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

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The Duke of Norfolk (right) stands on a dais at the head of a table (only part of which is visible), directed to the left, raising a brimming glass; in his left hand is a wine-bottle; he says: "Our Sovereign, - the Majesty of the People!!! - " At his right hand sits Fox; in the foreground, straddling across his chair and turning his head in profile to look at Norfolk, sits the Duke of Bedford: from his pocket hangs a scroll: 'Grants from ye...

Scope and Contents Published: S. W. Fores. The head of the table at the dinner on Fox's birthday. Norfolk, rising from his chair (right), gives the toast "Our Sovereign - the Majesty of the People", but looks up horror-struck, as do the others, at writing on the wall: '[Men]e, Mene, Tekel, U[pharsim]'. The heads and shoulders of Pitt and the King emerge from clouds (right), the finger of Pitt, supported by the King, points to the 'translation': 'I have no farther Occasion for your Services'. Both heads are in...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. After: Sir John Dalrymple. Published: James Gillray. The title continues: '- "We come to recover your long lost Liberties." - Scene. The House of Commons.' Under the title, and from a separate plate, is etched in three columns: 'Description. - One French Soldier putting Hand-cuffs, and another Fetters on the Speaker, whose Mouth is gagged with a Drumstick. The rest of the Members [left], two and two, tied together by the Arms with cords, (Mr Pitt and Mr Dundas by the...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. After: Sir John Dalrymple. Published: James Gillray. The title continues: 'We explain de Rights of Man to de Noblesse. - Scene. The House of Lords.' Under the title: 'Description. - A Guillotine, which is placed on the Throne; the royal Chairs being removed, pour accomoder les Etrangers, (in English) To accommodate the Strangers. Two Turkish Mutes, with strangling Bowstrings, each his hand on his Mouth, stand as Supporters. The House empty of Peers. On a Board is...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. After: Sir John Dalrymple. Published: James Gillray. The title continues: 'Me teach de English Republicans to work. - Scene. A Ploughed Field'. Beneath the title is etched on a separate plate: 'Description - A Row of English People in Tatters, and wooden Shoes, hoeing a Field of Garlic. A tall raw-boned Frenchman, with a long Queue behind, like a Slave Driver with a long Waggoner's Whip in each Hand, walking by their side. The People very sulky, but tolerably obedient...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. After: Sir John Dalrymple. Published: James Gillray. The title continues: 'We fly on the Wings of the Wind to save the Irish Catholics from Persecution. - Scene. The Front of a Popish Chapel.' Beneath the title: 'Description. A Priest driven out of his Chapel, A French Soldier trampling on Crucifixes and Mitres, another kicking the Priest, a Gracefull Old Man; and a third stabbing him with a Dagger behind: A Membre de la haute Cour de Justice (in English a Member of...

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Artist: James Gillray. Uncoloured. Later published in a plate of four prints in 1818, alongside Doublûres of Characters; -or- striking Resemblances in Phisiognomy.

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published:Hannah Humphrey. Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background. Beneath the design: '"Ne'er may his Whiskers loose their hue, " Chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! "But...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The interior of a bare, poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof. Pitt and Dundas, as watchmen, batter down the upper timbers of a door (right) which has been strongly bolted, locked, and barricaded. Both have long staves, Pitt holds up a lantern. The occupants hide or flee, except Lord Moira, who stands stiffly in profile to the right on the extreme left, his crisped fingers outspread deprecatingly, disassociating himself from his...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Six brutal-looking men, much caricatured, sit round a table in a cellar, listening with apprehensive intentness to their chairman, who reads a paper: 'State Arrests - O'Conner Binns Evans Quigley'. He sits in an arm-chair, a grotesque ragged creature with sleeves rolled up; in his right hand is a candle taken from a candle-stick on the table. Beside him is a tankard inscribed: 'Tom Treason Hell-Fire Celler Chick Lane'. Against his chair...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles William. Published: S. W. Fores. The interior of a court of law, evidently Winchester assizes. Counsel sit behind a concave barrier, the judge sits in the centre behind and above them, the scales of Justice evenly balanced above his head. He says: "if a Man is disposed to D------n he may as well D------n Mr P------as any body else". In the foreground stand five farmers or countrymen, with one more fashionably dressed man who straddles across a paper which lies on the ground:...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Fox, in uniform, stands at attention in profile to the left, holding four muskets (or a musket with four triggers and barrels). An armlet is inscribed 'Sinew of Rebellion'. He wears a bonnet-rouge with tricolour cockade; in his belt, and very prominent on his protruding stomach, are two pistols and a dagger. At his back hang materials for arson: a knapsack inscribed 'Fire is the best Weapon you can Use - ' It is filled with sticks of...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Fox, wearing the rags of a sansculotte under a long legal gown, stands directed to the left, looking down and to the right with an expression of sly meditation. He wears bands and a large legal wig, with tattered stockings on his otherwise bare legs. Across his corpulent figure stretches a tricolour belt inscribed 'Republicanism'. He stands on a floor of black and white squares. An owl looks down upon him from a perch (right). In his right...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox and Norfolk meet on the pavement outside Brookes's. Fox (left), much caricatured, with his shaggy hair standing on end and stockings slipping down, says, with an expression of angry despair: "Scratch'd off! - dishd! - kick'dout! - dam'me!!!" Norfolk (right), with fingers outspread in dismay, answers: "How? what! - Kick'd out? - ah! morbleu! - chacun a son tour! morbleu! morbleu!" Fox holds in his right hand a paper: 'List of Privy...

Scope and Contents Artist: Robert Dighton. Published: Robert Dighton. Norfolk (left) and Fox (right) sit close together, hands on knees, the left knee of Norfolk and the right knee of Fox touching; their heads are turned in profile, each gazing fixedly at the other with a melancholy expression. On the back of Norfolk's chair is a ducal coronet; Fox sits on a stool. At their feet is an open book: 'List of his Maje[stys] \ Privy Council \ Earl of.. Lord.. \ Duke of D...\ Earl of... \ Rt Hon. C. J. Fox [scored...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox kneels in profile to the right with bent back before an altar, his hands together. His unpowdered hair is cropped. From his pocket projects a book: 'New Constitut[ion]'. The altar, draped with a cloth on which crossed daggers are embroidered, is raised on a stone step. On it is a guillotine, dripping blood. To this is tied with a tricolour sash two tables, resembling those of the Ten Commandments, but of the 'DROIT DE L'HOMME: I. Right...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The stalwart Tierney (left) and the lathlike Pitt (right) face each other, each with two pistols. Tierney fires at Pitt with horizontal right arm; Pitt fires into the air. Between and behind them are Britannia and her lion; she throws up her arms in terror, screaming, "oh Murder my Darling's in Danger oh! oh!" The agitated lion rolls on his back, exclaiming, "oh dear! oh dear". Dundas, in Highland dress, is Pitt's second, he clasps a large...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Pitt (left) fires his pistol into the air; Tierney (right) fires straight at Pitt, saying, "Missed him! by G . . " Each has a second pistol in his left hand. Pitt, in profile, says: "The only Explanation I give is this! There! - that's to shew you, that I bear no Personal Enmity! - but that no consideration of my own Safety, shall deter me from doing my duty to King and Country!!! - so Fire away!" His second, Dudley Ryder, stands behind...

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Artist unknown. Published: William Holland.