Twenty-six members of the old and new ministries sit around a card table; North and Fox (the latter with a fox's head) appearing most prominently, together with Thurlow, Grey Cooper, the Duke of Richmond, John Dunning, Wilkes, Barré, and John Cavendish
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Extensively annotated on verso in an unknown hand with descriptions of persons potrayed in the image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1782 by H. Humphrey, No. 118 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cooper, Grey, Sir, ca. 1726-1801, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1746-1815, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Politics and government, Card games, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
Within an oval design, Rockingham is shown seated on a close stool labelled "Publick Reservoir". He vomits into a hat held by Burke, while behind him stand Cavendish, Fox, and Thomas Powys, M.P. for Northamptonshire. A satire on Burke's Bill of economical reform
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Possibly a later reprint.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Defecation, Vomiting, and Clothing & dress
Twenty-six members of the old and new ministries sit around a card table; North and Fox (the latter with a fox's head) appearing most prominently, together with Thurlow, Grey Cooper, the Duke of Richmond, John Dunning, Wilkes, Barré, and John Cavendish
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 26.5 x 38.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1782 by H. Humphrey, No. 118 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cooper, Grey, Sir, ca. 1726-1801, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1746-1815, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Politics and government, Card games, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
Within an oval design, Rockingham is shown seated on a close stool labelled "Publick Reservoir". He vomits into a hat held by Burke, while behind him stand Cavendish, Fox, and Thomas Powys, M.P. for Northamptonshire. A satire on Burke's Bill of economical reform
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.3 x 27.9 cm, on sheet 19.8 x 28.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Defecation, Vomiting, and Clothing & dress
Full length portrait of Lord John Cavendish, facing right, a hat held in his upraised left hand and a document held in his right
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 5 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Lord John Cavendish.
Publisher:
Published 3d July 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Public speaking, and Politicians
A man with a stag's head in a bag wig, saying "Alas my Friend Fox, We are in the wrong Box," shakes hands with a man with a fox's head, also in a bag wig, who responds "Indeed my true Buck. We have very bad luck." They represent, respectively, Lord John Cavendish and Charles James Fox who both resigned their posts after the collapse of the Rockingham administration
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet inlaid to 27 x 22 cm.
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Pubd. by J. Barrow Jany. 21, 1783. White Lion Bull Stairs Surry side Black Friars Bridge
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796
Subject (Topic):
Foxes, Deer, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Through the window in the upper left corner of the image, William Petty, Lord Shelburne, watches the candidates for the new ministry vomiting on the articles of the peace treaty with the United States as they lean on "posts" they hope to be awarded. Above them hovers a bat-like devil saying, "These posts my dears are temporal / I have posts below which you shall have eternal."
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Title from item.
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Pubd by E. Hedges No 92 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Vomiting, Politics and government, and Clothing & dress
A monstrous creature representing the new ministry (formed on the day of the publication of this print) is shown in the shape of a fox standing on its right hind leg, with eight heads and no fore legs. The central head on top is that of the Duke of Portland, surrounded by other ministerial candidates. Below the fox's raised tail are the heads of Lord North and Charles Fox; above the former issues a blast of air signed "Coalition." Below the design and on both sides of the title are ten verses beginning, "This many-headed Monster of the Land / At present on one Leg is seen to stand."
Description:
Title from item., Questionable attribution to John Boyne from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Uncolored impression, with a pencil drawing of gallows and a noose around the neck of David Murray, Lord Stormont(?), and "the pope" next to it in manuscript. Charles Fox's head is numbered "5" in ms.
Publisher:
Pub. April 2d, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, near Temple Bar
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
