The image in the center of the plate shows a fox seated on a throne placed in an outdoor setting, with a city and a river in the background. Behind the fox, a lion holding a flag decorated with the fleur-de-lis, removes the crown from fox's head. In front of the throne lie a few dead sheep while another one is being devoured by a fox. The text added above the image explains that "The following exact copy of a print published in the year 1628 is offered for the amusement of the public with Sir Richard Hill's verses delivered in the House of Commons on Monday the 8th of March 1784, entitling them His Majesty's most gracious answer to the mover [i.e., Fox] of the late humble (...) address."
Description:
Title from item., Impression without the publication statement., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., "Price 6d.", Copy of the title page to Gommersall's The tragedie of Lodovick Sforza (...) with contemporary text added., and Mounted to 33 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foxes, Lions, Sheep, Thrones, Scepters, Crowns, and Cities & towns
The image in the center of the plate shows a fox seated on a throne placed in an outdoor setting, with a city and a river in the background. Behind the fox, a lion holding a flag decorated with the fleur-de-lis, removes the crown from fox's head. In front of the throne lie a few dead sheep while another one is being devoured by a fox. The text added above the image explains that "The following exact copy of a print published in the year 1628 is offered for the amusement of the public with Sir Richard Hill's verses delivered in the House of Commons on Monday the 8th of March 1784, entitling them His Majesty's most gracious answer to the mover [i.e., Fox] of the late humble (...) address." and "A copy of the title-page by T. Cecill to Gomersall's 'The Tragedie of Ludovick Sforza Duke of Millan'. It decorates the centre of a plate engraved with words attacking Fox. A fox seated on a throne holding a sceptre, apparently unconscious of a lion (France) which stands behind him on its hind-legs and removes his crown. The lion (right) holds a fleur-de-lis flag. In the foreground a fox (Sforza) is worrying a sheep; behind is a group of dead sheep. The fox is seated on rising ground beside a river, on the farther shore of which is a closely built town. At the bottom of the design is engraved, 'London. Printed, for John Marriott. 1628. Tho: Cecill. sculp.' Above the design is engraved: 'The following exact Copy of a Print published in the Year 1628 is offered for the Amusement of the Public With Sir Richard Hill's Verses delivered in the House of Commons on Monday the 8th of March 1784, entitling them His Majesty's most gracious Answer to the Mover of the late humble, loyal, dutiful and respectful Address.' Hill's verses are engraved on the left side of the print, with annotations on the right; they are printed in 'Parl. Hist.' xxiv. 743-4. They profess to be George III's answer to the Address to the king to remove his Ministers, moved by Fox on 1 Mar., which the king answered on 4 Mar. Ibid., pp. 699 ff. and 717-18. Hill's line, "All hail to thee Great Carlo Khan!" is annotated: Alluding to the print of Mr Fox riding upon an Elephant in the character of Carlo Khan (see BMSat 6276). North answered Hill saying, "it was exactly that kind of idle nonsense about Carlo Khan, &c, that had misled the weak part of the country so strangely". Ibid., p. 744. Cf. BMSat 6449. In the centre, beneath the print of Sforza, is engraved: 'A Fox thus mounted on a Throne, Would give the People cause to moan, But Freemen will by Englands Laws, Support their King & Pitts great cause.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., "Price 6d.", Copy of the title page to Gommersall's The tragedie of Ludovick Sforza (...) with contemporary text added., and Mounted to 28 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd 29th March, 1784, by Wm. Leak, 76 Wood Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foxes, Lions, Sheep, Thrones, Scepters, Crowns, and Cities & towns
Title from text in image., Date of publication based on printmaker's street address; see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box., and With contemporary annotations in brown ink: "Eleventh night" written above image on recto, and "No. 3" followed by "The Honble. Mrs. Walsingham at Lord Vernon's Park Place at 8 OClock" written on verso.
Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1784]
Call Number:
SH Views M875 no. 1 Impression 1 Box 110
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., In the upper right corner, above image: "Vol.II. P.470.", First state of the plate, without volume and page numbering, engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Plate reissued, with vol. and page number added, for: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798-1825, vol. ii., and Printed after 1798?
"A scene in St. James's Park during a sudden squall of rain. A number of people with umbrellas; some hold them open, others attempt to open them, in face of difficulties caused by the crowd and the wind. In the background are trees, Westminster Abbey, and the spire of St. Margaret's."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co., No. 18 Paternoster Row
"A scene in a Florentine street or piazza in front of a Gothic shrine (left) in which is a Virgin and child. Two blind beggars, each with a dog, are fighting. A well-dressed man walks off with their hats, looking at them over his shoulder with a smile. Spectators look from a window and a door. A penniless man of ancient family prays regularly to the Virgin for relief. On one occasion he hears two blind beggars at her shrine boasting of the wealth concealed in their hats; he thereupon runs away with the hats, confesses to a prelate, who approves, but insists on taking a major share of the spoil."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Blind beggars' hats
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Beggars -- Blind men -- Fighting: Street fights -- Shrines: Virgin and Child -- Thieves -- Hats -- Dogs., Mounted on verso of: Map of part of the lands of Glanleam on the Island of Valencia, County of Kerry ... Ordinance Survey sheet 79 / by J.J. Byrne. Dublin : [Publisher nor identified], 1852., and Mounted to 23 x 30 cm.
"A scene in a Florentine street or piazza in front of a Gothic shrine (left) in which is a Virgin and child. Two blind beggars, each with a dog, are fighting. A well-dressed man walks off with their hats, looking at them over his shoulder with a smile. Spectators look from a window and a door. A penniless man of ancient family prays regularly to the Virgin for relief. On one occasion he hears two blind beggars at her shrine boasting of the wealth concealed in their hats; he thereupon runs away with the hats, confesses to a prelate, who approves, but insists on taking a major share of the spoil."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Blind beggars' hats
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Beggars -- Blind men -- Fighting: Street fights -- Shrines: Virgin and Child -- Thieves -- Hats -- Dogs., and 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 18.9 x 22.5 cm. on sheet 22 x 25 cm
"A scene outside the orchestra at Vauxhall. A stout woman puts a handkerchief round her husband's neck to protect him from the night air. Her daughter holds her fan to her face and looks towards a beau in the middle distance who inspects her through his glass. A waiter walks off (right) with glasses and a bottle. There are other figures. The background shows the orchestra (left), with two musicians, and the organ; on the right are trees, and the 'covered walk'; two men sit at a table with a bowl of punch."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Vauxhall Gardens -- Pleasure gardens: London -- Orchestra -- Booths -- Female costume: England, 1784 -- Male costume: England, 1784 -- Walking staves -- Fans., and Mounted.
"A scene outside the orchestra at Vauxhall. A stout woman puts a handkerchief round her husband's neck to protect him from the night air. Her daughter holds her fan to her face and looks towards a beau in the middle distance who inspects her through his glass. A waiter walks off (right) with glasses and a bottle. There are other figures. The background shows the orchestra (left), with two musicians, and the organ; on the right are trees, and the 'covered walk'; two men sit at a table with a bowl of punch."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Vauxhall Gardens -- Pleasure gardens: London -- Orchestra -- Booths -- Female costume: England, 1784 -- Male costume: England, 1784 -- Walking staves -- Fans., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 22.6 cm, on sheet 22 x 25 cm.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 8 3/4 i. by 5 f. 2 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., and Plate LII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1784, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside
