In an outdoor setting, Lord North and Edmund Burke look down at Charles Fox who stands knee-deep in a hole in the ground. All are in mourning clothes. Fox expresses fear of remaining in "this terrible Pitt" forever. An angry North, stamping his foot, expresses disillusionment in their coalition, while a quiet Burke decides to disassociate himself from Fox
Alternative Title:
Fox in a pitt and Fox in a pit
Description:
Title from item., The word "Fox" appears in the form of a rebus., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 23.5 x 25.7 cm, on sheet 25.3 x 27.4 cm., On laid paper, hand-colored., Watermark., and A small pencil sketch of a head on verso.
Publisher:
Publish'd by E. Hedges, No. 92 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government and Mourning clothing & dress
LWL 49 1608 29:5: Horace Walpole's title: Thoughts on genius., LWL 49 1608 29:5: With several small Gothic drawings in pencil, probably by Horace Walpole, on blank page opposite title page; these include depictions of gargoyle heads and an arched design with quatrefoils., Calf, with Horace Walpole's manuscript list of contents. This volume was in lot 590 in Sotheby's sale, 14 March 1922., Horace Walpole's title: Narrative of the murder ..., and Allen, G. Some occasional thoughts on genius: Drawings on blank page opposite title page.
Signatures: [*]²a-b⁸c²B-Q⁸R⁴a-f⁴B-F⁴., 'The monumental inscriptions are added by another hand, who took them from the originals. And the catalogue of dignitaries is mostly extracted from the papers of Dr. William Hopkins ... '--cf. Preface., Fully described in Upcott, p. 1341-2., LWL 49 671: Imperfect: p. xlviii, 62 p. wanting., LWL 49 671: Horace Walpole's copy, with his shelf-mark; bought at the Strawberry Hill sale for Lord Derby. With Lord Derby's note and armorial bookplate., LWL 49 671: Christie's, 19 Oct. 1953 (Knowsley Hall sale) lot 72A to Maggs for Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (with another book)., and Old calf, rebacked. Bookplate 1. Pressmark E.5.37. Bookplate of Lord Derby. With a small pencil sketch of an armorial shield, perhaps by Horace Walpole, in the left margin of page 26.
Onuphrio Muralto = Horace Walpole., The first state of the title-page, 1790, is found in thin paper copies, with uncorrected text, possibly for local sale., At least 2 copies on vellum have title-page in state 2, and text of the cancels., Half-title: Edwards's edition of the Castle of Otranto., BEIN: Vellum binding by Edwards of Halifax., and 25.5 cm. Frontispiece A and B. First leaf wanting. Extra-illustrated, including: folding map, drawings by F. Miller and G.P. Harding; 6 plates published by Harding in 1793; frontispiece of Sivrac's translation, 1795; Miel's plates from Berlin edition, 1794; Kirgate's notes; 2 trade cards.
Publisher:
Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London
LWL 49 2387.2: Horace Walpole's copy with annotations and a pencil sketch on last fly-leaf., LWL 49 2387.2: 'Rebound in green morocco by Alfred Matthews' (Allen Tracy Hazen), LWL 49 2387.2: G.D. Smith (N.Y.) to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Nov. 1927. Ex dono Annie Burr Jennings (Probably paid for the book), and Rebound in green morocco by Alfred Matthews; no bookplate and not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Many marginal notes by Horace Walpole, chiefly on the pictures of Blenheim and Ditchley. (See Horace Walpole to Montagu, 19 July 1760.) Very probably it was this volume that led Horace Walpole to record in his Description 'Accounts of Blenheim...'. With Horace Walpole's architectural sketch in pencil on last flyleaf; the words "loggias, arcades, stairs, terrasses" are written above image.
