Scope and Contents The Prince of Wales (right), rising from his chair, kicks over a tea-table, the crockery sliding to the ground, and lying broken on the floor. The Princess sits on a settee on the opposite side of the table, her infant in her arms. She is comely, and melancholy, with downcast eyes, and plainly dressed except for the three feathers in her hair. Behind the Prince (right), Lord Jersey, with horns on his head, opens a door, pointing behind him to Lady Jersey, who lies on a sofa in an indecorous...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. The Prince of Wales, very fat and pompous, in night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers, walks in profile along a corridor leading from his own door (right), above which are his coronet and feathers, towards that of Lady Jersey, which is wide open and reveals its occupant holding apart the bed-curtains with a gap-toothed grin. Lord Jersey, dwarfish, shambling, and elderly, dressed in nightcap and night-shirt (on which is a 'J' with a coronet), stands by the door, holding a...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Three ladies stand in three pillories, two on small low platforms, the third resting the tips of her toes on a pair of stocks, straddling across Fox, who sits between the legs of the prisoner which he holds firmly, his own feet projecting through the stocks, one shoeless and in a ragged stocking; his expression is melancholy. In the foreground (left), Lord Kenyon in wig and gown, seated on the ground, crouches over a bonfire of implements of gaming: a broken table,...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Fox addresses a proletarian mob from some point apparently under the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. He stands behind a railing, and bends forward, hat in hand, clasping to his breast the 'Pewter-Pot Bill', saying, "Ever guardian of your most sacred rights, I have opposed the Pewter-Pot-Bill!!!" The crowd look up at him, cheering and shouting "a Mug, a Mug". They wear blue and buff favours. In the foreground are half-length figures of a little chimney-sweep with the...

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Artist: William O'Keefe. Publisher: Jame Aitken. Inscription on bottom left:'WOK' and at top: 'June 8th: 96 Pub'd by a friend of freedom. Sold at J. Aitken Castle Street, Leicester Fields.'

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Two Westminster electors sit face to face in a curiously shaped open car, or 'Mercury', to each end of which a horse is attached by a band across the chest. The horses have the heads of Sir Alan Gardner (left) and Fox (right), each is lashed by a postilion, and each attempts to gallop, making the car stationary. The car has a curved and symmetrical body, rising behind each passenger in a point, its contour resembling a crescent with the horns pointing upwards. On the...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. On a small plateau on the top of a mountain the Princess of Wales (left) reaches up to kiss the Prince of Wales (right), who has the body, horns, and beard of a fat goat. He kneels on one knee, his forelegs round her waist; her arms are round his neck. A star and ribbon are indicated on his body. She wears her coronet with three tall feathers, and her draperies swirl about her. In the middle distance are two rocky pinnacles; on one (left) three men dance hand in hand:...

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By James Gillray. Pitt sits in profile to the right against the trunk of an aged and quasi-derelict tree inscribed 'Royal-Oak', his feet resting on a branch. He is eating a small crown held in his right hand, and is excreting upon the head of a sleeping boy seated on the ground leaning against the tree. The boy, 'Johnny', holds a horn-book inscribed 'John \ Bull \ A.B.C. \ D.E.F'. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents By Isaak Cruikshank. The interior of a menagerie; the animals represent the sovereigns of Europe and have numbers referring to notes beneath the design. Pitt (left) stands in profile to the left, lifting in both hands a shovel-full of guineas which he puts into the mouth of a gigantic leopard, in a cage which is raised above the level of the ground and stretches across the left wall. Beside him is a bucket full of guineas. Behind him Mr. and Mrs. Bull stand together, a dismayed couple of...

Scope and Contents A band of assailants led by an irate bishop approaches from the right, to the attack of a stone building, a corner of the lower part of which is on the left. A closed door is inscribed 'Office of Justice'; from an open window immediately above it a man leans out, pistol in hand, saying, "This is my House this is my Castle". Two women kneel beside the stout bishop, one clutches his arm to restrain him, the other weeps; a third standing behind also weeps. Two parsons with clenched fists stand...

