- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 May 1782] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 7. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies, America (shownas an Indian), France, Spain and Holland run away with the spoils
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia's assassination, or, The republicans amusement and Republicans amusement
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner of design. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5987 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?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 35., and On leaf 7 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 10th, 1782, by E. D'Archery, St. James Street and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Vandalism, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britania's assassination, or, The republicans amusement [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 May 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.05.10.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies, America (shownas an Indian), France, Spain and Holland run away with the spoils
- Alternative Title:
- Britannia's assassination, or, The republicans amusement and Republicans amusement
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from The art of poetry on a new plan by Oliver Goldsmith, 1761, v. 2, p. 147., 1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 25 x 36 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 10th, 1782, by E. D'Archery, St. James Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Vandalism, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britania's assassination, or, The republicans amusement [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 December 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.12.29.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A series of ten images showing the rise and fall of the Fox-North Coalition. In the first image, Charles Fox, shown as a fox, speaks to the crowd in front of the Covent Garden Church. In the second one, Lord North, the 'country gentleman' leading sheep on strings, makes an agreement with Fox, who leads the 'Wes[tminste]r geese' on strings. The third image shows Fox speaking to a crowd in a rotunda, while in the fourth one he is stoking a fire around a pole topped with the liberty cap and the India charter suspended from it. In the fifth image, North and Fox, sharing one coat, stand on a plinth signed, "Power." The sixth image shows Fox ascending in an air balloon while the next one shows him falling head-down into a "pitt." In the eighth image, the two politicians are being rejected by the figure of Britannia, who refuses to look at them, instead pointing to the gallows in the background. This condemnation results in their execution, together with Burke, in the ninth image. In the tenth image, all three are shown as well-known mythological sinners in Hades; Burke submerged up to his neck as Tantalus, Fox stretched on a wheel as Iion, and North as Sisyphus pushing a large boulder
- Alternative Title:
- Two new sliders for the state magic lantern
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 29th Decr. 1783 by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Foxes, Public speaking, Balloons (Aircraft), Gallows, and Hell
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Two new sliders for the state magic lanthern [graphic].