The fox and stork [graphic]

Description

Title: The fox and stork [graphic]
Creator: Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 January 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by W. Humphrey Jany. 14, 1783, No. 227 Strand
Abstract: A stork with the head of Shelburne is shown with its beak buried in the long neck of a glass jar labeled "The Treasury Jar". He smiles triumphantly as he picks up the gold guineas at the bottom; around his neck is the Garter ribbon. To his left is a fox with the bushy eyebrows, bulbous nose, and hairy chin of Charles Fox; he stands with his paws on the jar and a melancholy expression at the inaccessible treasure
Description: Title from caption below image.
Originally published in 14 January 1783 by William Richardson. Cf. No. 6166 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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Provenance: Andrew Edmunds; 30 September 2011.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 16.6 x 24.4 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1783
Etchings England London 1783
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Great Britain. Treasury.
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain. Treasury
England > 1783
England > London > 1783
J Whatman

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