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A series of caricatures by various artists. Originally pasted into a bound volume but removed during conservation work.

Scope and Contents Caricature by Isaac Cruikshank. Engraving (coloured impression). On the extreme right the royal coach is passing, the King is seen through the window in profile to the right. A ragged man with the head of Burke, bald and aged, stands with a hatful of stones about to hurl one at the King. He is restrained by a burly Bow Street officer with a long constable’s staff who grasps his rugged shirt. A young man plainly dressed but resembling the Prince of Wales, seizes him firmly by the right arm. A...

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A satire on debate on repeal of Test Act and French Revolution. An etching featuring the figures of Priestley, Price, Lindsey in pulpit. Below, Fox, Hoghton, Margaret Nicholson, Rees, a clerk, Kippis, Stanhope. Further below, B/Llandaff, Paine, a soldier, and others. With a hand-written list giving names of personalities and other points of interest within the print. Description from the Royal Collection Trust.

Scope and Contents Dissenters are engaged in burning churches and attacking the clergy. In the foreground a stout bishop on his knees is being kicked and assailed by men with bludgeons; beside him is a book: 'Refutation of Dr Price'. He exclaims, raising his hands, "Murder, fire, thieves". One of his assailants says, "Make room for the Apostle of Liberty"; the other, "God assisting us nothing is to be feared". Under this group is inscribed: 'And when they had smote the Shepherd, the Sheep were scattered'....

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Artist unknown.

Scope and Contents Created by Isaac Cruikshank. Engraving (coloured impression). A stout alderman is seated in a two-wheeled farm cart, embracing an enormous pig which sits on a livery gown. The Cart is drawn by five men and pushed behind by two others. The foremost, 'Rim-n', carries a banner on which is a fat pig inscribed, 'Corperation Hog Admitance 6d Each Painted by R-m-ngt-n'. He says, "The greatest likness [sic] possible all my own". He wears no coat, an apron, and ragged breeches. The next is 'Par-r',...

Scope and Contents Created by James Gillray. Acquaint (coloured impression). A bull, chained, muzzled and blindfolded, his horns tipped but snorting fire, is baited by dogs urged on by Pitt who runs forward (right), holding heavy chains labelled 'New Excise Fetters for John Bull'. Pitt points at the bull, shouting, "At him! at him! Tally-ho, ho, ho". From his pocket hangs a paper inscribed 'New Excises intended upon Cyder, Flour, Hardware, Linnens, Woolens, Coals, Butchers Bakers Cheese-mo[ngers] Fish, Water'....

Scope and Contents Anonymous artist. Published by S.W. Fores. Engraving. A duel in which the combatants almost touch one another: on the left, one aims his pistol, the other is about to use the butt of his pistol as a club. One second stands behind and between the duellists; he wears a round hat, long coat, and top-boots. The other, in regimentals, with a large cocked hat and spurred boots, stands disconsolately (right), his hand on the hilt of his sword not looking at the principals. Behind is a low wooden...

Scope and Contents Created by Isaac Cruikshank. Engraving. A Spanish don lies on the ground, guineas pouring from his pocket; he clutches his head, saying to an English sailor, who stands on the right looking down at him "Yow be very uncivil Mr Bowling I make a fine Bow & not intend yow & yow knock me Down with your D—d Head". The sailor, who also clutches his forehead, has a bludgeon in his left hand; he answers: "D—n your paper Sconce who taught yow to bow to a Gemman yow blubber yow I’ll tip you the...

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Artist unknown. Published in London.

Scope and Contents Created by Frederick George Byron. Published by William Holland. Engraving (coloured impression). Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armour and mounted on an ass, rides out of the door to Dodsley’s shop. He wears a Jesuit biretta, much enlarged to resemble the hat of a (Prussian) Death’s Head Hussar, and decorated with skull and crossbones. On its top is seated an owl. Round his neck is suspended a medallion profile portrait of Marie Antoinette. He carries a long spear and an oval shield, divided...

