The eclipse [graphic].

Description

Title: The eclipse [graphic].
Published / Created: [26 March 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd March 26, 1783, by H. Macphail No. 68 High Holborn
Abstract: The figure of Britannia entreats the King to look up at the irradiated face of William Pitt floating in front of a large, dark cloud that carries the faces of Charles Fox in the center, Lord North to the left, and Edmund Burke to the right. Fox's dark face is partially obscured by the rays surrounding Pitt
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue: 1784.
Mounted to 41 x 30 cm.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching & stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Politics and government
Eclipses
Subjects: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Britannia (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789
Eclipses
England > 1784
England > London > 1784

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