"Aside he turn'd for envy, yet with jealous leer mailign, eyd them ask...
(For description see other impression). 12 December 1782 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Crumbs of comfort", or-old-orthodox, restoring consolation to his fal...
The Devil stands (centre), his widespread wings stretching across the design, between Fox (left) and Burke (right), who kneel at his feet facing each other in profile. He is tall, stout, plainly dressed in the ... More
(? A knowing one) (BM 1867,1012.626)
(For description see other impression). 1 August 1790 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(A beau) (BM 1867,1012.629) - Public domain portrait engraving
No title. Half length portrait of a man directed to the left and looking to the right with a smile, a single eye-glass held to his right eye. His hair is much frizzed out at the sides and tied in a queue. He we... More
(A country church.) (BM 1874,1010.20)
(For description see other impression). 31 March 1790 Etching and aquatint
(A French Postillion with a Whip in one hand, the other in Pocket, Bir...
Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip, with a horse behind to the right. c.1768 Etching and drypoint
(An agreeable character in a post-chaise) (BM 1927,0308.132)
Plate 36 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Design in a circle. A fat man, nearly half-length, directed to the r... More
(Association meeting at York) (BM 1868,0808.4671)
A representation, partly allegorical,of the meeting of the Association at York on 30 Dec. 1779 when the petition of the county was agreed to and a committee of sixty-one appointed. Men sit and stand in ranks on... More
(Bonnet-rouge) (BM K,67.238) - Drawing. Public domain image.
The cap alone, intended to be fitted to the heads described under BMSat 8450-7. Etching printed in red ink
(Boot i.e. Bute) (awl) a new (ball)ad. (BM 1868,0808.4130)
Rebus in mock-Scots repeating that in BM Satires 3741, satirising Lord Bute and the supposed promotion of Scots in England, specifically Robert Mylne's selection as architect of Blackfriars Bridge. 1760 Etching
(Caricature Portrait) (BM 1867,1012.630)
A man seated full face on an upright chair, left leg thrust forward, his arms folded, holding his hat. His head, turned in profile to the left, has a grotesque expression of rage. He is fashionably dressed. An ... More
(Chess-players.) (BM 1851,0901.385)
Title perhaps cut off. Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses w... More
(Col. Topham endeavouring with his squirt to extinguish the genius of ...
(For description see impression of first edition). Reissue of a 1785 print Etching with letterpress verses printed below the plate-mark
(Cream-woman of Trinity College Cambridge) (BM 1851,0308.181)
A stout and ugly woman walking (left to right) in profile carrying in her right hand a pot or pail. She wears a flat wide-brimmed hat over a hood, and an apron (torn). 1771 [written on print in old hand] Etching
(Fox against Fox!!!) (BM 1868,0808.5827)
No title. Frontispiece from 'Fox against Fox!!! or Political Blossoms of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox . . . To which are added the Speeches of Mr Pitt and Mr Fox ...' [10 Dec. 1788]. George III, wearing a ... More
(General Burgoyne) (BM 1867,0309.771)
(For description see other impression). 17 June 1782 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(General Oglethorpe) (BM J,2.64)
Profile head, caricatured, of Oglethorpe the philanthropist (1696-1785). He has an enormous nose and a projecting jaw, giving the appearance of extreme old age. He wears a short bushy wig. 13 July 1781 Hand-col... More
(Henry Flood.) (BM 1868,0808.5327)
A bust-portrait of Flood in profile to the left. Two other heads in profile to the left are below and behind him on the extreme right. As a background there is a series of four gibbets (right), a body hanging f... More
(Jedediah Buxton) (BM 1925,0511.161 1)
Whole-length portrait of Jedidiah Buxton, aged 63, in profile to right, standing holding a long stick with two prongs at the end. 1770 Etching
(Jedediah Buxton) (BM 1925,0511.161)
Whole-length portrait of Jedidiah Buxton, aged 63, in profile to right, standing holding a long stick with two prongs at the end. 1770 Etching
(John Nichols.) (BM 1868,0808.5987)
(For description see other impression). [1790] Etching Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(John Wilkes) (BM 1868,0808.12441)
Caricature bust portrait of Wilkes in profile to the left, the right eye just visible, showing his squint. 16 July 1781 Hand-coloured etching
(Lord Kelly.) (BM 1868,0711.617)
(For description see other impression). 1 June 1780 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Lord Kelly.) (BM 1868,0808.4691)
Portrait of Lord Kelly, similar to BMSat 5741 but reversed. 1 June 1780 Etching
(Matt Darly) (BM J,2.37) - Public domain portrait engraving
Matthew Darly the engraver and publisher of prints stands beside an ass. He faces three quarter to the right, his head in profile to the right. He is elderly and corpulent, his gouty right leg is swathed. H... More
(Mrs Weltje in her shop in Pall Mall) (BM J,2.27)
The interior of a shop showing the window (left) and a semicircular counter or bar behind which sits a buxom lady (right) in a chair, her head in profile to the left. On the narrow counter are pears, apples, an... More
(Oliver Goldsmith) (BM 1850,0810.182)
Caricature head and shoulders in profile looking right. c.1770-2 Etching
(Push-pin.) (BM 1863,0110.135) - Drawing. Public domain image.
