- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.01.00.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- In a cave with Westminster Bridge visible in the background at left, three witches stand around their cauldron, from which flames ascend, together with the heads of Fox, North, and Burke. The witches add other ingredients to the cauldron, including a paper marked rebellion, while one hag opens a sack from which emerge Thomas Erskine, and John Lee in the shape of a snake. An attack on the Coalition and the India Bill. Initials FN in lower right of image probably refer to Fox-North coalition
- Alternative Title:
- Birth of the plagues of England
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823., and Lee, John, 1733-1793.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Witches, and Cauldrons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The pit of Acheron, or, The birth of the plagues of England [graphic]
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