- Titles An Old English Gentleman Pestered by Servants Wanting Places (Proper)
- Artist James Gillray, British, 1757 - 1815
- Medium hand-colored etching
- Dimensions sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 5/8 in. (22.2 × 32.1 cm) plate: 8 5/8 × 11 1/4 in. (21.9 × 28.6 cm) image: 7 7/16 × 10 in. (18.9 × 25.4 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.677.1998
- Work Type print
- Classification Prints
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks Stamp, verso, upper left, in faded blue ink: H [inside box, connected to box with three lines] Stamp, verso, lower left, in red ink: COPYRIGHT OF / BBC HULTON PICTURE LIBRARY Stamp, verso, upper right, in black ink: H 100390 H
- Inscription Recto, in plate, below image center, printed: an Old English Gentleman pester'd by Servants wanting Places. In plate, below image left, printed: Ja s[superscript]. Gillray del o[superscript]. In plate, bottom center, printed: London. Publshed by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood Edinburgh. In image, top center, printed: --Well Gentlemen, I have taken a peep at you all, but I am afraid that you won't do-- for some of you are too Heavy & Broad Bottom'd for Service & the rest seem to have no Bottom at all, --so Gentlemen I think I shall be content with my old Servants. In image, surrounding center thought bubble, printed [clockwise beginning right of center gentleman]: Ha! Ha! Ha! throw you a Bone / for what! a Bone to a poor silly / Grey Houn'd that can only yelp / & neither Bite nor drive the French Wolf / from the Door. Pray throw me a Bone -- your grace -- a bone --a word in your Favor Mr. T -- I fear / that I shall not find a world of that kind / in all England Pray Mr. Chancellor P_ do speak / a word in our Favor to his Honor Pray Mr. Secretary C. has his Honor / any wish for our Services? Not the least wish I believe I can look after your Honors Estates in Ireland / or take care of your Farms at Windsor! Does your Honor want a Steady / Broad Bottom'd Coachman to drive you We'll do any Thing / and in any Way If his Honor wants an Honest Porter I'm his Man. Out with you / & be damm'd Does his Honor want a pair of Irish chairman / to carry his Honor clean thro the mud Does his Honor want a partner / in Business -- ask him Townsend Does his Honor want a Patriotic Reformer. Take care of your / baskets Gentlemen / Broad bottom Pray your Honor remember Doctor Slop / your Old Apothecary who physick'd the French His Honor don't take any notice of / the civil speeches I lately made, -- I wish that his Honor would / but give a Nod this way. Ego! I have now had my Hat is / my hand for this Fortnight in hopes / of an opportunity to make a Bow. Top right corner, in black ink, handwritten: F Verso, along right side, oriented sideways, printed: George III is surrounded by a host of applicants for places. Lord Grenville / say's "Does your Honour want a steady Broad-bottomed Coachman..." Marquis / of Buckingham says "We'll do anything," Early Temple adds "In any way." Lord / Grey depicted as a greyhound, has his paws on the Duke of Portland. Tierney / is jogging Percevals elbow, and says "Pray Mr Chancellor P..." Sheridean is / soliciting Canning "Pray Mr Secretary C......". The Duke of Bedford says "I can look after your honours estates in Ireland..." Windum: "his Honour dont take any notice of the speeches I lately made." Lord Moira: "I wish that / his honour would but give a nod this way." Erskine "Ego I have had my hat / in my ...." Lord Sidmouth, bowin with his hat in his left hand and a cathartic / "If your Honour wants an honest Porter...." Upper left, in pencil: H 1--- [illeg., text obscured from removal of old hinges] ) 1800-1830 / C/R GEORGE III / C/R GREY chas / C/R BUCKINGHAM / C/R BEDFORD / C/R SIDMOUTH, H.A. Upper right, in black ink: [handwritten]eN ang[?] [printed] 5748[?]6 Center, in pencil: J. G. fecite - May 16 = 1809 Bottom left, in pencil: SOLD [inscribed in circle]
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