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  • Celebrations of Wellington's victory at the battle of Salamanca: Sir Francis Burdett's house is attacked, a funeral procession of Whigs passes by, and a toast is drunk to Wellington by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Coloured etching by W.H. Brooke, 1812.
  • William Cobbett as a porcupine with a snake's tail with two taloned devils representing Sir Francis Burdett and John Horne Tooke. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • Sir Francis Burdett conjuring up a ghost, expecting it to be that of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, but the ghost of William Pitt the younger appears. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • A rowdy dinner of British political radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon: Tooke and Burdett wear bonnets rouges. Coloured etching by Thomaso Scrutiny (Samuel De Wilde?), 1808.
  • Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
  • Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.
  • John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.