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

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Writings and hand coloured drawings by an unknown artist. Writing in verse discussing the Wig Tax.

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Writings and hand coloured drawings by an unknown artist. A. Pitt speaking the words "I am the P- Moses hear what I say under a Pitt 1799-". A Fox, presumably C. Fox, saying "I am Airon [?] But hear what I say also-". Discussion on taxation.

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Writings and hand coloured drawings by an unknown artist. Maps of France, England, London & Westminster, and Ireland. The 'War Academy 1800', discussion on politics, the National Debt Fund and Taxation.

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Writings and hand coloured drawings by an unknown artist. Maps of France, England, Ireland, and Gremany. The 'Academy 1800', discussion on politics, the National Debt Fund and Taxation.

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Writings and hand-coloured drawings by an unknown artist. Discussions on National Debt, War and Taxation. Maps of France, London and Westminster, Ireland, Italy, England and part of France.

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Writings and hand coloured drawings by an unknown artist. 'Magna Charter' buried. Discussions on National Debt Fund, War and Taxation.

Scope and Contents Uncoloured print. By John Cawse. Pitt and his friends, laden with moneybags, emerge from an arched doorway, indicating the Treasury; they look furtively at a watchman's box (right) adjacent to the arch, in which sits Fox, fast asleep. Pitt has a sack under each arm, one full of guineas and labelled '1000', the other labelled 'Notes'; next him (right) is Dundas in a kilt, with a similar sack. On Pitt's left is a small man with lank hair, wearing a mask inscribed 'RT', probably to indicate...

Scope and Contents Coloured print. By John Cawse. Pitt and his friends, laden with moneybags, emerge from an arched doorway, indicating the Treasury; they look furtively at a watchman's box (right) adjacent to the arch, in which sits Fox, fast asleep. Pitt has a sack under each arm, one full of guineas and labelled '1000', the other labelled 'Notes'; next him (right) is Dundas in a kilt, with a similar sack. On Pitt's left is a small man with lank hair, wearing a mask inscribed 'RT', probably to indicate Rose...

Scope and Contents By S. W. Fores. The interior of a coffee-house or tavern. Two men drink wine at a table on the extreme left. Two stand beside the semicircular bar (right) behind which stands a buxom woman. On the wall which forms a background are three pegs, inscribed respectively: (left to right) 'for little puppies', 'for great puppies', 'for overgrown puppies'. To the first, which is the lowest, is hitched by the back of his coat, a small man wearing top-boots, who struggles to free himself. A large man...

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Artist: Brownlow North. Etched and published by Joshua Baldrey. 'BN...Esq. delt.' 'Etch.d & Pub.d Feb.y 23: 1800 by J. Baldrey.. Cambridge.'

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. A tall pillar, supporting an allegorical design of Britannia and covered with figures and objects in high relief, stands upon a rock in a stormy sea, waves dashing against it. The square base is supported by figures of Fortitude, with a lion, her left hand on a broken pillar, and Justice, with an ostrich, her scales not balanced. Between them is inscribed: 'To Perpetuate the Destruction of the Regicide Navy of France, and the Triumph of the British Flag'. It rests on two...

Scope and Contents By John Cawse. Bonaparte stands, legs apart, reading with concern a paper which a ragged French post-boy (left) has just handed to him. His large cocked hat is surmounted by many ostrich feathers; the second and third consuls try to read over his shoulder, with expressions of dismay. The 'Dispatches': 'Mounseer - Beau. Naperty I read your Parly Vouse & have only to say I was not born yesterDay, take that as you Like it, I am not easily humm'd, - Look before you Leap is a Good old...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Bonaparte stands on the sea-shore, about to embark (on 23 Aug. 1799) in a boat (left) which will take him to a ship in full sail (the 'Muiron'). He looks with a sly leer to the right, where a little band of ragged and emaciated French soldiers hurry towards him making gestures of dismay. He wears the embroidered fastened coat or tunic with a sash of authentic portraits, without a hat; he points up towards a vision in the sky surrounded by massive clouds of a sceptre and...

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The Tsar, tall and well-made, hurries forward, his ribbon and coat-tails fluttering. He wears a crown inscribed 'Disorder'; in his right hand is a paper: 'Order', in his left one inscribed 'Counter Order'. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents By John Cawse. A scene in the House of Commons, the two front benches in close proximity. Fox (right) sits stolidly on one, clutching a bulky document inscribed 'Perseverance'. He looks sternly at Pitt, who stands opposite him, his hair rising in terror; he drops a document, 'Union', and exclaims 'Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us!!' Behind Pitt are three persons, only one, Dundas in tartan, being characterized; they are dismayed. Burdett and Sheridan sit behind Fox, the former...

Scope and Contents By John Cawse. A school-room represents the House of Commons. On one side (left) sits Dundas with a cane, at the other Pitt suavely receiving a new scholar. In the centre Fox, wearing a fool's cap inscribed 'Truant', stands on a pile of papers weeping; he holds a birch-rod in his left hand. The papers: 'Lists of Traitors', 'Reports of the Secret Committee', 'Reports', 'Reports', 'Quiglys Life', 'Ld E. Fitzgerald', 'O Conners Confession', 'Death & Caract[er]'. Pitt says to the boy in...

Scope and Contents Pitt, tall and very thin, and wearing the old-fashioned dress of a (quack) doctor, addresses Bonaparte (not caricatured), dressed as Consul. He says, hat in hand (pointing to a rent sack of guineas (left) inscribed 'Mint-Seed \ T. Y), why I tell you Doctor Buonaparte, nothing can effect a complete deliverance but my Prescription of Mint Seed it is the most Efficacious Remedy in the World'. Bonaparte stands full-face, turning his head in profile to Pitt; he points with his sword to two...

Scope and Contents By John Cawse. The House of Commons is altered into a church by the transformation of the Speaker's Chair into a high pulpit, in which Pitt preaches in gown and bands, holding an open 'Red Book' [or Royal Kalendar]. On the front Opposition bench sit side by side John Bull grinning slyly, and Hibernia looking down demurely; next her sits an Irishman (right), near him an Englishman. Heads of the congregation in the gallery are freely sketched. Pitt, in profile to the right, says: "I Publish...

Scope and Contents A sequence of eight designs, arranged in two rows. [1] 'DEMOCRATIC INNOCENCE. The young Buonaparte, & his wretched Relatives, in their native Poverty, while Free Booters in the Island of Corsica.' The interior of a wretched hut, a fire burning on an open hearth, a tattered cloth hanging from a line. On a heap of straw sits a fat ragged woman, nursing an infant who pulls her nose. Five ragged children fight round an empty dish (on an upturned tub) for a large bare bone which one...