Scope and Contents Artist: Anonymous. Published: S. W. Fores. An elderly, sharp-featured virago, with skinny neck and muscular arms, sits directed to the right, furiously kicking and shaking her left fist at the old-fashioned looking-glass which stands on a muslin-covered dressing-table. The glass has been shattered by the curling-tongs which she holds in her right hand, and a broken hand-mirror lies on the floor. She wears old-fashioned stays laced over a petticoat, but her head-dress is complete; two tall...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The title continues: 'his Man, Hopping Talley, mixing up the Dough'. Napoleon is the London street-seller of gingerbread cakes whose wares and patter made him a long-remembered character. He stands in his bakery vigorously drawing out from the arched aperture of his oven a broad shovel (peel) on which are figures of three kings in royal robes holding orb and sceptre. They are 'Bavaria', 'Wirtembg (very fat), and 'Baden'. The keystone of the...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The new Ministry, under the guise of ants engaged at a hiring fair, are introduced to their master George III. The King, wearing uniform, stands in profil perdu (left) inspecting the newcomers through his telescope. The chief Minister (or steward), wearing Court dress, stands in back view with his head turned in profile to the left. He should be Grenville, but resembles Hawkesbury (to whom the King first applied on Pitt's death). It is not...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: Walker. George III (left) steps from the throne to the front of the dais to inspect Fox through his glass. A beefeater stands beside the dais. Fox (right) stands, chapeau- bras, facing him in profile to the left, his right hand on his breast. Grenville, full face, stands between them, presenting Fox. He says: "The hon'ble Charles James Fox Your M------ a Man whose abilities the World have long admired, and whose Loyalty - Integrity & Honor - I will...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: Walker. The new Ministers in Court or official dress advance towards the King who is seated in a chair of state on a dais (left), with the Lord Chamberlain, Dartmouth, on his left Behind is a beef-eater. Fox, supporting the King's left hand with both his, stoops with obsequious satisfaction saying, "What a delicious hand! as I am an honest Man and a good Christian I declare it is the softest I have Kiss'd these Twenty Years - "this sure is bliss if bliss...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams Published: S. W. Fores. George III, in profile to the right., has risen from the throne to receive the new Ministry whom he inspects through his glass. The head and halberd of a beefeater appear behind the throne. All bend low; Fox, the foremost, makes the lowest and most obsequious bow. His court suit, with flowered waistcoat, and coat with too much gold lace, is worn with his old buff breeches. Grenville, beside him, makes a gesture of introduction. Crowded behind...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox, as the Devil, has sprung into the air, supported by small feathered wings inscribed 'Honesty' and 'Humility' and by two stout crutches, which rest upon dark clouds. He has a heavy hairy body with cloven hoofs, and wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade and the triple plume of the Prince of Wales. The two crutches have the heads, respectively, of Sidmouth (left) and Grenville. He wears a long narrow cloak with a tricolour collar; it...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox, as the Devil, has sprung into the air, supported by small feathered wings inscribed 'Honesty' and 'Humility' and by two stout crutches, which rest upon dark clouds. He has a heavy hairy body with cloven hoofs, and wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade and the triple plume of the Prince of Wales. The two crutches have the heads, respectively, of Sidmouth (left) and Grenville. He wears a long narrow cloak with a tricolour collar; it...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. After the title: 'NB. The representation of, the astonishing strength & Influence of the Rays from the Rising-Sun, is taken from Sir Isaac Newtons Theory of Light.' The beam of a pair of scales is suspended from a vertical bar terminating in a ring which encircles one of many solid rays from a large sun (left) surmounted by the Prince of Wales' coronet and feathers. The 'Rising-Sun' is partly obscured by dark clouds, but its rays extend...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. After the title: 'NB. The representation of, the astonishing strength & Influence of the Rays from the Rising-Sun, is taken from Sir Isaac Newtons Theory of Light.' The beam of a pair of scales is suspended from a vertical bar terminating in a ring which encircles one of many solid rays from a large sun (left) surmounted by the Prince of Wales' coronet and feathers. The 'Rising-Sun' is partly obscured by dark clouds, but its rays extend...