Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 14 1/2 inches (49.8 × 36.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image: "Publish'd May 1st 1809 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street.; lettered inside image: "ROYAL-WATER SPOUT | Justice | Triumphant | DECISIONS | of the Rt Hon'bl | The HOUSE | of | COMMONS. | Majority against | the Machinations | of Republicans | & Levellers | New Road to | Heaven's Treasury | Motion | for Planting a New - | Constitutional | Tree | Abuses on the Army department | incontestibly proved on y'e Word | of a Prostitute & her Paramour | Advances of | of a Revolution | a la France | Plan for Repairing | and New Roofing the Old | House of Brunswick | Motion | for granting Pensions | to all Whores & their | Maids for past | Service | Motion | for Badgering of | the Government | Motion for | an Address of | Congratulations | to Tallyrande | TRICKs LIES | Collection of | Stumbling | Blocks for the | Ministry | Nods & Winks | to Buonaparte | Everlasting | Oppression to all | the Measures | of Ministry | MORE | IMPEACH- | MENT | Motion for | Abolishing all | Laws, but Mob | Laws | Necessity of Opposing | all the Plans of the | Ministry | LIES | Plan for the Opp- | sition Rats to destroy | the Tapestry of the | House of Lords | Parliamentary | Reform! i.e. Universal | Revolution | FALSEHOODS | New Ways | to stir up | Public | Discontent | LIBERTY OF THE PRESS | without Controul! | JACOBIN | Principles | RUIN and | SPOIL | DESTRUCTION | REVENGE | ENVY | DISAPPOINTED | AMBITION | VIVE | LA | REVOLU | -TION | No Bastille | Liberty | for Ever | Loyalty | for Ever | Republicanism! | any Thing | to make | a kick-up | any Thing | to make |a Row! | REPUBLICAN LADDER of AMBITION | Westminster | Address | REVOLUTION | Monitor | Morning Chronical | Cobbett's | Political Register | The Hampshire | Hog | Driver | Mrs. A. Clarke's | Old Conjuring Muff | to be sold to the | best Bidder | Plunder | Ingratitude | Wardle | PRivate | Reasons | Patriotic | HARANGUES | by Fid Fad | Folkstone | Cobbetts | Hints | Motions | for Kicking | up a Row in the House | of Commons | BARREL | of MISCHIEF | QUASSIA | COCUS INDICUS | Whitbread's | Entire | BUTT | OPIUM | Political Divinity | by Sam | Froth | The Wick | -ed shall | be caught | in the | work of | their own | hands | Essay | upon | Political | Brewing | without | Malt or | Hops | The Sand-Hill of Opposition | BROAD-BOTTOM LADER OF AMBITION | Hackney Addresses | Tag, Rag & Bob Tail | City Addresses | Waithman | Quin | Coombe | & Rabble | Westminster Address | Wishart | West | Finnery | Bill Saones | Fools [...] Paper | for Broad Bottom | Stationary | from the P--masters | for Attacks | on Ministry"; lettered below image: "Js Gillray inv't & f't | OVERTHROW of the REPUBLICAN-BABEL. | "and they said, Go to, let us build to us a City and a Tower, whose top may reach to Heavens, | and let us make us a name! - But they were sacttered abroad upon the face of the Earth; | and they left off to build the City." Gen's Chap. XI"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.803
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
British Museum, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, 11 volumes in 12, British Museum Publications, London, no. 11327, NE55 G7 L63 A52 1978 (YCBA)