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Sir Francis Burdett riding to the right on horseback. Lithograph, 1838.
Date: 11 June 1838Reference: 608229i
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William Pitt the younger stands in the House of Commons facing the opposition benches, who are in corked and labelled bottles, as he uncorks a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585508i
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John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 December 1813Reference: 38418i
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William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 26481i
Part of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself
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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.
Satirist, active 1812-1813.Date: 1 October 1812Reference: 38421i
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A pair of inflated breeches, inside which corpulent members of Grenville's ministry sit around a table devouring loaves and fishes, are poised on an ostrich feather as several men attempt to pull down the legs while a man with a pair of shears and a tape measure sits on the 'rock of independence'. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585506i
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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.
Satirist, active 1812-1813.Date: 1 October 1813Reference: 38481i
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John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: Published for the Satirist July 1st. 1809Reference: 12204i
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Sir Francis Burdett holds up a bonnet rouge shaped like a fool's cap as he and Samuel Whitbread encourages those who are making a bonfire of statutes on the cobbles of Palace Yard; Westminster Hall is stoned and demolished by the mob beyond. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585521i
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Britannia holds her shield and cap of liberty on a staff as she rushes to the edge of a cliff urged on by Wellington and five other ministers. Coloured engraving, 1820.
Date: [?1820]Reference: 603169i
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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.
Date: 8 July 1799Reference: 12190i
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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.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: [1 November 1808]Reference: 38456i
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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.
Sharpshooter, A.Date: [April 1829]Reference: 663317i
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Hustings at Brentford for the election for the seat of Middlesex in 1802: Sir Francis Burdett, surrounded by a boisterous crowd, pleads with the Devil to support him, but the Devil looks at the hustings and decides to return to Hell. Etching attributed to J.T. Smith, 1802.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833Date: [1802]Reference: 585315i
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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.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 March 1830Reference: 12228i
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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.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: [1 April 1808]Reference: 38441i

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Sir Francis Burdett riding to the right on horseback. Lithograph, 1838.

William Pitt the younger stands in the House of Commons facing the opposition benches, who are in corked and labelled bottles, as he uncorks a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan. Etching by J. Gillray.

John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.

William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.

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.

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.

John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.

Sir Francis Burdett holds up a bonnet rouge shaped like a fool's cap as he and Samuel Whitbread encourages those who are making a bonfire of statutes on the cobbles of Palace Yard; Westminster Hall is stoned and demolished by the mob beyond. Etching by J. Gillray.

Britannia holds her shield and cap of liberty on a staff as she rushes to the edge of a cliff urged on by Wellington and five other ministers. Coloured engraving, 1820.

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.

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.

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.

Hustings at Brentford for the election for the seat of Middlesex in 1802: Sir Francis Burdett, surrounded by a boisterous crowd, pleads with the Devil to support him, but the Devil looks at the hustings and decides to return to Hell. Etching attributed to J.T. Smith, 1802.

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.

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.