The shield of the Coalition Arms rests on the prostrate figure of the King who tries to free himself from his burden. His efforts are resisted by two supporters of the shield, Lord North (dexter) and Charles Fox (sinister) who each press him down with...
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The printed explanation of the arms below the plate begins: "Lately granted by a new College of Arms to two illustrious persons for their numerous and distinguished virtues. 'Go and do thou likewise.'"
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Published by M. Smith, March 8, 1784, and sold at No. 46 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Coats of arms, Liberty cap, Foxes, Lions, Gambling, Gallows, and Clothing & dress
Edmund Burke, as a Jesuit, and Lord North kneel praying in front of a gallows from which hangs the body of Charles Fox with a label "East India Bill" issuing from his pocket. The comment made by one of the spectators standing in the background and the...
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Cromwell ye 2nd. exalted, or, The poison bag outdone by the halter Poison bag outdone by the halter
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Publishd March 1st 1784, as the act directs by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
George III, seated in an open car pushed across the clouds by Pitt, Thurlow, the Duke of Richmond, and Lord Sydney, aims a "thunder of dissolution" at the Coalition ministers represented by Fox, Lord North, and Burke, who fall backwards into the abyss...
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Pubd. as [the] act directs, Feby. 6, 1784 by B. Walwyn No. 9 Pedlars Acre West Bridge
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800., and Zeus (Greek deity)
Charles Fox, in an armor with shield and spear and a barber's basin for a helmet, marches towards the "Treasurey" building that has windmill sails on it with Pitt's head at their center. Fox is encouraged in his endeavor by a timid-looking Lord North ...
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Don Quixote and his squire Sancho attacking a windmill
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, March 2d 1784 by S. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., and Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Windmills, Armor, and Clothing & dress
Lord North, Charles Fox and Edmund Burke take over the "Committe [sic] Room" of the East India Company. Burke, saying, "I will direct ye," pushes and boots out the door the Directors while Fox, standing in the middle of the room, excretes on the Compa...
Alternative Title:
New ways & means New ways and means
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Pubd. as the act directs Decbr. 81 [sic], 1783, by T. Wiggins, No. 9, Founders Court, Lothbury
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Interiors, Coins, Defecation, Kicking, and Clothing & dress
"George III guides (left to right) a plough which is drawn by a snorting bull; he is blindfolded and wears a crown and the garter ribbon; from his pocket hangs a fragment of "Magna Charta". Lord North rides on the bull, urging him forward with a whip,...
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Title from item.
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Published June 2 1780 by W [... ] Printseller [...]
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Papacy, Gordon Riots, 1780, Clergy, Demons, Plows, and Bulls
A vertically divided bust portrait shows on the left the Prince of Wales, on the right Mrs. Robinson. On the far left, below the Prince's feathers, is the head of the despairing King; on the far right is Thomas Robinson, the "King of cuckolds" on whos...
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Tarleton, Lieutenant-General 1754-1833. (Banastre),, and Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
Design occupying top third of plate shows Bute driving a cart labelled G.R. III, having just crossed the Rubicon, laden with National Debt, Pensioners, etc., drawn by ministerial donkeys including ones labelled North, Germaine, Sandwich, and Weymouth....
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View of the political state of the nation
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Publish'd as the act directs May 11, 1778 at Darly's, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, United States, and America.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Hancock, John, 1737-1793., and Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, History, Colonies, Donkeys, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Seesaws, and Coats of arms
From Charles Fox's head grows serpent-like locks of hair terminating in the heads of the members of the Coalition cabinet. Lord North's scowling face is above Fox's forehead. To the left descend the faces of Lord Stormont, Admiral Keppel full-face, an...
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Title from item.
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Publishd by E. Hedges, No. 92 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834., Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
From Charles Fox's head grow serpent-like locks of hair terminating in the heads of the members of the Coalition cabinet. Lord North's scowling face is above Fox's forehead. To the left descend the faces of Lord Stormont, Admiral Keppel in profile, an...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Publishd by E. Hedges, No. 92 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834., Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Charles Fox, with a helmet-like cover on his head, and a little demon standing on top of it, watches the House of Commons rise in the air after an explosion. Below the building float sheets of paper inscribed, "Pitt's India Bill" and "Mutiny Bill". A...
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Guy Vaux or Fox blowing up the Parliament House Guy Fawkes or Fox blowing up the Parliament House
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606., and East India Company.
Lord North balances smugly on his left foot atop the beam of a pair of scales tipping the balance in favor of a very obese Charles Fox. Fox laughs at Lord Shelburne who remains suspended on the other scale, unable to bring it down despite stamping his...
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Pubd. July 11th, 1783 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Scales, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
George III is shown with two faces in profile, standing in front of 2 doors, his right arm extended through a screen on the left and his hand being kissed by a kneeling Duke of Dorset. On the right, Charles James Fox, holding his East India Bill, also...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792.
"Three outgoing ministers are being knocked off their seats by their successors. The ministers are or have been seated on stones resembling mile-stones, engraved with the title of their office. They are all in profile to the left, facing their success...
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Tack about is fair play Lord Sandwich drove from his moorings
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Title from item.
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Sold by W. Humphrey no. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Fighting, and Clothing & dress
A weeping Lord North, with a bag labelled "The nations plunder" thrown over his shoulder, kneels in front of Charles Fox, begging him for protection as the devil, reining North in with a rope wound around his arms, pronounces him his favorite. Fox, dr...
Alternative Title:
Lord North's supplication to Mr. Fox
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Lord North, fully clothed, sits in a washtub surrounded by scrub women or fish-wives, one of whom scrubs him with a brush, while another ladles soapy water over him. A fox (Charles James Fox) observes the scene from the extreme left, while the Devil s...
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Lord North in the suds
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Pub. by T. Evans Oxford Street Mch. 27, 1782 London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Soap, Taxation, Devil, Laundresses, Bathing, and Clothing & dress
Lord North at a wash-tub, washing clothes, with women standing round him. He stands in profile to the left stooping over a tub resting on a square stool or table; he is in his shirt, with his sleeves tucked up, but wearing his garter ribbon. His coat,...
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Publish'd April 1, 1782 by E. Dachery [sic] No. 11 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Laundresses, Wash tubs, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Reaction to the Battle of Long Island and the capture of New York by British forces. North and Mansfield stand on a platform, the former holding up a dispatch from Howe. Bute and George III stand behind them. A distressed Wilkes stands in the left for...
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Patriots in the dumps
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Publisher:
Publisher not indentified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, America., and United States
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785.
Subject (Topic):
Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776, Colonies, History, and Campaigns
An air balloon inscribed, "America," floats above a group of spectators who include, on the left, a Spaniard and a Frenchman, tied together with a chain and padlock and, on the right, a Dutchman with little devils climbing out of his pocket. Between t...
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Pubd. as [the] act directs Decr. 29, 1783 by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Charles Fox, with a fox's head in a wig, tilts to one side a wheelbarrow in which Lord Shelburne (William Petty) lies on his back, his arms and legs uncomfortably outstretched. Above them, Lord North as Boreas among the clouds, directs a strong blast ...
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Pubd. by E. D. Achery [sic]. Feb. 28. 1783 St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Wheelbarrows, Winds, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
