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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 Artist: James Gillray. Published: James Gillray. After the title: 'Vide. The Diplomatique's late Journey through Paris.' Count Starhemberg (left), Austrian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to England, drives in a post-chaise drawn by two galloping horses past the gate of the Tuileries (right), where Napoleon stands, with straddling legs and outstretched arms, small, angry, and impotent, shouting, "Ha, diable! - va't 'en! Impertinent! - va't 'en! - is dere von Man on Earth who...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Britannia (right), fat, good-natured, and richly dressed, holding a fan, is kissed by a tall lean French military officer who bends forward, holding her below the shoulders. He is war-worn, his pigtail stands awkwardly erect and his hair straggles over his face, while the crown of his head is almost bald, as if plucked. He wears jackboots ; his hat and sword lie on the ground beside him. She is almost spherical; her shield and trident,...

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Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. John Bull, a fat 'cit', chucks under the chin a fat trollope, his arm round her shoulder. She looks mixed race, grinning broadly; her dress is ragged and fantastically patched. John's hat, gloves, and cane are on a table. Above the design: "Come! Come! no Grinning!! a bad Piece, is better than no Piece at all." Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: James Gillray. Design in an oval, placed on an oblong background representing a stone wall, and thus simulating the projection of a magic lantern. The figures, except Wilberforce, are light against a dark background. Addington, Hawkesbury, and Fox, as the three witches in Macbeth, cook their hell-broth in a cauldron. From this rises a cloud inscribed 'PEACE' which frames a skeleton (of Britannia). Its long hair shows that it is that of a woman; in one hand...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: James Gillray. Addington and Hawkesbury, in the gateway of the Treasury (inscribed 'Granary'), snare three bats with the heads of Grey, Sheridan, and Tierney. Addington kneels on one knee holding out a dark lantern and a hat with a tricolour cockade filled with papers inscribed 'Sinecure', 'Place', 'Annuity', 'Pension', 'Post'. Hawkesbury, standing behind him, holds out a net supported on two sticks in which to catch the creatures which fly, like harpies,...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: James Gillray. Addington and Hawkesbury, in the gateway of the Treasury (inscribed 'Granary'), snare three bats with the heads of Grey, Sheridan, and Tierney. Addington kneels on one knee holding out a dark lantern and a hat with a tricolour cockade filled with papers inscribed 'Sinecure', 'Place', 'Annuity', 'Pension', 'Post'. Hawkesbury, standing behind him, holds out a net supported on two sticks in which to catch the creatures which fly, like harpies,...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: James Gillray. Addington and Hawkesbury, in the gateway of the Treasury (inscribed 'Granary'), snare three bats with the heads of Grey, Sheridan, and Tierney. Addington kneels on one knee holding out a dark lantern and a hat with a tricolour cockade filled with papers inscribed 'Sinecure', 'Place', 'Annuity', 'Pension', 'Post'. Hawkesbury, standing behind him, holds out a net supported on two sticks in which to catch the creatures which fly, like harpies,...

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Published: Laurie and Whittle. Print by Unknown and Laurie & Whittle. Coloured line engraving.

