Scope and Contents Engraving thought to be created by Newton. A series of isolated figures, single or in pairs, arranged in two rows, each with an explanatory couplet relating to the news of the capture of Seringapatam, on the authority of a letter recieved at the India House on 15 May from Bristol, dated 'Vestal, at sea.' A letter purporting to come from a Lieutenant Abercrombie with news of the fall of Seringapatam after a decisive action by Lord Cornwallis at Mandoo, with very little loss, early in...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. Tom Paine, Sheridan and Whitbread as conspirators and incendiaries wear hooded cloaks and slouch hats, Paine (left), a bare-legged sans-culotte with ragged shirt, kneels on one knee, holding a torch to a pair of breeches (his own) stuffed with straw which he is putting under the floor, a plank having been removed. He says, "Now for a Deed that shall outdo my Pen". Sheridan bends forward in profile to the left, holding a dark lantern; he...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression), by Newton. A pugilistic encounter between Pitt and Thurlow, who is seated on the Woolsack. Pitt, stripped to the waist, stands defiantly in profile to the right saying, "I'll soon kick you from your stool you old, hard hearted, brow beating monster". Thurlow, contemptuous of his opponent, sits confidently in shirt and breeches, arms outstretched, saying, "Afraid of him, b---t me, a dried eel skin! an ill shap'd figure of one, b--t me! no, no, I've got some...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression), by Isaac Cruikshank [?]. Thurlow, stripped to the waist, kicks the bag of the Great Seal, and tramples on his Chancellor's gown; the mace and his mat lie on the floor beside him. He clenches his fists and scowls, looking to the left, and saying, "Had I serv'd my God with half a Quarter the Zeal. &c &c. Dam---n". His Chancellor's wig is blazing in the fireplace (left). Behind him (right) is a table with writing materials, and a large document: 'A...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Gillray. A satire on the struggle between Pitt and Thurlow travestied as a scene from 'Paradise Lost'. Pitt (left) is Death, wearing the king's crown and using a long sceptre as a weapon. Thurlow (right) is Satan; he raises the (breaking) mace to smite and holds out an oval shield decorated with the bag of the Great Seal and a tiny woolsack. The Queen, as Sin, is naked, with snaky locks, and two writhing surpents for legs, interposes with outstretched arms,...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Gillray. Dundas in Highland dress, wearing a Scots cap over a legal wig, crouches with his head turned in profile to the right. With his voluminous tartan plaid, he covers Pitt, who sits close against him in profile to the left on the pan of a close-stood inscribed 'Extracts from the Treasury', his profile, feet and ankles alone being visible. An illustration of an ironical speech by Courtenay on 25 May in the debate on the Proclamation against Seditious...

Scope and Contents Engraving by J. Sayers. The interior of a hall intended for the French National Assembly. On the extreme left a large tub raised from the ground serves as a tribune, its right half only being visible; from this leans a grotesquely caricatured and foppish Frenchman, blowing a trumpet with a force which distends his cheeks. In his right hand are leading-strings supporting a lean youth who stands on the floor leaning forward, a firebrand in his left hand, and electrical rod in his right. From...

Scope and Contents From the 'Attic Miscellany', ii. 118. Dr. Price preaches from a ramshackle tub inscribed 'Political Gunpowder', his arms outstretched to the right; from his pocket projects a document inscribed 'Revolution Toasts'. His sermon hangs over the edge of the tub, the upper sheet headed 'Bind the Kings with chains &c.' The tub rests on a large book: 'Calculations' (an allusion to Price's works on population and finance). Beneath the title is engraved : '"Every Man has his Price!" Sir R....

Scope and Contents Stipple (coloured impression). George III (T. Q. L.) stands in profile to the left, nearsightedly examining an oval miniature of Oliver Cromwell by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The H. L., looking to the right, in arour, probably derives from the pl. after Cooper in Mechell's ed. of Rapain's 'History', 1733. The candlestick is of massive plate holding a candle-end supported on a save-all. The King is only slightly caricatured, but his receding forehead and chin and open mouth...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured impressions) by Isaac Cruikshank. The king, sword in hand and wearing regimentals, leads a party of officers in pursuit of three fleeing officers (right): Fox holding a musket is in the centre, with the Prince of Wales, holding a sabre on his right and (?) Charles Grey (or perhaps, from the length of his nose, Lord Stanhope) on his left Sheridan has fallen and lies on his back, his sabre beside him. Between the pursuers and the pursued is a rough bank with...

