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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.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: William Holland. John Bull, a plebeian, stout and dishevelled, lies on his back on a tangle of large roses with vicious thorns. These are on a heap of stones and under the stump of a decayed oak tree (left). He exclaims: "Oh Lord! Oh Lord! if this be the Bed of Roses they make such a noise about I'd sooner lye with the Old Sow and her Farrow in the Dog Days! - My Dame will roar woundidly when she comes to bed! Ecod it's as bad as lying on a Harrow upside...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Fox stands on shallow steps leading from the stone gateway of the 'Treasury' (left) to an ocean stretching to the horizon; emerging from the waves washing the lower step is a notice-board: 'Pool of Speculation'. He is pulling up a drag-net containing men. A large paper on the net indicates the bait: 'Peace within a Fortnight'. The men (stock-brokers, &c.) have papers inscribed 'Omnium' [twice], 'Scrip', and '4 Pr Cents'. A curving line of...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox reclines in an armchair of Gothic shape, his vast swathed legs resting on a cushion, his head against a pillow. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap. His friends and colleagues stand round him. On his right. is Mrs. Fitzherbert, a meretricious 'Abbess', holding a rosary and placing her hand under his chin; her face and breasts are covered by a large veil of transparent black. On his left stands a bishop in lawn sleeves and mitre, a...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Fox reclines in an armchair of Gothic shape, his vast swathed legs resting on a cushion, his head against a pillow. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap. His friends and colleagues stand round him. On his right. is Mrs. Fitzherbert, a meretricious 'Abbess', holding a rosary and placing her hand under his chin; her face and breasts are covered by a large veil of transparent black. On his left stands a bishop in lawn sleeves and mitre, a...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. A large rose, whose centre is the face in profile of George Rose, sprouts from the comparative eminence of a straw-covered dung-heap, inscribed 'Opposition-Hot-Bed'. It looks down contemptuously at the head of Petty (right) issuing from the ground among much smaller roses; the latter's neck is a stalk, his hat the top of a flattened conical m room. Rose says: "I really wonder how such a Fungus as you, ever attempted to place yourself in that...

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Etched and published by Robert Dighton.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The Prince of Wales stands in back view addressing Jefferys the jeweller, who bows low with a fixed and hungry smile. In the Prince's left hand is a money-bag inscribed '400' which rests on a table (left) with gilt legs ornately carved. He says, with extended right arm: "A very seasonable supply Jef and you may depend upon it, I will remember you as long as it lasts - you may lean upon my Arm Jef when you meet me on [sic] & I feel such an...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: Walker. Napoleon is the barber who shaves in his shop the powers of Europe with the help of Talleyrand. John Bull looks in through a window on the extreme left. The Emperor (smaller in scale than the others) seizes the long beard of the tall Sultan of Turkey (right), flourishing a gigantic razor of 'Corsican Steel'. He wears uniform with spurred boots and an apron. Talleyrand stands behind him, using a shaving-brush on the open mouth of the protesting...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A satire on the peace negotiations and on Windham's Training Act. The scene is outside the 'Treasury', the lower part of its façade forming the background. Ministers and their supporters as 'Corporal and Conscripts' obey the orders of their 'Drill-Serjeant' Napoleon, who stands on the extreme left, his jack-boots firmly planted on cannon-balls him height. He extends his sword with an arrogant gesture, and fiercely orders: "Ground - Arms!"...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Napoleon, in frenzied passion, has risen from his chair at a round breakfast table, overturning it. He has seized the massive urn and is about to bang it on the head of Talleyrand whom he holds by the ear, while kicking him behind. Talleyrand, terrified, drops two papers: 'Defaite de I'Armée Francois en Calabria' and 'la Prise de Buenos-Ayres'. His bag-wig flies off. He wears gown, bands, and rosary over his suit, and has the usual...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Napoleon, in frenzied passion, has risen from his chair at a round breakfast table, overturning it. He has seized the massive urn and is about to bang it on the head of Talleyrand whom he holds by the ear, while kicking him behind. Talleyrand, terrified, drops two papers: 'Defaite de I'Armée Francois en Calabria' and 'la Prise de Buenos-Ayres'. His bag-wig flies off. He wears gown, bands, and rosary over his suit, and has the usual...

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Hand-coloured etching by Charles Williams. Published by Elizabeth Walker No. 7 Cornhill. Our copy has only the left-hand side of the image - the right-hand side is missing.

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Aaquatint, with engraving. Published: London (Paternoster Row) : G. Robinson, 1 November 1806. 'Engraved for the Lady's Magazine' inscribed above image.

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A wildly burlesqued rendering of the Middlesex candidates and their supporters. In the foreground (left) a group from Westminster heads the procession. Sheridan and Hood ride a galloping dray-horse with blinkers and flying chains; Sheridan holds the rein, waving his hat (with a favour inscribed 'Hood') and straddling across a pannier filled with coins and labelled: 'Subscription Malt & Hops from ye Whitbread Brewery'; from his...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The procession trudges through the muddy channel (kennel) between cobblestones from 'Hudsons Hotel', whose pillared porch, with a placard, 'Paul & Indep[endence]', is partly visible on the extreme right., to the hustings, part of which is in the background (left). The central figure is Paull, seated with crossed ankles on a big 'India Cabbage' on the back of a goose with the head of Sir Francis Burdett, the goose's beak projecting in...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Hood, in naval uniform, and Sheridan toss Paull high in the air from a Coalition-Blanket. Paull is dressed as a tailor, with ungartered stockings and slippers, a tape-measure round his shoulders; he drops a tailor's goose (iron) and shears. Hood wears naval uniform with top-boots; he tucks a corner of the blanket under his empty coat-sleeve (he lost his arm in an action off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1805). In Sheridan's pocket is a pamphlet: 'The...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Sheridan and Lord Percy stand together in front of the hustings at Covent Garden (right). Sheridan (left), much caricatured, slouching and deprecating, pulls at the coat-tail of the tall and handsome Percy, who draws back with a gesture of horrified dissent. Sheridan, looking down, says:"Gallant Hotspur------ Let me uphold my drooping Fame, By tacking Bardolphs unto Hotspurs Name"He holds a rolled document: 'Speech to...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Above the design, 'Publish'd for the History of the Westminster & Middlesex Elections, Novr 1806', and a folding plate from the book. A section of the hustings extends across the design, bisected by one of the vertical posts supporting the (invisible) roof. On this are two placards: 'Loyal Parishes of St Paul's and St Giles's' and 'State of the Poll - . Paul - Hood - Sheridan'. The base of the design is formed by the heads and raised...

Scope and Contents Artist: C. Knight. Published: C. Knight. Trotter walks (left to right), carrying on his shoulders Lord Melville in Highland dress. He is on rocky ground, menaced on both sides and behind by curling waves, which tower above them. In the waves, and about to be dashed against Melville, is a large foaming tankard of 'Whitbread Entire'. Four fish, with human heads wearing judge's wigs with bands, swim towards him. Those on the right are Erskine and Ellenborough. Melville says: "Trot on my dear...