- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 9. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment
- Alternative Title:
- Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue published ca. August 1782, see no. 6027 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 41., and On leaf 9 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil, Gambling, Catholicism, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately August 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.00.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment
- Alternative Title:
- Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possible remnants of burnished imprint in lower right, with the publisher name "E. D'Achery" faintly visible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil, Gambling, Catholicism, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 April 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.04.02.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III sleeps on his throne while Fox introduces Lord North to the Devil pulling him by his neck cloth. On the right Sandwich and Germain, members of the previous administration, are being carried off by a demon through a doorway labelled Pandaemonium, as Mansfield and Bute are hurried in the same direction
- Alternative Title:
- Warm berth for the old administration
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue, with altered date in imprint; originally published April 2, 1782, by W. Brown., Text etched below title: Take the wicked from before the king, & his throne shall be establish'd in righteousness., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 2d, 1783, by W. Humphrey
- 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, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Devil, Sleeping, Thrones, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A warm birth for the old administration [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 August 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.02.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depicts a fox (Charles James Fox) hanging from a gibbet around which dance members of the Conway family, headed by a blindfolded General Conway who is led by the nose by Shelburne. The Conways are all depicted as rats, with the exception of General Conway and his brother Lord Hertford. Shelburne is shown Janus-like with two faces, his own and that of the Devil. Refers to the resignation of Fox after Shelburne's appointment and Conway's support of the latter. A sequel to British Museum satire 5966
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Hon. Edward Conway, Cannon of Christ Church, 1757-1785 -- Ministries: fall of Rockingham's ministry --Literature: allusion to Little Red Riding Hood -- Conway family as rats -- Mottoes: sic transit gloria mund.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. August 2d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Rats, Foxes, Blindfolds, Gallows, Devil, and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The jubilee [graphic].