Box LF104/4 Box 1
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Contains 85 Results:
Supplementary-Militia, turning out for Twenty Days Amusement, 25 November 1796
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Reference code: LF104/4/40
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By James Gillray. A grotesque body of tradesmen etc march in close formation, with fixed bayonets. They wear military coats and crossed bandoliers with very unsoldierly foot-gear and appurtenances. Their leader (right) marches in profile to the right, a very short and fat butcher in over-sleeves wearing a feathered cocked hat above his butcher's cap, a military sash (from which hangs his steel) over an apron. He carries a banner on which St. George is killing the dragon. The front rank...
Dates:
25 November 1796
Lady Godinas' Rout, or Peeping Tom Spying out Pope Joan, 1796
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Reference code: LF104/4/41
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Etching by William Brocas (c. 1794-1868) after James Gillray. Information about Gillray's original from the British Museum: A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a...
Dates:
1796
The Times, 1796
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Reference code: LF104/4/42
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Artist: James Moffat (1775 – 1815). Calcutta.
Dates:
1796
Old Q-uiz the old Goat of Piccadily, 05 Feburary 1796
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Reference code: LF104/4/43
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By Robert Dighton. Queensberry (right), walking beside a buxom young milliner, puts out an arm to touch her. His left hand is in a large muff. He wears a star and from his coat-pocket issue bottles labelled 'Renovating Balsam' and 'Velno's Vegetable Syrup' (see BMSat 7592). She carries an arched-topped coffer (as in BMSat 4923) and seems not unwilling. Beneath the title: 'A Shining Star - in the British Peerage
And a usefull Ornament to Society - Fudge.'
Description from the British...
Dates:
05 Feburary 1796
Old Goats at the Sale of a French Kid, 05 May 1796
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Reference code: LF104/4/44
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Hand-coloured etching by Richard Newton. 'London Pubd by W. Holland No. 50 Oxford Street May 5 1796.'
Dates:
05 May 1796
Symptoms of Crim Con!!, 01 Janurary 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/45
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By Isaac Cruikshank. Six groups of three persons (wife, husband, and lover) arranged in two rows, their words (not transcribed) etched above their heads. [1] A pretty young woman walking with an ugly and elderly husband makes an assignation with a military officer. [2] A shoemaker with a strap interrupts a French barber making love to his wife. [3] A young woman points to her fat old husband asleep in a chair, saying to a barrister, "Take care or you'll wake him". He says: "Remember my dear...
Dates:
01 Janurary 1797
End of the Irish; or The Destruction of the French Armada, 20 Janurary 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/46
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By James Gillray. French men-of-war are tossed helplessly by huge waves, which are lashed to fury by blasts from the mouths of (left to right) Pitt, Dundas, Grenville, and Windham, whose heads emerge from clouds. Fox is the (realistic) figure-head of 'Le Révolutionaire' (right) which, with broken masts, is about to founder. He receives the full strength of the blasts from Pitt and Dundas, and looks up despairingly, his head against the tricolour stripes which encircle the mast. Playing-cards...
Dates:
20 Janurary 1797
The Giant-Factotum Amusing Himself, 21 Janurary 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/47
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By James Gillray. Pitt arrogantly bestrides the Speaker's chair, towering high above the galleries of the House. He plays cup (or rather spike) and ball with the globe, on which 'France' is disproportionately large, the British Isles small and obscure. His head is turned to the left towards his own followers, who crowd obsequiously towards his huge right foot which rests on the head of Wilberforce (papers inscribed 'Slave Trade' issuing from his pocket) and on the shoulder of the bulky and...
Dates:
21 Janurary 1797
The Daily-Advertiser; Vide. Dundas's Speech in the House of Commons, 23 Janurary 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/48
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By James Gillray. Fox (right), a news-boy, ragged and unshaven, stands in profile to the left, his right hand on the knocker of the gate of the 'Treasury'. He wears a bonnet-rouge on the front of which is a tricolour placard: 'Daily Advertiser' (like those worn by news-boys); his horn is thrust through his belt. He shouts: "Bloody-News! - Bloody-News! - Bloody-News!! - glorious-bloody News for old-England! - Bloody News! - Traitrous- Taxes! - Swindling-Loans! - Murd'ring-Militia's.' -...
Dates:
23 Janurary 1797
Homer Singing his Verses to the Greeks, 16 June 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/67
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By James Gillray. Captain Morris (left) sits in profile to the right, singing from a broadside which he holds out in his left hand: 'A new Song to the Tune of the Plenipoy'. In his right hand is a full glass. He wears a round hat and fashionable half-boots; his coat, breeches, and stockings are tattered. From his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Captain Morris's Songs by Subscription'. Fox and Sheridan sit on opposite sides of a small round table, on which is a decanter of 'Brandy'. Sheridan,...
