Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 85 | Folder 1419
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
One print formerly formed part of the Langston Hughes bequest.
Description:
In pencil verso: Langston Hughes / Arna Bontemps / Harold Jackman. Stamped verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / 146 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission
Lord North, sitting on a large roll inscribed "Budget" offers Charles Fox a spoonful of broth from a bowl in his lap. He warns Fox to "... Be cautious! - a little of my Broth goes a great way ..." Fox, with a fox's head, sits on "Pandora's Box," his right arm round North's shoulder, saying, " ... give me a sup of your soup ..." To the right, a devil squatting on a low stool in front of a fireplace blows bellows at the fire under a large cauldron with more broth in it. A large coalition medal (cf. BMSat 6183) with the likenesses of North and Fox hangs above the mantel.
Alternative Title:
Devil is the best of the bunch and Devil's the best of the bunch
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title from item.
Publisher:
W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons., and Pether, Thomas, active 1772-1781, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Bellows., Cauldrons., Devil., Fireplaces., and Pandora's box.
"Wen Miao Ho Gai." An interior wall of a room is shown with a bookcase full of volumes. A small censer is seen on the top of the shelves and figurines are on a lower shelftop.
Washington attended the celebration as a delegate from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Published in ". . . The Bicentennial. . . Issue of Commemoration; an Illustrated Account of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of Yale, at New Haven, Connecticut, on the First Four Days of the Week, Beginning October the Twentieth, Nineteen Hundred and One." Issued as the"Yale Alumni Weekly," v.11:no.14 (1902:Jan.).
