Scope and Contents Published: William Holland. Napoleon (left), sword in hand, and wearing his huge bicorne, forces fat Dutchmen into tiny boats, each with a gun in the bows, representing the flotilla of gunboats. He says to a Dutchman who steps into his boat, but clenches his fists and scowls over his shoulder resentfully, "Come, Come Sir, - No grumbling I insist on your embarking and destroying the modern Carthage - dont you consider the liberty you enjoy - and the grand flotilla that is to carry you over!"...

Scope and Contents Artist: Anonymous. Published: Anonymous. Plate from the 'Satirist', ix. 341. A scene on the shore. Napoleon (left), sword in hand, drives forward a marine whom he holds by his long pigtail, saying, "Rascal—F—e, go fight dem dam English"; the man answers: "Sire me like fight men dem English be Diables." He wears a shako, military tunic, trousers, and slippers. In the foreground grenadiers with fixed bayonets drive a naval officer and sailors towards a ship's boat, into which one tumbles. The...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gilray. After: Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The King and Queen sit on chairs of state intently watching a rectangular tank in which Napoleon as Gulliver sails his little boat, manoeuvring the single sail. Behind the King's chair Lord Salisbury stands stiffly, holding his wand of office; the gold key is attached to his coat-pocket: he has the straight shapeless legs that Gillray always gives him. Two princesses sit beside the tank on the Queen's right;...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. After: Monogrammist I. L. R. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The Prince of Wales and McMahon ride side by side (right to left) past Carlton House, followed by a groom. The Prince, stout and dignified, sits very upright on a high-stepping horse. McMahon s much smaller mount canters; he rides (on the Prince's left) with leg thrust forward like Bunbury's examples of mounted vulgarians. Behind them runs a ragged little boy in top-hat and tattered tail-coat, apparently assuming...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The title continues: 'together with, a distant draw view of the New Coalition among Johnny's Old Horses.' A lumbering wagon drawn (left to right) by eight asses is stuck fast, up to the axles in water; the asses strain hard to drag it up a steep slope to dry land. Its dilapidated tilt is much patched and is labelled 'British State Waggon 1804'. The wagoner, Addington (right), kneels on an adjacent bank, and shouts to a fat and jovial John...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Fox grovels on hands and knees inside a rectangular trap: 'New Opposition Trap'. The sliding door (left) through which he has entered is not yet quite shut. He opens his mouth to bite at the bait inside the trap (right): a bunch of grapes, and substances inscribed 'Venison Champaign', 'Carlisle Bait'. Men on the left watch intently, while Windham (right) stoops to listen to sounds from the trap, raising a monitory finger, and saying: "Be...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The 'Gods', Hawkesbury, Addington, St. Vincent, lean down from the clouds to defend the 'Treasury' against the assault of the 'Giants', different groups of the Opposition forming a pyramid in the lower, and larger, part of the design. [These identifications are those of Miss Banks (on a B.M. print) confirmed by Lord Holland, who omits Lord Spencer but adds Tierney, called by Miss Banks 'no particular person'. The identifications of Wright...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Pitt drives a stage-coach, the coach of State, drawn (left to right) by six galloping horses; the leaders have reached a steep ascent, on which is a broken signpost: 'To the Land of Promise'. On the (empty) basket is a placard: 'The State Fly by W P - only the late Partnership being Dissolved'. Windham, Grenville, and Fox run after the coach, begging to be taken up. Pitt, without turning his head, but looking back out of the corner of his...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. [Satire based on the fable of the "catspaw"]: a monkey with the head of Pitt holds the paw of a cat with the head of Fox over a fire of sticks (right) on which rests a chestnut inscribed 'Catholic Emancipation'. Fox, the nearer animal, is much larger than Pitt; he registers unwillingness, crying "Mew". Pitt's right hand rests on the cat's back; he says: "If we can but get that large Chesnut out of the fire I shall go on swimmingly, and then...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Pitt and Melville, realistic statues, their heads turned in profile to face each other, stand on adjacent stone slabs against a stone wall, each bestriding his predecessor in office. Their partial nudity is reminiscent of the 'Giants' who stormed Heaven, except that Pitt wears a military sash in place of vine-leaves. Pitt stands arrogantly, a sabre in his right. hand, left hand on hip; the muscles of his emaciated body are taut. Addington...

