Scope and Contents Artist: James Sayers. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The title is spaced to indicate the persons depicted. In a room in Carlton House the 'Greeks', or Foxites, superintend the obeisance of the Persians' or Grenvilles before the 'rising Sun' of the Prince of Wales. On the extreme left stands Thurlow ('Achitophel'), turning his back on the others with a morose frown. He is bearded, and wears old-fashioned dress with a tie-wig. In his pocket is a paper: 'Secret Advice to his R H No Respecter of...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Pitt, dressed as Pierrot, walks (left to right) with a dancing step, displaying a puppet in the shape of G. B. Mainwaring. He holds it up, pulling a string which moves its arms and legs. He says: "Here he is Gentlemen, a Chip of the Old Block One of my own Manufactory. Here you go up up up, And then you go down down downee." The puppet squints violently. Pitt wears a large election favour in his hat. On the ground behind him is a paper: and a...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Sir Francis Burdett, scarcely caricatured, is being drawn (right to left) by his supporters in his carriage towards the hustings, past a densely packed and cheering mob. He bows gracefully, his tricorne (with a tricolour cockade) under his arm. On the three panels of the barouche are depicted (1) a bird with an olive-branch, and the scroll 'Egalité'; (2) a hand emerging from flames holding up a fire-brand, with a scroll, 'The Torch of...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. Sir Francis Burdett, scarcely caricatured, is being drawn (right to left) by his supporters in his carriage towards the hustings, past a densely packed and cheering mob. He bows gracefully, his tricorne (with a tricolour cockade) under his arm. On the three panels of the barouche are depicted (1) a bird with an olive-branch, and the scroll 'Egalité'; (2) a hand emerging from flames holding up a fire-brand, with a scroll, 'The Torch of...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The two candidates for Middlesex, Burdett and Mainwaring, stand in the foreground, each making a speech with an election flag behind him: 'Burdett and Independence 70,000 Pr Anm, Stake in the Country' and (tattered) 'Mainwaring And Corrupt Influence with o.o.o Stake in the Country'; to the staff of the latter is fixed a padlocked collecting-box. Burdett is tall, athletic, handsome, and well-bred. Mainwaring squints, is knock-kneed and feeble,...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Mr. and Mrs. Bull are in their breakfast parlour; she sits beside a table on which is a tray with coffee-pot, &c, he stands booted and spurred, impatient to set off. Through an open doorway (right) a groom is seen holding a saddle-horse. Behind are the houses of a London street. Mrs. Bull reads with dismay the '[M]orning Post'; she cries: "Here Mr Bull here's the Speech of that fellow on the Corn Bill - You must stop and hear this - The...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. The duke (poorly characterized) sits in an arm-chair pressing a knot of ribbon to his lips. He wears a night-cap shaped like a fool's cap, no coat, and slippers, with long tight pantaloons, shirt, and waistcoat. He faces a small oblong table on which is a flowering plant, which he waters from a watering-can held between his knees. Other objects on the table are books: 'Jack the Giant Killer' [a chap-book]; 'Lover Letter Tom Thumb'; 'D of...

Scope and Contents Published: Laurie & Whittle. Seven men sit round a table; the chairman, full face in the centre and raised above the others, addresses the meeting. Opposite him is 'Burn's Justice', open, lying on a map of 'Break-Neck Shire'. Hats hang on the wall. Beneath the title: 'Gentlemen I am not going to the further end of the Country to prove what I say; the Road which I am obliged to pass to my nown House, is quite unpassable to any thing but a beast. I likeways move that lamps in the Parish be...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The King steps forward to embrace the Prince of Wales, who throws himself into his father's arms, saying, "against Heaven - and before thee, and am no more worthy------" (the words fade out). George III wears court dress, the Prince's dress is tattered and dishevelled, his pocket hangs inside out, the garter at his knee - 'Honi soit' - is loose. Behind the King stands the Queen on the door-step, half-smiling, her arms outstretched. Two...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. France, a savage virago, dandles a tiny Napoleon seated on her right. hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing:"There's a little King Pippin "He shall have a Rattle & Crown, ※ Bless thy five Wits my Baby "Mind it dont throw itself down! Hey my Kitten, my kitten &c &c.Below the design is a...

Scope and Contents Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. France, a savage virago, dandles a tiny Napoleon seated on her right. hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing:"There's a little King Pippin "He shall have a Rattle & Crown, ※ Bless thy five Wits my Baby "Mind it dont throw itself down! Hey my Kitten, my kitten &c &c.Below the design is a...

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Two stout elderly watchmen, each with a lighted lantern hung from the top of his staff, stand on the pavement, on opposite sides of the dignified doorway of Brooks's. Each staff supports a notice: 'Beware of Bad Houses'. Over the door is the notice: 'Subscription Ho[use]'. A tipsy gamester leaves it, saying: "I say! ta ta take ca ca care of your Pockets - I've been in develish genteel Company." He is dishevelled, With hands thrust in his...

Scope and Contents Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Windham (not caricatured) stands on a 'whirligig', two planks crossing each other at right angles and pivoted at the point of intersection, so that four planks point to four points of the compass. This rest on a high rectangular pedestal: 'An Unfit Pedestal for a Senator'. The stones of the pedestal are 'Obstinacy', 'Opposition', 'Passion', 'Envy', 'Voilence' [sic], 'Perverseness', 'Arrogance', 'Inconconsistancy'; its base is 'Versatility'....

Scope and Contents Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Pitt (left) stands as if declaiming in the Commons, looking towards the grotesque profile head of Sheridan, larger and fierier than life, and the centre of close-set rays which cover the background and are jagged like conventional lightning. The two heads face each other in profile; Sheridan's stare is both baleful and disconcerted. Pitt's right hand, holding a rolled document, 'Act fo [sic] War', rests on his hip. He is very thin, but has a...