Fashion before ease;--or,--a good constitution sacrificed for a fantas...
Cartoon showing Britannia clasping trunk of a large oak, while Thomas Paine tugs with both hands at her stay laces, his foot on her posterior. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscri... More
Blowing up the new opposition / Argus Invt., British Cartoon Print
Group of men, possibly the Foxite faction of Parliament, shooting guns and arrows at another group of men, the "new opposition," whose guns are misfiring. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection ( Li... More
De'Estaing at spa or the French Admiral in all his glory / Colley, inv...
Admiral seated and being served fricasse of frogs and soup meager. Engraving by Thomas Colley. Not found in the British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Con... More
L'assemblée nationale: - or - grand co-operation meeting at St. Ann's ...
Print shows a reception given by Charles James Fox and wife for various groups and friends of the Prince of Wales, all opposed to the government. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Divisio... More
Anacreontick's in full song / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect., British Cart...
Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco, &c. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls... (George) This ... More
The sailor's description of a chase & capture / J Sherm, invt. [Lieut....
"A burly sailor (right) sits with five other sailors, one a negro, and two perhaps being petty officers, drinking grog at a plank-table slung from the roof ..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified ... More
A German mountebank blowing his own trumpet at a Dutch concert of 500 ...
"Logier, the music-master, is delivering one of his musical lectures with demonstrations by his pupils..." (Source: George); with integral text leaf. The title continues: or A natural [followed by A natural in ... More
The hand-writing upon the wall / Js. Gillray invt. & ft., British Cart...
Napoleon, Josephine, French soldiers and women seated at feast with dishes "Bank of England," "St. James," "Tower of London," and "Roast Beef of old England." Napoleon looks in horror at hand of Jehovah pointin... More
Integrity retiring from Office! / Js. Gillray, invt & ft., British Car...
A group of resigning ministers, led by Pitt who holds a document entitled "Justice of Emancipating ye Catholicks", leaving through an arched gateway inscribed "Treasury." Following Pitt are Dundas, Grenville, S... More
We are all a comeing or Scotch coal for ever / Sawney McAdam, invt. et...
"This etching exhibits the road "From Edinbr. to Londo[n]" and many coaches, carts, and other carriages, going southwards..." (Source: Stephens) [By the Marquis Townshend] Related to event dated 1761 in Stephen... More
The prodigals nurse, or modern heir / M. Iackson, invt. ; Boitard scul...
Print shows an interior view of a room in which a dapperly dressed young man, "Booby Squander, Esq.", turns over the deed to the family estate, his inheritance, to a money lender, the usurer "Solomon Thrifty", ... More
To be sold to the best bidder / E. T., invt. [E. Topham]., British Car...
"An auctioneer holding up his hammer in his left hand, stands in his rostrum, a box supported on four legs, and reached by a ladder (left)..." (Source: George) [V. 2. 5.] This record contains unverified data fr... More
The Union Club / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect., British Cartoon Print
"A drunken debauch in the new Union Club, see No. 9698..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints an... More
Ah! Sure such a pair was never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature...
"From two huge green bags, pear-shaped and broad-based, emerge respectively the heads of the King and Queen..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Dedicated to Old Bags [Eldon]. ... More
Titianus redivivus;-or-the seven-wise-men consulting the new Venetian ...
Allegorical British satire on the 'Venetian secret', or the secret of Titian's coloring, which Mary Ann Provis discovered, showing woman painting a goblin-like bearded figure intended as Titian, above group of ... More
Blowing up the Pic Nic's;--or--Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppet...
"Sheridan leads the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society, who are performing on a small, elegant stage, rising (without orchestra) from the boards in the foreground where thes... More
Fashion before ease;--or,--a good constitution sacrificed for a fantas...
Cartoon showing Britannia clasping trunk of a large oak, while Thomas Paine tugs with both hands at her stay laces, his foot on her posterior. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscri... More
Britain's Rights maintained; or French ambitions dismantled. Addrest t...
