Coalition dance [graphic]Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker[approximately 1868?]engLord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddleTitle etched above image.Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6205 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all."Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 47.