Scope and Contents By James Gillray. A design in two compartments. [1] '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, landed from the boats of French men-of-war and marching up the steep coast. He is a grotesque hairy creature, short and heavy, with webbed wings attached to his ragged coat, a barbed tail and talons, and wearing a bonnet-rouge. He says, turning a glaring eye-ball on Pitt:...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. 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 the yokel with wrinkled gaiters but a tattered great-coat is held together by a military belt. In his left hand is a ragged hat. He says, with a broad grin: "Wounds, when Master Billy sees I in a Red-Cap, how he will stare! - egad; I thinks I shall cook em at last. - well if I could but once get a Cockade to my...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. The Duke of Clarence drags his three children (left to right) in a go-cart. His waistcoat is open, a handkerchief under his hat drapes his head, perspiration pours from his forehead. The boy, an infant replica of his father, holds a pair of reins which are attached to the duke's pocket, and flourishes a whip. Beside him are a little girl hugging a dog, which hides her face except for the eyes, and a crying infant whose features, though infantine, are those of her father....

Scope and Contents By Richard Newton. The Hereditary Prince of Würtemberg, enormously corpulent, advances in profile to the left towards the Princess Royal, his stomach supported on the bent back of a black servant in livery, saying, "I was come from Yarmony to love you dearly, and was take you to Yarmony to love me." The Princess (left), stout but comely, regards him appraisingly, saying, "Lord what a Porpoise Pho!!!" The servant, with clenched fists and contorted face, shouts: "Oh Lord oh lord my Neck will...

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By James Gillray. A whole length portrait of the corpulent Prince Frederick William Charles of Wurtemberg, standing 'chapeau-bras' in profile to the right, wearing a ribbon; his right hand on his waistcoat, his left on the hilt of his sword. He has a very heavy double chin, thick lips, staring eye, high narrow head, and an expression of good-natured surprise. Beneath: 'Sketch'd at Wirtemberg.' Description from the British Library.

Scope and Contents By Isaak Cruikshank. Salisbury (left) stands within the door, through which a bed is visible. A cupid asleep (left) on a barrel of 'Hollands' has the profile of the Stadholder. The King drops candle-grease as he turns to the grinning Queen, who carries a basin of 'Cock Broth', from which looks the head of a cock. Pitt staggers under his sack of '£80,000'. The Prince and Princess walk hand in hand, looking at each other; he wears many more orders and his legs are encircled with numerous...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Lady Buckinghamshire, enormously stout, leans back terrified in an arm-chair (left); an almost equally fat dentist (? Brewer) stands over her, holding her chin, an instrument in his right hand. He says: "Open your mouth wide & I'll pluck un out for your Ladyship in half the time the Frenchman would be talking about un". Her left arm and left leg are raised, so that her foot is on a level with her chin; she screams: "Stop, give me fair play Surely you do not take me...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Captain Morris (left) sits in profile to the right, singing from a broadside which he holds out in his left hand: 'A new Song to the Tune of the Plenipoy'. In his right hand is a full glass. He wears a round hat and fashionable half-boots; his coat, breeches, and stockings are tattered. From his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Captain Morris's Songs by Subscription'. Fox and Sheridan sit on opposite sides of a small round table, on which is a decanter of 'Brandy'. Sheridan,...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Captain Morris (left) sits in profile to the right, singing from a broadside which he holds out in his left hand: 'A new Song to the Tune of the Plenipoy'. In his right hand is a full glass. He wears a round hat and fashionable half-boots; his coat, breeches, and stockings are tattered. From his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Captain Morris's Songs by Subscription'. Fox and Sheridan sit on opposite sides of a small round table, on which is a decanter of 'Brandy'. Sheridan,...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. An officer (left) on a charger, evidently General Davies, directed to the right, takes the salute from three officers who march (right to left) past him. The first, sabre in hand, point downwards, holds his left hand across the front of his high cocked hat. A young officer follows, carrying a standard of the Union flag with the White Horse of Hanover and a crown. The third marches with almost closed eyes and sword held point upwards. A crowd of amused spectators backed by a...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. George III walks in back view with an awkward shuffle, his head turned in profile to the left to greet a tall general who bows. On the right another officer waits, hat in hand, for recognition. They are Lord Cathcart (1755-1843), then major-general, and General David Dundas (under whom Cathcart had served in Holland in 1794-5). Above the King's head is a scroll: 'Medio tutissimus ibis'. A semicircle of loyal and provincial subjects, chiefly ladies, stretches across the...

