Scope and Contents Artist: James Sayers. Lansdowne (left) in 'profil perdu', stoops forward, encouraging a dog with the head of Jekyll to bark at a bust of Pitt; the word Bow issues from the mouth of Jekyll, who wears a legal wig, bands, and gown. The bust stands on the ground framed in a leafy arbour, and regards Jekyll serenely, a contrast with the latter's impudent and insignificant profile. After the title: 'Latrat et ore fremit, bile tumetque Je-cur.' Trees form a background. Description from the British...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The upper part of a telegraph, not the usual screen in one plane, but two screens at right angles to each other, the point of junction in the centre of the design. This is supported on a rectangular structure the upper part of which is open, with an aperture below each telegraph. From each of these Jekyll looks out in profile to the left and right, respectively. The telegraph, which is in the foreground, the lower part cut off by the lower...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The upper part of a telegraph, not the usual screen in one plane, but two screens at right angles to each other, the point of junction in the centre of the design. This is supported on a rectangular structure the upper part of which is open, with an aperture below each telegraph. From each of these Jekyll looks out in profile to the left and right, respectively. The telegraph, which is in the foreground, the lower part cut off by the lower...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: John Wright. Frontispiece from vol. i of the 'Review'. 'Truth', fully draped, her name on her belt, hurries forward, holding up an irradiated torch which directs darts of lightning at creatures in the mouth of a cave (left). This is formed by an arch of rocks, from which 'The Lethean Stream' emerges. Jacobinism, a creature with scaly legs and long serpent-like tail, naked except for bonnet-rouge and a belt inscribed 'Egalit[é]' in which is a dagger, kneels...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Ghosts (right) stand in a row at the foot of Fox's bed; he sits up, staring in terror, hands raised, large tears on his cheeks. The ghosts emerge from clouds; they are headless, with bloodstained necks round which are nooses, except for Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who stands above the others, in profile to the left, with blood-stained hair and shirt. His right hand is on his breast and he says:"Who first sedue'd my youthful Mind from...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: John Wright. Folding pl. (also issued separately) to 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 285, illustrating extracts from a pamphlet published by Wright, price 3d. ['Considerable allowance to those who purchase Thousands and Tens of Thousands for distribution.'] A burlesque of the trial of O'Connor at Maidstone (22 May), parts of the court being hidden by the large labels which issue from the mouths of prisoner and witnesses. The presiding judge (Buller) looks down...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: John Wright. Folding pl. (also issued separately) to 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 285, illustrating extracts from a pamphlet published by Wright, price 3d. ['Considerable allowance to those who purchase Thousands and Tens of Thousands for distribution.'] A burlesque of the trial of O'Connor at Maidstone (22 May), parts of the court being hidden by the large labels which issue from the mouths of prisoner and witnesses. The presiding judge (Buller) looks down...

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Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: John Wright. Pl. from the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 355. [Missing from B.M.L., P.P. 3596.] Erskine stands directed to the left, gazing straight before him; in his right hand is a sheet of MS. (or perhaps of legal black-letter) covered with repetitions of 'i' and 'me', and ending 'iiiiii me me me'. He wears counsellor's wig and gown, and bands. Above his head is a cap of Liberty with tricolour cockade. There is a background of low clouds. Description from...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The coffin, its pall inscribed 'The \ Party \ Supported by Corresponding Citizens', is the centre of a procession, preceded (right) by four ragged Citizens each playing a marrow-bone and cleaver: 'Marrowbones and Cleavers by Corresponding Citizens'. Behind them walks the Duke of Norfolk, holding up a standard: 'Majesty of the People'; on its summit perches a bird: 'The Standard Bearer in Half Mourning with the Chicken [M. A. Taylor] chaunting...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Members of the Opposition, arranged in two horizontal rows, receive the news of Aboukir. [1] In the upper left corner Burdett sits, directed to the right, intently reading the 'Extraordinary Gazette' on 'Nelson's Victory'; his shock of hair covers his eyes, and he says, left hand raised in alarm: "sure I cannot see clear?" On the wall (left) is a print, a profile head of 'Buonaparte'. [2] Jekyll stands beside Lansdowne, who reclines in an...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Nelson (left) leads two weeping crocodiles, one with the head of Fox, the other that of Sheridan. Their long jaws (projecting from the neck) are closed with metal bands connected by a chain held by Nelson, who wears naval uniform with a cocked hat, and the ribbon and star of the Bath. A patch over the eye indicates his recent wound. In Fox's crocodile-jaw is a padlock: 'A mouth Piece for Hypocrites'. Nelson says: "Come along you Hypocritical...

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Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. John Bull, gross and obese, seated at a table covered with the emblems of naval victory, looks towards British admirals, who advance towards him wearing aprons over their uniforms, but with stern expressions, holding out dishes containing captured French ships. John, knife in his right hand, about to swallow a French ship speared on his fork, says: "What! more Frigasees? - why you sons o' bitches, you, where do ye think I shall find room to...

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Artist: James Gillray. Coloured. Later published in a plate of four prints in 1818, alongside Lord Longbow, the Alarmist, discovering the Miseries of Ireland.

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Artist: James Gillray. Uncoloured. Later published in a plate of four prints in 1818, alongside Lord Longbow, the Alarmist, discovering the Miseries of Ireland.

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox flees in terror through the doorway of the House of Commons, taking an enormous stride. Beside him runs a thin demoniac greyhound, Grey, wearing a collar: 'Opposition Grey-Hound'. A small animal runs behind with the head of M. A. Taylor. Through the doorway are seen half the Speaker's chair and the Opposition benches, while the hands of Pitt, who is speaking, project from the left, holding two scrolls: 'O'Conner's list of Secret...

Scope and Contents Published: S. W. Fores. Fox as Phaeton falls head first from his chariot, smitten by thunderbolts issuing from the mouth of George III (left), whose head is surrounded by the rays of the sun. The chariot is drawn by three animals and by a winged dragon inscribed 'Ambition', from whose mouth issues a barbed fang and the words 'Aut Cæzar aut Nullus'. The animals are (1) 'Duplicity', with a wolf's head concealed by a mask with human features; it says: "Whats Duplicity, Why, Coalesing with the...

Scope and Contents Published: S. W. Fores. Fox sits on the ground, full-face, his fingers together, scowling disconsolately. He holds the staff of liberty, broken, with a tattered cap of 'Liberty' inscribed 'Sedition \ Equality \ Rebell[ion]' about to fall from it. Flames rise on both sides inscribed: (left) 'A People rouz'd', and (right) 'Popular Resentment'. Beneath the title is etched:'Ubi lapsus Quid feci? Such place eternal justice has prepar'd For those rebellious------ Vide Milton's Paradise...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Fox sits on the ground, contemplating suicide. His hair rises in horror as he listens to words which dart towards him in the guise of flashes of lightning: 'Thy Country Expatriate thee'; 'Thy Crony's Impeach thee'; 'The Wigs forsake thee'; 'The Prince discards thee'; 'Thy Friends Abjure thee'; 'The People despise thee'; 'All true friends to their King and Constitution Abhor thee'. Two messages (left) are surrounded with rays: 'The Sans...