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Scope and Contents Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphreys. Whitbread, his body, limbs, and head covered by tubs of varying shapes and sizes, raises a drayman's pole, to which is attached a hooked chain to smite the drooping head of a thistle with the features of Melville, his profile facing the ground; the flower forms a spiky coronet. The stem is inscribed 'Me quisque impune lacerrit' (replacing the 'nemo me impune ...' of the motto of the Order of the Thistle). Whitbread's heavy pole is 'Tenth...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. After the title: ' - "and now, all the sculking nerd of the forest, some out of Insolence, others in Revenge, some, in fine, upon one Pretence \ "some upon another, fell upon him by Consent. - but nothing went so near the Heart of him in his Distress, as to \ "find himself batter'd by the Heel of an Ass." - Vide Aesop's Fables - ' The lion, with the face and wig of Melville, lies gazing up, blood falling on the papers under his paws: 'Plans...

Scope and Contents Print made by: Charles Williams. Formerly attributed to: James Gillray. Published by: S. W. Fores. Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Princess of Wales dispute over the education of the Princess Charlotte. The Princess (left) sits weeping on a settee, averting her eyes from a bust profile portrait of Princess Charlotte, to which her rival points. Mrs. Fitzherbert, a fat virago, stands (right), declaiming: "I say I have an undoubted right to have the care of her, & to bring her up as I like do I...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A travesty of Peters's 'An Angel carrying the Spirit of a Child to Paradise', [Stipple coloured engraving by W. Dickinson, pub. 20 May 1784, in Print Room.] exhibited R.A. 1783, in which the angel is a portrait of Isabella, Duchess of Rutland, and the figures have a background of clouds. Mrs. Fitzherbert, as the angel, flies upwards, her right arm caressingly round a little girl, her left pointing up to an irradiated and burlesqued altar,...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The two principal figures are substantially the same, but Mrs. Fitzherbert's expression is less subtle; she looks down at her charge with an exulting smile. The feathers in her hair are set in a fillet inscribed 'Ich Dien', her breasts are almost bare, her drapery is more swirling. Her pouch is inscribed 'Amusements for Young Minds', its contents differ, and her book is a 'Missal'. Above them (left) ls inscribed:'Angels ever...

Scope and Contents Published: William Holland. Planets surround an irradiated sun inscribed 'Treasury', on which are three open money-bags. At the summit of the orbit (shown by concentric circles), stands Fox, hands on hips; above his head is a five-pointed star: 'THE FOXONIN STAR. This is the Grand Polar Star, - in every storm and tempest Seamen turn towards him to enquire into their latitude.' Fox is equidistant from Sheridan (left) and Tierney (right). The former is 'THE SHERRY-ONIAN STAR. He is of great...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: William Holland. A monstrously fat cook stands looking sideways in consternation at her salt-box which hangs against the wall in the accustomed place next the fire. A tiny Pitt looks out like a Jack-in-the-box, supporting the lid on his shoulders; he says, smiling: "How do you do, Cookey?" She says: "Curse the fellow how he has frightened me - I think in my heart he is getting in every where! - Who the deuce would have thought of finding him in the Salt...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A burlesqued illustration of the quotation from 'Paradise Lost' etched below the design: '"And now St Peter at heav'n's wicket seems "To wait them with his keys, & now at foot "Of heav'ns ascent they lift their feet: - when lo! "A violent cross-wind from either coast "Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry "Into the devious Air: then might ye see "Cowls, hoods, & habits, with their wearers, tost, "And flutter'd into rags;...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons; a large section of the crowded Opposition benches is shown (right). Pitt sits alone on the Treasury Bench, his profile only appearing on the extreme left; the rest of the Ministerial benches are cut off by the margin, behind him is the Speaker's Chair, with the tiny head of Abbot surrounded by a vast wig, appearing just over the table. From the table hangs a scroll: 'Resolutions respecting the...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. A wooden platform is placed across two open boats on a rough sea; a dark sky with a waning moon and the sails of the boats form a background. From the platform Castlereagh has plunged head-first into the water, having dropped a document (partly submerged): 'State of Poll Col Meade 2338 Vi Ca . . .' Just behind him stands Pitt, making gestures of despair and apostrophizing the sky: "Ye have taken away Useful Harry [Melville] from me and will...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Below the title: ' - intended as a specimen of French Victories - i:e - Conquering without Bloodshed.!!!' Mack (left), followed by his generals, prostrates himself, grovelling before three French Grenadiers (right), each holding a large sack inscribed '20 Million Livres'. Mack throws down his sword and two keys labelled 'Keys of Ulm'; beside him are a standard with the Habsburg eagle, a bundle of muskets, and a paper: 'Articles to be deliver...