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John Bull (left), a stout, plainly dressed man, his hair rising on his head, stands full-face, gaping terrified at Pitt, who removes his watch from his breeches pocket. Pitt bends forward in profile to the left, his right hand on John's shoulder, saying: "Don't be alarmed, Johnny, I only want to see whether it is Gold or Silver - you know there is a great deal of difference between Half a Crown and Ten Shillings." Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Pitt, as a peep-show man, stands by his box, which is supported on trestles. John Bull (left), a simple yokel, stoops in profile to the right to gape through the hole. Pitt, who with his right hand pulls a string which issues from the box, bends over John Bull and takes a bag labelled 'Savings' from his coat-pocket. A large trumpet is slung across his shoulders, to which is attached a fringed banner decorated with the royal arms. His box has a pagoda-like roof surmounted by a crown under a...

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Hand-coloured etching by Richard Newton. Published by Richard Newton.

Scope and Contents By Richard Newton. Pitt and Dundas as king and queen sit side by side on an ornate settee, 'The Throne'. Pitt (right), grotesquely thin, wears a large crown and holds a sceptre erect; his left hand is on his hip, his knees are widely extended, and his right foot rests on a foot-stool. He turns his head in profile to smile at Dundas, who gazes back at him, his left arm over Pitt's shoulder. The bulky Dundas takes up the greater part of the seat, but his knees are squeezed to the left to make...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Dutchmen (three-quarter length) sit on both sides of a narrow council table, on one end of which sits, full-face, a Dutchman in a chair of state. He smokes a pipe, wears a hat, and an ermine-trimmed robe over his clumsy jacket and breeches. A post-boy, whip in hand, stands by the table (left) holding out a scroll: 'Account of the Total Defeat of the Dutch Fleet.' The news is received with expressions of rage and horror. The president, whose words issue in a cloud of...

Scope and Contents Pitt runs angrily forward from a doorway on the left, holding out a birch-rod in his left hand towards a procession of trembling truants, each with a bag of books. Fox is their leader, a handkerchief held in front of a wary and apprehensive eye; Sheridan follows him; both are in tatters. Grey, next, is in slightly better case; beside him trots the diminutive M. A. Taylor, covering his face with his hand; at his feet are a hen and chickens. Last comes Erskine, a handkerchief to his eye. All...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Pitt (left) and Fox (right), as pigs, but each with his own head, sit on two chairs almost back to back; each looks over his shoulder at the other. Pitt, alert and complacent, his powdered hair dressed high and with his queue in a bag, says "Poor Piggy". Fox, swarthy and unkempt, answers: "You be Damd". Below Pitt: 'A Guinea Pig'; below Fox: 'A Pig without a Guinea.' In the background are other pigs on a small scale and without human heads, some wearing powdered wigs,...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Tierney (not caricatured) stands directed to the right, with left hand raised in reproof to the knife-grinder (right), who pushes his barrow with a shuffling gait. The latter's hat, coat, and breeches are torn and he has a fixed, insinuating grin. Behind him is the door of an alehouse, the sign of the Chequers hanging from a beam inscribed 'Best Brown Stout'. On the lintel is 'Dealer in Brandy Rum & Gin'. Tierney has short hair, wears a round hat, double-breasted coat,...

Scope and Contents By J. C. Zeigler, formally attributed to Richard Newton. John Bull (right) stands in profile to the left, gaping in terror at four little demons, grotesque, naked, and senile, who approach him with calculating and complacent grins. His knees bend, his hands are thrust in his coat pockets; he says: "What do you want you little Devils - an't I plagued with enough of you already more pick poket Work, I suppose!!" Their leader stands forward with a mock deprecatory gesture; the next demon holds...