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Design in an oval. A burlesque coat of arms symbolizing the supposed character of the Unitarians represented by Priestley. After the title is engraved: 'Address'd to those Peaceable Subjects of this Kingdom who prefer the Present happy Constitution to that Anarchy & Bloodshed so Zealously sought for by these restless advocates for Priestly & Paine's Sophistical Tenets.' Description from The British Museum.

Relates to LF104/2/28B.

Scope and Contents The shield rests on a vulture which grasps in its beak and claws the motto: 'Under these Garbs do we act.' On a shaded (sable) ground a harpy suckles young harpies and holds up the cap of Liberty with a pendent banner on which is a crown surrounded by drops of blood. On a border round the shield are ten groups of ten intertwined serpents. The crest is the Devil and a number of fiends attacking a glory of rays surrounding a triangle, symbolizing the Trinity. The supporters are (dexter)...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured). The Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leans back in an arm-chair, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a single button across his distended stomach. On his right a circular table covered with the remains of a meal, with decanters of 'Port and Brandy', a castor of 'Chian'. Under the table, partly covered by the cloth, are empty wine-bottles. Behind the chair (right) a brimming chamber-pot stands on a table or commode on...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured impressions). The King sits in an armchair in profile to the left, bending forward to eat a boiled egg, holding the egg-cup in his lefyt hand. Opposite him, and partly concealed by the left margin, sits the Queen, avidly stuffing salad into her mouth. On the small round table are a bowl of salad and two jugs of oil and vinegar. Everything in the room denotes miserliness: the King has tucked the end of the tablecloth into his collar to protect his dress; his...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured) by Gillray. The Prince of Wales (left) leads a goat with the head of Mrs. Fitzherbert (right) to the door of the forecourt of a large town-house, held partly open by the Duchess of York. She says, "O Dunder & Wonder!-- what Cratur is dat which you are bringing here?-- relation of mine, indeed?-- no, no! -- me know no Nanny-goat-Princess!-- so set off, with your bargain, you poor-- Toasted! --Cheese! you!-- for she sha'nt come in here, to poison the...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impressions) by Isaac Cruikshank. A party of unarmed French sans-culottes (right) drive Prussian troops before them, the last of the Prussians and the most important figure in the design being the Duke of Brunswick. The French ragamuffins, who wear cocked hats and military coats, have bare thighs and ungartered stockings; they jeer at the Duke, the foremost holding out to him a flask and a paper inscribed 'Manifesto', saying, "No wonder de Duke should run away when he has...

Scope and Contents The reception of the diplomatique & his suite, at the court of Pekin. The Emperor of China (left) reclines on a mattress on a low dais, smoking a long pipe and contemptuously watching, out of his slit-like eyes, Lord Macartney, who kneels on one knee, holding out the King's letter, which is signed 'GR \ WP [Pitt] Sec.' The Emperor emits a puff of smoke from a twisted mouth in a subtly insulting manner. Behind him stand two impassive mandarins, their folded hands concealed in their...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. Catherine II stands between the King of Poland (left), whom she seizes by his pigtail queue and the Duke of Brunswick, whose back she kicks. She stands in profile to the right, turning her back on Stanislaus, and threatening Brunswick with outstretched sceptre. She says "B---t your Cowardly Spirit I'll Kick you to Hell, what I suppose you was frightened at their Naked A---sses. Get out of my sight, or I'll send you and your Army---after my...

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Satire: Charles James Fox disguised as a bowing Frenchman with wig and three-cornered hat. Etching with hand-colouring. Description from The British Museum.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A caricature of the famous scene in the House of Commons on 28 Dec. 1792. Burke (right) stands in profile to the left, his hands extended, having just thrown down the dagger, which lies at his feet; he looks with a contemptuous frown at Pitt and Dundas, who are seated on the Treasury Bench (left). On the extreme left the Speaker is represented by his hat, wig and gown; his headlessness perhaps indicates Gillray's opinion of Addington. On the opposite side of...