"Pitt puts the Coalition to flight. He stands on the left, having just discharged an arrow from his bow, which pierces Fox (right) in the Achilles tendon. He says: "Thus do I strive with heart and hand To drive Sedition from the Land." Fox, prostrate and massive, supports himself on his hands to look at Pitt, saying: "There is nought but a place or a pension that will ease The Strain that I've got in my tendon Achilles." Burke, behind Fox, rushes away from Pitt, his arms outstretched in terror, saying: "Before thy Arrows Pitt, I fly O D--n that word prolexity." North, between Burke and Pitt, also in flight but holding a sword and shield, says: "This curs'd eternal Coalition Has brought us to a rare Condition." Pitt has a quiver with arrows slung across his shoulder; he, North, and Burke wear contemporary dress; Fox wears a tunic, greaves, and sandals."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Coalitions: Fox, North, Burke -- Mythology: Paris -- Sedition: in reference to Coalition of 1785 -- Burke's prolixity reproved by Pitt, July 30, 1784 -- Male costume: Achilles -- Weapons -- Quivers.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 7, 1785 by G. Wallis, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Achilles (Mythological character), Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Leaf 69. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A close up view of the lower part of the Achilles, exaggerated to a colossal size ... Women stand below holding garments with which they purpose to drape the statue. One holds a large print of the Achilles at which she stares ecstatically. One lady, wearing a cap in the form of a baron's coronet, has climbed on to the plinth; she addresses the women below, holding out a large chemise and pointing up at the colossal legs behind her."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by the printmaker in lower right corner of image., Restrike, with altered title and with top portion of design burnished from plate. For an earlier state bearing the title "Ladies buy your leaf!!" and with the design intact, see no. 14380 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. July 1822; see British Museum catalogue., "Irish Chairman"--Below title, in lower right., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1097., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1086., Temporary local subject terms: Prudery., and On leaf 69 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.