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1. All fours [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 March 1783]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an oval. Two men playing cards at a small round table. The man on the right pulls out an ace of spades from the five cards in his hand and shows it with a grimace of satisfaction. His opponent (left), in profile to the right, looks at it with an expression of consternation, frowning and opening his mouth wide. The pack and other cards lie on the table. The men are probably portraits. The successful player is middle-aged, plainly dressed, with a bob-wig; the other is younger, very thin, and more fashionably dressed, with a long pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 17 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Marh. 14th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > All fours [graphic]
2. Great cry and little wool [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 December 1783]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, dressed only in breeches, tries to flee from the Devil who caught him by the leg and is shearing off the hair from his chest. On the left, in front of the "India House" a group of elated men dance around a burning stake to which is tied a fox. A reference to the rejection of the India Bill in the House of Lords and the demise of the Coalition government
- Description:
- Title etched below image; the letter "a" in the word "and" is etched backwards., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Several letters in imprint statement, as well as the digit "7" in "1783," are etched backwards., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.4 x 31.5 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 23 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Published 22 Decr. 1783 by Humphrys, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devil, Foxes, and Burning at the stake
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Great cry and little wool [graphic].
3. Two new sliders for the state magic lanthern [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 December 1783]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A series of ten images showing the rise and fall of the Fox-North Coalition. In the first image, Charles Fox, shown as a fox, speaks to the crowd in front of the Covent Garden Church. In the second one, Lord North, the 'country gentleman' leading sheep on strings, makes an agreement with Fox, who leads the 'Wes[tminste]r geese' on strings. The third image shows Fox speaking to a crowd in a rotunda, while in the fourth one he is stoking a fire around a pole topped with the liberty cap and the India charter suspended from it. In the fifth image, North and Fox, sharing one coat, stand on a plinth signed, "Power." The sixth image shows Fox ascending in an air balloon while the next one shows him falling head-down into a "pitt." In the eighth image, the two politicians are being rejected by the figure of Britannia, who refuses to look at them, instead pointing to the gallows in the background. This condemnation results in their execution, together with Burke, in the ninth image. In the tenth image, all three are shown as well-known mythological sinners in Hades; Burke submerged up to his neck as Tantalus, Fox stretched on a wheel as Iion, and North as Sisyphus pushing a large boulder
- Alternative Title:
- Two new sliders for the state magic lantern
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 23.7 x 33.1 cm, on sheet 29.8 x 37.3 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 24 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 29th Decr. 1783 by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Foxes, Public speaking, Balloons (Aircraft), Gallows, and Hell
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Two new sliders for the state magic lanthern [graphic].
