- Creator:
- Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 9, 1783.
- Call Number:
- 783.04.09.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On a podium in front of a booth signed "Treasury," Lord North offers a "Coalition Pay" ladle filled with coins to Charles Fox (depicted with fox's body and human face) sitting in a contraption with a slit for mail and signed "American Letter Box." More coins are in the "Treasu[r]y Bucket" in North's other hand. Fox wears a fool's cap signed, "Vox populi." Behind North, the Duke of Portland, the new prime minister, stands in the booth's door, while William Petty, Lord Shelburne, watches the performance from the stairs to the podium. A group of spectators stands in front of the booth
- Description:
- Title from item. and John Boyne operated his printing business at this address from 1783-1784. See British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs No. 2 Shoe Lane Fleet St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Coins, Spectators, Fools' caps, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The only booth in the fair Portland & Co late Shelburne [graphic] / I. Boyne invet. & exc
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