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Dr Richard Price kneeling on a large crown (with a demon on his back) to look through a peep-hole at a group of ruffians ransacking Marie Antoinette's bedroom; representing a speech by Price which allegedly advocated the French Revolution. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1790 (?).
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 12 December [1790?]Reference: 12178i- Pictures
Pope Clement XI issuing an Apostolic Constitution (decree) in the form of the papal bull 'Unigenitus' of September 1713, condemning the principles of Jansenism. Etching attribued to J. Folkema, ca. 1724.
Date: [between 1720 and 1729]Reference: 2136961i- Pictures
Four episodes in a war: John Bull at home in prosperity before the war; John Bull leaving his family and marching off to war; his family is reduced to poverty; as a gaunt, one-legged, one-eyed soldier he returns from war to his destitute family. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585523i- Pictures
An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
Orr, Monro S.Date: 1913Reference: 15801i- Pictures
King William IV carries on his shoulders the chancellor Brougham who puts a bonnet rouge on the King's head and throws off the crown. Coloured engraving, 1831.
Date: May 6 1831Reference: 643099i- Books
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Full, true, and particular account of the conquest & partition of France, by the King of Prussia, Duke of Brunswick, Emperor of Germany, Prince of Orange, King of England, Elector of Hanover, and the Empress of Russia: as also, of their triumphal entry into the city of Paris; and their glorious overthrow of French anarchy, tyranny and oppression.
Date: [1792]- Pictures
Two men symbolising France and Spain are in charge of a dancing bear which represents England above which are two sides of a coin, two sovereigns in robes watch with amusement. Engraving, 1773.
Date: [1 May 1773]Reference: 584789i- Pictures
A bull snorts angrily as it tosses a Spaniard in the air and is restrained by three men pulling its tail behind, a native American and a well-dressed French gentleman cower in fright to the right and a Dutchman sitting on a barrel of gin and smoking a pipe looks on in amusement. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1780.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: Jan 4 1780Reference: 585026i- Pictures
In Milan, King Louis XIV as a locksmith, key in hand, approaches Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, as a banker weighing coin. Etching attributed to C. Allard, 1706.
Date: [1706]Reference: 2139898iPart of: Lust-hof van Momus.- Pictures
A member of the Surrey militia strides across Coxheath with a spear. Etching by M. Darly, 1778.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.Date: Nov 5 1778Reference: 585016i- Books
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The epistles and Art of poetry of Horace. In Latin and English. With critical notes collected from his best Latin and French Commentators. By the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, Rector of Skeyton in Norfolk. Vol. IV.
Horace.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Pictures
European politics in 1688-1689 as events in a chemical laboratory; with prophecies of disasters to come. Etching by R. de Hooghe and letterpress, 1689.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: [1689]Reference: 2136943i- Pictures
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Napoleon climbing a headless skeleton trying to reach an unattainable crown; representing his imperial ambitions for France and his own for sovereignty. Coloured etching, 1803.
Date: June 1803Reference: 12195i- Pictures
The arrival in England of William of Orange; in the foreground, James II and Louis XIV surrounded by courtiers and Catholic clerics. Etching formerly attributed to R. de Hooghe, 1688.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: [1688]Reference: 2136645i- Pictures
The Catholic powers gather around the infant James Francis Edward Stuart. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688, with letterpress.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: [1688]Reference: 2136644i- Pictures
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'Philijpÿn' helps a donkey to vomit while a 'Doctor Financier' examines a urine sample;; representing the state of Spain under the monarchy of King Philip V. Etching attributed to A. Allard, 1711.
Date: 1711Reference: 17533iPart of: Lust-hof van Momus.- Pictures
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The Empress Josephine walking with her retinue in a garden of labelled potted plants which include animated likenesses of prominent figures. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1 March 1814Reference: 38412i- Pictures
William Pitt the younger as a very thin caricatured bank clerk stands behind a counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull, while Charles James Fox and Sheridan attempt to stop Bull accepting the money. Line block after J. Gillray, 1873.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1873Reference: 603157i- Books
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Consequences of the French invasion. Sir John Dalrymple avows himself to be author of this pamphlet of satirical instruction, conveyed in a new way; and entreats the attention of the public to it at the present crisis of impending invasion.
Dalrymple, John, Sir, 1726-1810.Date: 1798- Pictures
Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 29 November 1814Reference: 10104i- Pictures
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Four commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by winching it up with ropes. Process print.
Reference: 36321i- Pictures
A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 17848i- Pictures
Edmund Burke, arguing in favour of control of immigration from France, points towards the dagger he has just thrown on the floor of the House of Commons; William Pitt the younger and Henry Dundas are seated on the Treasury bench, while Charles James Fox, R.B. Sheridan and M.A. Taylor look on with alarm. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585500i- Pictures
European governments in 1705-1706 represented as a chemical laboratory which is assailed by warring monarchs; representing the War of the Spanish Succession. Etching after R. de Hooghe, 1706.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: [1706]Reference: 2138557iPart of: Lust-hof van Momus.- Books
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Mexican letters. Containing humorous and satirical observations on the Manners, Customs, Religion, and Policy of the English, French, Spaniards, and Americans, Interspersed with a great Variety of Interesting and entertaining Anecdotes, illustrated by Moral and other suitable Reflections. Compiled from original letters. In two volumes . ...
Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]