Scope and Contents By James Sayers. Burke lies back asleep, but scowling, in profile to the left, his arms folded in an arm-chair whose seat is inscribed 'Otium cum Dignit[ate]'. The top of his head is on fire, and the smoke rising from it forms the base of the upper and larger part of the design. Immediately above his head:'This royal Throne of Kings, this sceptred Isle This Earth of Majesty, this seat of Mars This fortress built by Nature for herself Against Infection and the hand of War This...

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Hand-coloured etching by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey. French troops march with fixed bayonets up St. James's Street, the houses receding in perspective to the gate of the Palace, which is blazing... Inscription content: Lettered with production details, and publication line: 'Js Gy d & fect' and 'Pubd Octr 20th 1796, by H Humphrey, New Bond Street'. Description from British Museum.

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Lord Malmesbury's coach is drawn (right to left) by French poissardes, grotesque and with bare pendent breasts. A cheering crowd fills the street; bonnets-rouges are waved and thrown into the air. He puts his head through the carriage window to kiss a 'poissarde', waving his cocked hat. Another woman (left) says, "my turn next". A sansculotte dances on the roof of the coach, urinating on the royal crown which decorates it, waving his bonnet-rouge, and singing "Caira Cair...

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Hand-coloured etching by Isaac Cruikshank. Published by W. Fores, No. 5 Piccadilly.

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Malmesbury sits full-face in a bergère which he entirely fills, his feet close together, putting both thumbs to his mouth. He wears a court suit and ribbon, but no sword. A patterned carpet and a panelled wall complete the design. Above his head: 'Q - Are you empowered to treat for yourself only? A. I don't Know Q - Can you treat for your Friends ? - A - I don't Know. Q - What proposals have you to make? A - i don't know. Q - Have you been fully instructed in this...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. A short fat Dutchman stands full-face; his pipe falls from his mouth, coins drop from his breeches pockets. His tall hat, full of coins, is held by an English sailor (left) who bends towards him, directing a squirt of tobacco-juice at his face. On the right is another sailor, who seizes a wretched, ragged Frenchman, holding him by a cloth round the neck, and threatening him with a clenched fist. The Dutchman says: "Between John Bull, & the French Republic poor...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. A design divided into two compartments by a vertical wooden erection, in the upper part of which is a form of (English) telegraph; the lower contains a shoot through which coins in mass are poured by persons on the right. Pitt (left), immediately behind the telegraph, pulls the strings which move the letters: they form the words 'they are coming'. John Bull, stripped to his shirt, tattered shoes, and ungartered stockings, empties the contents of his breeches into the...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Pitt (right) stands stiffly in profile to the left, holding open a large sack-like wallet inscribed 'Requisition Budget'. He addresses John Bull, the central figure, a stout yokel, who holds out his breeches in his left hand to Pitt, while he touches his hat. The budget and the breeches pockets are full of guineas. Pitt says: "More Money, John! - more Money! to defend you from the Bloody, the Cannibal French - They're a coming! - why they'll Strip you to the very Skin -...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. John Bull (left), a stout countryman wearing jack-boots, rides (right to left) through a wood on a wretched hack, ready to fall under his weight. Pitt kneels on the ground (right) in profile to the left, aiming a blunderbuss (which is supported on crossed sticks) point-blank at John; it is inscribed 'Standing Army'. He masquerades as a beggar: his dress is tattered, on the ground is his hat, containing coins; he says: "Good Sir, for Charity's sake \ "have Pity upon a poor...

Scope and Contents Thought to be created by Isaac Cruikshank. John Bull, very corpulent, as a volunteer, stands at attention, holding his bayoneted musket. He glares at a French soldier, thin, ragged, and trembling, who stands on the right, with flexed knees, looking over his shoulder at John, and saying, "Begar me no like de look of dat Jean Bool." John says: "I declare it would be a charity to give the poor fellow a meals victuals before I fight him." On his plumed helmet is inscribed 'London'. Beside him is...