Call Number: 788.12.26.01 - Yale University Library Search Results

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Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [26 December 1788]
Call Number:: 788.12.26.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Six heads, full-face, of Fox, arranged in a row, all with eyes closed or looking down. [1] 'Out of Place In Character', with tousled hair and ill-shaved face. [2] 'In Place Out of Character', with powdered hair and well-shaved face. Cf. Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, ii. 269-74. [3] 'As he might have been'. The cap of Liberty is just above his head. [4] 'As he wod have been'. A ducal coronet is just above his (powdered) head. [5] 'As he should have been'. Blood drips from his decapitated head on which is a cap. [6] 'As he will be'. The Prince of Wales's coronet and feathers are just above his powdered hair on which is the word 'Regent'."--British museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with nearly complete loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:: Pubd. Decr. 26, 1788, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):: Regency
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The political hydra [graphic].