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Created by Isaac Cruikshank. Published by S. W. Fores. A hideous foot and ankle in profile to the right. The toes are twisted, deformed, and covered with warts, the ankle and heel creased and ill-shaped. Hand-coloured etching. Description from the British Museum.

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R.N. del' [Richard Newton] London, Pub.d Decem, 10, 1791, by W. Holland No. 50 Oxford St.

Scope and Contents Created by James Gillray. Cornwallis, [It has been suggested that he is William Monson (1760-1807), then serving under Cornwallis, but as a captain in the 52nd he was not of sufficient note in England for caricature and Cornwallis's star removes all doubt of his identity. 'Monsoon' is not a pun] mounted on an ass, flees terror-stricken from a fortess (right) from behind the battlements of which the grinning Tipu Sultan, holding a sabre, urinates a devastating stream upon the fleeing British...

Scope and Contents Created by Isaac Cruikshank. Published by S. W. Fores. Tipu Sultan (left) gallops (right to left) past Cornwallis who is seated in an ornate chair on the back of an ill-drawn elephant. Tipu, rising in his stirrups, excretes a blast which displaces a boy-mahout on the elephant's neck and strikes Cornwallis. He says, "Now my Lord I'll Tip you the Swamps". The horse excretes a blast directed at the elephant's eye. The elephant, raising its trunk, says, "I wish I could run as fast as he how i...

Scope and Contents Created by Isaac Cruikshank. Published by S. W. Fores. A bedroom scene, the bed-curtains drawn aside to show a lady in bed (right), starting up in alarm, a lover in a nightshirt crawls under the bed. The husband (or ? the Duke of York), wearing a cocked hat and regimentals, stands (left), a closed door behind him, right arm extended, left hand on his heart, clutching his coat. He says "I'll be D--d for a Cocu if that long ram has not been Tuping my little Ewe An Infamous Trick on Nell...

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Created by James Gillray. Published by Hannah Humphrey. A burlesque of Fuseli's scene from Macbeth. Dundas, Pitt and Thurlow gaze at the moon (Queen Charlotte with George III in eclipse). This print is said to have first appeared during the King's illness which led to the Regency crisis of Feburary 1789. Dundas was Home Secretary; Pitt later got rid of Thurlow, the Lord Chancellor, form the Cabinet. Description from the National Portrait Gallery.

Scope and Contents Created by William Heath. A levee: the Duke of York ushers various notabilities towards his bride, that they may kiss her. The short Duchess stands (right) under a canopy and on a dais, on a circular stool which shows her tiny feet. She is about to kiss the Prince of Wales who towers above her. The Duke of Clarence stands on the extreme right behind the Duchess, scratching his head with a perplexed air, and saying, "It's odd these Lubbers wont pay this respect to their own Countrywomen, my...

Scope and Contents Created by Isaac Cruikshank. Published by S. W. Fores. Burke as Don Quixote with a Jesuit's biretta, stands on the back of a monster with five heads (four wearing coronets) on long necks. The monster, which resembles the traditional Beast of Rome, except that it has only five heads, tramples on four prostrate bodies inscribed 'base born Plebeians'. Burke stands in profile to the right, using his open book, 'Refletions [sic] on the Revolution', as a shield; in his right hand is a long sword....