An Irish howl [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Pubd. March 1st, 1799, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, for the Anti Jacobin Review
[1 March 1799] - Copyright Date:
- [1 March 1799]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 25 x 31 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1799, v. 2, page 233
Temporary local subject terms: United Irishmen -- Maps: map of Ireland torn by demons -- Reference to the French Revolution -- Allusion to the Directory -- Allusion to anarchy -- Pictures: le tableau parlant.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-6-77.
Mounted to 31 x 37 cm. - Abstract:
- Plate from the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', ii. 233: On the extreme right the Devil holds up a canvas, 'le Tableau Parlant', which terrifies twelve Irishmen grouped round an oblong table. In their alarm the heavy table has been overturned, some are on the ground, others (left) flee in terror. The Devil, who looks round the edge of his picture, wears a bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Anarchy'; labels hang from his horn: 'Blasph[emy]' and 'Parracide'. He says "Stew it well - It cannot be Overdone for you and me". In the picture, 'Irish Stew I A Favourite Disk for French Palates', two French soldiers superintend the boiling of a Revolutionary Pot, in which stand three naked Irishmen shrieking for mercy; one says: "Liberty of being Stewed"; the other, "Equality - all to be stewed en Masse". Above the table five harpies fly off with a tattered cloth inscribed 'Map of Ireland'. They are intended for the Directors, three having belts inscribed 'Tallien' (not a Director), 'Barras', and 'Le Paux'. On the table is a paper, 'United Irishmen'. The Irishmen make gestures of terror or despair. Most look at the picture, one looks upwards, saying: "Poor Erin How thourt torn to pieces by these five Harpies." A fugitive looks round to say "What your own A. O Connor too!" A lawyer (? Curran): "So much for Republicani[sm] and glorious Independence! No Money! No Lawyer." A monk: "By St Patrick a complete Catholic Emancipation." Three others say: "I now howl in Vain - We are all gone to Pot"; "Brother John [Bull] would not have treated us so -" ; "My Merits with the Republic should have saved me, but I find we must all stew together" [he is perhaps Grattan]; "A Radical Reform by Jasus". Beside the last speaker, a ragged peasant, lies a bundle of pikes, &c.
- Associated Names:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]
Laurie & Whittle [Publisher] - Topics:
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Barras, Paul, vicomte de, 1755-1829
Demons
Devil
Harvey, Francis
Lawyers
Monks
Riviere & Son
Tallien, Jean-Lambert, 1767-1820 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1799
Periodical illustrations
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1799 - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 799.03.01.04+ Impression 1
- Orbis Record:
- 8184907
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr09423
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10941320
- PID:
- digcoll:950922
