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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1785] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 10. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "Gillray fecit" added in lower left corner. For an earlier state of the plate, see no. 6790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 72., and On leaf 10 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Morning preparation [graphic]