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Original published Aug 15 1800 by R Ackerman No 101 Strand / etch'd by Rowlandson / Woodward Del. Our copy has the image reversed, has different lettering and there is no date or details of artist or publisher.

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Artist unknown. Features William Pitt and refers to money and prosperity.

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Pitt, in the guise of a statue coloured yellow, stands on a pedestal formed of blocks of stone. Its base is 'Increase of National debt 250-000-000'; the corresponding upper slab (chipped) on which rests , the base of the statue, inscribed 'Sic itur ad astra, is Income Tax'. The smaller flocks are: 'Hair Powder', 'Horse Duty', 'Tax on Beer', 'Armorial Bearings', 'Tax on Malt', 'Additional House Tax', 'Additional Window Tax', 'Hat Duty', 'Tax on Shopmen', 'Shop Tax'...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Britannia, wearing black mourning draperies, stands weeping in the centre of the design, with outstretched arms, her head turned in profile to the right, where the late Ministers are running off with bundles of booty. Her shield (without the cross of St. Patrick, added at the Union) and (broken) spear lie on the ground. Behind her, resting on three prostrate and agonized citizens, is a pile of massive blocks of stone. These are (reading downwards): [1] 'Loan 1801, 28,...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. The new Ministers (identified by inscriptions below the design) don the clothes of their predecessors. These are (left to right) the Chancellor (Eldon) on the Woolsack, in back view, wearing the wig, enormously elongated so that it trails on the floor, characteristic of Loughborough: 'Lord L------gh------h's large Wig'. He says: "O such a Day as This, so renown'd so victorious, \ "Such a Day as This, was never seen!" His feet are pressed against the front bench. The...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Lord Hawkesbury as a drummer boy, very thin and weedy, marches (left to right) in front of John Bull with awkward and shambling aggressiveness; he steps on to a rotten plank inscribed 'Heart of Oak' which connects the shores of England and France. His drum-sticks are a rolled document, 'Preliminaries', and an olive branch. Across his dishevelled bearskin is a ribbon: 'Peace'; from it hangs the end of a fool's cap. From his coat-pocket issues a paper: 'Instructions from Park...

Scope and Contents John Bull (left) capers clumsily to a tune played by Pitt, Dundas, and two others. He has a drink-bloated profile, wears a round hat and old-fashioned buckled shoes. He says: "Lord love ye my good Masters - do give us something new - I be tired of all the old Jigs - I knows the March to Paris by heart, - and as for Indemnity for the Past, and Security for the future, they are as easy to me as my A-B-C - I want something stilish, and grand." Pitt, seated, plays a large 'cello incorrectly...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Lord Hawkesbury as a drummer boy, very thin and weedy, marches (left to right) in front of John Bull with awkward and shambling aggressiveness; he steps on to a rotten plank inscribed 'Heart of Oak' which connects the shores of England and France. His drum-sticks are a rolled document, 'Preliminaries', and an olive branch. Across his dishevelled bearskin is a ribbon: 'Peace'; from it hangs the end of a fool's cap. From his coat-pocket issues a paper: 'Instructions from Park...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Windham, not caricatured, lies in bed dreaming, his right hand extended, his left hand against his head. The coverlet is patterned (inconspicuously) with dragons etc. The bed is surrounded by solid clouds, supporting visions. At its head (right) is an olive branch bent down by the weight of a vulture, which clutches a bleeding hare, while it savagely croaks 'Peace!' On the left Death, a skeleton on stilts formed of spears (skeleton A stilts coloured red), bestraddles a pile...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco etc. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls. The room is lit by a chandelier; a bracket-clock points to 3.40, on it is carved a Bacchanalian figure of Time astride a cask. A bust portrait of Anacreon holding pen and paper is on the wall (left). Above the design: ' - "Whilst, snug in our Club-room, we jovially 'twine - The...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Burdett (right) declaims a speech whose heads are inscribed on a gigantic scroll held out to him by Fox. Fox raises his arms high to hold the scroll, one end of which falls behind his head and shoulders. The other end, still rolled and blank, is held by Sheridan who stands on the extreme left behind a writing-table over which the scroll passes. Horne Tooke, seated full face behind the table, an inkpot in one hand, writes on the scroll with a sourly inscrutable expression....

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Artist: Thomas Rowlandson. Half of the piece is missing. The full piece - in plate above image left: 'WAR'; right: 'PEACE'; below image left: 'John Bull in the Year 1800!'; right: 'John Bull, in the year 1800!'; within image right: 'Pubd Oct 12 1801 by R. Ackermann N101 Strand'.

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. A farmhouse interior. John Bull, fat and rustic, sits in a low chair, grinning delightedly at five men who approach from the right. A butcher offers an enormous joint of beef on a dish, saying, "Now Johnny you may Treat you Family with a bit of Beef it's only 4 1/2 a Pound." Beside him stands a countryman with a goose, saying, "Here Neighbour I bought this goose for 2s." A baker with a basket of bread on his shoulders says: "Here is Bread only 6d the Quartern loaf &...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Peace, a sadly crippled young woman, supported on a crutch, advances from the left towards John Bull and his wife. Her right arm, withered, and broken at the wrist, is in a sling inscribed 'Emperor of France Spain Holland Italy Switzerland &c &c.' Over her right eye is a patch inscribed 'Malta'. Her skirt is pinned up revealing a wooden leg: 'Cape of Good Hope'; on her back are two bundles: 'Ceylon' and 'Trinidad'. She says: "Here I am Johnny, Arrived at last,...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. An enormously fat butcher (left) stands beside his chopping-block, pointing out the merits of a vast joint of beef spiked on a rail in front of his shop or stall. His customers are a plainly dressed jovial citizen and his more pretentious wife, whose hands are in a large muff. All the joints are decorated with sprigs of holly; the central masterpiece has small coronets stamped on the fat, while the markings of the meat simulate a genealogical tree. The butcher says:...

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Social satire: two gentlemen greedily eating raw meat that is fed to them by a butcher, a thin cat and dog looking on with open mouths.

Scope and Contents By Piercy Roberts. John Bull capers on one leg, arms raised, looking down delightedly at little capering creatures at his feet whose bodies are composed of food or drink. These have human arms and legs and are flanked by two similar figures on a larger scale: a joint of beef (left), inscribed 'Sir Loin for ever' and decorated with sprigs of holly, sits on a flight of steps holding 'O the roast Beef of Old England', the tune to which they dance. On the extreme right sack inscribed 'Genuine...

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Artist: Piercy Roberts. Plate inscribed: 'Woodward delin. ; etch’d by Roberts. London : Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn'.

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. A man stands between two women, an arm round each. He wears a high fool's cap outlined with bells, furred robe over Turkish trousers, and a large scimitar. Two pair of horns grow from his forehead, and he has the whiskers of a man of fashion. The women, who hold him by the shoulders are 'Ridicule' who laughs and points, and 'Infamy', melancholy and ragged, her dress covered by patches which, with her belt etc, are inscribed: 'Murder', 'Deciet', 'Treason', 'Adultery',...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Peace, a sadly crippled young woman, supported on a crutch, advances from the left towards John Bull and his wife. Her right arm, withered, and broken at the wrist, is in a sling inscribed 'Emperor of France Spain Holland Italy Switzerland &c &c.' Over her right eye is a patch inscribed 'Malta'. Her skirt is pinned up revealing a wooden leg: 'Cape of Good Hope'; on her back are two bundles: 'Ceylon' and 'Trinidad'. She says: "Here I am Johnny, Arrived at last,...