- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 June 1783] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 11. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles James Fox, brandishing a whip, is depicted riding the old White Horse of Hanover into a ravine, with the words "Aut Cromwell aut nihil...", a saddle bag labelled "enjoyments" before him, and a basket behind, labelled "hopes and expectations" which contains George III's head on a pike, a crown pierced by a sword, and a torn Magna Carta. Refers to Fox's alleged sympathies with French and Spanish interests
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower left corner and with scatology removed from image. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6239 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 48., Temporary local subject terms: Prudery., and On leaf 11 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 3d, 1783, by J. Williams, Strand, No. 227 and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Horseback riding, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sun setting in a fog, with the old Hanover hack descending [graphic]
Search
Limit your search
- Clothing & dressโ[remove]2
- Horseback ridingโ[remove]2
- Politics and government2
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-18062
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820โ[remove]2
Current results range from 1783 to 1868