(For description see other impression). A proof before all letters. 17 April 1797 Etching
(Sub-Porter and Lamp Lighter of Trinity College Cambridge) (BM 1851,03...
A man walking in profile to the right carrying a ladder resting horizontally on his left shoulder. In his right hand is an oil-can. 1771 Etching
(The Marquis of Graham and the Earl of Buchan) (BM 1935,0522.13.23)
Two officers in Highland dress stand back to back in profile; in the background and on a minute scale is sketched a body of Highland soldiers carrying muskets. One (right) looks up waving his sword; the other l... More
(The Miser's Economy) (BM 1948,0214.365)
Satire with a miser seated at table with bags of money and his breeches round his knees being reproved by another man wearing spectacles. 10 March 1794 Hand-coloured etching
(The Wager) No.1 1792 (BM 1937,1108.26)
A stout, well-dressed man walks in profile to the right, carrying on his back a diminutive man wearing spurs, whose feet are in straps which are part of a species of harness, worn over the shoulders. His head i... More
(Tomb of Sir George Savile.) (BM 1851,0901.226)
(For description see other impression). c. November 1799 Aquatint Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Tomb of Sir George Savile.) (BM 1868,0808.4647)
A sculptured monument to Sir George Savile against a stone wall. A life-like half length figure of Savile looking to the right is set in an alcove with inscriptions above and below. Above: 'The Guardian Genius ... More
(Unidentified portrait) (BM 1868,0808.12445)
Bust portrait, caricature, of a man in profile to the right. His nose projects sharply, almost at a right angle with his forehead. He is deep-chested, and wears a shirt-frill. 30 December 1781 Hand-coloured etching
(Vestris junior or Vestr' Allard) (BM J,2.17)
(For description see other impression). 15 August 1781 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(View of a skittle ground at Hampstead.) (BM 1927,1126.1.19.62)
Plate 4 to Woodward's 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Two oval designs on one pl. 'Compartment Ist' Four men gro... More
Caricature, -Benbridge (BM 1851,0308.114), public domain cartoon image
Plate 24: Caricature of Henry Bembridge, standing to right, his left hand resting on the back of a wooden chair. 1769 Etching printed in brown ink
... solation et consolation des foireux (BM 1998,0712.58)
Satire on Frederick William II, king of Prussia, soiling his pants, following the defeat of Brunswick and addressing the Austro-Hungarian emperor, Francis II. September 1792 Hand-coloured etching
24 Caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists, etc. (Vol.1) (BM...
Titleplate: with text on a cartouche on a fragment of a classical ruin. 1 November 1771 Etching and engraving with hand-colouring
A back view of the cape. (BM 1868,0808.6171)
(For description see other impression). 23 March 1792 Hand-coloured etching
A Back-side and Front view of a modern fine lady vide Bunbury or the S...
