Charles James Fox is depicted half length, scowling, in the center of a crowd of his political colleagues, who include on the left Portland, Keppel, Lord Carlisle, and on the right Lord Derby, Lord Stormont, Cavendish, Burke, and in the foreground North. At the top of the image is a lozenge containing the arms of Rockingham. A satire on Fox's fall from power, comparing the event with Lucifer's expulsion from Paradise
Alternative Title:
Pand monium and Pandemonium
Description:
Title from text at top of image. The coat of arms obscures the letter 'e'., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 4th., Nine lines of text from Milton's Paradise lost etched below image: All these and more came flocking, but with looks downcast and damp ..., and Mounted on page 31 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
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, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782.
Charles James Fox is depicted half length, scowling, in the center of a crowd of his political colleagues, who include on the left Portland, Keppel, Lord Carlisle, and on the right Lord Derby, Lord Stormont, Cavendish, Burke, and in the foreground North. At the top of the image is a lozenge containing the arms of Rockingham. A satire on Fox's fall from power, comparing the event with Lucifer's expulsion from Paradise
Alternative Title:
Pand monium and Pandemonium
Description:
Title from text at top of image. The coat of arms obscures the letter 'e'., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 4th., Nine lines of text from Milton's Paradise lost etched below image: All these and more came flocking, but with looks downcast and damp ..., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30.2 x 23.1 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 25 cm., and Mounted on leaf 17 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
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, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782.
Charles James Fox is depicted half length, scowling, in the center of a crowd of his political colleagues, who include on the left Portland, Keppel, Lord Carlisle, and on the right Lord Derby, Lord Stormont, Cavendish, Burke, and in the foreground North. At the top of the image is a lozenge containing the arms of Rockingham. A satire on Fox's fall from power, comparing the event with Lucifer's expulsion from Paradise
Alternative Title:
Pand monium and Pandemonium
Description:
Title from text at top of image. The coat of arms obscures the letter 'e'., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text following printmaker's signature: Plate [the] 4th., Nine lines of text from Milton's Paradise lost etched below image: All these and more came flocking, but with looks downcast and damp ..., and Mounted to 44 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
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, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782.
Leaf 13. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A giant two-faced statue has fallen from an overturned pedestal inscribed "Broad Bottom". The faces on the statue, which has severed head and hands, are those of Fox and North. In the background is shown Tower Hill with an execution in progress. A reference to the defeat of the India Bill and the fall of the Coalition
Alternative Title:
Rare news for Leadenhall Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike, with imprint statement burnished from plate. For original issue with the imprint "Publish'd Jany. 4, 1784, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand", see no. 6365 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?], Text below title: And behold Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord & the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cutt off upon the threshold., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 112., and On leaf 13 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
A giant two-faced statue has fallen from an overturned pedestal inscribed "Broad Bottom". The faces on the statue, which has severed head and hands, are those of Fox and North. In the background is shown Tower Hill with an execution in progress. A reference to the defeat of the India Bill and the fall of the Coalition
Alternative Title:
Rare news for Leadenhall Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: And behold Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord & the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cutt off upon the threshold.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 4, 1784, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
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
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