- 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].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 11. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Sir Thomas Rumbold is depicted vomiting his ill-gotten wealth into a chamber pot decorated with a thistle. Kneeling beside it and embracing the chamber pot is Henry Dundas, Lord Advocate of Scotland who oversaw the prosecution of Rumbold in 1782-3. Rumbold's ankles are chained to two weights signed "Sureties," a reference to restriction on his leaving the country before the case was dropped in 1783. He is supported by his son, Captain Rumbold of 1st Life Guards, dressed in his regimentals and wearing a gorget. Behind them, an Englishman gallops on an elephant saddled with an enormous bag signed "Roupees." An Indian sitting behind him is holding a tall parasol above his head
- Alternative Title:
- Lord Advocates amusement
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6169 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?], Text in upper left margin: Political characters & caracatures of 1783. No. 1., and On leaf 11 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jan. 21, 1783, by E. D'Archery, St. James's Street and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, and India.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791, Rumbold, Richard William, Captain, 1760-1786, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Gorgets (Military insignia), Coins, Elephants, Vomiting, Chamber pots, Military uniforms, British, Clothing & dress, and Colonies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The nabob rumbled, or, A Lord Advocates amusement [graphic].
- Creator:
- Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 9, 1783.
- Call Number:
- 783.04.09.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On a podium in front of a booth signed "Treasury," Lord North offers a "Coalition Pay" ladle filled with coins to Charles Fox (depicted with fox's body and human face) sitting in a contraption with a slit for mail and signed "American Letter Box." More coins are in the "Treasu[r]y Bucket" in North's other hand. Fox wears a fool's cap signed, "Vox populi." Behind North, the Duke of Portland, the new prime minister, stands in the booth's door, while William Petty, Lord Shelburne, watches the performance from the stairs to the podium. A group of spectators stands in front of the booth
- Description:
- Title from item. and John Boyne operated his printing business at this address from 1783-1784. See British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs No. 2 Shoe Lane Fleet St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Coins, Spectators, Fools' caps, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The only booth in the fair Portland & Co late Shelburne [graphic] / I. Boyne invet. & exc