Scope and Contents

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

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. A stout and florid woman holds up on her two large hands the baby princess, face downwards. The infant holds out her arms towards the Prince of Wales, who advances tipsily through a doorway (right), and touches her hand. He is dishevelled, with unlatched shoes and ungartered stockings; his garter, inscribed 'honi soit', dangles round his right leg. He is followed by M. A. Taylor, on the extreme right, who carries on his head a wicker cradle ornamented with the Prince's...

Scope and Contents By Isaak Cruikshank. George III sits in a simply furnished room facing the fire, holding the baby Princess on his knee, and feeding her with a spoon whose contents flow down the front of her robe. He watches her with affectionate intentness. Over his left arm hangs a coral and bells; on his head is a nightcap. Beside him (left) is a small round table on which is a small pot of pap. The fire is indicated only by a corner of the fender (right), by a rail of towels, and by a cat crouching...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. The two members for Middlesex simultaneously address a meeting of freeholders from a hustings against a building (The Mermaid, at Hackney) which forms a background. Both lean forward in profile to the right. Byng (left), thin and elegant, gesticulates with clenched fist, right arm above his head. He frowns, while Mainwaring (right) grimaces insinuatingly, his hands held out deprecatingly. From Byng's pocket issues a paper: 'Treatise on the use of Cocoa'. On the extreme...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Burke (left) as a shambling beggar, holds out his hat towards the Duke of Bedford who looks between the folding gates of Bedford House, holding one side to keep them almost closed. Their words float upwards from their mouths: Burke says: "Pity the Sorrows of a poor old Man, add a trifle to what has been bestowed by Ministry to stop my Complaints: - O give me opportunity of recanting once more! - Ah! remember me in your Golden Dreams! - great Leviathan of liberty, let me but...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Burke (left), pen in hand, sits on an uprooted oak-tree, leaning against his son's tomb. He looks angrily towards a large dolphin-like creature with the handsome cropped head of the Duke of Bedford, which swims in water inscribed 'Ocean of Royal Bounty', and spouts cascades to left and right which reach Burke. These streams are inscribed 'Cromwellism', 'Envy' (three times), 'Leveling', 'Orleanism', 'Revolutions', 'Egalité', 'Democracy'. Under his neck are two (?)...

Scope and Contents John Bull, obese and gaitered, sits beside a table gaping at an enormous document, the bulky rolled end of which rests on the floor. He scratches his head, saying: "I have read many crabbed things in the course of my time - but this for an easy piece of Business is the toughest to understand I ever met with." Pitt (right), with wings and playing an Irish harp, leans towards him from clouds, saying: "Cease rude Boreas blustering railer, Trust your Fortunes care to me." The document is headed:...

Scope and Contents John Bull, obese and gaitered, sits beside a table gaping at an enormous document, the bulky rolled end of which rests on the floor. He scratches his head, saying: "I have read many crabbed things in the course of my time - but this for an easy piece of Business is the toughest to understand I ever met with." Pitt (right), with wings and playing an Irish harp, leans towards him from clouds, saying: "Cease rude Boreas blustering railer, Trust your Fortunes care to me." The document is headed:...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. A fat pluralist parson (left) runs from left to right; Pitt (right) runs in profile to the left, grasping his hat which is piled high with guineas, while others fall from his person, his garments being inflated with coins. Each says "No Reform no Reform". Behind Pitt the 'Treasury' is faintly indicated; behind the parson is the corner of a church. From Pitt's pocket hangs a paper: 'New Places Sinecures fresh Appointments Addition to C------ [Civil] List'. The parson, his...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Two dogs with human faces hang from a gibbet inscribed 'not Paid for'; two others stand beneath, looking up at them with complacent triumph, these are 'To be Paid for'. The gibbet is formed of two uprights with a cross-bar. The pendent dogs who face each other in profile with expressions of despair are Sheridan (left) and Fox (right); their necks are linked by a chain. Fox has a fox's brush. He urinates upon Dundas who is immediately beneath him, facing Pitt. Dundas is a...

