...

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Anonymous artist. Image of a tomb featuring two figures lying on top, coats of arms and a weeping angel.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. Six Frenchmen, much caricatured, surround the coffin of 'Leopold II', which is raised on a support draped with black; enormous tears stream from the eyes, splash over the coffin, and form a pool of water which is more than ankle-deep, inscribed: 'Emigrant Tears, Emigrant Tears, Tears, Tears, Tears'. The upper part of the ornate coffin is removed, showing the profile of the dead Emperor, emerging from the pool caused by the tears of the...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Gillray. Pitt stands in profile to the right, right hand extended, left hand resting on the table of the House of Commons, on which are books etc. He says "If there is a Fundamental deficiency why call for Papers?" The title and phrase (used by Pitt in the debate) express the exaggerated attenuation of Pitt below the waist. He wears a court-dress with a sword. The print is said to give a realistic impression of Pitt in debate. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 140....

Scope and Contents Engraving by Isaac Cruikshank. An old lady is seated in a 'necessary house', a small shed among shrubs which is being attacked by a stout lady (right) who raises an axe in both hands, saying, "open the Door or Sir G:— shall go to the King and make the Necessary Complaints you Nasty ill Natured Lady Dung". The other draws aside a curtain which covers the glass panes of the upper part of the door, and answers: "no, no my Young Lady you may ease Yourself how you can". 'Sir G.', wearing the...

Scope and Contents Aquatint (coloured impression) by Gillray. A carriage (right) drives at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace; Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing a pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now or never! --- aha the Coast is clearing! -- drive! drive! you dog!" He has a sly smile. The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Landsdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es]...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Gillray. Three busts on pedestals under two pictures: Fox, very lifelike, without inscription, between' Demosthenes against AEschines' (left) and 'Cicero against Cataline' (right), both of whom look straight before them, frowning severely, as if outraged at their new companion. Above Demosthenes is 'Justice': a picture of Catherine II, raising a dagger to stab the to the heart of the Sultan, who lies on his back, his sabre and a bag of '16000000 Roubles'...

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Satire: two boys with improvised weapons being taught to fight by two men, on left with gun, right with sword. Hand-coloured etching. Description from The British Museum.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. A man runs rapidly (Ieft to right) carrying on his shoulders the fat Mrs. Hobart, who crouches in a horizontal position, her arms outstretched, her petticoats revealing massive legs. She wears one of the small hats with high cylindrical crowns trimmed with ribbon then fashionable. Paris wears a laurel wreath. Both are in profile to the right. Behind the corner of a house in 'St James's Square' is indicated, with an open window from which a...

Scope and Contents The deck of a slave-ship showing the stern, the lower part of a mast and sail. A girl is suspended by an ankle from a rope held over a pulley by a sailor (right), who hauls at it, leaning back, and saying, "Dam me if I like it I have a good mind to let go". Two other sailors on the extreme right walk away, saying, "My Eyes Jack our Girles at Wapping are never flogged for their modesty," and, "By G-d that's too bad if he had taken her to bed to him it would be well enough, Split me I'm...

Scope and Contents Engraving. Pitt is seated on an ass inscribed 'Poor John Bull', between the two groups gaping for the loaves and fishes with which the ass is laden, the fish being in two panniers. He is assisted by the two Treasury secretaries, each with a gigantic pen. He sits sideways in profile to the left facing the larger crowd, saying, "Have Patience! and do as you are bid, and depend on a Call-- Stand still Jack, I am lightening your Burden". He thrusts a fish into the mouth of an applicant; in his...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured impressions) by Isaac Cruikshank. The King and Queen sit side by side, facing the spectator, behind a circular breakfast-table; two Princesses are on the King's right, Mrs. Schwellenburg on the Queen's left, the figures being T.Q.L. and the surface of the table filling the centre foreground. Princess Elizabeth, in profile to the right, holds out her cup, saying, "Indeed papa, I cant leave of a good thing so soon, I am sure of late I have been very moderate,...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Gillray. Fox (right) kneels in profile to the left, firing point-black from a blunderbuss at a post which roughly suggests George III in back view: it is surmounted by a short wig and a hunting-cap decorated with the royal arms; round a protuberance simulating posteriors a circle is drawn with a bull's-eye at which Fox is firing. He is much caricatured, with large head and short fat legs; he wears a slouch hat with the inscription 'Ca-Ira', and has a...

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Etching by Richard Newton. Social satire: a highway robbery with two villains - one a sailor - departing with the clothes of their victims, who are left bound and half-naked in their chaise; a milestone places the scene of the crime four miles from London. Description from The British Museum.

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Thought to be created by Richard Newton. It is a pair to 'Cruelty and Oppression Abroad' which was published within six weeks of William Wilberforce's first motion for the abolition of the slave trade. William Wilberforce is seen to be ignoring the cruel flogging of British sailors ("This is so near home it is beneath our notice"). Publication line within the image, 'London Pubd. May 11 1792 by Willm Holland, 50 Oxford Street'. Description from the British Museum.