The state nurses [graphic].

Description

Title: The state nurses [graphic].
Creator: Barrow, J., active 1782-1785, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [11 March 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by H. Humphrey, March 11, 1784, No. 50 New Bond Street
Abstract: Charles Fox, dressed as a nurse, stands in front of a brick house, indicating an empty cradle with a label, "Reynard state cradle wrocker." Lord North, also in nurse's clothes, leans out the window above the entrance holding out a dirty diaper. On the wall to his left is pasted advertisement for employment the "nurses" seek, referring both the the defeat of Fox-North Coalition and Fox's close association with the Prince of Wales
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Place of publication from address.
Mounted to 41 x 28 cm.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 349 x 247 mm, on sheet 37 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching with stipple, hand-colored ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
England
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic): Politics and government
Governesses
Cradles
Houses
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
Governesses
Cradles
Houses > England > 1780-1790
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
England > 1784
England > London > 1784

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