Scope and Contents Aquatint. Paine lies asleep on straw on a ramshackle wooden bedstead, covered by his coat. He wears a cap inscribed 'Libertas'. He lies in bed diagonally from left to right, facing the spectator. On the head of his bed are drawn the profile heads, with wings, of his 'Guardian Angles': Priestly (left) and Fox (right) His head rests on a bundle of straw round which is a striped and torn (?) flag inscribed 'Vive l'America'. His arm lies across an open book: 'The Rights of Farthing Candles...

Scope and Contents Engraving by Isaac Cruikshank. Spectators watch military manoeuvers in the air. The sky is covered with camps, marching men, and galloping cavalry, some are in military formation, others are single figures. There are tents and marquees with wings; a man beats a drum, three orientals wearing turbans race through the air beating cymbals. In the foreground (left) spectators on horseback look up in amazement, one horse throws its rider; geese, goslings and pigs are under the horses' feet. On the...

Scope and Contents Aquatint (coloured and uncoloured). Pitt stands, in profile to the right, on a fortified tower, or platform, in the crenellations of which are cannon; he looks through a spy-glass, his knees banding with fear, and clutches by the arm a stout John Bull (left), a yokel who stands full face, almost equally terrified. He is watching a flight of geese advancing from the right, and says: "There, John!-- there! there they are!-- I see them- get your Arms ready, John!-- they're Rising & coming...

Scope and Contents Engraving, by Rowlandson after Lord George Murray. Two medallions placed side by side illustrate 'British Liberty' and 'French Liberty', these titles being inscribed on the borders of the medallions. [1] Britannia seated in profile to the right under an oak with her shield and the staff and cap of Liberty; in her right hand is 'Magna Charta', in her left she holds out the scales of Justice. The British lion crouches at her feet. Behind (right) is the sea with a ship in full sail. [2] A...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Gillray. A scene at a faro-table; part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground, players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she holds a pack of cards in one hand, a knave in the other, looking triumphiously rapacious smile as a stout lady (? Mrs. Hobart) who sits (right) clenching her fists and scowling back. All the others have expressions of alarm or concern, the least...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured) by J. Sayers. The left and wider portion of the design represents England, the right portion France; two posts and the corners of two buildings meet along the dividing line. From each post a horizontal beam projects to support a signboard, in each case that of a crown. In England this is in place, and has the inscription 'Good Entertainment for Man & Horse'; two Frenchmen standing on the opposite side are pulling at the English sign with ropes. They...

Scope and Contents Two men in back view walk arm-in-arm, one (left) is short and fat, the other tall and thin. The former wears a short coat or spencer over his tail-coat, with wrinkled top-boots and a round hat, and carries a riding-switch. His hair is in a short queue with projecting side-pieces. The other wears a cylindrical hat with brim curled up at the sides, a coat reaching almost to his ankles with five capes forming a point in the centre of the back, with shoes tied with strings. He carries a...

Scope and Contents Dead politicians among the smoke, flames and demons of Hell receive news of the arrangement for the Westminster Election. The central group consists of Sam House (right), a monster composed of implements of gaming (left), and Admiral Keppel (centre). House's body is composed of a cask from whose tap liquid gushes. In his hand is a tankard inscribed 'Sam House', whose contents he flings out; among the stream of liquid are minute demons; he holds a viper-like creature in his left hand. He...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A man walks (right to left) on the sea-shore followed at a short distance by a woman. He carries a small basket of oysters on his left arm, and holds a long walking-stick in his right hand. His right leg, which is raised, is shorter than the other, the shoe having a high heel. He wears a fashionable high-crowned hat with a trilled shirt, but is plain, with ill-dressed hair and long old-fashioned waistcoat and buckled shoes. The woman is younger and more...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) By Newton. A middle-aged woman walks in profile to the right, wearing a high-crowned bonnet and a pelisse, buttoned from neck to hem, which projects before her, short enough to show her clumsy legs. Her hands are in a large muff. She says, "They'll certainly hear the news before I reach the long pavement". Behind her (Ieft) is the corner of a stone wall inscribed Stoney Street. In the background (right) is a church. Identified as 'A Miss Sherwin of...

