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
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
"Dr. James Graham, the famous quack, stands on a small platform or pedestal, addressing an audience of both sexes who sit and stand in front of him. He stands rather to the right of the design looking left, his right hand raised, his left holding a rolled paper as in British Museum satire no. 6324. He wears a bag-wig and ruffled shirt. Those of the audience whose faces are visible are probably portraits, but only Fox, Wilkes, and (?) Perdita Robinson can be identified. Three persons sit on a raised seat immediately under the lecturer and with their backs towards him: a young man puts his arm round a lady who draws back with a coy expression; the third is Fox who sits gloomily impassive, his head supported on his hand, perhaps annoyed at the way in which Mrs. Robinson looks towards the man standing next her, who stands on the extreme right in profile to the left. He is slim and wears the fashionable riding-dress but is very ugly. Two rows of people sit on forms facing the lecturer. Others stand on the left. Wilkes is in profile to the right, an elderly beau with receding hair, sunken eyes, and broken teeth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Docter himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s. and Doctor himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s.
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of verse below title: How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue, how sweet his lectures neither sd. nor sung. Pope., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Dr. Graham and Capt. Topham are identified in black ink contemporary hand, perhaps that of James Gillray., and Mounted to: 38 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 12, 1783, by R. Rusted, No. 3 Bridge St., Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
A stork with the head of Shelburne is shown with its beak buried in the long neck of a glass jar labeled "The Treasury Jar". He smiles triumphantly as he picks up the gold guineas at the bottom; around his neck is the Garter ribbon. To his left is a fox with the bushy eyebrows, bulbous nose, and hairy chin of Charles Fox; he stands with his paws on the jar and a melancholy expression at the inaccessible treasure
Description:
Title from caption below image., Originally published in 14 January 1783 by William Richardson. Cf. No. 6166 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Humphrey Jany. 14, 1783, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Great Britain. Treasury.
The Duke of Portland, the new prime minister, leans over the gate to "Portland Place" handing down to Fox and North their reward in the form of an enormous bunch of grapes. Fox grasps the whole bunch taking a bite out of it while North, standing on his tiptoes with his arms wide open, cannot reach it. (In the verses below the title, as in other satires on the Coalition, North is the badger.)
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: Says the badger to the fox, we're in the right box ..., and Mounted to 43 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 3d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Full face mask combined from faces of Charles Fox on the left and Lord North on the right. Fox's dark hair, squinted eye and self-assured smile are countered by North's powdered wig, puzzled frown and straight mouth. Inscribed above, "Fronti nulla fides."
Alternative Title:
Fronti nulla fides
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., "Although lettered 'H Bretherton', no such person is known, and it must be an error for James or possibly Charles."--British Museum online catalogue., 1 print : stipple engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.7 x 18.9 cm, on sheet 29 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 15 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 21st May 1783 by H. [sic] Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Full face mask combined from faces of Charles Fox on the left and Lord North on the right. Fox's dark hair, squinted eye and self-assured smile are countered by North's powdered wig, puzzled frown and straight mouth. Inscribed above, "Fronti nulla fides."
Alternative Title:
Fronti nulla fides
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and "Although lettered 'H Bretherton', no such person is known, and it must be an error for James or possibly Charles."--British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 21st May 1783 by H. [sic] Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Full face mask combined from faces of Charles Fox on the left and Lord North on the right. Fox's dark hair, squinted eye and self-assured smile are countered by North's powdered wig, puzzled frown and straight mouth. Inscribed above, "Fronti nulla fides."
Alternative Title:
Fronti nulla fides
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., "Although lettered 'H Bretherton', no such person is known, and it must be an error for James or possibly Charles."--British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on page 25 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 21st May 1783 by H. [sic] Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
A monstrous creature representing the new ministry (formed on the day of the publication of this print) is shown in the shape of a fox standing on its right hind leg, with eight heads and no fore legs. The central head on top is that of the Duke of Portland, surrounded by other ministerial candidates. Below the fox's raised tail are the heads of Lord North and Charles Fox; above the former issues a blast of air signed "Coalition." Below the design and on both sides of the title are ten verses beginning, "This many-headed Monster of the Land / At present on one Leg is seen to stand."
Description:
Title from item., Questionable attribution to John Boyne from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Uncolored impression, with a pencil drawing of gallows and a noose around the neck of David Murray, Lord Stormont(?), and "the pope" next to it in manuscript. Charles Fox's head is numbered "5" in ms.
Publisher:
Pub. April 2d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, near Temple Bar
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
A monstrous creature representing the new ministry (formed on the day of the publication of this print) is shown in the shape of a fox standing on its right hind leg, with eight heads and no fore legs. The central head on top is that of the Duke of Portland, surrounded by other ministerial candidates. Below the fox's raised tail are the heads of Lord North and Charles Fox; above the former issues a blast of air signed "Coalition." Below the design and on both sides of the title are ten verses beginning, "This many-headed Monster of the Land / At present on one Leg is seen to stand."
Description:
Title from item., Questionable attribution to John Boyne from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. April 2d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, near Temple Bar
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806