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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].