Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), Prime Minister
Sitter associated with 48 portraits
Tory statesman. In office almost continuously for thirty years as Foreign Secretary under Addington (1801-3), was Home Secretary under Pitt (1804) and rose to be Prime Minister from 1812-27. Leading an unusually balanced Tory Cabinet, he steered his administration through the Napoleonic Wars and their turbulent aftermath in the 1820s when there was intense popular agitation in Britain.
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 18 May 1803
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storming Heaven; - with, the gods alarmed for their everlasting-abodes'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, engraving and aquatint, published 1 May 1804
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'End of the Irish farce of Catholic Emancipation'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 17 May 1805
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'Political mathematician's, shaking the Broad Bottom'd hemispheres'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and engraving, published 9 January 1807
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 February 1807
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'Charon's boat - or - the ghost's of "All the Talents" taking their last voyage'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 16 July 1807
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'British tars, towing the Danish fleet into harbour'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 1 October 1807
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'Delicious dreams! - Castles in the air! - Glorious prospects!'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 10 April 1808
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'Broad-bottom drones storming the hive - wasps, hornets & bumble bees, joining in the attack'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 2 May 1808
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, engraving and aquatint, published 22 March 1808
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'Disciples catching the mantle: - the spirit of darkness overshadowing the priests of Baal'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 25 June 1808
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'An old English-gentleman pester'd by servants wanting places'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 16 May 1809
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Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
by Henry Meyer, published by Robert Cribb, after John Hoppner
mezzotint, published 14 April 1815
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Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
by Henry Meyer, published by Robert Cribb, after John Hoppner
mezzotint, published 14 April 1815
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Steward's Court of the Manor of Torre Devon
attributed to Theodore Lane, published by George Humphrey
etching, published December 1820
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The Time Piece! & Cunning Jack o' both sides
possibly by (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey
etching, published June 1820
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The Royal Extinguisher, or the King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians
by George Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey
etching, published 7 April 1821
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A Touch of the Palpable Obscure
by John Doyle, published by Thomas McLean
lithograph, published 31 March 1830
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Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
by John Richardson Jackson, published by Henry Graves & Co, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
mezzotint, published 1 July 1845
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Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
by William Thomas Fry, published by Fisher Son & Co, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
stipple engraving, published 1847
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