Scope and Contents Created by H. Woodward. Published by William Holland. The scene depicts a small wooden boat (foreground facing left) in which two gentlemen are seated. Henry Dundas (right) is caricatured wearing a waistcoat, jacket and (sea otter fur hat, with both hands on the tiller of the boat. His jacket pocket is stuffed to overflowing with small fish. He looks at his partner, William Pitt, caricatured as facing the prow (left) of the boat over which he is fishing with a pole and line, held between...

Scope and Contents Created by William Dent. Published by James Aitken. Engraving (coloured impression). Philip Thicknesse stands full face, a rope round his neck, nude except for short breeches. He frowns, his eyes looking to the right as in Gillray’s portrait. His body is covered with defamatory inscriptions. His chest is cut open vertically to reveal ribs and organs, similarly inscribed. In his right hand is a pen, in his left are three papers inscribed: 'Paragraph, Pamphlets, Letters', all characterised as...

Scope and Contents Created by Isaac Cruikshank. Published by S. W. Fores. A design in two compartments. [1] A well-dressed man, in profile to the right, grasps a woman's right arm, while he cuts, and has cut, her dress in several places, the slits being stained with blood. She holds a large muff. Behind is a street door (in Pall Mall) inscribed 'Angersteein'; on the side of the house and in the extreme upper left corner of the design is a bill: 'Monster A Reward \ 100 ...' Beneath the title is etched: 'This...

Scope and Contents Created by Isaac Cruikshank. A much overloaded stage-coach is driven left to right; the horses are galloping, on each is an amateur postillion. On the roof is a monstrous pile of trunks and packing-cases, some inscribed 'White Lead', 'Candles', 'Glass', 'Soap', with a barrel of 'Porter' on the top. Four persons are seated on the roof behind the box; one says "I suppoze bye & bye the Passengers will all ride on the outside & the Luggage within". The driver is a slim undergraduate in...

Scope and Contents Anonymous artist. Published by William Holland. A bishop leans back exhausted in an armchair (right). The lawn sleeve on his left arm has been rolled up, blood spouts from a puncture on to the floor and pours from a broken bowl lying on the ground. The doctor turn his back on his patient and hastens towards a door (left) through which looks a groom holding a horse. The groom says, "Docter Docter, my masters horse has got the spavin." The doctor, grinning with pleasure, says: "Who does he...

Scope and Contents Anonymous artist. Published by W. Holland. A bishop (Durham) sits in an armchair (left). Three doctors stand in a row beside him, turning to a fourth, who stands on the right on a low three-legged stool, wearing spurred top-boots and holding a riding-whip. A medicine bottle, etc, protrudes from his pocket. The three doctors say, "Well, Doctor, do you think it is in your power to make a cure?" The fourth answers, "If yo'll cure the Bishop of another disorder that he's gotten, I con cure him o...

Scope and Contents Anonymous artist. Published by W. Holland. Five men stand in a row behind a large horse-trough; they have been bled, and the blood gushes into the trough, on which they lean in an exhausted manner. The doctor (left) is actually bleeding the man on the left, but he turns his head away from his patient, in profile to the left, to say "Saddle my horse you rascal! Rabbit it I'll be too late for the hunt! Where are all your bandages, you rapscallions? I'll not stop to stick another this morning,...

Scope and Contents Created by Isaac Cruikshank. Published by S. W. Fores. A fracas in Hendon churchyard between two parsons during a burial. The coffin lies by the side of the grave; one of the combatants steps on it and smites his antagonist with his book. A gravedigger looks on delightedly. A crowd of mourners fills the right part of the design; one, a woman, has fallen into the open grave in the foreground. An undertaker's man pushes back the crowd of mourners with a pole (draped in black), saying, "Stand...

Scope and Contents Anonymous artist. Published by W. Holland. Queen Charlotte (left) seated in an armchair in profile to the right, avidly holds out a coral and bells with an insinuating air to a stout and mature woman dressed as a child, who holds a similar but larger toy to which are attached a number of money-bags (each inscribed '20.000') in place of bells. The fat Mrs. Schwellenberg leans over the back of the Queen's chair, looking at the 'child' with a greedy stare. The Queen says, "Bless me, dear...