Four designs divided by intersecting lines, the copy described being cut vertically into two halves. In all a pretty and graceful young woman, nude, and with shortish wavy brown hair is bathing stylized waves... More
Egbert van Heemskerck II - A Barber's Shop (BM 1988,0514.32)
For description see BM Satire 1859; small reverse copy of engraving by Toms, with different verse Etching and engraving
A Bit of Blood (BM 1962,0828.3)
A man canters in profile to the left on a lean and broken-kneed horse whose hind-quarter is branded. He has only one rein attached to ill-fitting harness, and sits with his leg thrust forward and holds a club a... More
A brush for the sign-painters (BM 1868,0808.4162)
(For description see other impression). 1762 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Canterbury tale. (BM 1868,0808.5790)
The original title and imprint have been cut off and replaced by the above title in ink, on a strip of paper pasted to the print. Fox, Hanger, and the Prince of Wales stand in a boat against a high stone wall, ... More
A Caricatura (BM 1868,0808.9920)
Satire on the ejection of James Eyre as Recorder of the City of London after his refusal to attend Lord Mayor Beckford on the presentation of the City Remonstrance and Petition to George III in support of John ... More
A certain little fat Jew macaroni and his spouse going to ye Pantheon ...
A family group in the hall of a house. A stout short man walks in profile to the left. In his right. hand is a large cane, in his left. a laced hat. A maidservant lifts up his enormous club of hair while she br... More
A collection of hobgoblins (BM 1935,0522.8.67)
Ten little men with enormous and grotesque heads and burlesqued facial expressions. They are arranged in two rows. 25 February 1796 Hand-coloured etching
A cool pipe in Pall Mall! Symptoms of equality (BM 1851,0901.1025)
(For description see other impression). 1 April 1800 Hand-coloured etching
A Courier just Setting out (Who has any Letters to Send?) Sketch'd fro...
For description see other impression; this state has verses added within the image. Etching
A Dreamer (BM 1990,1109.26) - Drawing. Public domain image.
George III asleep in a chair, his foot gouty and a print screen behind, while his crown falls off into the hands of his son. c.1805 Hand-coloured etching
A Flat between Two Sharps (BM 2010,7081.1052)
Satire: a countryman scrtaches his head standing between a solicitor and a barrister in front of Westminster Hall; the solicitor, on the left, taps his nose and grins towards the viewer. 1791 Hand-coloured mez... More
A Fundamental Error in the Art of Skaiting 1803 (BM 1931,1114.104)
A man on skates falling on his back, his cane and hat flying away as he falls; other skaters on the background. 1803 Watercolour
A game at skittles! (BM 1868,0808.6865)
The Ministry are represented by nine skittles on a board (right), with heads, only those of Pitt, who is taller than the others, and Dundas being characterized. Fox stands in the foreground taking aim; he says:... More
A German howl or the emigrant princes bemoaning the loss of their dear...
Six Frenchmen, much caricatured, surround the coffin of 'Leopold II', which is raised on a support draped with black; enormous tears stream from their eyes, splash over the coffin, and form a pool of water whic... More
A Goose Between Two Foxes (BM 1985,0119.149)
Social satire; a goose-girl with a goose in a basket under one arm and a bonnet is flanked by two countrymen, one with his arms around her, the other carrying his shot-gun; behind a shot-gun rests against a tre... More
A Harlot's Progress (BM 1891,0713.517)
Unmounted fan-leaf, with three scenes from Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, omitting the scene with her lover, the death scene, and the final funeral scene. c.1732 Etching, printed in red on chicken skin
A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5 (BM 1858,0417.548 1)
A squalid room where Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies; her serving-woman calls for attention for the invalid, another wom... More
A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5 (BM 1858,0417.548 2)
A squalid room where Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies; her serving-woman calls for attention for the invalid, another wom... More
A hint to husbands, or the dresser, properly dressed (BM J,5.71)
A lady sits at her dressing-table, while a hair-dresser attends to her elaborate coiffure. She turns round in astonishment towards her husband (right), who has entered from an open door and threatens the hairdr... More
A Land Cruise on one of the Patent Hobby Horses exhibiting at the West...