"Britannia, standing upright, holding the staff and Cap of Liberty, addresses "Mars" and "Neptune" as the representatives of Britons..." (Source: Stephens) This record contains unverified data from Stephens. Ca... More
Philip Dawe - The enraged macaroni / Phil. Dawe invt. et fecit.
Woman fish vendor holding fish in face of dandy who is pulling knife from sheath, as another woman, in window behind him, cuts his hair. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congerss).... More
The royal hunt, or a prospect of the year 1782 / South Briton fecit ; ...
Print shows Lord Sandwich playing a fiddle, sitting between two courtesans, to the left, Lord North yawns while sitting on a sack, behind them are Rigby, Amherst, and Germain. To the right of this party is stan... More
The only booth in the fair - Portland & Co., late Shelburne / I. Boyne...
Print shows a country fair amusement with Charles James Fox, on a raised platform, wearing a dunce or liberty cap labeled "Vox Populi" receiving bribes from Lord North, to the right, on the platform, Lord Shelb... More
Integrity retiring from Office! / Js. Gillray, invt & ft., British Car...
A group of resigning ministers, led by Pitt who holds a document entitled "Justice of Emancipating ye Catholicks", leaving through an arched gateway inscribed "Treasury." Following Pitt are Dundas, Grenville, S... More
The spirit moving the Quakers upon worldly vanities!! / Yedis, invt., ...
"Many quakers ride velocipedes, see No. 13399, towards a plain building, with Society of Friends Meeting House over the door..." (Source: George) Library of Congress copy is hand-colored. British Museum record... More
The closet / Bute invt. ; Germaine ext. ; Mansfield sculpt., British C...
Print shows in vignette, top right, George III in his secret chamber, "the closet", with Lord Bute, to whom the Devil whispers, Lord Germain, and Lord Mansfield; on the bottom right, a man holds a pistol to his... More
The hand-writing upon the wall / Js. Gillray invt. & ft., British Cart...
Napoleon, Josephine, French soldiers and women seated at feast with dishes "Bank of England," "St. James," "Tower of London," and "Roast Beef of old England." Napoleon looks in horror at hand of Jehovah pointin... More
The strollers progress plte 1st. A peep at Black Jack's origin previou...
Scene in a poverty-stricken room, in which John Philip Kemble's father, Roger, as a barber, dresses a wig, while he (John) talks to his mother; Sarah, Stephen, Charles, and a younger sister are variously occupi... More
The funeral procession of the rump / G. Cruikshank invt. et fect., Bri...
A satire on the defeat of Hobhouse by Lamb at the Westminster Election. The Rump, or remnant of Reformers, is represented by the hind-quarters of a cart-horse, with its hoofs in the air, carried on a knacker's ... More
The Shell--born Jess-t / Ignatius Loyola invt. ; K., British Cartoon P...
Print shows the Earl of Shelburne, full-length portrait, left profile, as a Jesuit. Title, handwritten in ink, from item. Caption: He wou'd & he wou'd not &c. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Mus... More
The theatrical bubble;--being a new specimen of the astonishing powers...
"Sheridan, as Punch, grotesquely caricatured, stands on a platform, above the heads of a cheering crowd, blowing soap-bubbles..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of ... More
The Cato: of 1757. (No. 1) / L da Vinci, invt. et sculp., British Cart...
"Mr. Fox, seated at his desk, meditates on a halter and a deed of "Revrsion--I--d of 2000£. pr An. for me & Mine"..." (Source: Stephens) Imprint from item. This record contains unverified data from Stephens, wi... More
The retort - an hieroglyphic epistle from the Revd. Dr. [Whitefield] t...
A satirical letter, rendered in rebus form, supposedly from Evangelical Methodist minister Dr. George Whitefield to playwright Samuel Foote. In his 1760 play, "The Minor", Foote mimicked Dr. Whitefield, causing... More