<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The Rt. honble. catch singers [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[2 May 1783]</dc:date><dc:date>[approximately 1868?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Charles Fox and Lord North sit on a bench, raising together a two-handled tankard in celebration of the coalition's victory. North (as Boreas) blows at the froth spilling it carelessly on a document inscribed "Westminster Petition" thus implying the new ministry's contempt for the Westminster Association's demands for parliamentary reform</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower left corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6225 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate from: Caricatures drawn &amp; etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &amp;c. [London] : [Field &amp; Tuer], [ca. 1868?]</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 48.</dc:description><dc:description>Temporary local subject terms: Coalition: Fox and North -- Westminster Petition, May 1783 -- Two-handled tankards.</dc:description><dc:description>On leaf 4 of: Caricatures drawn &amp; etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &amp;c.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>