The loves of the fox and the badger, or, The coalition wedding [graphic].

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Title: The loves of the fox and the badger, or, The coalition wedding [graphic].
Alternative Title: Coalition wedding
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding
Published / Created: 1784 January 7
Copyright Date: [1 January 1784]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: W. Humphry, no. 227 Strand
Abstract: A design with nine compartments depicting Charles James Fox and Lord North, (as a fox and badger respectively), in a series of scenes beginning with the fox beating the badger in a fight, and culminating in their wedding dance in the last compartment. The Devil is present in several frames, encouraging the union, meant to satirize the coalition.
Description: CtY-LW
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from item.
Extent: 1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 34 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Collection Title: The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Collection / Other Creator: Harvey, Francis
Collection Created: London
Container / Volume: Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-38

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1784.
Political cartoons--England--1784.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1784.
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding
Subject (Topic): Badgers.
Devil.
Foxes.
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6369
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 112-4