- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 April 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.04.12.01.2+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Twenty-six members of the old and new ministries sit around a card table; North and Fox (the latter with a fox's head) appearing most prominently, together with Thurlow, Grey Cooper, the Duke of Richmond, John Dunning, Wilkes, Barré, and John Cavendish
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Extensively annotated on verso in an unknown hand with descriptions of persons potrayed in the image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 12th, 1782 by H. Humphrey, No. 118 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cooper, Grey, Sir, ca. 1726-1801, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1746-1815, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Politics and government, Card games, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Banco to the knave [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 May 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.05.10.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies, America (shownas an Indian), France, Spain and Holland run away with the spoils
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia's assassination, or, The republicans amusement and Republicans amusement
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from The art of poetry on a new plan by Oliver Goldsmith, 1761, v. 2, p. 147., 1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 25 x 36 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 10th, 1782, by E. D'Archery, St. James Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Vandalism, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britania's assassination, or, The republicans amusement [graphic].