War [graphic].

Description

Title: War [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran,--1735-1789--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1783 March 9
Copyright Date: [9 March 1783]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Abstract: In the lower left corner stands Lord North, his right arm raised, delivering a speech while Cornwall, the Speaker, is looking at him from his chair in the upper left corner of the image. On the right, rising from a cloud, are Fox and Burke, both violently gesticulating in their attack on North. Below the figures of North and Fox are excerpts from the speech they made attacking each other before the formation of their coalition. A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6188.
Description: Companion print to: Neithe [sic] war nor peace! : the astonishing coalition.
Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Title etched at bottom of image.
Extent: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 13.8 x 18.7 cm, on sheet 22 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Etchings--England--London--1783.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1783.
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran,--1735-1789--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790.
Public speaking.

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. 6187
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 45