- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 February 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 15. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left, William Pitt, his arms and one leg raised, is looking up at the East India House that he has just kicked toward Charles Fox who stands ready to toss it back. Behind Fox is a table with dice and a dice box on it. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. Behind Pitt an open book inscribed, "Blackstone," indicates his barrister's education
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6406 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 117-8., and On leaf 15 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at football [graphic]
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