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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 August 1782?]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.14.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox (left), with a fox's head and brush, directs the rays from the dark-lantern of a conspirator upon Shelburne (right), who is wrapped in a cloak, and carries a small sack inscribed "Treasury". Fox, who is out at elbows, his breeches unbuttoned at the knee, his stockings ungartered, his shoes dilapidated with his bare toes protruding, is saying, "Ah! what I've found you out, have I? Who arm'd the high Priests & the People? Who betray'd his Mas------" Shelburne, with a smile of complacent triumph, is saying, "Ha! Ha! - poor Gunpowder's vexed! - He, He, He! - Shan't have the Bag I tell you, Old Goosetooth!" (Cf. BMSat 5843, &c.) The background is shaded to suggest night, Shelburne's head and shoulders being brilliantly lit by the rays of the dark lantern."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Guy Vaux and Judas Iscariot
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Questionable publication information from British Museum catalogue, which supplies the publication line from a probable earlier state: Pubd. Augt. 14th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street., Text following title: Dialogues of the dead: page 1782., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
- Publisher:
- E. D'Achery?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Lanterns, Foxes, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Guy-Vaux & Judas-Iscariot" [graphic].