The minister in The minister out. [graphic]

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Title: The minister in The minister out. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Minister out
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 April 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. April 22d, 1782, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Abstract: Two frames, depicting Fox (with a fox's head) on the left and Lord North on the right. Three sycophants attend to Fox as he defecates, one wiping his rear, another offering a chamber pot emblazoned with the royal arms. On the right the same three figures have accosted North and empty the chamber pot on his head
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Four lines of verse under each image: When the ministers in, how subservient his friends ...
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 21.8 x 33.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of text on bottom edge.
Mounted on leaf 21 of volume 1 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.1 x 34.6 cm, on sheet 30 x 49 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1782
Political cartoons England 1782
Etchings England London 1782
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic): Defecation
Chamber pots
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Defecation
Chamber pots
England > 1782
England > London > 1782
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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