Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: S. W. Fores. A copy (coloured), by Williams, '- More Pigs than Teats - or - the new litter of hungry Grunters sucking John Bulls old-sow to death. Invented - designed & Executed by one who wants a Suck. [Perhaps an allusion to Gillray's desire for a renewal of his pension.] Pubd March 1806 by S W Fores Piccadilly.' In place of Walpole is a pig with a Jewish profile, who says to Adair "Come along Broder we shall get a shuck presently." Description from...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. An old sow lies exhausted on a pile of straw outside a sty roofed with dilapidated thatch. She is beset by thirty-two voracious piglets with human heads. [The identifications are those of Miss Banks, confirmed by Lord Holland. The identifications of Wright and Evans are incomplete; Ellenborough is called the Speaker.] John Bull, a clumsy yokel in a smock, holding a pitchfork, looks over the low stone wall surrounding the sty. He exclaims: "O...

Scope and Contents Artist: Published: After the title: 'representing an Empty-Barrel tossed out to amuse great Leviathan-John-Bull, in order to divert him from instantly laying violent hands uponye new Coalition Packet - Vide Swifts Preface to the Tale of a Tub.' A sea-monster (left) with a cavernous mouth spouts two cascades which deluge an open packet-boat (right) manned by the new Ministry; these are respectively 'Ridicule' and 'Contempt'. The monster has the horns of a bull and a lashing tail which churns...

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Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Another (? earlier) impression in which the inscription on the arc of the sun is not 'Power' but a partly obliterated word beginning with 'D' perhaps 'Dissolution' (see LF104/8/62). The larger patch on the sail is tricolour, the other green, probably indicating the Franco-Irish intrigue, implicit in 'Maidstone'. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: Walker. Napoleon, in military uniform and wearing a large feathered bicorne, holds out both hands to the much taller and bulkier Fox. The latter is in Court dress with a large feather-fringed cocked hat under his left arm. He holds his formidable fist towards the Emperor's face. Napoleon says: "How do you do Master Charley why you are so fine I scarcely knew ye - don't you remember me - why I am little Boney the Corsican - him that you came to see at...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The stage, flanked by the stage-boxes, extends across the design, the base of which is the orchestra, where the new Ministry perform. George III has stepped on to the stage from the royal box (left) and confronts Napoleon, who stands arrogantly upon clouds and points to an enormous scroll held up by Talleyrand. This stretches across the cloud to rest on the stage. The Emperor, in uniform, with spurred jackboots and wearing a large, feathered...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The stage, flanked by the stage-boxes, extends across the design, the base of which is the orchestra, where the new Ministry perform. George III has stepped on to the stage from the royal box (left) and confronts Napoleon, who stands arrogantly upon clouds and points to an enormous scroll held up by Talleyrand. This stretches across the cloud to rest on the stage. The Emperor, in uniform, with spurred jackboots and wearing a large, feathered...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The vast Daniel Lambert (left), not caricatured, sits full face in a bergere which he completely fills. His hat is on a table beside him. He looks slightly to the right., not directly at Fox who stands in profile, regarding him with an interested smile, and holding his hat behind his back. He stands in front of a small upright chair, placed for a visitor. Fox's head and features are larger than those of Lambert, his girth less, but his paunch...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Daniel Lambert (left) sits at a small round dinner-table carving a round of beef. Opposite him Napoleon eats soup from bowl resting on his knees. Both are seated on identical bergères, wide anough for two persons, completely filled by Lambert while Napoleon is in the middle of his too-high seat; his toes rest on the feathers of his huge bicorne which lies on the ground. Beside Lambert's beef are a salt-cellar, loaf, and huge foaming tankard...

