The image in the center of the plate shows a fox seated on a throne placed in an outdoor setting, with a city and a river in the background. Behind the fox, a lion holding a flag decorated with the fleur-de-lis, removes the crown from fox's head. In front of the throne lie a few dead sheep while another one is being devoured by a fox. The text added above the image explains that "The following exact copy of a print published in the year 1628 is offered for the amusement of the public with Sir Richard Hill's verses delivered in the House of Commons on Monday the 8th of March 1784, entitling them His Majesty's most gracious answer to the mover [i.e., Fox] of the late humble (...) address."
Description:
Title from item., Impression without the publication statement., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., "Price 6d.", Copy of the title page to Gommersall's The tragedie of Lodovick Sforza (...) with contemporary text added., and Mounted to 33 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foxes, Lions, Sheep, Thrones, Scepters, Crowns, and Cities & towns
The image in the center of the plate shows a fox seated on a throne placed in an outdoor setting, with a city and a river in the background. Behind the fox, a lion holding a flag decorated with the fleur-de-lis, removes the crown from fox's head. In front of the throne lie a few dead sheep while another one is being devoured by a fox. The text added above the image explains that "The following exact copy of a print published in the year 1628 is offered for the amusement of the public with Sir Richard Hill's verses delivered in the House of Commons on Monday the 8th of March 1784, entitling them His Majesty's most gracious answer to the mover [i.e., Fox] of the late humble (...) address." and "A copy of the title-page by T. Cecill to Gomersall's 'The Tragedie of Ludovick Sforza Duke of Millan'. It decorates the centre of a plate engraved with words attacking Fox. A fox seated on a throne holding a sceptre, apparently unconscious of a lion (France) which stands behind him on its hind-legs and removes his crown. The lion (right) holds a fleur-de-lis flag. In the foreground a fox (Sforza) is worrying a sheep; behind is a group of dead sheep. The fox is seated on rising ground beside a river, on the farther shore of which is a closely built town. At the bottom of the design is engraved, 'London. Printed, for John Marriott. 1628. Tho: Cecill. sculp.' Above the design is engraved: 'The following exact Copy of a Print published in the Year 1628 is offered for the Amusement of the Public With Sir Richard Hill's Verses delivered in the House of Commons on Monday the 8th of March 1784, entitling them His Majesty's most gracious Answer to the Mover of the late humble, loyal, dutiful and respectful Address.' Hill's verses are engraved on the left side of the print, with annotations on the right; they are printed in 'Parl. Hist.' xxiv. 743-4. They profess to be George III's answer to the Address to the king to remove his Ministers, moved by Fox on 1 Mar., which the king answered on 4 Mar. Ibid., pp. 699 ff. and 717-18. Hill's line, "All hail to thee Great Carlo Khan!" is annotated: Alluding to the print of Mr Fox riding upon an Elephant in the character of Carlo Khan (see BMSat 6276). North answered Hill saying, "it was exactly that kind of idle nonsense about Carlo Khan, &c, that had misled the weak part of the country so strangely". Ibid., p. 744. Cf. BMSat 6449. In the centre, beneath the print of Sforza, is engraved: 'A Fox thus mounted on a Throne, Would give the People cause to moan, But Freemen will by Englands Laws, Support their King & Pitts great cause.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., "Price 6d.", Copy of the title page to Gommersall's The tragedie of Ludovick Sforza (...) with contemporary text added., and Mounted to 28 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd 29th March, 1784, by Wm. Leak, 76 Wood Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foxes, Lions, Sheep, Thrones, Scepters, Crowns, and Cities & towns
William Pitt, dressed in a tunic tied with "Cestus of virtue" and a helmet inscribed, "Wisdom," and decorated with feathers and laurel wreath, stands between two lion-like beasts with the faces of Lord North and Charles Fox. North rears up as Pitt pulls on his tongue with forceps. On the opposite side, Fox lies on the ground bleeding from his mouth while Pitt holds a heart inscribed, "Indostan," above his body. A crown labeled, "Asia," fallen from Fox's head, lies at Pitt's feet. The title refers to freedom of the City given Pitt by the Grocers' Guild
Alternative Title:
Force of virtue and London prentice
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Original issue of no. 6447 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted to 28 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Cattermoul, No. 376, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
William Pitt, dressed in a tunic tied with "Cestus of virtue" and a helmet inscribed, "Wisdom," and decorated with feathers and laurel wreath, stands between two lion-like beasts with the faces of Lord North and Charles Fox. North rears up as Pitt pulls on his tongue with forceps. On the opposite side, Fox lies on the ground bleeding from his mouth while Pitt holds a heart inscribed, "Indostan," above his body. A crown labeled, "Asia," fallen from Fox's head, lies at Pitt's feet. The title refers to freedom of the City given Pitt by the Grocers' Guild
Alternative Title:
Force of virtue and London prentice
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reprint of no. 6447 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires,v. 65; the original publisher's statement burnished from the plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. 11 March 1784 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
George III and Charles Fox, with a fox's head, try to pull the royal crown from each other's hands. Fox is helped by Lord North who wants the share of the crown, while the King is being pulled back by his coat-tails by Pitt who warns him that Fox's and North's ambition "knows no bounds."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Place of publication from that of the Rambler's Magazine., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Rambler's magazine, 1784., and Contemporary drawing of two heads on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Confrontations, Crowns, and Clothing & dress
Depicts Charles James Fox, rising out of his chair to reach with outstretched arms for a crown which descends on a cloud from the left. On the floor is a dice box, and in Fox's pocket may be seen a roll of papers marked A Bill for ref[orming the] East India [Company]. A quotation from Macbeth is present beneath the image, which is a commentary on Fox's ambition as evinced by his proposed India Bill
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Crowns, and Clothing & dress