The shield of the Coalition Arms rests on the prostrate figure of the King who tries to free himself from his burden. His efforts are resisted by two supporters of the shield, Lord North (dexter) and Charles Fox (sinister) who each press him down with a foot. North holds a flag with two dancing devils and sign "Coalition," and a small flag with thirteen stripes. Fox holds a stick with a tattered liberty cap on its top. The shield is divided into four quarters. In the first one, Burke, standing under the sign, "Reform bill," pulls a lion's teeth. In the second, the "implements of gambling" are combined with an axe and the head of "Charles Martyr" [i.e., Charles I]. In the third, Fox, shown as a fox, and North, hang from a gallows. In the fourth, a seated figure of Britannia with an olive branch is drawn upside down. The whole is supported by a motto, "Neck or nothing."
Description:
The printed explanation of the arms below the plate begins: "Lately granted by a new College of Arms to two illustrious persons for their numerous and distinguished virtues. 'Go and do thou likewise.'" and "Price one shilling."
Publisher:
Published by M. Smith, March 8, 1784, and sold at No. 46 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Coats of arms, Liberty cap, Foxes, Lions, Gambling, Gallows, and Clothing & dress
Charles Fox, in an armor with shield and spear and a barber's basin for a helmet, marches towards the "Treasurey" building that has windmill sails on it with Pitt's head at their center. Fox is encouraged in his endeavor by a timid-looking Lord North who pats his posterior
Alternative Title:
Don Quixote and his squire Sancho attacking a windmill
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, March 2d 1784 by S. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., and Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Windmills, Armor, and Clothing & dress
Lord North, Charles Fox and Edmund Burke take over the "Committe [sic] Room" of the East India Company. Burke, saying, "I will direct ye," pushes and boots out the door the Directors while Fox, standing in the middle of the room, excretes on the Company's charters. The satisfied-looking North stands next to Fox, his pocket overflowing with notes for large sums of money and stock. Behind them is a long table and the vacated "President's chair." In the corner to the left stand two crates filled with coins and signed "dollars," a bag of rupees and another one containing "a lack" [i.e., lakh, or one hundred thousand]. More coins are spilled on the floor in front of them
Alternative Title:
New ways & means and New ways and means
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Decbr. 81 [sic], 1783, by T. Wiggins, No. 9, Founders Court, Lothbury
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Interiors, Coins, Defecation, Kicking, and Clothing & dress
Lord North balances smugly on his left foot atop the beam of a pair of scales tipping the balance in favor of a very obese Charles Fox. Fox laughs at Lord Shelburne who remains suspended on the other scale, unable to bring it down despite stamping his feet. He is being enveloped by a cloud of gas labelled "anathema" being excreted by North. Above to the left, George III, blindfolded with a tartan handkerchief, with the crown suspended above his head, reaches out from a cloud to place an enourmous wig on North's head
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 41 x 30 cm.
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Pubd. July 11th, 1783 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Scales, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
"Three outgoing ministers are being knocked off their seats by their successors. The ministers are or have been seated on stones resembling mile-stones, engraved with the title of their office. They are all in profile to the left, facing their successors. Sandwich (centre), on a stone inscribed "First Lo--d of the Adm--ty", is being knocked backwards by Admiral Keppel, his successor, who threatens him with clenched fists, saying, "Strike your false Colours". Sandwich is saying "That broadside has broke my Bowsprit". From his pocket falls a small paper, "List of the navy". Round his waist is a rope with a broken end, the other end of which is still attached to an anchor which lies on the ground beside him, inscribed "Rotten for want of care". Lord North (right), very short and fat, is being knocked backwards by Fox, who has a fox's head. His stone is inscribed "Prime Minis--r"; he says, "O Reynard if I fall I shall burst". Fox says to him, "Buss Constable". By this stone He two bars inscribed "Soap" and a cask inscribed "12 Shilling Small Beer", to indicate the taxes recently proposed by North, see BMSat 5964, &c. To the left Lord Amherst, in general's uniform and wearing spurred top-boots, is seated on the stone inscribed "[Gen]eral of al[l] the Land Forces". Conway stands opposite him, threatening him with his fists and saying, "That Staff shall be mine". Amherst says, "Where's my reserved courage--oh-- its in my breeches". In the foreground (left) sits Britannia, her shield beside her, holding her spear and stretching out an arm towards Keppel. She says Britons strike home."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tack about is fair play and Lord Sandwich drove from his moorings
Description:
Title from item. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Humphrey no. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Fighting, and Clothing & dress
Lord North, fully clothed, sits in a washtub surrounded by scrub women or fish-wives, one of whom scrubs him with a brush, while another ladles soapy water over him. A fox (Charles James Fox) observes the scene from the extreme left, while the Devil stands holding a trident on the right. A response to North's unpopular increase in the duty on soap
Alternative Title:
Lord North in the suds
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Attributed to T. Colley in British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Evans Oxford Street Mch. 27, 1782 London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Soap, Taxation, Devil, Laundresses, Bathing, and Clothing & dress
Lord North at a wash-tub, washing clothes, with women standing round him. He stands in profile to the left stooping over a tub resting on a square stool or table; he is in his shirt, with his sleeves tucked up, but wearing his garter ribbon. His coat, with its star, lies on a stool behind him. He says, "Oh Lord I wish that Fox at the Devil". In the foreground (left) a fox with playing-cards under its feet, is biting a sack inscribed "Budgett". One woman, in profile to the right, holds up her hands, saying "Poor man he must want a drop of comfort [i.e. gin]". A woman standing full face, behind the tub, says, "Look at him, see what he has got by his Taxation". The third woman stands behind North holding a cloth, and saying "He deserves this Clout pin'd to his tail". A small child with curly hair is looking over the edge of the wash-tub. Over North's head is suspended an axe, suggestive of the impeachment and capital punishment with which he had been threatened by the Opposition and Press, cf. BMSat 5660, 5661, 5964, 6046, &c. [Threats of impeachment and the block had been made by Burke and Fox, e.g. by Fox, 27 Nov. 1781, 'Parl. Hist.' xxii. 692: Ministers would he trusted expiate their measures "on the public scaffold".] The room is poverty-stricken, with plaster coming off the walls. On the table (left) is bottle and glass. In the foreground (right) is a barrel lying on its side inscribed "Gin". On the wall hangs a paper or broadside inscribed, "to praise Lord North i thirst it (?) no ten for he has [? illegible forborne] to tax our Dear Gin".--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1, 1782 by E. Dachery [sic] No. 11 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Laundresses, Wash tubs, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Charles Fox, with a fox's head in a wig, tilts to one side a wheelbarrow in which Lord Shelburne (William Petty) lies on his back, his arms and legs uncomfortably outstretched. Above them, Lord North as Boreas among the clouds, directs a strong blast on Shelburne's face. The text below the title, "The Devil can't Stand against A Double force. Vide the Votes of H: C: on ye. 18. [i.e., 17th] of Feby 1783," refers to the first of the two votes that, following the new coalition between Fox and North, led to Shelburne's resignation on February 24, 1783
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Sheet mounted to 43 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by E. D. Achery [sic]. Feb. 28. 1783 St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Wheelbarrows, Winds, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Lord North, carrying a large sack labelled "budget, small beer, soap, tobacco, insurance, carriages, tea", references to his proposed taxes of 1782. The Devil stands behind helping support the sack, as North approaches an open window at which a fox (Charles James Fox) is standing
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Colley in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10th, 1782 by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Economic conditions, Lifting & carrying, Devil, and Clothing & dress