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Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Inscribed in plate: 'London Pub: Janry. 20, 1802 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly'.

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. A street scene. Three comely ladies in black flee in terror from a little man (left) wearing a green coat and green spectacles; two wear long floating veils and two hold huge muffs. They say, respectively: "O Lord the Monster"; "O dear the Monster"; "The Monster The Monster". He bends forward to stare intently at one of the ladies; he is fashionably dressed, wearing top-boots. Behind is the lower part of a stone huildine, an arched doorway flanked by high windows. On...

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By Thomas Rowlandson. A young man sprawls on a sofa, his right forefinger on his lip; from his left hand a newspaper, 'Morning Herald', dangles. He wears slippers and his breeches are unbuttoned at the knee. He has queer dreams after too much claret, rises at one, is dressed by half-past three, sees himself in a 'Caricature Shop', goes to the play, loses all his money at Hazard. Description from the British Museum.

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By Thomas Rowlandson. A young woman half reclines beside a breakfast-table, on which are urn, tea-pot, and two cups. A book is in her right hand. She 'Dreamt of the Captain . . . Breakfasted at Two . . . dined at Seven . . . went to the Opera . . . my ci-devant husband in the opposite Box.' Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Bonaparte (left) and Cornwallis play chess. Bonaparte, not caricatured, alert and military, wearing his large plumed cocked hat, leans forward, pointing to his move; his left arm lies on the table and in his left hand is his sheathed sabre. He says: "Check to your King, remember it is not the first time, and I think a very few Manœuvres more will completely convince you that I am better acquainted with the Game I am playing than you are aware of." Cornwallis, plump and...

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Artist unknown. Plateinscribed: 'London, pubd. April 20,1802 by W Holland. Oxford St.' Satire on the Napoleonic wars.

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Addington (left), dressed as an old-fashioned doctor, stands beside a table, holding out in both hands a golden ball inscribe 'Income Tax' to a citizen who sits at the table, writing. His cane, hat, and gloves are on the table. He says: "Why Sir it is only a sugar plumb, You can certainly swallow it now, I have gilt it all over to make it palatable to the City." The citizen raises a hand to ward off the pill, crying, "Come Doctor You must not attempt to force it down,...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. The fat and clumsy William Dickinson stands on gouty legs in profile to the right, outside the open door of the House of Commons, where Addington is speaking. He stoops, holding a cane in his gloved hand, and from his closed and protruding lips issues a cloud inscribed : - "let me see - 25 Millions! how are we Ruin'd? - 10 pr Cent for my Money! - income tax taken off! - well! - well! - well! - ". [further words have been erased], behind him is the hooded chair of the...

Scope and Contents Robson speaks in the House of Commons, with outstretched arms: "We're all ruinated, Sir! - all diddled, Sir!! - abus'd by Placemen, Sir!!! - Bankrupts all, Sir! - not worth Sixteen Pounds, Ten Shillings, Sir! - ". From his coat pocket project bundles of papers: 'Ignorance of ye Old Administration'; 'Stupidity of ye New Administration'; 'Charges against the Ministry'. In his hat, on the seat behind him, are other bundles: 'Ministerial Tricks', 'Plunders', 'Blunders', 'Collusion';...

Scope and Contents By 'Giles Grinagain'. A little boy (left) draws by a string a toy coach and pair which moves on a platform with low wheels. The coach has coronet, two footmen stand behind, two heads are seen through the window. A tax-collector (right), with a large volume under his left arm: 'Tax on Carriages and Horses kept for Pleasure', runs after him, extending his stick to the child's head, and saying with a frown, "Hollo! you young Gentleman; I'll trouble You to stop a little, You h'ant paid the New...

Scope and Contents Hand-coloured etching. The Lord Mayor, wearing his gown, has risen from his chair at the head of a table laid with gold plate, the upper end of which, with the three principal guests, is on the right, to push back with his mace a crowd of unwelcome civic guests. The Prince of Wales is on the Mayor's right; he faces a lady wearing jewels and feathers; next her is (?) the Duke of Cumberland. Both Princes are in uniform. Other would-be guests crowd in behind the two Sheriffs, trying to advance...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. A view of the House of Commons showing only the Ministerial benches immediately beside and behind the Speaker's Chair, and, on the extreme right, the Speaker and the Clerk with part of the Table. Addington, scarcely caricatured, but wearing gloves, is the principal figure. He stands in profile to the right, right hand extended; in his left is the 'Treaty of Peace with ye Democratick ['Democratic' was then used as an equivalent of Jacobin] Powers'; from his pocket issues a...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Four men stand on the hustings at Brentford, a wooden platform fronted by a rail; four electors (half length) stand below. On the left are Byng, the rail before him inscribed 'Liberty and Independance', and Burdett. The pair are placarded as 'Enemies to Austerity & Oppression'; both wear hats. Byng says: "I'll never desert my Country nor my Constituents"; he holds in each hand a fragment inscribed '[Bas]tile', from a large 'Plan of the Bastile' on which he and...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Mainwaring, beset by a mob, leans from the window of a carriage drawn (right to left) by a pair of horses. He is surrounded by a body of constables holding long staves; the decorated tops of the staves appear also on the farther side of the coach. Behind the constables (right) are men hurling large stones and cats at the roof of the carriage where Aris sits, his legs framing the window. He holds out a knotted scourge and shackles labelled 'Bread and Water too good fare...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. The Prince of Wales sits on the box-seat of an open barouche drawn by four horses next Sir John Lade who instructs him in driving. In the carriage Mrs. Fitzherbert sits, facing the horses, opposite a stouter lady (identified as Miss Snow) who asks: "Did Noodle [the Prince] bring you physic this Morning?" She answers: "Oh yes he calls regularly every morning". The driver leans forward, lashing the near leader and turning to the Prince (who ignores him) to say: "There B-t...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Bonaparte, seated in a small chair (left), extends his arms to his guests, John Bull and Hibernia, plebeian and bulky, who sit awkwardly, side by side, on a settee which they completely fill. Bonaparte, not caricatured, wears Consular dress; he says: "Indeed Mr Bull I am quite charmed with you - there is something so easy and polite in Your manners." John, a country bumpkin, wears a round hat and top-boots; he sits full face, grinning sideways at his host, his hands on...

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Fox, hat in hand, bows humbly before Bonaparte (left), who stands arrogantly, arms akimbo, head in profile to the right. The First Consul wears military uniform, boots, an enormous sword; on his head is a mural crown decorated with a cannon and skull and cross-bones, and bristling with sabres, pistols and daggers. Description from the British Museum.

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Original by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey. Hand-coloured etching published 15 November 1802.

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Napoleon sits arrogantly on a chair of state or throne on a dais covered by a fringed carpet. Fox, Erskine, and Harvey Combe bow abjectly, their heads on a level with their knees, their swords rising ludicrously above their backs. Combe wears his mayoral chain; from his pocket projects 'Essay on Porter Brewing by H. C. O'Conn[or's] Brief' projects from Erskine's pocket; Fox's breeches have burst their fastenings. The two last sweep the ground with bonnets rouges; all...

Scope and Contents By Charles Williams. Napoleon sits arrogantly on a chair of state or throne on a dais covered by a fringed carpet. Fox, Erskine, and Harvey Combe bow abjectly, their heads on a level with their knees, their swords rising ludicrously above their backs. Combe wears his mayoral chain; from his pocket projects 'Essay on Porter Brewing by H. C. O'Conn[or's] Brief' projects from Erskine's pocket; Fox's breeches have burst their fastenings. The two last sweep the ground with bonnets rouges; all...