Dates:
16 June 1797
Homer Singing his Verses to the Greeks, 17 June 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/68
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By James Gillray. Captain Morris (left) sits in profile to the right, singing from a broadside which he holds out in his left hand: 'A new Song to the Tune of the Plenipoy'. In his right hand is a full glass. He wears a round hat and fashionable half-boots; his coat, breeches, and stockings are tattered. From his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Captain Morris's Songs by Subscription'. Fox and Sheridan sit on opposite sides of a small round table, on which is a decanter of 'Brandy'. Sheridan,...
Dates:
17 June 1797
The Salute, Vide The parade, 10 July 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/69
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By James Gillray. An officer (left) on a charger, evidently General Davies, directed to the right, takes the salute from three officers who march (right to left) past him. The first, sabre in hand, point downwards, holds his left hand across the front of his high cocked hat. A young officer follows, carrying a standard of the Union flag with the White Horse of Hanover and a crown. The third marches with almost closed eyes and sword held point upwards. A crowd of amused spectators backed by a...
Dates:
10 July 1797
The Esplanade, 01 June 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/70
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By James Gillray. George III walks in back view with an awkward shuffle, his head turned in profile to the left to greet a tall general who bows. On the right another officer waits, hat in hand, for recognition. They are Lord Cathcart (1755-1843), then major-general, and General David Dundas (under whom Cathcart had served in Holland in 1794-5). Above the King's head is a scroll: 'Medio tutissimus ibis'. A semicircle of loyal and provincial subjects, chiefly ladies, stretches across the...
Dates:
01 June 1797
The Honest Pickpocket, July 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/71
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John Bull (left), a stout, plainly dressed man, his hair rising on his head, stands full-face, gaping terrified at Pitt, who removes his watch from his breeches pocket. Pitt bends forward in profile to the left, his right hand on John's shoulder, saying: "Don't be alarmed, Johnny, I only want to see whether it is Gold or Silver - you know there is a great deal of difference between Half a Crown and Ten Shillings." Description from the British Museum.
Dates:
July 1797
Billy's Raree-show- or, John Bull Enlightened, 15 August 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/72
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Pitt, as a peep-show man, stands by his box, which is supported on trestles. John Bull (left), a simple yokel, stoops in profile to the right to gape through the hole. Pitt, who with his right hand pulls a string which issues from the box, bends over John Bull and takes a bag labelled 'Savings' from his coat-pocket. A large trumpet is slung across his shoulders, to which is attached a fringed banner decorated with the royal arms. His box has a pagoda-like roof surmounted by a crown under a...
Dates:
15 August 1797
A Flat Between Two Sharps!, 06 June 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/73
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Hand-coloured etching by Richard Newton. Published by Richard Newton.
Dates:
06 June 1797
Their New Majesties!, 12 September 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/74
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By Richard Newton. Pitt and Dundas as king and queen sit side by side on an ornate settee, 'The Throne'. Pitt (right), grotesquely thin, wears a large crown and holds a sceptre erect; his left hand is on his hip, his knees are widely extended, and his right foot rests on a foot-stool. He turns his head in profile to smile at Dundas, who gazes back at him, his left arm over Pitt's shoulder. The bulky Dundas takes up the greater part of the seat, but his knees are squeezed to the left to make...
Dates:
12 September 1797
The Dutch in an Uproar or the Batavian Republic Crying for Winter!, 15 October 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/75
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By Isaac Cruikshank. Dutchmen (three-quarter length) sit on both sides of a narrow council table, on one end of which sits, full-face, a Dutchman in a chair of state. He smokes a pipe, wears a hat, and an ermine-trimmed robe over his clumsy jacket and breeches. A post-boy, whip in hand, stands by the table (left) holding out a scroll: 'Account of the Total Defeat of the Dutch Fleet.' The news is received with expressions of rage and horror. The president, whose words issue in a cloud of...
Dates:
15 October 1797
Truant School Boys Returning to their Duty!!, 26 November 1797
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Reference code: LF104/4/76
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Pitt runs angrily forward from a doorway on the left, holding out a birch-rod in his left hand towards a procession of trembling truants, each with a bag of books. Fox is their leader, a handkerchief held in front of a wary and apprehensive eye; Sheridan follows him; both are in tatters. Grey, next, is in slightly better case; beside him trots the diminutive M. A. Taylor, covering his face with his hand; at his feet are a hen and chickens. Last comes Erskine, a handkerchief to his eye. All...
Dates:
26 November 1797
The Rival Pigs, 15 June 1795
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Reference code: LF104/4/77
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By Isaac Cruikshank. Pitt (left) and Fox (right), as pigs, but each with his own head, sit on two chairs almost back to back; each looks over his shoulder at the other. Pitt, alert and complacent, his powdered hair dressed high and with his queue in a bag, says "Poor Piggy". Fox, swarthy and unkempt, answers: "You be Damd". Below Pitt: 'A Guinea Pig'; below Fox: 'A Pig without a Guinea.'
In the background are other pigs on a small scale and without human heads, some wearing powdered wigs,...
Dates:
15 June 1795