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James Gillray
1756-1815
Coalition dance : "let us dance & sing, - God bless the king, - for he has made us merry men all."
Published
[London] : Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand, [1783]
etching
image: 227 x 321 mm; plate mark: 248 x 348 mm; sheet: 249 x 348 mm
Peel 3232
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By James Gillray.
Title from item.
Later state, with the title at head of image and the head of Fox changed from that of a fox to that of a man.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Title from item.
Later state, with the title at head of image and the head of Fox changed from that of a fox to that of a man.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows Lord North, Charles Fox and Edmund Burke, holding hands and dancing around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood," in allusion to one of his speeches. A demon seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle.
Associated names
Humphrey, William, ca. 1740-ca. 1810, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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