Scope and Contents

Artist not known, possibly Isaac Cruikshank. 'Published May 16 1796 by W. Brown No. 34[?] King Street.'

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Ministerial dogs, their collars inscribed 'GR', stand under a gibbet from which dangle three dogs wearing bonnets-rouges (these have been coloured blue and buff). All have human faces. The dogs on the gibbet, whose cross-piece is inscribed 'Tria juncta in uno', are Sheridan (left), Fox (with a fox's brush), and Stanhope (right) whose back is to the other two. Above is the inscription 'Not worth the tax'. Below the others is the inscription 'Good dogs paid for'. On the...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Fox and Sheridan kneel on a rope attached to the neck of a mangy dog with the head of Pitt. The rope, inscribed 'Vox Popula' [sic], runs over a pulley attached to a gibbet, from which Pitt is suspended. The upright of the gibbet is 'National support', the horizontal 'Excise Office', and a cross-beam forming a triangle with the other two is 'Cross Post'. Pitt's head is much caricatured, his body is almost bare and his tail hairless; to each hind leg is tied a bottle, one:...

Scope and Contents

Hand-coloured etching by Richard Newton. 'London Publishd by W. Holland No. 50 Oxford Street April 19 1796.'

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Burke and the Duke of Bedford sit on opposite sides of a small round table. Fox, full-face, sits between them, his arms resting on the table, fingers interlaced, and thumbs together. He looks down oracularly, saying, "Take the Advice of a common friend - the less said about the matter the better!" Burke's back is towards Fox, he looks angrily over his left shoulder at Bedford, who watches Fox intently. Burke and Fox wear wigs and are not dressed in the latest fashion, as...

Scope and Contents By Isaak Cruikshank. Pitt as Bacchus bestrides a large wine-cask, his feet resting on the trestles. He is very thin (with a gouty leg), much caricatured, and has ass's ears; his head is garlanded with a vine-branch, and is turned in profile to the left. In his right hand he holds out a glass of wine, in his left a long pipe whose ashes fall on the head of Dundas (right) seated on an upturned tub and leaning against a large cask. On the left the Duchess of Gordon leans against a butt of...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. A tun of 'Wine' lies on solid trestles inscribed 'Treasury Bench'. From its huge bung-hole emerges the naked body of Pitt, as Bacchus, crowned with vine branches. He leans back tipsily, a brimming glass in each hand. Behind him stands Dundas as Silenus, fat, and partly draped in tartan; his right hand grasps Pitt's shoulder, in his left he holds up a brimming glass. He also is crowned with vine branches. Bunches of grapes hang down from a vine above their heads and are...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. John Bull, blind, maimed, and ragged, walks (right to left) near a chasm, the edge of which stretches across the foreground of the design. His wooden right arm terminates in a hook to which is attached a cord from the collar of a lean greyhound with the head of Pitt. Pitt drags him forward and slightly towards the gulf; in his mouth is a large bare bone, his collar is inscribed 'Licenc'd to Lead'. In John Bull's left hand is a staff, on his back a burden inscribed 'Loans'....

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Six groups arranged in two rows, the words etched above the head of the speaker. [1] Two tax-gatherers stand together (left), one pointing to a man walking in profile to the right, fashionably dressed except that he does not wear a sparrow-tail coat. One says, pointing, "Stand aside Neighbour - there's a Puppy, I'm sure". The other answers: "Dont be too rash - He has got never a Tail!" [2] A tax-collector walks off to the left holding a dog under his arm and followed by...

Scope and Contents

Hand-coloured etching of twelve women arranged in two rows, their words etched above their heads. Inscription content: Lettered with text within image; title, artist's name 'Woodward Delin.' and publication line 'Pubd April 4th 1796 by S. W. Fores N° 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St-Folios Caracatures lent out for the Evening'. Description from the British Museum.