A smoking club, James Gillray - Engraving, Public domain image
Pitt and Dundas, Fox and Sheridan face each other across a long narrow table, smoking long pipes and puffing clouds of smoke in each other's faces. The gallery of the House of Commons is indicated in the backgr... More
Search night - or - state watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirato...
The interior of a bare, poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof. Pitt and Dundas, as watchmen, batter down the upper timbers of a door (right) which has been strongly bolted, locked, and barricaded. Both hav... More
Alecto and her train at the gate of Pandoemonium - or - the recruiting...
Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holdi... More
James Gillray - Sin, Death and the Devil.
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Political Ravishment; or The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in danger...
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Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793
Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleev... More
The ministers a- : Vide Gazetteer Nov'r 11
A lady on horseback rides between Pitt and Wilberforce mounted on asses. The ass (left) on the lady's right is galloping, its rider (Wilberforce) waves his hat triumphantly towards Pitt whose ass refuses to mov... More
The Hanoverian horse and British lion : A scene in a new play lately a...
The faithful Commons are still suffering from the aggressive tendencies of the White Horse of Hanover, which is trampling on 'Magna Carta,' 'Bill of Rights' and 'Constitution' kicking, rearing, and driving the ... More
Secret influence directing the new P_L_T, Thomas Rowlandson
King George III. is complacently seated on his throne; once more reassured on the subject of his Parliament, he is remarking, with self-congratulation, 'I trust we have got such a Parliament as we wanted.' Secr... More
A sphere, projecting against a plane, James Gillray
Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt'... More
Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793
Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleev... More
Presentation of the Mahometan Credentials, or the final resource of Fr...
The King and Queen, seated on the throne (left), receive with astonished horror a deputation from Turkey. An arrogant Turk stands proffering a large rolled document with pendent seals on which are crescents. Be... More
Patriotic Regeneration, – viz. – Parliament Reform’d, a la Francoise, ...
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The British butcher supplying John Bull with a substitute for bread
Pitt (right), as a butcher, stands arrogantly behind his block, holding up a leg of mutton to a hungry, lean, and dismayed John Bull, who stands with bent knees (left), his right hand groping in his breeches po... More
Presages of the millenium, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray
Pitt as Death on the pale Horse rides naked on the White Horse of Hanover, galloping over the prostrate bodies of pigs. Other pigs, a multitude extending to the horizon, flee before him. On the horse's fringed ... More
Patriotic regeneration, viz. parliament reform'd, a la francoise, that...
The interior of the House of Commons. The Speaker's chair and the table are in the foreground on the extreme left. Only the Opposition benches are visible and are crowded with English sansculottes wearing bonne... More
Opening of the budget - or - John Bull giving his breeches to save his...
Pitt (right) stands stiffly in profile to the left, holding open a large sack-like wallet. He addresses John Bull, the central figure, a stout yokel, who holds out his breeches in his left hand to Pitt, while h... More
The giant-factotum amusing himself, James Gillray
Pitt arrogantly bestrides the Speaker's chair, towering high above the galleries of the House. He plays cup (or rather spike) and ball with the globe, on which 'France' is disproportionately large, the British ... More
The tables turnd. Billy in the Devils claws. Billy sendindng the Devil...
A design in two compartments. [left] Billy, in the Devil's claws: Fox as the Devil (left) grasps the thin and terrified Pitt round the waist, pointing with his left arm to a serried rank of French soldiers, lan... More
Bank-notes - paper-money - French-alarmists, o the devil, the devil! a...
Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with whic... More
The Daily Advertiser, James Gillray
Fox (right), a news-boy, ragged and unshaven, stands in profile to the left, his right hand on the knocker of the gate of the 'Treasury.' He wears a bonnet-rouge on the front of which is a tricolour placard (li... More
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James Gillray - MIDAS, Transmuting all into Gold [Gold crossed out] PA...
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La bonnet-rouge - or - John Bull evading the tax hat
John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is a yokel with wrinkled gaiters, with a tattered ... More
The Daily Advertiser, James Gillray
Fox (right), a news-boy, ragged and unshaven, stands in profile to the left, his right hand on the knocker of the gate of the 'Treasury.' He wears a bonnet-rouge on the front of which is a tricolour placard (li... More
Two pair of portraits - presented to all the unbiassed electors of Gre...
Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length portraits of Fox (Left) and Pitt (right). He holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulde... More
Integrity retiring from office, James Gillray
The resigning Ministers issue from the arched gateway of the Treasury, led by Pitt (right) who, with an oratorical gesture, holds out a document. Behind him is Dundas (Secretary of State for War), holding Pitt'... More
The reconciliation, James Gillray
The King steps forward to embrace the Prince of Wales, who throws himself into his father's arms. George III wears court dress, the Prince's dress is tattered and disheveled, his pocket hangs inside out, the ga... More
Political candour, i.e. coalition resolutions of June 14th, 1805, Jame...
Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons; a large section of the crowded Opposition benches is shown (r.). Pitt sits alone on the Treasury Bench, his profile only appearing on the extreme left. The rest of th... More
Political candour, i.e. coalition resolutions of June 14th, 1805, Jame...
Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons; a large section of the crowded Opposition benches is shown (r.). Pitt sits alone on the Treasury Bench, his profile only appearing on the extreme left. The rest of th... More
Uncorking old sherry, James Gillray
Pitt stands in the House of Commons, facing the opposition benches. He causes a tremendous explosion by uncorking a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan, whose hair swirls up into the nec... More
Uncorking old sherry, James Gillray
Pitt stands in the House of Commons, facing the opposition benches. He causes a tremendous explosion by uncorking a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan, whose hair swirls up into the nec... More
Pacific overtures - or - a flight from St Cloud's "Over the Water to C...
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 (l.) and confronts... More
Pacific overtures - or - a flight from St Cloud's "Over the Water to C...
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 (l.) and confronts... More
Presages of the Millenium ; with the Destruction of the Faithful.
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Letter from Aurelius D. Parker, Boston, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 20th ...
Aurelius D. Parker writes to Amos A. Phelps to provide a list of references supporting the suggestion he previously made to Phelps that Wilberforce and Pitt “were decidedly opposed to ‘immediate emancipation.’”... More
James Gillray - The Plumb-pudding in danger
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James Gillray - Uncorking Old Sherry
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Presentation of the Mahometan Credentials, or the final resource of Fr...
The King and Queen, seated on the throne (left), receive with astonished horror a deputation from Turkey. An arrogant Turk stands proffering a large rolled document with pendent seals on which are crescents. Be... More
Letter from Aurelius D. Parker, Boston, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 20th ...
Aurelius D. Parker writes to Amos A. Phelps to provide a list of references supporting the suggestion he previously made to Phelps that Wilberforce and Pitt “were decidedly opposed to ‘immediate emancipation.’”... More
Letter from Aurelius D. Parker, Boston, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 20th ...
Aurelius D. Parker writes to Amos A. Phelps to provide a list of references supporting the suggestion he previously made to Phelps that Wilberforce and Pitt “were decidedly opposed to ‘immediate emancipation.’”... More
Letter from Aurelius D. Parker, Boston, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 20th ...
Aurelius D. Parker writes to Amos A. Phelps to provide a list of references supporting the suggestion he previously made to Phelps that Wilberforce and Pitt “were decidedly opposed to ‘immediate emancipation.’”... More