Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Pitt as, a Roman charioteer, wearing a laurel wreath, is seated in an ornate chariot drawn (left to right) by the British Lion and the White Horse of Hanover. He holds the reins, but scarcely controls the galloping pair. One foot rests on a shield bearing a fanged serpent, and wreathed with serpents, inscribed: 'Exit Python Republicanus'. Behind him is a book decorated with a lyre inscribed 'Magna Charta'. Ornate projections from the back of...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. John Bull stands four-square, enormously fat but pressed down under a heavy load of planks or blocks which rests on his head, and which he supports with both hands, looking gloomily at the ground. He says: "If they squeeze much more I shall Burst." The word 'Tax' is repeated on his person, on his coat (twice), on his bursting waistcoat, on his shirt, on his breeches (three times), and on each fat leg. The three top buttons of his coat are...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Letters on the design refer to an 'Explanation' etched below the title. A scene on the stage of a theatre symbolizes Westminster Hall. In the foreground a large cauldron is sinking through a rectangular opening in the floor. It is inscribed 'A. \ Exit in Fumo', explained as 'The Managers Cauldron'. From it rises a dense mass of dark smoke which divides into two curving branches, one on each side of a brightly irradiated bust of Hastings. The...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Pitt and Dundas are tipsily carousing at a rectangular table from which the cloth has been removed. Pitt, wearing spurred top-boots, sits on the corner of the table in profile to the left, his chair behind him at the head of the table. Dundas (left), wearing a plaid across his shoulders, sits full-face, turning his head in profile to the right, and waving a tobacco-pipe towards Pitt. They touch glasses, each holding his glass in the left...

Scope and Contents Artist: William Hanlon. Published: S. W. Fores. George III, wearing a cocked hat and holding up a large sabre, marches in profile to the left at the head of a body of maimed, decrepit, and ragged soldiers. First is a group of four, three with muskets, one hobbling on crutches. Then a one-armed officer holding up a sword, followed by three soldiers marching together. All the soldiers are thin, in contrast to the King. Below the design: 'See! See! the Conquering Hero comes!!!'. Description...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. 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 saddle-cloth is a crown. Pitt is very emaciated, his flaming hair streams behind him encircled by a fillet inscribed 'Destruction'. In his right hand is a large flaming sword; in his left he holds the thread-like body of a scaly...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book inscribed: 'Fundamental Principles of Government for 1795', at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, his left hand in his breeches pocket. On the chimney-piece lie two books: 'Court Cookery' and 'Locke on Human Understanding'. Hanging above it is a 'Map of British Victories on...

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Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Design in an oval. Half length portrait, scarcely caricatured, of a woman in profile to the right, smiling. She has a long nose and projecting chin, and wears a muslin cap, her hair hangs down her back with the ends looped beneath its heavy mass. Her neck is much swathed and she wears a fichu over her dress. Description from the British Museum.

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Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Design in an oval. A whole length caricature-portrait of Prince William Frederick of Gloucester in profile to the right wearing military uniform. He is very thin, elongated, and knock-kneed, and stands with his right hand in his breeches pocket. His profile resembles that of his uncle, George III. A proof on India paper. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A creature with the head of Sir Joseph Banks, a body defined by the ribbon of the Bath and roughly in the form of a chrysalis, and with the wings of a butterfly, rises (right) from a mud flat surrounded by sea. His head and body are decorated with trails of leaves; on his wings are sea-creatures: a shell, lobster, starfish, &c, and an (empty) cornucopia. He wears the jewel of the Bath with three insects (in place of crowns) in the...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Three blue-coat boys, wearing long blue gowns with yellow stockings, stand in the foreground holding out collecting-bowls ; they look through a doorway into the House of Commons whose benches recede in perspective, the Speaker (Addington) being in his chair. They are the Prince of Wales (right), the Duke of York (left), and the Duke of Clarence (centre) whose bowl is an emblem of Mrs. Jordan. They diminish in height in order of age, and are...

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Published: S. W. Fores. A very fat and prosperous butcher seated on his block beside his stall looks up at a lean and ragged man (right) who stands facing him, his hands in his pockets. An over-fat dog also looks up inquiringly. The butcher asks: "What d'ye want? What d'ye buy?" The answer: "What do I want - efacks I want everything!" Behind (left) a carcase hangs head downwards. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Published: S. W. Fores. The interior of a barber's shop. Fox, with a bald head, stands looking towards the barber (left), who holds up a plain wig with a single curl at the back, saying: "No fit you Zir, perhaps you got de Paine in you Head, make you tink so, dis Vigg vill fit any Loyal subject give but an Eye to it sir as I hold it -" Behind him, looking through the door and on the extreme right, is Burke wearing a neat wig. Fox is out at elbows and wears an apron. A dog tugs at his shoe....

Scope and Contents Published: J. Herbert. From the 'Ode ['ut supra'] . . ., by Peregrine Pindar'. James Lackington climbs into a coach, looking over his right shoulder at a group of jeering bystanders (right). His right foot rests on a pile of three large books: 'Bible', 'Tillotson', 'Common Prayer'. Under his right arm is a large volume, 'My Own Memoirs'. From his pocket protrudes a paper: 'Puffs & Lies for my Book'. On the coach are the letters 'J L'. The coachman, on the extreme left, looks down at his...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A design in two compartments; between the two titles is etched: ['Fatal Effects of the French Defeat']. On the left Fox hangs himself in a ramshackle garret. His neck is in a noose which hangs from a beam, his right foot rests on a low stool, his left hand holds the rope. He leans back with an expression of terror, dropping an 'Account of the Republican Overthrow'. On the wall (left) is a half length portrait of 'Pichegru' holding a sabre....

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheelers being visible on the extreme right. These are trampling on Britannia who lies prostrate, her shield and broken spear beneath her. Four footmen in striped liveries stand behind, one holding the...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. The King sits in his glass coach which is driven left and right and diagonally away from the spectator. He points with surprise at a hole in the glass formed by the impact of a blast from the posteriors of Fox, who is in a window to the right Stanhope leans on Fox's back directing the blast; within the window, but in shadow, is (?) Grey. Stones fly through the air and a dead cat lies on the roof of the coach, which is surrounded by an angry...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank (after: George Moutard Woodward.) Published: S. W. Fores. A design in two compartments. On the left a well-dressed man staggers back in horror as he regards his queue of hair which he holds in his right hand. His hair has been roughly cropped at the back of the neck. He says: "Tis gone, - and like the baseless fabric of a Vision, - left not a wreck behind." Behind him is a table on which are a decanter and glass. On the right a plainly dressed farmer's wife gazes...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Pitt and Fox, much caricatured and with large heads, sit back to back. Pitt (left) sits in profile to the left on a chamber-pot ornamented with a crown, his hand held out deprecatingly. He says: "I wish from my heart these cursed field meetings were put a stop to". From his pocket protrudes the 'Convention Bill'. Fox (right) sits on a low chair directed to the right, his arms folded, scowling over his shoulder towards Pitt. He says: "If that...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Pitt (left), as a toreador, rides a rearing white horse (of Hanover) with a spear directed horizontally against a buil (John Bull) snorting fire and bleeding from many wounds. He wears a short tunic and sash; his saddle-cloth is a leopard-skin on which is a crest: the white horse of Hanover enclosed in a Garter ribbon inscribed 'Honi soit qui mal y pense', and surmounted by a crown. He looks alarmed and spurs his horse viciously. Two tiers...