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"Oh! Listen to the voice of love"

1799

An ugly man (left) kneels (on a spotted handkerchief) at the feet of a plain old maid seated on an upright chair. He holds her left hand, his right is on his breast. She holds up her fan in a way more encouraging than coy. Both grin broadly. A patterned carpet and plain wall complete the design (BM).

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"The friend of the people" & his petty-new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit

1806

Fox and Lord Henry Petty stand at the door of a ramshackle tenement house. A distressed family look down at them from an open casement window over the door. Petty's hand is on the knocker. He holds a large open book. Behind his ear a pen. Fox puts both hands on a book. Between door and window is a board. The angry John, much disheveled, holds open the window to shout down. Fox answers and in his coat pocket is a large money-bag. Behind John stands woman holding an infant in each arm, another child gnaws a bone. Two others, one with a skull-like head, look from the window. On the ground floor (l.) is a shuttered window. The window above it has been bricked up to escape the tax; a lean cat looks from the casement under the eaves. From the window above John Bull (a corner only visible) hang a ragged shirt and stockings. A lamp projecting from the house (a corner one) is broken. Against the wall beside the door (r.) is a pump at which are three ragged children: a little boy pumps, another kneels to put his mouth to the gushing water, while a little girl with a raw turnip eagerly waits her turn. By the children lie a hoop-stick and a hoop from a barrel. On the left, are barrels. Across the road (l.) is a pawnshop with the sign of the three balls. In the upper windows of the prosperous shop are piles of moneybags (BM).

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"The friend of the people" & his petty-new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit

1806

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"The friend of the people" & his petty-new tax-gatherer paying John Bull a visit

1806

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"The friend of the people," & his petty new-tax-gatherer, paying John Bull a visit

1806

Fox and Lord Henry Petty stand at the door of a ramshackle tenement house. A distressed family look down at them from an open casement window over the door. Petty's hand is on the knocker. He holds a large open book and shouts. Behind his ear a pen. Fox puts both hands on a book. Between door and window is an inscribed board. The angry John, much disheveled, holds open the window to shout down and Fox answers. In Fox's coat pocket is a large money-bag. Behind John stands woman holding an infant in each arm and another child gnaws a bone. Two others, one with a skull-like head, look from the window. On the ground floor (l.) is a shuttered, placarded window. The window above it has been bricked up to escape the tax. A lean cat looks from the casement under the eaves. From the window above John Bull (a corner only visible) hang a ragged shirt and stockings. A lamp projecting from the house (a corner one) is broken. Against the wall beside the door (r.) is an inscribed pump at which are three ragged children: a little boy pumps, another kneels to put his mouth to the gushing water, while a little girl with a raw turnip eagerly waits her turn. On the left are barrels. Across the road (l.) is a pawnshop with the sign of the three balls. In the upper windows of the prosperous shop are piles of moneybags (BM).

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"so Skiffy-Skipt-on, with his wonted grace"

1800

Skeffington skips forward (left to right). His sharp-featured profile emerges, grinning, from a sharp-pointed collar and swathed cravat. His hair is swept forward in careful disarray, which, with his heavy whisker, goes ill with the black bag which flies outwards. His dress is a curious hybrid of embroidered court dress and knee-breeches, with the recent fashions of gathered sleeves, bulky neck-cloth, and cut-away tails showing bunches of seals. Below the neck-cloth is a double lace shirt-frill (BM).

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A Colonel of the Janizaries

1794

A bald man with a thick beard and moustache, in profile to right, hands joined in front of him, wearing a long ermine-trimmed gown and a hat with a full plume providing a broad canopy and a small flag. In a double frame (British Museum).

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A French gentleman of the court of Louis XVIth. A French gentleman of the court of Égalité 1799

1799

An elderly courtier of the 'ancien régime' (left) bows low, in profile to the right, grimacing. His features are aquiline. He wears a high toupet wig and a large black bag (which flies into the air as he bows) with a solitaire ribbon round the neck. His small tricorne hat is in his right hand, his left hand is on his breast. His fingers are extravagantly pointed. His successor (right) stands in back view, legs astride, hands thrust deep into his coat-pockets, a bludgeon projecting vertically from the left pocket. His head, with blunt, coarse features, is turned in profile to the left. He has shaggy hair with a long pigtail queue, and wears a large cocked hat, one peak on his neck, round which is a clumsy neck-cloth. His coat is loose with broad collar and projecting revers. His breeches are tied beneath the knee, showing striped stockings above very wrinkled boots with grotesquely pointed toes (BM). / A satire on French manners, before and after the Revolution; at the former period, they were as extravagant in excess of refinement as at the latter they were in vulgarity (Wright/Evans).

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A French gentleman, of the court of Louis XVIth. A French gentleman, of the court of Égalité 1799

1799

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A French gentleman, of the court of Louis XVIth. A French gentleman, of the court of Égalité 1799

1799

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A French gentleman, of the court of Louis XVIth. A French gentleman, of the court of Égalité 1799

1799

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A Welch Tandem

1801

Three brothers, with similar but identical profiles, sit squeezed together in a small rustic phaeton drawn (left to right) by three prancing goats, two being wheelers. The driver is nearest the spectator. All have leeks in their round hats; that of the driver has also the motto 'Ich dien.' On the phaeton are the initials 'WWW' and, at the back, is a large trunk. In the background is a craggy mountain on which goats are standing. A signpost (left) points to Wynnstay (BM). / These three Wynns were celebrated characters in high life in their day. The three goats refer to their Welsh parentage (Wright/Evans).

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