Veluti in speculum [graphic].

Description

Title: Veluti in speculum [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: []178-?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "The Devil (or a satyr) crouches behind a magic lantern whose handle he is turning. Its light is thrown on a draped sheet, speared to the wall by a fork. Facing the lantern, life-size and realistic, but apparently displayed by the lantern, stand (left to right) Fox, Sheridan, and Lansdowne. Each stands as if speaking in Parliament: Fox, with right hand in his breeches pocket, left fist raised for a downward thrust; Sheridan stooping forward as if expounding, right forefinger extended, left fist half raised; Lansdowne smiling blandly. The Devil points at Fox; an angry man at his side (right) threatens Fox with fist and bludgeon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Suckling.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.4 x 20.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Etchings England London 1788
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic): Projectors
Subjects: Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Projectors
England > 1788
England > London > 1788

Access: Public
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