Scope and Contents Published: S. W. Fores. Pitt, as showman, stands on one of two steps leading to his stage, and facing his audience, John Bull and his wife, with a gaping youth standing behind them (right). Beside the stage (left) Melville in Highland dress, sits playing bagpipes. Pitt holds behind his back strings attached to six tiny puppets, who stand bowing and gesticulating; he says: "Now Mr Bull, you shall see what you shall see - A Comedy of my own making - all entirely new Performers believe me."...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: Thomas Williamson. A sailor (left) in a skittle alley waves his hat exultantly; his ball, marked with the Union Jack, has just knocked down nine skittles, each with the head of a French officer wearing a cocked hat. Napoleon, much caricatured and unrecognizable, sits on the wooden bench which runs round the head of the alley; he clutches his broken shin from which John's ball has ricocheted, shouting, "Begar Jean Bull never lose he always win ah: now he's...

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Published: William Holland. Political satire: Pitt is the coachman driving the 'Union Fly' with Fox and another politician in harness over a road littered in boulders marked 'Subsidies', 'Income Tax', 'War of Extermination' etc.; John Bull and his wife ride on the roof, lamenting the bumps and not getting a place inside, it being full of the coahman's friends; another man falls by the wayside with bundles of 'Pickings' for himself and his family. Description from the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: Thomas Williamson. The ghost of Louis XVI stands (left) among clouds, pointing a minatory finger at the (over-large) crown worn by Napoleon, saying, "That's Mine!!!" Napoleon, enthroned, the letters 'NR' on the back of his chair of state, shrinks back in terror, saying, "Angels & Ministers of Grace defend me" [Hamlet, i. 4]. He wears royal robes, but from his belt hang a dagger and a large sabre, while three pistols are thrust through it. Louis XVI (a...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The duc d'Enghien (left) is spread-eagled against the trunk of a large tree, tied by wrists and ankles. Napoleon, lunging forward, stabs him with his sabre, while two ruffianly French soldiers hold up flambeaux. The scene is a dark forest, with a partly-obscured moon. The handsome young duke, who wears a star, says: "Assassin! your Banditti need not cover my Eyes, I fear not Death tho perhaps, a Guiltless Countenance may Appall your blood...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Eight members of the Opposition sleep round an oval dinner-table, on which guttering candles have burnt low. In the chair, full face, and in the centre, the Prince of Wales, very stout, leans back. Opposite him Fox sprawls with one foot on the table, the other on the chair of Sheridan who sits on his right. On Fox's left is Grey, his head and arms on the table, identified by a song that he holds: [The old woman] 'Cloathed in Grey'. On the...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Fox to various groups of the Opposition, [With one or two exceptions the identifications are those of Miss Banks; the characterization is excellent, and most are unmistakeable.] in which the arrangement has political and social significance. Three Grenvilles bow to the host and hostess; the Marquis of Buckingham, wearing his ribbon, holding hat and gold-headed cane and showing a gouty leg and foot, bends...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles William. Published: S. W. Fores. Pitt (left), very tall and thin, bends over a large nest on the ground in which birds with human heads and ferocious talons are closely grouped; all look up at Pitt, with gaping mouths (shouting or clamouring for food). He is numbered '2' and faces '1', a sturdy yokel in a smock (John Bull), shorter, but otherwise much larger than himself. The man, hat in hand, holds out one of the birds, with the head of Fox, to Pitt, saying, "Please as how...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The Duke of Clarence stands full face, realistically depicted but cruelly caricatured, with porcine features. He wears a cylindrical hat with curved brim, a double-breasted coat with star, cut away to show the lower part of a double-breasted waistcoat, and top-boots. In the (gloved) right hand is a cane, the left hand is behind his back. He stares straight before him out of pig's eyes. Above the design: 'Post tot Naufragia...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Napoleon (left), in imperial robes, bows with wary and insinuating deference to John Bull, a plebeian and prosperous 'cit'. He holds his crown like a begging-bowl, and lowers his sceptre, saying, "My dear Cousin Bull - I have a request to make you - the good people whom I govern, have been so lavish of their favours towards me - that they have exhausted every title in the Empire - therefore in addition I wish you to make me a Knight of Malt -...