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Engraving (coloured impression). A buxom woman (Ieft), with loose hair and exposed bosom, hands on hips, looks alluringly towards a man (right), who carries a bunch of carrots under his right arm, a bunch of turnips in his left hand. He turns his head in profile, scowling fiercely at her. A knife hanging from her waist suggests that she is an oyster-woman. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VII. 8396.

Scope and Contents Engraving by Isaac Cruikshank. The Prince of Wales, with arms outstretched, and taking an enormous stride stretching almost across the design, is ridden by a little jockey (Chifney) who kneels across his shoulders, his whip between his teeth, holding the Prince's queue. They are reaching the winning-post, behind which stands the judge, on a block, looking through an oval aperture fixed to the post, his right hand raised. Behind (left) stand three leading members of the Jockey Club, two of...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. Louis XVI (a portrait) stands alone on the scaffold, turning to the left and looking up, his right hand on his heart, his hand raised. Behind (right) is the guillotine realistically drawn. In the background are bayonets, a flag, bugles, etc. There are heavy clouds but broad rays of light slant towards the King. Beneath, the title: 'I forgive my Enemies, I die Innocent!!!' For the execution (21 Jan.) see Pierre de la Vaissière, 'La Mort du...

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Engraving (coloured impression) by Rowlandson after Lord George Murry. One of the prints advertised by the Crown and Anchor Society on a broadside reprint of Loughborough's speech on the Alien Act, 26 Dec. 1792 (B.M.L., 648. c. 26/19): 'The happy and flourishing State and Wealth of Great Britain, contrasted with the Horrors, Massacres, and Poverty of France.' Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VII. 8284.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured impressions) by Isaac Cruikshank. Burke, a colossal figure, lunges forward and to the right, a dagger in each hand. Behind, the House of Commons is indicated, empty except for the Speaker (Addington) in the background, raising his arms in dismay, and Fox in the middle distance, who flees, looking over his shoulder to say, "D—m he's got the French Disorder". Burke frowns; a scroll issues from his fiercely closed lips: 'Plunderers Assassins Republicans...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). The interior of a dungeon with one barred window (r.ight and a heavy door (left). Louis XVI stands full-face, looking towards the despairing queen whose left hand he holds in his left. His daughter (left), a young girl kneeling in profile to the right, holds his right hand, kissing it. The little Dauphin stands on tip-toe, clasping his father's waist. Behind (right) Mme Elisabeth sits weeping at a table, on which are an open book and a rosary. One of many...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured impressions) by Rowlandson. A design in three compartments, each with its title. [1] John Bull (left), very corpulent, a frothing tankard in his hand, sits in an arm-chair beside a table loaded with beef, pudding, and 'Home Brew'd'; he is approached by three famished Frenchmen, who lean eagerly towards him, cap in hand. He points to the table, saying: "The blessed effects of a good Constitution". The three say: "I am your Friend John Bull you want a Reform;...

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Engraving (coloured impression). An exciseman stands in profile to the left, his lower lip protruding grotesquely; his chest is much thrown out, right hand thrust under his coat, Ieft arm behind his back. From his pocket protrudes an 'Excise Book'. His ink-bottle is attached to his coat; in it is a pen; another pen projects from his cocked hat. A dog (right) befouls his leg. Description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VII. 8395.

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A procession on three [1] sheets of the French Revolutionary army on a march, led by looters with trophies of food, with Dumouriez mounted on a nag in the centre, and concluded with a group of prisoners with a placard 'Compulsion pour ces gens qui n'aiment pas la liberté'. Description from The British Museum.

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A procession on three [2] sheets of the French Revolutionary army on a march, led by looters with trophies of food, with Dumouriez mounted on a nag in the centre, and concluded with a group of prisoners with a placard 'Compulsion pour ces gens qui n'aiment pas la liberté'. Description from The British Museum.