- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.01.00.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Fox, as Belial, seated in a depression in the centre of a large mass resembling a balloon in process of deflation, which is inscribed Publica Fides. Four vertical posts marked with figures seem intended to measure the (rapidly decreasing) degree of Publica Fides on which Fox can still count.... Fox is a fat, almost-naked creature, with horns and talons.... An attack on the Coalition ... An illustration of the lines: 'Belial,...the fleshiest Incubus', Paradise Regained..."--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image. and Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Devil
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The incubus. 1784 [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 9 March 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.03.09.02.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the lower left corner stands Lord North, his right arm raised, delivering a speech while Cornwall, the Speaker, is looking at him from his chair in the upper left corner of the image. On the right, rising from a cloud, are Fox and Burke, both violently gesticulating in their attack on North. Below the figures of North and Fox are excerpts from their speeches attacking each other before forming coalition
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Companion print to British Museum catalogue 6188.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
- Subject (Topic):
- Public speaking, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > War [graphic].