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. After: George Moutard Woodward. Published: S. W. Fores. The gardeners, George III and Napoleon (right), stand on opposite sides of a stream, 'The Channel', in which floats a (sailor's) cudgel inscribed 'British Oak'. Each has a plant growing in a tub hooped with gold: Napoleon's is a drooping weed on which dangles a small imperial crown. Behind him are serried rows of 'Military Poppies' in pots; beside him (right) is a wheelbarrow filled with coins, in which he has...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Addington, chapeau-bras, squats in profile to the left over a cocked hat into which he evacuates papers: 'Guadeloupe', 'Martinique', 'St Domingo', 'Cape of Good Hope', 'Egypt', and (the last) 'Malta'. Napoleon (left), very small and thin, holds him by the cravat and threatens him with a sabre, saying, "All! - all! - you Jean F-t-e! - think yourself well off that I leave you Great Britain!!!" Addington, terrified, says: "Pray do not insist...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Britannia, terrified, faint, and dishevelled sits on the ground supported by Addington and Hawkesbury, and defended by Sheridan, a Silenus-like and ragged Harlequin. They are on the coast towards which are advancing many rowing-boats filled with little French soldiers. Napoleon stands with drawn sword in the foremost boat, a tiny figure with a large head and no body, to show that he is Nobody. The distant French coast (right) is covered with...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. No title. Ritson stands at a desk in profile to the Ieft, writing in a large book, both pages headed 'Common Place'. His finger- and toe-nails are talons; he dips his pen in an ink-stand inscribed 'Gall', and has written: 'Moses an Impostor the prophets old Cloaths Men of Judæa Warburton a fool Dr Percy a Liar Warton an infamous Liar a pipeer [Ritson adopted a system of spelling chiefly characterized by a duplication of the letter e....

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After: Temple West. Published by: S. W. Fores. Satire on doctors who have profited from the influenza epidemic of 1803: a figure representing influenza at a table covered in medicine bottles, accepts an address of thanks from doctors, including a celebrated Scottish accoucheur and one who received a present from Mr. Newbery for recommending his James' powders in the newspapers; behind doctors argue about, and credit themselves with, the best remedies. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. In a clumsy two-wheeled chaise drawn by a donkey (left to right) the Speaker sits holding a huge umbrella over himself and his mace-bearer, who sits on the box-seat driving, the mace against his shoulder. On the corner of a wall (left) is 'Parliament Street'. John Bull (right) stands facing the donkey; he says: "I like this Plan of Sheridan's much I wish it was carried on through Pall Mall [i.e. at Carlton House] as well as Parliament Street...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Judges and barristers, in wig and gown, travel (right to left) in a mail-coach along a country road. Two barristers (both with the black patch of a serjeant-at-law) sit on the box, a third on the roof, leaning against a hamper. The one next the fat coachman says: "I am a good whip Master Coachy let me convince you of my judgement in driveing." The driver answers: "You may depend upon it you do not touch either whip or reins, No No Master...

Scope and Contents Artist: Thomas Rowlandson. Published: Ackermann. Napoleon, wearing a laced cocked hat and large sword, stands, dictating terms to the trembling Addington, who is on the extreme right in wig and gown; he puts a forefinger on the palm of his hand to enforce his words, saying: "And so, - if you do so, I do so!" Addington, with flexed knees and distressed stare, exclaims "Oh! - Oh!!" At a little distance, and on the extreme left, John Bull, an ugly 'cit', hands on knees, gapes at the pair,...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Addington (right) bleeds John Bull, who sits on a commode, exhausted and faint, supported by Hawkesbury. Addington, very erect, wears his gown, and says: "Courage John Bull - Courage!!!" Hawkesbury, drooping and melancholy, repeats "Courage Johnny." John's arm is tightly bound above the incision by a tricolour bandage, a tricolour ribbon is tied round his tousled head. A diminutive Napoleon (right) with a martial stride and drawn sabre holds...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. After the title: 'vide Military Appearances, at St Stephens & at St Cloud's, on ye day of Defiance.' Addington and Napoleon face each other defiantly across a narrow channel. Addington, the nearer, is the larger, and much the taller. He wears regimentals, cocked hat, and shapeless boots; he stands with arms akimbo, sabre in his hand; from each pocket projects a medicine-bottle, one labelled 'Composing Draft', the other 'Stimulating...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: James Gillray. Napoleon stamps in fury, right arm outstretched with clenched fist, left fist on his forehead. His frantic gestures have overturned table (left), 'Consular Chair', and terrestrial globe, both on the extreme right. His huge plumed cocked hat lies on the floor; his (sheathed) sabre is broken. From his head issue swirling words: (left) "English Newspapers- \ English Newspapers!!! \ Oh, English Newspapers!!! \ hated & Betray'd by the French! -...