The lord of the vineyard [graphic].

Description

Title: The lord of the vineyard [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 April 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. April 3d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Abstract: The Duke of Portland, the new prime minister, leans over the gate to "Portland Place" handing down to Fox and North their reward in the form of an enormous bunch of grapes. Fox grasps the whole bunch taking a bite out of it while North, standing on his tiptoes with his arms wide open, cannot reach it. (In the verses below the title, as in other satires on the Coalition, North is the badger.)
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Six lines of verse below title: Says the badger to the fox, we're in the right box ...
1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 34.2 x 23.5 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 1 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 36.2 x 26.0 cm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1783
Etchings England London 1783
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic): Politics and government
Grapes
Gates
Foxes
Subjects: Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
Grapes
Gates
Foxes
England > 1783
England > London > 1783
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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