In the lower left corner stands Lord North, his right arm raised, delivering a speech while Cornwall, the Speaker, is looking at him from his chair in the upper left corner of the image. On the right, rising from a cloud, are Fox and Burke, both violently gesticulating in their attack on North. Below the figures of North and Fox are excerpts from their speeches attacking each other before forming coalition
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Companion print to British Museum catalogue 6188.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Public speaking, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
"Caricature head of Lord Kelly in profile to the right. He is bending forward, his face bloated and pimpled, his lank and scanty hair in a black bag."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and LWL 780.06.01.04: Subject identified as "Ld. North" in contemporary ms. hand, possibly Horace Walpole's hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kelly, Thomas Alexander Erskine, Earl of, 1732-1781, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.