Irish-British politician, playwright and writer (1751-1816)

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Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Aquatint after J. Gillray, 1806.

Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.

William Pitt the younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.

A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.

Fox running out of the House of Commons in the middle of a debate with William Pitt the younger about the Regency crisis: he is excreting as he runs, which refers to a bout of dysentery he caught on route from Bologna. Etching by J. Gillray, 1788.

The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.

A whale with the head of the Prince Regent spouts two streams inscribed "The liquor of oblivion" and "The dew of favour", referring to his desertion of the Whigs and to favours bestowed on the Tories. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.

William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.

Writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.

William Pitt the younger leads a group of ministers out of the Treasury as the Opposition in the guise of the rabble are held back by a grenadier sentry holding a bayonet. Etching by J. Gillray.

A group of men from the Ministry sit drinking around a table in celebration of the Catholic emancipation bill as the ghost of Charles James Fox appears on the right and Sheridan falls off his chair to vomit over a copy of a petition. Engraving by Adolphe after W. O'Keefe, 1807.

William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1810.

Betsy Sheridan's journal : letters from Sheridan's sister, 1784-1786 and 1788-1790 / Edited by William Le Fanu.

The critic, or, Tragedy rehearsed, a dramatic piece / by R.B. Sheridan. With prefatory remarks ... faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres royal. By W. Oxberry, comedian.

[Richard Brinsley Sheridan correspondence].

History of the proceedings of the committee appointed by the general meeting of apothecaries, chemists, and druggists in London, for the purpose of obtaining relief from the hardships imposed on the dealers in medicine, by certain clauses and provisions contained in the new Medicine Act, passed June 3, 1802, together with a view of the Act, as it now stands, in its ameliorated state; to which are added the substance of every clause in the acts of June 3 1802, and July 4 1803 and the clauses of both these Acts, collated ... consolidated and explained ... With explanatory notes and observations / [William Chamberlaine].

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The critic, or, Tragedy rehearsed, a dramatic piece / by R.B. Sheridan. With prefatory remarks ... faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres royal. By W. Oxberry, comedian.

[Richard Brinsley Sheridan correspondence].

Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Images from the collections

Images by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Images featuring Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Works from the collections

The critic, or, Tragedy rehearsed, a dramatic piece / by R.B. Sheridan. With prefatory remarks ... faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres royal. By W. Oxberry, comedian.

[Richard Brinsley Sheridan correspondence].

Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.

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