Charles Fox, dressed as an Asian prince, stands in an arrogant pose looking over his right shoulder. In his left hand is a rolled document, perhaps the India Bill
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and "Plate 1" above design on the right.
Charles Fox on the left and Lord North on the right, both stripped down to their breeches and shoes, engage in a boxing duel. The text etched above their heads indicates mutual animosity, an unfounded accusation
Description:
Title from item., "Second sketch" precedes publication statement., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 9, 1784 as the act directs, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Charles Fox, lying on the ground with his head next to a cask of wine, drinks the wine pouring from the hole in it. He looks up at the naked figure of Lord North covered only with garlands of grapes and grape leaves and sitting astride the cask. North holds a bunch of grapes in one hand and in the other an open bottle of wine that he pours over Fox
Alternative Title:
Friendly drop
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 26 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by E. Hedges, N 92 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Barrels, Wine, Eating & drinking, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 15. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left, William Pitt, his arms and one leg raised, is looking up at the East India House that he has just kicked toward Charles Fox who stands ready to toss it back. Behind Fox is a table with dice and a dice box on it. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. Behind Pitt an open book inscribed, "Blackstone," indicates his barrister's education
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6406 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 117-8., and On leaf 15 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and East India Company.
On the left, William Pitt, his arms and one leg raised, is looking up at the East India House that he has just kicked toward Charles Fox who stands ready to toss it back. Behind Fox is a table with dice and a dice box on it. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. Behind Pitt an open book inscribed, "Blackstone," indicates his barrister's education
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and East India Company.
In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stands nervously with his hat tucked under his arm. A clergyman with spectacles, his back to the two other gentlemen, perusing the shelves, stops to examine a volume. In the left foreground on the floor, in front of a library step stool, is a pile of books. Another pile of books lies in the right foreground in front of a door with a glass panel and curtains in the top half. To the left of the door is a slooping writing table with paper, ink stand, and pen
Alternative Title:
Bookseller and author
Description:
Title from item. and Attributed by Grego and George to Rowlandson who occasionally published under Henry Wigstead's name.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Quotation from Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, A midsummer night's dream, iii.i.121 -- Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Taverns: Exterior of Shakespeare Tavern -- Covent Garden: Piazza -- Portico of St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Clergy: Jesuits -- Tinkers -- Political grapes -- Asses' heads
Alternative Title:
Bottom Snout and Quince
Description:
Title from item., Traces of burnished imprint line above the title., Text following title: vide Shakespeare Mid-summer night dream., Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis., and Mounted to 46 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published April 15, 1784, by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate St.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
William Pitt, leaning on a large anchor, holds his left hand over the diminutive figures of Charles Fox and Lord North who are shown as 'nobodies,' with their heads resting on top of their breeches. From a cloud over Pitt's irradiated head extends a hand holding a star on a ribbon signifying a "reward of virtue." Above Fox's and North's heads, a grouping of oriental-looking "air castles on an improved plan" floats on another cloud, as a reminder of the defeat of Fox's East India bill
Alternative Title:
Political nobodies
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published 20th March 1784, by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Anchors, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of imprint statement., Printmaker and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of text below the image, followed by four lines of verses., Temporary local subject terms: Hot air balloons -- Bipartite masks: Fox on both sides -- Allusion to East India Bill, 1783 -- Boats -- Flags -- Burlesqued coats of arms: Devonshire -- Frenchmen: Petit-maitres -- Spy-glasses -- Cuckolds., Partial watermark in center of left side of sheet., and Mounted to 38 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act direts [sic], by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834