Scope and Contents Artist: Thomas Rowlandson. Published: S. W. Fores. Six heads, full-face, of Fox, arranged in a row, all with eyes closed or looking down. [1] 'Out of Place In Character', with tousled hair and ill-shaved face. [2] 'In Place Out of Character', with powdered hair and well-shaved face. Cf. Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, ii. 269-74. [3] 'As he might have been'. The cap of Liberty is just above his head. [4] 'As he wod have been'. A ducal coronet is just above his (powdered) head. [5] 'As he should...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. After the title: 'vide Charley's elucidation of Lord C-stl-r-gh's Speech! - A Nightly Scene near Cleveland Row'. Fox and his wife, facing the spectator, sleep in a magnificent , ducal bed, whose head and curtains form a background to the design. They disturbed by nightmares. Fox extends both arms in gloomy terror as Naooleon springs on his bed (right) and seizes the collar of his night-shirt, the other side of which is tugged at by the ghost...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox, wearing a military cocked hat, with civilian dress, threatens Prussia (or Frederick William III) with his sabre, while he puts a foot on the sword that Prussia has dropped. The latter, a grotesque figure with a long pigtail and moustaches, kneels terrified at his feet, clasping his hands in supplication. His Death's Head Hussar cap falls from his thrown-back head; he wears a fur-trimmed cloak and tunic, with a badge of the Prussian...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Grenville (right) displays a dancing bear with the head of Fox enclosed in a muzzle. He holds a chain attached to the muzzle and a long heavy staff: 'Cudgel for Disobedient Bears'. The bear obediently and clumsily repeats the dancing-step of his master; he holds in both paws his bonnet rouge trimmed with tricolour, and tramples upon two torn and discarded songs: 'Caira, Ca . . .' and 'A Begging we will go' [an allusion to the subscription...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. On the right a rustic fountain gushes from the mouth of Lord Henry Petty, whose head and shoulders emerge from a stone wall or rock surrounded by trees. The water expands and falls by billowing stages into a sea, the horizon (left) inscribed 'Unfathomable Sea of Taxation'. In this sea 'cormorants', with human heads and huge beaks (projecting from their profiles) and pelican-like pouches, are greedily fishing, while a rowing boat founders,...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: William Holland. Ellenborough (Edward Law), in wig and gown, with two heads, sits squarely on an (invisible) seat on a dais of two steps, a hand on each knee. He looks from the corners of his eyes to left and to right On the right is George III, leaning on the back of a settee whose seat is filled with roses, and inspecting the judge through his glass. He says: "Very good - a Man with two heads!! a very old saying, Two head are better than One! - I like a...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The triumphal procession (left to right) of a black woman symbolizing Quassia, a drug obtained from the Quassia tree, which is supposed to have supplanted hops in brewing. She sits astride a drayman's pole, from which is suspended horizontally a cask inscribed 'True Quassia Free from Taxation'; the pole is supported on the shoulders of two brewers, Whitbread (right), and Combe (left). She holds up in one hand a branch of the noxious tree,...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Melville, protected by Justice, stands on the 'Rock of Innocence' (left) firing two cannon at a man-of-war, 'The Impeachment', which has already foundered on the 'Rocks of Honor and Justice'. In the foreground (left) a bear, Whitbread (not Fox as Wright and Evans say), stands despairingly in his boat which is about to be swamped. It is in the form of a shallow tub (a brewing utensil), and is 'The Vanity-Cooler'. A pennant, 'Vanity', streams...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Melville (left) stands by a pile of bricks, each marked with a coronet (except one with a mitre), and the words 'Not Guilty'. These he is hurling with great vigour at (some of) the managers of the impeachment who flee in disorder, to the right, putting up their arms to fend off the missiles. He wears Highland dress with a magnificently feathered bonnet; his plaid swirls out. He says, the words in a large label:...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The figures are placed in an alcove recessed in a wall of heavy stones. The massive Ellenborough in wig and gown sits on a wooden seat or plank supported by Sidmouth, Lauderdale, and Stanhope, with behind, the bent posteriors and massive legs of Grenville, who is otherwise hidden by Lauderdale and by a pan suspended from the seat. This seat is 'Broad-Bottom Cabinet', the pan (shaped like that of a commode) is 'Privy Seat'. The plank rests on...

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After: James Gillray. Print made by: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. A close copy by Williams: 'Pubd June 1806 by S W Fores' with the title: 'the Patriot turned Plagarist or the Petty Tax Gatherers, Hunting John Bull'. The inscriptions are as above, with an addition to Fox's speech: 'was I not always call'd the Friend of the People'. Description from the British Museum.