Within an oval design, Rockingham is shown seated on a close stool labelled "Publick Reservoir". He vomits into a hat held by Burke, while behind him stand Cavendish, Fox, and Thomas Powys, M.P. for Northamptonshire. A satire on Burke's Bill of economical reform.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Cavendish, John,--Lord,--1732-1796--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Lilford, Thomas Powys,--Baron,--1743-1800--Caricatures and cartoons., and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth,--Marquis of,--1730-1782--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790., Defecation., and Vomiting.
Two frames, depicting Fox (with a fox's head) on the left and Lord North on the right. Three sycophants attend to Fox as he defecates, one wiping his rear, another offering a chamber pot emblazoned with the royal arms. On the right the same three figures have accosted North and empty the chamber pot on his head.
Alternative Title:
Minister out
Description:
Four lines of verse under each image: When the ministers in, how subservient his friends ..., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title from item.
Publisher:
W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.