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. George III sits at a small oblong table making punch in a bowl decorated with a crown. Decanters containing heads stand on a side-table (right). By the punch-bowl is a sugar-loaf with the head of Grenville, looking sideways at the bowl. A (rejected) lemon with the profile of Tierney lies on the table. The King holds the ladle in his right. hand, turning to the side-table to take up an orange with the features of Fox. He says: "Tho the...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. In a large bare room are forms for boys, a chair on a dais for the 'Master' (his desk so inscribed), with two desks on the left and right, inscribed respectively 'Moniter W P' and 'Moniter S W'. From the monitor's desk on the left Pitt has been seized by the Devil; he lies unconscious or dead on the creature's back; the latter, who has webbed wings, is about to fly out of a casement window; clouds surround them. The 'Master, George III, peers...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Fox and Erskine strut along the east pavement of St. James's Street, about to cross the road to the Palace gateway, part of which is on the extreme left. Before them runs a little ragged boy waving his hat and screaming "Clear the way for his M------'s Ministers". Fox, immensely fat, wears old-fashioned court dress, heavily laced, embroidered, and ruffled; he is chapeau-bras, left hand grasping his sword. Behind him walks Erskine, wearing a...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Members of the new Ministry in a handsome room prepare themselves for office, each intent on his toilet. Both Fox and Grey look into a large pier-glass on the extreme left., whose frame is surmounted by the Royal Arms and Prince's feathers, indicating Carlton House and the Prince's 'ostentatious patronage' of the new Ministry. [W. Fitzpatrick, 'H.M.C., Dropmore MSS.' viii, p. viii.] Fox (Foreign Secretary), wearing a tattered shirt, shaves,...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Members of the new Ministry in a handsome room prepare themselves for office, each intent on his toilet. Both Fox and Grey look into a large pier-glass on the extreme left., whose frame is surmounted by the Royal Arms and Prince's feathers, indicating Carlton House and the Prince's 'ostentatious patronage' of the new Ministry. [W. Fitzpatrick, 'H.M.C., Dropmore MSS.' viii, p. viii.] Fox (Foreign Secretary), wearing a tattered shirt, shaves,...

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Artist: James Gillray. Published: S. W. Fores. A (coloured) copy, by Williams, with the same inscriptions, imprint: 'Pubd Feby 1806 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly'. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: William Holland. Fox, at his writing-table (right), looks round in terror at the apparition of Pitt who stands among clouds, fully dressed, but draped in a shroud which covers his head and hangs like a mantle. The ghost, very tall and thin, with raised arms, declaims: "Thou hast now stept into power, and th'o my opponent through life, let me give thee this Council - Trust to your own powers - give no ear to the blood-suckers of the Court or the City, they...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: William Holland. Fox and Britannia dance together on a flagged pavement bordered on the left by a balustrade. Fox, in his laced Court suit takes the hand of the much taller Britannia who wears Roman draperies with a plumed helmet. He capers delightedly, holding out his tricorne hat; she dances with graceful seriousness. Her spear and shield lean against a column (right). The music is supplied by Sheridan, who fiddles and Lord Derby, playing pipe and...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. John Bull, a stout shock-headed countryman in a smock (left) stands directed to the right, facing Fox, who stands beside the writing-table (right) from which he has just risen. Fox, with admonitory forefinger, regards John with anxious wariness; he hides behind his back a paper: 'Treaty for carrying on the War'. John claps his hands, staring at Fox with an appraising bucolic grin. His hat, a ticket thrust through its band and cudgel lie on...

Scope and Contents Artist: William Heath. Published: S. W. Fores. John Bull, corpulent, bald-headed, and stripped to the loins, is beset by leeches with human heads. They climb up his legs and attack his body, arms, and head. He stamps angrily, with clenched fists, saying, "This is Bleeding with A Veangence If I do not Shake off Some of these Leaches I shall not have a drop of Blood Left, why they will never be full & this is the third Set I have had on with in this three years or so. enough to Destroy the...