Two sailors ride (right to left) a velocipede (see No. 13399) with two saddles on the elongated bar. At the back is a seat for two passengers in which are two gaily dressed women. The first sailor says over his... More
A late scene at Barnet (BM 1927,1126.1.29.7)
Social satire: a party in a bedroom where a half-naked lover jumps out of a window leaving his mistress in bed in a four-poster bed; a print from the 'London Magazine'. October 1771 Etching with engraving
A Lawyer and his Agent (BM 1935,0522.1.101)
Satire on the law: a lawyer sits in his study chatting in a familiar way with the Devil who puts his arm around his shoulder; the table is covered with briefs concerning cases of debt and Chancery matters; on t... More
A locust (BM 1868,0612.1249) - Drawing. Public domain image.
A grotesque locust with the head of Pitt, its four legs terminating in bird's claws, walks upon the large oval links of a chain fastened in a circle by a padlock (right). The head, much caricatured, has a large... More
A log-book candidate in full sail to defeat a Wray of honesty. (BM 186...
A naval officer in uniform stands on a large open book which serves as a boat; he holds a small mast to which three pages from the book are attached as sails. The book is inscribed "LOG BOOK", the sails (respec... More
A Long Minuet as Danced at Bath (BM 1868,0822.7136 3)
(For description see impression of first edition). A re-issue by Fores in 1794 of the plates first published on 25 June 1787 Stipple printed on four plates joined together
A Macaroni Print Shop (BM 1872,1012.4903)
Satire on macaroni prints: (No. 24) the window of the Darlys' at 39, The Strand shop, filled with macaroni and other prints; seven men stand in front, imcluding an elderly macaroni, at left, whjo appears shocke... More
A Macaroni Print Shop (BM Heal,Portraits.303)
Satire on macaroni prints: (No. 24) the window of the Darlys' at 39, The Strand shop, filled with macaroni and other prints; seven men stand in front, imcluding an elderly macaroni, at left, whjo appears shocke... More
A Macaroni returned from Riding (BM 1866,1208.871)
Satire on macaronies (No.21): a man in riding clothes with a whip under his right arm standing in profile to right taking a pinch of snuff from a box, with his hair in a long bag. 6 October 1772 Etching
A man millener. The muff. (BM 1868,0808.5619)
The two designs form a contrasted pair of figures. [1] A man of very feminine appearance walks left to right looking coquettishly to front carrying a circular band-box and a frilled hat, both extremely large. O... More
A man of importance (BM 1868,0808.12524)
Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to... More
A March to the Bank. (BM 1851,0901.367)
(For description see other impression). 22 August 1787 Etching. Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A master of ceremonies introducing a partner (BM 1876,1014.29)
A scene in the Assembly Rooms, Bath. The stout Master of the Ceremonies brings up an elderly man (right) who bows, chapeau-bras, with an ingratiating smile, to an elderly lady seated against the wall in profile... More
A master parson returning from duty (BM 1861,0518.939)
A companion print to BMSat 6153. A fat parson riding (left to right) a handsome horse arrives at the high iron gate of his house, which is seen in the background. He points arrogantly to a groom in livery, who ... More
A Master Parson with a Good Living (BM 2010,7081.1951)
(For description and comment, see the large version: 1935,0522.1.48). 2 June 1782 Hand-coloured mezzotint with some etching
A meeting of the female canvassers in Covent Garden. (BM 1868,0808.527...
Mrs. Hobart (left), enormously fat, and the Duchess of Devonshire (right) stand facing each other in profile. Mrs. Hobart holds under her right arm a fat badger with the head of Wray, his collar inscribed 'Mini... More
A member of Mark Lane. (BM 1868,0808.5460)
(For description see other impression). 29 November 1785 Etching and engraving
A Midnight Modern Conversation (BM 1855,0414.171 1)
A drinking scene with eleven men in a panelled room around a table on which is a punch-bowl decorated with Chinese figures; wine bottles on the floor and mantelpiece and an overflowing chamber pot at lower righ... More
A Midnight Modern Conversation (BM Cc,2.105)
Copy of a drinking scene with eleven men in a panelled room around a table on which is a punch-bowl decorated with Chinese figures; wine bottles on the floor and mantelpiece and an overflowing chamber pot at lo... More
A modern antique. (BM 1872,1012.1530)
(For description see other impression). A first state, without publication line. On this has been drawn in pen a profile of the lady with a still more ferocious scowl; opposite this is written "Losing Game". 1782 Etching
A Modern Contrast (BM 1868,0808.3927)
Satire on the Gin Act. 26 October 1752 Etching and engraving
A modern elegance. A portrait (BM 1851,0901.731)
A lady, her head in profile to the left, looks sideways at her reflection in a large wall-mirror. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, giving the appearance of pregnancy, her figure defined under its folds. Lo... More
A modern elegance. A portrait (BM 1868,0808.6431)
(For description see other impression). 22 May 1795 Hand-coloured etching
A necessary war, or Quixotism revived or the knight of the little hous...
