- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.02.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lord North and Charles Fox stand bound together by a ribbon signed "Tie of interest" looped around their necks. North holds in his left hand a sheet of paper with the popular ballad, "Vicar of Bray," while Fox points to the list of his own "Debts of honour" (gambling debts). Playing cards and dice spread on the table are partially covered by the "Plan for disarming the I__h V____rs" (Irish Volunteers). A large sack inscribed "Budget" lies on the floor. Behind North hangs an oval bust portrait of him dressed as a cleric and inscribed "Vicar of Bray." Behind Fox is a similar portrait of him with a rope on his neck inscribed "Sergius Cataline." Above are three paintings showing, from left to right, two men hanging from a gibbet with the executioner's cart pulling away, the "State Vessel" blown down the "Stream of Corruption" by "Boreas" [North], and a fox running away with a goose in his mouth
- Description:
- Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Two columns each with six lines of verse below the image.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coalition [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1783?]
- Call Number:
- 783.01.03.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the right holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Publication date conjectured and subject identified from a similar print by James Bretherton., Reduced and reversed copy of a similar print by James Bretherton., and In mirror-image micro-writing in lower left of image: "My Lord."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809,
- Subject (Topic):
- Staffs (Sticks) and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Duke of Portland] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.00.00.06.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man in a coat with military facings, identified as Woodford Rice, stands in the middle of a room holding in his left hand a book open to the title page, "The Rutland Volunteers," and with a frontispiece that is a copy of this print. In the background, a military hat and a sword lie on a chair, togetehr with table with writing materials on it. Above the table hangs a plan depicting General Burgoyne's position against the French and Spanish armies at Villa Vellia Ford in 1762 where Captain Rice distiguished himself in the battle
- Description:
- Title and publication date from no. 6316, of which this print appears to be a variant. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Rice, Woodford, -1784.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, Furniture, Inkstands, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Woodford Rice Esq.] [graphic].