William Pitt, in a dramatic pose, reaches up with his right hand for a sword presented to him by three cherubs encouraging him to defend King and country. With his other hand he indicates a volume inscribed, "Locke on the human understanding" on the table behind him. Above the table hangs a portrait of Lord Chatham. Members and supporters of the North-Fox coalition look on through an open window, gathered under a flag labeled "The Harmonic Society."
Description:
Title from item., Under title: "Third sketch"., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 18, 1784, as the act directs by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Tables, Daggers & swords, and Clothing & dress
In the lower left corner stands Lord North, his right arm raised, delivering a speech while Cornwall, the Speaker, is looking at him from his chair in the upper left corner of the image. On the right, rising from a cloud, are Fox and Burke, both violently gesticulating in their attack on North. Below the figures of North and Fox are excerpts from their speeches attacking each other before forming coalition
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Companion print to British Museum catalogue 6188.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Public speaking, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Outside the door of a house, a giant Lord North stands with a more diminutively-rendered Fox. They are caricatured as street musicians, North beating on a tambourine and Fox playing the hurdy-gurdy as he holds out his hat to receive food scraps from a maid in the doorway
Alternative Title:
Ways and means for 1784
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd as [the] act directs by J. Langham, Russell Street, Covt. Garden
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Street musicians, Tambourines, Organ grinders, and Clothing & dress