Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the 'Irish Channel'; on a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shield and spear beside a pile of bales of goods and a cornucopia from which pour coins and jewels; she holds out a scroll: 'Union of Security Trade & Liberty'. She looks appealingly towards Pat, her right hand on her breast, one foot trampling on a book inscribed...

Scope and Contents Pitt, in profile to the right and stripped to the waist, carries on a porter's knot a solid block with the façade of two adjacent town houses: 'House of Lords House of Commons'. He steps across the sea from Dublin (left) to the English coast, where the tiny figure of Dundas capers encouragingly and says: "That's your Sort Billy Push on Keep Moving". On the extreme right is 'London', St. Paul's being indicated. Pitt, his shoulders bowed, says: "This Load begins to feel very heavy I am affraid...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. A drunken debauch in the new Union Club. A long table, the cloth removed, one end cut off by the left margin, stretches almost across the design, slanting back slightly from the left, where it is in the foreground, and where Fox, grossly corpulent, sits in an armchair asleep, his feet on the table, a pipe in one hand. Nearly opposite his feet is the chair of state, on the table; on the empty seat is the Prince's cocked hat with triple plume, his motto 'Ich Di[en]' within...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Paul (left) and George III fight, stripped to the waist, the former's belt inscribed 'Petersburg'. Paul flinches back, hard pressed; one eye is closed with a patch inscribed 'Malta'. Behind the King (right) stands Pitt in full armour but wearing spurred modern boots over his greaves. His vizor is closed, its sharp point burlesqueing his profile. A dragon surmounts his plumed helmet, his shield is covered with the Royal Arms; in his right hand is a lance. The King says:...

Scope and Contents By Thomas Rowlandson. The surface of a platform stretches across the design; on this Pitt (right), valiant but anxious, faces the massive Russian bear, Paul, behind whom stands a stout ferocious-looking Russian soldier (like a showman with a performing animal), nearsightedly reading a document: 'Be it known to all men, - that my master, - the most Magnanimous most puissant, most powerful and most wonderful great Bear of the north - being in his sound and sober senses - Challenges the Whole...

Scope and Contents Two admirals and a British sailor tackle three bears representing the powers of the Northern Alliance. Nelson holds the chain attached to the muzzle of the largest, whose collar is inscribed Paulo (left): the Russian bear stands snarling. Nelson, his empty sleeve fastened to a button, raises a whip, saying, "I'll teach you to send challenges, a few stripes a la Nile - will soon bring you to a right understanding Master Paulo". He wears a cocked hat and the order of the Bath. Parker stands...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window...

Scope and Contents Four Ministers sit at a round card-table lit by two candles which have burned low; they still hold eight cards, two lie on the table. Pitt turns round, handing his cards to Addington (right), who stands in his Speaker's wig and robes, rather larger in scale than the others; he says: "Here play my Cards, Henry? I want to retire a little." From his coat-pocket projects a sheaf of papers: 'Loan 88,000,000'. Next Pitt is Windham, his head against a wall map: 'Plan of Quiberon Bay'. He takes a...

Scope and Contents By John Nixon. John Bull (left) and a Frenchman (right) sit on two chairs; each scowls over his shoulder at the other. The Englishman is stout and plainly dressed, his hair is short and without powder, he wears top-boots. In his right hand he holds a foaming tankard which rests on his knee; in his left is a gnarled stick. The Frenchman is thin, wears a pigtail queue, ruffled shirt and laced waistcoat. He clutches in both hands a bowl in which is a spoon, evidently the soup-meagre of English...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. The resigning Ministers issue from the arched gateway of the 'Treasury', led by Pitt (right) who, with an oratorical gesture, holds out a document: 'Justice of Emancipating ye Catholicks'. Behind him is Dundas (Secretary of State for War), holding Pitt's right arm, and not in the usual Scottish dress (though he wears a tartan waistcoat). He holds a document: 'Advantages of the Union'; from his coat pocket issues a paper: 'Successes in the East'. Next walks Grenville...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. A design in two equal compartments placed side by side. A fat Frenchman (left) sits at a round table in profile to the right, knife and fork in hand, grinning delightedly at a large joint of beef flanked by a vast loaf and a decanter. He wears an enormous cocked hat, Hessian boots, and a coat of quasi-military cut. He says: "Ah What Monsieur Jack Bull you going to starve me!!!" Beside him sits his greyhound, bulgingly replete. From the table hangs a scroll: 'Beef Mutton...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. A design in two equal compartments placed side by side. A fat Frenchman (left) sits at a round table in profile to the right, knife and fork in hand, grinning delightedly at a large joint of beef flanked by a vast loaf and a decanter. He wears an enormous cocked hat, Hessian boots, and a coat of quasi-military cut. He says: "Ah What Monsieur Jack Bull you going to starve me!!!" Beside him sits his greyhound, bulgingly replete. From the table hangs a scroll: 'Beef Mutton...

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Artist unknown. Comparing the dependent farmer of the past with the independent farmer of the present.

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Fox stoops to support on his back Horne Tooke, who is about to climb into the window of 'St Stephe[n's] Chap[el]', the name on a slab over the door, partly cut off by the right margin. The door is being closed by Lord Temple, who says: "He shall not pollute this holy Temple". Tooke rests his right foot on Fox's back, his hands grasping the sill; his left toe is in a cranny in the wall above a placard headed: 'Old Sarum Dilly takes only one at the Brazenface'. He looks...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. In a small space between the House Commons (left) and a rustic alehouse (right) Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head of Horne Tooke. In this are stuck feathers, five inscribed respectively: 'Deceit, Vanity, Jacobinism, New Morality, Envy'. From the neck hang (torn) clerical bands. Camelford in back view, 'profil perdu', wears a rakish hat with curved brim, a naval officer's coat with sailor's striped trousers, and buckled shoes; from...

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Coloured print. By James Gillray. Lord Clare (1749-1802) walks in profile to the left on a pavement. He is erect and alert, inclining slightly forward, holding a slim cane erect. He wears round hat, short unpowdered wig, dark coat, gloves, and spurred top-boots. Description from the British Museum.

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Uncoloured. By James Gillray. Lord Clare (1749-1802) walks in profile to the left on a pavement. He is erect and alert, inclining slightly forward, holding a slim cane erect. He wears round hat, short unpowdered wig, dark coat, gloves, and spurred top-boots. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Farmers converse at a table from which the cloth has been removed for dessert. All six are fat and grossly bucolic, two wear smocks, the others are fashionably dressed, wearing spurred top-boots. One (right) stands on a chair, one foot resting on the table, holding up a decanter of 'Claret' in one hand, a full glass in the other; he says: "are you all Charged? Here's the Duke of Portland." The toast is received with enthusiasm. A farmer stands pointing behind him to a letter 'To the Lord...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Four fat farmers, with long, grotesque, dismayed faces stand (right) facing the mayor, who sits (right) in an armchair, pen in hand, by a table covered with a fringed cloth. They carry sacks of wheat under their arms, and say: "Mr Mayor, we have brought great Quantities of Corn to Market and no body will buy, we request your advice what to do with it." He answers: "Do with it? why, as you have done, Keep it!!!" He has been writing on a paper headed 'Plan for Regulating...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Five despairing men, beset by demons, are grouped under large trees, and by the side of a piece of water (right). A man (left) stands under a branch, from which a demon leans to encircle his neck with a noose of rope, saying, "Come along Old Boy, You've starved many a poor Creature in Your time". The man exclaims: "Oh Conscience, Conscience, thou art a Just Monitor. O that I had obeyed thy faithfull dictates." At his feet lie his hat, a 'Gazette The Preliminaries of...