- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.24.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The rivalry between Fox and Pitt is shown in a series of seven images beginning with the portraits of each of them. In the third image, Fox and Pitt fight for a Twelfth Cake, with Fox winning. In the fourth, Nobody (i.e., the King), gives Lord Temple, carrying dark lantern, a note supporting Pitt's claim to the Cake. In the fifth image, a grocer complains about Fox's actions against smuggling. In the sixth, on his return from the Grocers' Hall on February 28, Pitt participates in a riot. He is opposed by a diminutive Jeffery Dunstan, the popular 'mayor of Garrett" and Fox's supporter. In the seventh, Pitt and his companions are thrashed by men with sticks
- Alternative Title:
- Young statesman's ramble
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 24th March 1784 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, and Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Devil, Smuggling, Riots, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Eastward ho!, or, The young statesman's ramble [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [24 March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.24.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A belligerent William Pitt and a dejected Charles Fox, each with a cock's body, stand in a cockpit surrounded by their supporters. In the foreground on the left, the King leans against the pit watching his favorite, Pitt. Next to him stands Wilkes, with his hand on the King's back, and Pitt's supporters Lords Nugent, Thurlow, and the Duke of Richmond. Behind them is an enthusiastic crowd of other supporters. Fox is backed by the devil who proposes another round. Among his supporters are Burke in a Jesuit's biretta and a group of Jews, his creditors. In the foreground, Lord North is negotiating with another Jew, upset by Fox's defeat
- Alternative Title:
- Cockpit royal
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 24 March 1784, & sold by F. Reilly, High Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Cockfighting, Devil, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cock pitt royal [graphic].