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A procession on three [3] 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.

Scope and Contents Engraving. A thin, grotesque French officer flees in terror with outstretched arms from the beak of a bird (Ieft) which is about to peck his posteriors. He is a sansculotte, without breeches, wearing a military coat and ruffled shirt. His hair and long pigtail fly out behind him; his cocked hat flies off; the cockade is inscribed 'Ca ira', ironically translated 'Go it'. Before him (right) the rear ranks of the French army are seen running away at full speed, but in orderly formation....

Scope and Contents Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleeves. They are Fox, the foremost, proffering the steaming head of Pitt; at his belt, in place of a cook's knife, hangs a dagger. Sheridan, on Fox's left, proffers a dish on which steams a broken royal crown. On the extreme left Priestley enters in profile to the right, holding up a dish...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A staff dinner in a large open tent. At the head of the table the Duke of York carouses; a fat Flemish woman seated on his knee plays with his sword; he raises a full glass, looking down at the woman. He is seated on a drum, his left foot rests on a tattered British flag, beside which lies a bundle of muskets. On the table is a punchbowl ornamented with the royal arms. On one side (next the Duke) sits the Prince of Orange, a fat and stolid Dutch officer...

Scope and Contents The Duke of York stands full-face but turning his head in profile to the left, between two laughing Dutch courtesans. He holds a glass of wine in his right hand, while the woman on his right takes his arm, holding up a bottle. He holds the hand of the woman on his left, who picks his pocket. An English officer (left) standing by a cannon urinates, his back turned to the Duke; he says, "wine cannot cure the Pain I Indure for my Dear Chloe's Sake." In the background (right) are tents....

Scope and Contents Four designs, each with a title, the plate divided into four quarters. [1] 'John Bull Happy'. A cottage interior: John Bull, a stout countryman with wrinkled gaiters as in BMSat 7889, 8141, dozes serenely in an arm-chair before a blazing fire, holding a pitcher on his knee. Behind (left), his wife sits spinning; two little boys feed a bird in a wicker cage. A pretty young woman approaches the open door with a milk-pail on her head. Brass utensils are ranged on the chimney-piece, beside...

Scope and Contents The interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal crowded with figures. Charlotte Corday (right) stands at the bar, a raised circular stone platform, her wrists linked by a chain, addressing her judges (left), who listen with alarm, as do the spectators and the two ruffians holding spears who stand behind her. Three judges sit on an elaborate throne inscribed 'Vive La Republique', on whose canopy are two cornucopias pouring out coins; on each is a cap of 'Libertas'. Between them a grotesque...

Scope and Contents On the level of the eye, but high above a square in which the guillotine is at work, bodies dangle from lamp-brackets projecting from the wall of a high building on the right. A bishop in his robes and two monks, their hands tied, hang close together from the horizontal bar. On the lantern sits a ragged, bare-legged sansculotte playing a fiddle, looking down with smiling triumph at the crowd; he is in back view, his bony right foot planted on the head of the dead bishop. On his cap are the...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A comic map, inscribed 'A new Map of England & France', actually showing England and Wales, the south west corner of Scotland, the north of France, just including Paris, and the Belgian coast as far as Ostend. England is represented by the body of George III (John Bull), his head in profile to the right, wearing a fool's cap composed of Northumberland. His left leg is drawn up, Norfolk forms the knee, the mouth of the River Thames the ankle, Kent the...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured and uncoloured impressions). The Duke of Richmond stands between two posts, supporting himself by a hand on each. He looks down and to the right, with a dismayed expression, vomiting a cascade of munitions of war: weapons, cannon, drums, a fortress, a baggage wagon, a windmill. One post (right) is inscribed '4 Per Chaldron 20,000 Pr An', the other, 'Hereditary Income D'Aubigne'. A scroll floats towards him from the upper left corner of the design inscribed: 'Thou hast...

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An Admiral is riding on the back of a dolphin or whale in the sea with a fleet of ships in the background. Hand-coloured etching. Print made by Isaac Cruikshank and published by S. W. Forbes in London.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. Officers and men of the British army are waist-deep in water. The central figure is the Duke of York astride a gun whose carriage is half immersed. He holds up a punch-bowl, singing and looking down at a party, half submerged, of officers (right). The black cymbal-player stands beside the gun (left) shouting with upraised cymbal. An officer in back view holds out a glass. Another seated on (?) a gun-carriage holds a British flag. An...

Scope and Contents The King and Queen, seated on the throne (left), receive with astonished horror a deputation from Turkey. An arrogant Turk stands proffering a large rolled document with pendent seals on which are crescents: 'Powers for a new Connexion between the Port, England & France'. Beside him (left) another Turk grovels on the ground. Fox and Sheridan, kneeling with crouching humility, hold up the long cloak of the Turkish emissary; their bonnets-rouges are decorated with crescents. Behind them...

Scope and Contents A scene at Court, the throne partly visible on the extreme right, the King and Queen conversing. The centre figure is the tall 'Plenipotentiary' or Turkish Minister, wearing a jewelled and feathered turban, Turkish trousers, and a long furred robe. He looks down at the fat Lady Buckinghamshire; she gazes up at him with both hands raised in astonishment. Behind him, Mrs. Fitzherbert holds up the skirt of his robe, as if to inspect it, her right hand raised in astonishment. In the foreground...

Scope and Contents A central monument [1] representing the French Republic is flanked by figures on pedestals inscribed [2] 'Liberty' and [3] 'Equality'. [1] A stout and frantic man rises from a tottering armchair which is poised on a pile of fragments of columns inscribed 'Humanity', 'Social Happiness', 'Tranquiliy' [sic], 'Security', 'Domestic Peace', 'Laws', 'Urbanity', 'Order', 'Religion'. On the back of his chair are the words 'Republic of Paris', the word 'France' having been scored through; beneath is a...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. The Prince of Wales stands (Ieft) turning from, but looking towards, Fox and Sheridan, ragged sansculottes, who kneel (right) on the farther side of a rail inscribed 'Hitherto shall ye go & No Further'. In the background and on the extreme left is the King, saying, "Bring hither the fatted Calf we will rejoice & make merry for I have found the sheep that was lost". The Prince says, "I know ye not, Vain Proffligates. fall to your...

Scope and Contents Engraving. Marie Antoinette stands on the scaffold, her head turned in profile to the right, Ieft arm extended, addressing the crowd below. On the extreme left is part of the upright of the guillotine, showing the windlass; against it leans a sword. On the right are three women, well dressed, and much distressed, whose heads appear immediately below the scaffold, which is surrounded by the mounted men of the National Guard. The windows of the houses are filled with spectators. Partial...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A tall and handsome grenadier stands between two pretty women, an arm round the neck of each; they stand on stools, in order to pull on his flannel breeches. He wears a flannel waistcoat and a hood under his busby. An older man (right) watches him enviously, saying, "Pho o", while an elderly lady, resembling Lady Cecilia Johnston adjusts a petticoat round his neck, saying, "Aye Aye this is making a good use of ones old Mannel Pettcoats". On the Ieft stand...

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Engraving. Created by Isaac Cruikshank and published by J. Aiken, No. 4 Castle Street, Leicester Square, London.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured fashion). A satire on the fashion for dress projecting in front to give the effect of pregnancy. A promenade in a park. On the extreme left is a little girl holding a doll, both dressed in the prevailing fashion. Next walks (left to right) the Prince of Wales between Mrs. Fitzherbert (Ieft) and the Duchess of York (right), who both take his arm. Next and behind, an elderly hag taking the arm of a 'cit' travesties the fashion. The next couple are two ladies walking right...