BIB_ID
459751
Accession number
MA 176 E46
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890. NNPM
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 159 x 119 mm; sheet: 188 x 118 mm
Notes
Title from item.
Statement of responsibility, and source of frontispiece from BM Satires.
Frontispiece plate issued as an illustration in: The beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke : selected from their speeches, from the year 1770, down to the present time. With a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public. With a frontispiece of Fox, North, and Burke ... (London : Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784).
Print closely trimmed within plate mark, with loss of text at head of image; inlaid in sheet 383 x 238. NNPM
Statement of responsibility, and source of frontispiece from BM Satires.
Frontispiece plate issued as an illustration in: The beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke : selected from their speeches, from the year 1770, down to the present time. With a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public. With a frontispiece of Fox, North, and Burke ... (London : Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784).
Print closely trimmed within plate mark, with loss of text at head of image; inlaid in sheet 383 x 238. NNPM
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890. NNPM
Summary
Fox, North, and Burke chain and blindfold the British Lion who wears a royal crown. Fox (left) stoops to put the chain round his neck. North (centre) kneels placing a bandage over his eyes. Burke (right) stands holding the chain, a key, and a padlock. In the background stands Pitt, holding the hand of Britannia who, contrary to custom, wears a feathered hat. Behind him the (rising) sun, half below the horizon, a face in its disk, sends out rays. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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