Scope and Contents Print made by: Charles Williams. After: George Moutard Woodward. Published by: S. W. Fores. Napoleon (left) and John Bull (right), on opposite sides of the Channel, broadcast war news. Each is on a rock rising from the waves, one inscribed 'Falsehood', the other 'Truth'. Napoleon, leaning forwards against his rock, the summit of which serves as writing-table, scatters official newspapers and his own bulletins. In his hand is 'News for the French People.' He scatters: 'Moniteur - Separte...

Scope and Contents Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank. After: Mary Cruikshank. Published by: S. W. Fores. A scene on the Parade at Bath. Pitt sits in profile to the right in a roughly made bath chair with solid wooden wheels, his swathed and gouty legs stretched out and supported on a bolster. His head is skull-like and his long neck emaciated; he wears a dressing-gown which reveals a bare chest on which is a paper: 'Strengthening Plaister for the Conscience'. His right arm is outstretched, the fist clenched; his...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Ballad singers bawl their songs, thus advertising their wares; they fill the space, a cobbled street, between two houses, whose open ground-floor windows are on the extreme left and right of the design. On the left. Melville, in Highland dress, looks out, holding his head and clenches his fist. Pitt, in the opposite window, clenches both fists and stamps in tury. The ragged singers are two men and three women. Their songs (left to right) are:...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: C. Knight. The condemned cell at Newgate. Melville, as Macheath in Act III, stands with folded arms looking gloomily down. His legs are heavily shackled and he wears Highland dress. Beside him stands Pitt as Mate of the Mint, one of Macheath's band. He wears a tricorne hat, long belted coat with two pistols in his belt, top-boots, and gauntlet gloves. On the right are two jailors, or sheriff's officer and jailor: Whitbread, hat in hand, a sword under his...

Scope and Contents Artist: Thomas Rowlandson. Published: Ackermann. A hand-coloured print of two men. 'Tom', standing on the right, looks on amused at the sight of his friend's old-fashioned uniform. In 1805, George III introduced a new uniform to be worn at the annual ball to mark the installation of Knights of the Garter. The uniform was based on a painting of George I (reigned 1714–27). The thought of dignitaries dressed in this archaic fashion was impossible for Rowlandson to resist: here he shows one of...

Scope and Contents Published: Alexander Beugo. Lumley Skeffington, directed to the left., looks through an eye-glass, which he holds with little finger extended, displaying a ring. Under his right. arm is tucked an enormous bicorne hat, of oddly pointed shape. He wears a high-collared coat over a complicated neck-cloth, knee-breeches with dangling ties, elaborately embroidered stockings, and pumps. Below the design: 'is known as a pretty transient insect, that glitters in Showey Gardens, delights to flutter...

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Scope and Contents Artist: Anonymous. Published: S. W. Fores. After the title: 'NB the next Step it is thought will be into Straigh [sic] Waistcoats.' Four women in a well-furnished room wear dresses with narrow skirts tightly defining their posteriors; all wear flat slippers with cross-gartering. On the right a handsome woman with heavy hips in back view admires her righteflection in a pier-glass. A very fat woman stoops towards a barking lap-dog, unconscious of a vast rent across her massive rump; she says:...