An old lady is seated in a 'necessary house', a small shed among shrubs which is being attacked by a stout lady (right) who raises an axe in both hands, saying, "open the Door" or Sir G:------ shall go to the K... More
A new administration;- or-the state quacks administring. (BM 1851,0901...
Britannia, in profile to the right, kneels on the ground, bending forward with an expression of angry distress. She supports herself on her spear, the upper part of which rests against her right shoulder. Her s... More
A new Italian farce called the Green Bag by Permission (BM 1975,0621.1...
Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline with her accusers on the stage of St Stephens with a cast of witnesses from the trial, addressing John Bull. 22 July 1820 Hand-coloured etching
A new opera glass for the year 1777 (BM J,1.141)
Two seated figures (half length) apparently in an opera-box. A fat lady (l.) whose pyramid of hair is flanked with the enormous cylindrical curls then fashionable and surmounted with flowers and feathers, looks... More
A new way to secure a majority; or no dirty work comes amiss (BM 1868,...
One side of a poor street, 'Liberty Lane', showing (left) a cobbler's bulk or stall, next it the shop of a 'botching tailor', next it a 'penny barber's'. The one-storied cottages recede in perspective from the ... More
A peep at St Peter or the poet in a pickle. (BM 1868,0808.5878)
(For description see other impression). 23 July 1789 Hand-coloured etching
A peep at the Parisot! with Q in the corner! (BM 1935,0522.4.72)
(For description see other impression). 7 May 1796 Hand-coloured etching
A peep behind the curtain at the widow Belmour (BM 1925,0715.25 1)
Miss Farren stands on the right, naked, and in the attitude of the Venus de' Medici; behind her is a stage curtain which Lord Derby, in the upper left corner of the design, draws aside to peer down upon her; he... More
A Peep into the Retreat at Tinnehinch (BM 1868,0808.12512)
Pl. to the 'Anti-Jacobin Review' (issued separately). Grattan (right) has risen from his arm-chair to greet with outstretched hands two young men whom a servant (left), with a knowing gesture, has just shown in... More
A pillar of the church. With it's proper capital (BM 1915,0313.133)
No.23: A man, stout and elderly, dressed as a bishop stands facing three-quarter to left. His right hand holds a tasselled mortar-board. He wears a silk gown, lawn sleeves, a pair of bands and an enormous wig. ... More
A Policy for the Three-Thumbs Assurance Office of St A-W- (BM 1868,080...
Satire: an emblematic arrangement of three thumbs on a triangular base under which stand two men. c.1740/60 Etching
A political concert; the vocal parts by 1.Miss America, 2.Franklin, 3....
A number of figures, sitting and standing, the words of their catch or song issuing in large labels from their mouths, their identity indicated by numbers referring to an explanation engraved beneath the title.... More
A political hypocondriac!! (BM 1868,0808.6726)
A design based on BMSat 7449. Pitt (right), wearing dressing-gown and slippers, sits erect in a high-backed arm-chair, clasping his hands in terror at the visions which assail him. Three goblinlike creatures h... More
A Pouder Plot (BM 2010,7081.99) - Public domain portrait engraving
Interior, where a man kneels to light a fuse running under a woman who sits in a drunken stupor holding a flask, on an upturned barrell in front of a casement window; with two men watching with glee and a third... More
A Present to Hanover for the Year 1750 (BM 1868,0808.3911)
Description to follow. Etching and engraving Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A priest at his private devotion (BM 1868,0808.4697)
George III in monk's robes and with a large tonsure kneels, in profile to the right, before an altar in an attitude of prayer. His right leg emerges from his robe showing knee-breeches and clocked stocking. On ... More