- Creator:
- Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 April 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.04.02.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Subject (Topic):
- Monsters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The monster, 1783 [graphic].
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