- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 April 1783] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 2. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves."
- Alternative Title:
- Coal-heavers
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6213 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?], and On leaf 2 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Corruption, Coins, Obesity, Bags, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cole-heavers [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 April 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.04.16.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves."
- Alternative Title:
- Coal-heavers
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Corruption, Coins, Obesity, Bags, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cole-heavers [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.03.01.01 impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scale is depicted in which Lord North, dressed as a washerwoman, is weighed down with the assistance of Fox (a fox on the cross beam). Or the right, Lord Shelburne, depicted as a Jesuit in monastic garb wearing the ribbon of a Knight of the Garter and holding a money bag signed "Blessings of Peace" in his right hand, sits in the upper pan of the balance, with his tombstone below. The attacks of the North-Fox coalition eventually led to Shelburne's stepping down in February 1783
- Alternative Title:
- Up with the Jesuit
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 1st, 1783 by A. Killingbeck, Dover Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Scales, Laundresses, Monks, Foxes, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The washerwoman; up with the Jesuit [graphic].