Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Tierney (not caricatured) stands directed to the right, with left hand raised in reproof to the knife-grinder (right), who pushes his barrow with a shuffling gait. The latter's hat, coat, and breeches are torn and he has a fixed, insinuating grin. Behind him is the door of an alehouse, the sign of the Chequers hanging from a beam inscribed 'Best Brown Stout'. On the lintel is 'Dealer in Brandy Rum & Gin'. Tierney has short hair, wears a round hat, double-breasted coat,...

Scope and Contents By J. C. Zeigler, formally attributed to Richard Newton. John Bull (right) stands in profile to the left, gaping in terror at four little demons, grotesque, naked, and senile, who approach him with calculating and complacent grins. His knees bend, his hands are thrust in his coat pockets; he says: "What do you want you little Devils - an't I plagued with enough of you already more pick poket Work, I suppose!!" Their leader stands forward with a mock deprecatory gesture; the next demon holds...

Scope and Contents An ass, heavily overladen, falls forward on its knees, in extremis, its eye closed. Pitt kneels on one knee in profile to the right, offering the ass £1 notes. These are inscribed '[Prom]ise to pay Mr Ab. Newland or Bank the Sum of One Pound. . . Bank of England', or some part of this inscription. The ass's burden consists of bundles piled up to a towering height, the upper part of which is cut off by the margin of the design, but the mass bends forward and is about to collapse with the ass....

Scope and Contents By James Sayers. Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare' Description from the...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Fox, dressed as a watchman, his lantern in his right hand, walks away (right) looking slyly towards a barrel of 'Gunpowder from Bedford Square' on the extreme left. He says, his right forefinger against his nose, "Matters is now in a proper Train Egad its high time for me to Shirra" ['Sherry off' is to run away. Grose, 'Dict. Vulgar Tongue', 1796.], off. On the barrel sits Bedford, wearing a spencer; he claps his hands at Horne Tooke, who is laying a train of powder from...

Scope and Contents 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.' -...

Scope and Contents By Richard Newton. A burlesque of Gillray's 'Malagrida', driving post, the action being more violent. Lansdowne's coach (left) is driven by a French ragamuffin, wearing a bonnet-rouge and tricolour cockade, who lashes the galloping horses with revolutionary fury. Lansdowne, sly and sleek in his peer's robes, leans from the window raising a threatening fist, to say: "Drive you dog! Vite, Vite, I shall be too late, he'll alter his mind get away you Fellows you clog the Wheels charity begins at...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. A stout lady wearing a tartan scarf supports the Prince of Wales, who is tipsily waving a lighted (and broken) candle, towards the open door of a bedroom (right). He is dishevelled, with ungartered stockings; his left arm is round the lady's neck. She holds a full wine-glass whose contents are spilling. Behind the Prince's back she snaps her ringers derisively at Lady Jersey, who enters (left), in under-garments and night-cap, saying, "I'll discover the Correspondence...

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By Isaac Cruikshank. A half length portrait of the Prince of Wales, in profile to the right, wearing a wig which simulates short and tousled natural hair, falling on his forehead and coat-collar. A casual parting shows the back of his neck, on which are insects. His arms are folded and he clasps under his right arm a rolled document: 'Thoughts on a Restricted Regency'. Above the design: 'A Sketch for a VICE-roy!!' Description from the British Museum.

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London: Publish'd as the Act directs, March 1797 by G. M. Woodward, Berners Street.

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A map of part of the Pembrokeshire coast south of Fishguard showing the landing place of the French and the British militia troop positions between 22 and 24 February 1797. Description from Royal Collection Trust.

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Three grotesque and ill-matched soldiers charge rapidly and fiercely down the pavement. Their bayonets threaten three women who flee in terror, only legs, petticoats, and an upraised arm being visible on the extreme right. One soldier, very thin and ragged, wears a busby, the next, who is fat, wears a huge cocked hat with a damaged brim, the third, who is small, wears a peaked helmet with a spiky plume. The uniform coats with epaulettes are worn over frilled shirts and...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Pitt, a colossal figure bestrides the Rotunda of the 'Bank of England'. His arms and legs are very thin, but his body is formed of a (transparent) sack distended with gold coins and inscribed '£'. His elbows are akimbo, his hands grasp the sides of the sack; from the little finger of his left hand hangs a key, 'Key of Public Property'. Round the mouth of the sack is a heavy chain clasped by a padlock inscribed 'Power of securing Public Credit'. From the sack emerges the...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Pitt, a colossal figure, bestrides the Rotunda of the 'Bank of England'. His arms and legs are very thin, but his body is formed of a (transparent) sack distended with gold coins and inscribed '£'. His elbows are akimbo, his hands grasp the sides of the sack; from the little finger of his left hand hangs a key, 'Key of Public Property'. Round the mouth of the sack is a heavy chain clasped by a padlock inscribed 'Power of securing Public Credit'. From the sack emerges the...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with which he sweeps up notes from the counter. John is the yokel but no longer bewildered; he stands stolidly, holding out his left hand for the notes, his right hand in his coat pocket. Fox (right), who wears a high cocked hat with tricolour cockade, bag-wig, and laced suit,...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. The 'Old Lady' is a thin old harridan, dressed entirely in 'One' pound notes, and seated on an iron-studded treasure-chest inscribed 'Bank of England', fastened by two heavy padlocks. She shrieks and throws up her skinny arms at Pitt's advances: he has taken a long stride towards her from the right, his right hand round her waist; his left dips into a cavernous pocket and takes out guineas. Their profiles almost touch, and he appears about to kiss her. She shrieks: "Murder!...

Scope and Contents By Richard Newton. Lady Buckinghamshire, enormously fat, is seated in profile to the right in an open chariot which sinks through a rectangular aperture in front of the Weigh-House, its weight being too great for the apparatus for weighing wagons. She throws up her arms and one leg, dropping her whip and reins. The hind legs of the plunging horses are in the pit; they snort wildly; the chariot and horses resemble those of Phaeton burlesqued. On the chariot is an oval escutcheon with four...

Scope and Contents By William O'Keeffe. Fox, wearing a laced cocked hat with a cockade (? intended to be tricolour), stands directed to the left., ringing a large hand-bell inscribed 'Great Alarm'. Beside him (left) is a signpost pointing (left) 'To Germany'; in the distance a tilt-wagon, 'Pts Supply Waggon', drives off, the horses cut off by the left. margin. Fox proclaims: "This is to Give Notice, that lately has been lost or Stolen from an Eminent Great House in the City, Immense sums of Money, Belonging to...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. A design in two compartments. [1] 'Billy, in the Devil's claws'. Fox as the Devil (left) grasps the thin and terrified Pitt round the waist, pointing with his left arm to a serried rank of French soldiers, landed from the boats of French men-of-war and marching up the steep coast. He is a grotesque hairy creature, short and heavy, with webbed wings attached to his ragged coat, a barbed tail and talons, and wearing a bonnet-rouge. He says, turning a glaring eye-ball on Pitt:...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters but a tattered great-coat is held together by a military belt. In his left hand is a ragged hat. He says, with a broad grin: "Wounds, when Master Billy sees I in a Red-Cap, how he will stare! - egad; I thinks I shall cook em at last. - well if I could but once get a Cockade to my...