- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, shown with webbed dark wings attached to his back, rises from flames. An unrolled scroll on the left reads, "a method to dethrone the King A.D. 1784." Below the image are etched lines from Milton's Paradise lost
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
- 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 > Satans journey from hell [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [24 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.24.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A belligerent William Pitt and a dejected Charles Fox, each with a cock's body, stand in a cockpit surrounded by their supporters. In the foreground on the left, the King leans against the pit watching his favorite, Pitt. Next to him stands Wilkes, with his hand on the King's back, and Pitt's supporters Lords Nugent, Thurlow, and the Duke of Richmond. Behind them is an enthusiastic crowd of other supporters. Fox is backed by the devil who proposes another round. Among his supporters are Burke in a Jesuit's biretta and a group of Jews, his creditors. In the foreground, Lord North is negotiating with another Jew, upset by Fox's defeat
- Alternative Title:
- Cockpit royal
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 24 March 1784, & sold by F. Reilly, High Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Cockfighting, Devil, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cock pitt royal [graphic].
- 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]