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Coloured print. By James Gillray. Major-General Lord Cathcart stands stiffly in profile to the left. His features are blunt and ugly. He wears court dress with a military cast, heavily gold laced, and a long pigtail. His right hand rests on the head of a gold-headed cane. A figured carpet and bare wall complete the design. Description from the British Museum.

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Uncoloured print. By James Gillray. Major-General Lord Cathcart stands stiffly in profile to the left. His features are blunt and ugly. He wears court dress with a military cast, heavily gold laced, and a long pigtail. His right hand rests on the head of a gold-headed cane. A figured carpet and bare wall complete the design. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. The title continues: 'at the Anniversary Meeting on Octr 10th 1800. held at the Shakespeare Tavern.' Fox stands on a dais at the head of a rough table, the seat from which he has risen is magnificent, above it is the inscription 'Vive la Libertè' surmounted by a bonnet-rouge. He is held up (left) by Combe, the Lord Mayor, a pompous figure in gown and chain, and (right) by Erskine. The former holds a 'Petition to ye Throne; - or a new way to Combe the Ministers Wig'; the...

Scope and Contents Hand-coloured etching. By Isaac Cruikshank. The Lord Mayor sits (left) in profile to the right, looking towards his four guests and smoking an enormous pipe with a looped stem, the bowl inscribed 'A Present from Egupt'. Pitt sits haughtily in the centre, saying: "I'll smoke the Cits again with another Loan very soon. - Very fine Virginia my Lord!" On the right sit together Lady Hamilton in profile to the right, and Nelson, who watches her intently. She says: "Pho the old mans pipe is allways...

Scope and Contents Fox (left) and Sheridan (right) standing on the edge of the stage drag Hadfield, who holds out his pistol, by the shoulders across the spikes which divide the stage from the orchestra. Tierney stands (right) in profile to the left taking snuff. The background is formed of the curtain (right), through which peeps a face, and leafy scenery (left) from which an alarmed man advances. In the lower left corner is the music-book of one of the orchestra, open at 'God save the King'. May...

Scope and Contents By Thomas Rowlandson. Death, the central figure, chases monopolizers who are in headlong flight to the left, shadowed by heavy clouds. Behind him is a statue of Britannia holding spear and cornucopia, the lion beside her dominates the scene. Men and women dance round the pedestal in frantic joy. On the right, in full sunshine, two women and three naked infants rejoice over a loaf inscribed 'Quartern Loaf 8d'. In the background (right) is the shore on which are cattle and sacks, while a fleet...

Scope and Contents Four women, three scantily and immodestly clad, are grouped in a room. Boreas, a head emerging from clouds (left), puffs a blast at them. Below him sits the fourth, a fat woman whose upturned dress reveals a pair of drawers (resembling masculine breeches). On the wall is a large thermometer. Through a doorway (right) an elderly rake, wearing a hat and holding a large stick, leaves the room, following a woman who looks back alluringly. Over the door, much tilted, is a portrait (three-quarter...

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By Isaak Cruikshank. A coach with outriders and an elegant lady inside bespattered with mud. Description from the British Museum.

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By Robert Dighton. A half length portrait of Matthew Day standing in profile to the right. He is very obese, wears round hat, long coat, tasselled Hessian boots, and holds a cane in his gloved hand. Description from the British Museum.

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Artist: Robert Dighton. Published by Dighton, Charing Cross.

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A hand-coloured print of two fashionable and conceited people of taste who praise their own style and manner above all else. The lady wears a white dress, pink shawl and blue head-dress. The man wears a short green jacket, blue trousers, riding boots with spurs and curled toes and carries a cane under his left arm. Inscribed in the plate: 'Pubd. April 2nd. 1801. by R.Ackermann No 101 Strand. / Woodward Del. / Rowlandson Scul'. Description from Royal Collection Trust.

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Artist unknown. Inscribe in the plate: 'London: Pubd: May 26, 1801 at R. Ackermann's 101 Strand.'

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By Giles Grinagain. Social satire: a queue of impatient men and women outside a privy, suffering from the diuretic effects of the Cheltenham waters; they include a tourist saying "dese Shitten-ham Vaters are vey operatif". Description from the British Museum.

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After George Moutard Woodward. Caricature heads arranged in three rows, five in a row. All register alarm, despair, or melancholy resignation. Inscribed in plate: 'Pubd Jany 1: 1801 - by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly'. Description from the British Museum.

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Artist unknown. Inscribe in plate: 'London Published by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street ; January 1 1801'.

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Possibly by Isaac Cruikshank. Probably a reference to the Acts of Union 1800.

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Dundas (left) reads from a folio History of Scotland, while Pitt (right) joins the reluctant hands of Paddy (left) and John Bull (right). Dundas, who wears a Scots cap, plaid, and tartan stockings, with a flask protruding from his coat pocket, stands in profile to the right, saying, "I'll read ye a little aboot the same Business in my ain country - you will find how many made the siller frae that time to this - depend upon it Paddy ye will be much happier - and mair...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Pitt, in the open two-wheeled carriage for one person called a sulky, drives (right to left) two bulls tandem; the leader is branded 'I.B' (John Bull), the wheeler, who snorts and paws the ground, is 'PB'. John Bull plods along, saying, "This is cursed hard Work to get this Irish Brother of mine along. I dont much relish this close connection." Pitt, leaning forward, but not using his whip, says: "Whoo - hoo - Paddy gently my lad, dont be so refractory, cant you follow...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Pitt and Dundas on the shore of the Irish Channel encourage the flight of Irish M.P.s across the sea. Pitt holds open a large 'Imperial Pouch', from whose mouth hang ribbons and stars, and within which stand stiff little men in court dress, bedecked with orders, who say to the foremost flying man: "very snug and convenient Brother I assure you". Pitt says: "Come on my little Fellows - theres plenty of room for you all - the Budget is not half full". Behind and above him,...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Pitt drives the coach and four, the two wheelers only being within the design. On the door are the Royal Arms and 'The Union Coach'. The inside is crowded with 'Scotch Members'; five lean and hungry heads are seen through the narrow window. One, taking snuff, asks: "Hoot man is this the way to the Treasury". Another shouts to a crowd of Irish Members who (ignominiously) fill the basket at the back of the coach: "Why This is quit warm & Cosey canna ye haud yere...