Retort courteous, or, The disloyal address returned without ceremony [graphic]

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Title: Retort courteous, or, The disloyal address returned without ceremony [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: March 27, 1797.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Abstract: The Duke of Portland (with Pitt in profile behind him) refusing the City Sheriffs entry to St James's Palace on the instruction of the King. Fox, in a Bonnet-Rouge below the steps. An address to the King asking him to dismiss his ministers as a step toward peace with France was voted by the Livery in Common Hall on the 24th March
Description: Title etched below image. The 'u' in the word courteous is etched below the line, insertion indicated by a caret.
Temporary local subject terms: Addresses: address of the Livery Company, 23 March 1797.
Mounted to 35 x 45 cm.
Provenance: Sanders; September 1960;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 35 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797
Material: etching, hand-colored ;
Subject (Name): Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic): Sheriffs
Subjects: Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheriffs
England > 1797
England > London > 1797

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