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

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Published: S. W. Fores. Engraving. Caricature of an officer with a large head and small legs standing full face, his hands behind his back. He wears a cocked hat, has a large moustache, large eyes, a broad and seemingly false nose, and a fixed wooden stare. Probably the Duke of Brunswick. Description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VII.

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The Duke of York (left), in regimentals and wearing a cocked hat, stands in profile to the right, tipsily swaggering; he hands to George III two large keys: 'Keys of Paris'. The King, seated on the throne (right) in hunting-dress, leans eagerly forward. The Duke is followed by soldiers bearing (worthless) trophies of victory; he says: "Th-th-th-there's Paris for you, damme! did not I say I'd take it? -th-thats all! - a-a-and here's all the...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Stanhope, striding forward in profile to the left, approaches an altar to 'French Principles', while with his left foot and left hand he overturns a bishop seated behind him on a bench. On the summit of a quasi-cylindrical altar is the seated figure of a female monster with webbed wings, snaky hair, and pendent breasts, a firebrand in the right hand, a dagger in the left. Behind her stands a foppish Frenchman with a simian head, dressed as a...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Sheridan stands in profile to the left, with fallen jaw and disconcerted expression, before a hoarding across the front of Carlton House, in which is a lion's-head knocker which looks fiercely at him. Over the hoarding appear the huge hands, head, and shoulders of Big Sam, the (former) porter at Carlton House, wearing a round hat with a curled brim and the motto 'Ich dien'. He looks down, saying, "no Admittance Sir We are all loyal". On the...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. In the foreground is a cylindrical altar inscribed 'Sacred to Peace'. Behind and above it, on a high rectangular pedestal, sits Lansdowne, double-headed, as Janus, wearing peer's robes. Both heads smile, one faces three-quarter to the left, the other is in 'profil perdu' to the right. He points a rolled document at a guillotine (left) whose cord is held by a skeleton with the head of Stanhope; the blade is about to be released on the neck of...

Scope and Contents Artist James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Beaupré's equestrian statue of George III (as Marcus Aurelius) has advanced towards the brick wall of Berkeley Square; the King (right) looks through a spy-glass into the garden of Lansdowne House. Just above the wall appear hats with republican cockades which are being waved; labels ascend enclosing the words of the invisible speakers: 'Vive Barrere'; 'Ça ira ça ira'; 'Ça ira ça ira ça ira'. Behind (left) is the pediment of Lansdowne House...

Scope and Contents Artist: Richard Newton. Published: William Holland. A sequence of fifteen figures arranged in three rows. [1] 'On a Journey from the Highlands to Edinburgh'. The Scot, barelegged and barefoot and wearing a very short kilt, walks in profile to the left, carrying only the thick stick with which he walks. [2] 'Wha Wants me'. He stands facing the left, screening with his tartan cloak a man seated on a bucket whose bare knee, feet, and profile alone are visible. His face is distorted by his cry,...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Three half length figures: George III (John Bull) between Fox. (left) and Pitt (right), both addressing him through the horns used by news-boys for crying their wares. The King, goggling with dismay, stands in profile to the right, facing Pitt, who grasps in his right hand a paper inscribed 'True Britton', saying, "Great News arriv d from France, Paris taken and more Cannon, Cartridge, Balls, Bombs & Assignats, than they can find room...

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Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The head and shoulders of Courtenay, leaning forward to the right. He wears a cocked hat with a cockade. After the title: 'anglice Joe Miller Orateur vif & sans Culotte'. Description from the British Museum.

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Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The head and shoulders of Philip Francis, his head turned in profile to the left, with the baleful stare characteristic of Sayers's portraits of Francis as the enemy of Hastings. Beneath the title: 'Citoyen actif & sans Culotte'. Description from the British Museum.

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Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A bust portrait of Lauderdale, the head turned in profile to the right, with a fixed, smiling stare, both arms raised as if in violent gesticulation. Beneath the title: 'Citoyen actif & Sans culotte'. Description from the British Museum.

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Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A head of Grafton in profile to the right. After the title: 'ci devant noble'. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. A huge bull, snorting fire, rushes with lowered head towards a French fort (left) from which cannon-balls descend upon him. Beneath the fort sansculottes on one knee fire at the bull while standing French soldiers, correctly dressed, also fire. On the fortress stand Frenchmen, firing and waving their hats; they shout: "Vive la republic, Blood & plunder, no Quarter to John Bull!" A huge tricolour flag has a staff surmounted by a skull. To...

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Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. In the foreground three fat and unsoldierly Dutchmen sit on clumsy horses. On the left man and horse are in back view. Next, the rider holds a pitcher in his left hand; kettle-drums are slung to the horse, an enormous trumpet extends above the rider's shoulder and nearly touches the ground. The next horse (right) stands in profile to the right, so overweighted that foam falls from his nostrils. From its rider's bulging breeches protrudes a...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Vesuvius in eruption ejects an inverted cone of flame, while streams of flaming lava pour down its sides and have already surrounded 'Flanders' and 'Holland' (both indicated by windmills (left)). Another stream has almost reached London, which is directly in front of the mountain and is represented by St. Paul's and the gateway of St. James's Palace. In order to avert the calamity a ramshackle procession advances in the foreground from the...

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Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. A scene on a race-course, horses galloping in the background. Amused spectators crowd to watch a duel: a man in riding-dress (right) lies on his back, his smoking pistol falling from his hand, saying, "I have not Killed him by God". In the middle distance a man stands full-face, his arms folded, a cocked pistol in his right hand, saying, with a smile: "Don't be frightened Squire Stand up like a Man & receive my fire." Two balls fly past...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A large rattlesnake with the head of Fox, its tail coiled round an oak tree with rattle erect, rears itself towards a plump squirrel with the head of the Duke of Bedford, which is springing from the tree into Fox's open mouth. Fox fixes his protruding eyeballs upon the squirrel, a fang issues from his mouth. There is a landscape background. Below the title: 'The Rattle Snake is a Creature of the greatest subtilty; when it is desirous of...