- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 March 1782] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 12. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "North (left) in the guise of a badger, runs off leaving a little cave under a rock. Charles Fox as a fox (right) snarls at him ... The badger is identified as North by a ribbon tied round his body, and by the four points of the compass in a circle on his head, his snout being inscribed "North". The fox stands over a bag inscribed "Faro Bank" from which guineas are pouring, playing-cards are strewn on the ground at his feet. In the foreground is a small bundle inscribed "Budget" within which are bars inscribed "Soap" and a small barrel inscribed "Small Beer" in allusion to the taxes proposed by North in his budget speech of 11 Mar. Behind the badger is a sign-post, the two arms of which terminate in well-drawn hands. The hand of the arm pointing left, in the direction to which North is running, holds the head of a halberd, the arm is inscribed "To Tower Hill". The other arm points downwards at the cave which the badger has left, and is inscribed "To the Treasury". Behind Fox is a terminal statue inscribed "Janus", one head being that of a bearded old man, the other that of a fox, it is crowned by a cylindrical headdress (?a dice-box) on which are two dice. The scene is a wooded landscape with hills. In the distance a hunt is in progress, a stag pursued by dogs; the foremost rider is the king, a minute figure who is falling from his horse after having leapt a gate. His crown falls from his head, his saddle, with the stirrups flying, is falling to the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Fox stinking the badger out of his nest
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner and with scatology removed from image. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5964 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?], Temporary local subject terms: Prudery., and On leaf 12 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 22d, 1782, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Badgers, Foxes, and Deer hunting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Changing places, alias, Fox stinking the badger out of his nest [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 12. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "North, fat and ungainly, seated on a close-stool, his chin supported on his hands, his face is contorted and he clutches 'The London Courant', one of the most bitter of the anti-ministerial newspapers ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Lord North in a fix
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to J.K. Sherwin from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike, with alterations to the lettering and to the depicted stool to remove scatology, of a print published ca. April 1782 with the title "L N on the stool of repentance or the ill effects of meddling with salts". For original issue of the plate, see no. 5977 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?], Temporary local subject terms: Close-stools -- Newspapers: London Courant -- Taxes: Salt -- Prudery., and On leaf 12 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Stools and Newspapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lord N-h in a fix [graphic].