"Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic].

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Title: "Crumbs of comfort", or, Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children [graphic].
Alternative Title: Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Copyright Date: [ca. August 1782]
Publication Place: [London]
Abstract: The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment.
Description: Possible remnants of burnished imprint in lower right, with the publisher name "E. D'Achery" faintly visible.
Printmaker and approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 25 x 35 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--1782.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1782.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Catholicism.
Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790.
Devil.
Gambling.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6027
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 41