- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 6th January 1784.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., and Mounted on page 31 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 6th January 1784.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 31.1 x 22.8 cm, on sheet 33.3 x 24.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 19 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark: E & P 1801.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 6th January 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.01.06.01.3+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 19. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fox is depicted as Phaeton, falling from a chariot drawn by a lion and a unicorn. In Fox's hand is a scroll marked India Reform Bill. Verses from Gray's Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College are inscribed below title
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 3d., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, then whirl the wretch from high." Gray., and Mounted to 42 x 30 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Phaethon (Greek mythology), Chariots, Lions, Unicorns, and Falling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fall of Phaeton [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 January 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 25. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design with nine compartments depicting Charles James Fox and Lord North, (as a fox and badger respectively), in a series of scenes beginning with the fox beating the badger in a fight, and culminating in their wedding dance in the last compartment. The Devil is present in several frames, encouraging the union, meant to satirize the coalition
- Alternative Title:
- Coalition wedding
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 112-4., and On leaf 25 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Iany. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Foxes, Badgers, and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The loves of the fox and the badger, or, The coalition wedding [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.01.07.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A design with nine compartments depicting Charles James Fox and Lord North, (as a fox and badger respectively), in a series of scenes beginning with the fox beating the badger in a fight, and culminating in their wedding dance in the last compartment. The Devil is present in several frames, encouraging the union, meant to satirize the coalition
- Alternative Title:
- Coalition wedding
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Iany. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Foxes, Badgers, and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The loves of the fox and the badger, or, The coalition wedding [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1784?]
- Call Number:
- 784.00.00.16
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, on the right, embraces his old antagonist John Wilkes (on the left) who holds a staff of liberty upside down with the cap of liberty on the ground. Beneath the image is engraved the text from Isaiah, "The wolf shall dwell with the Lamb ..."
- Alternative Title:
- King & John Wilkes
- Description:
- Title from item. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820. and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Liberty cap and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The new coalition, 1784 [graphic].