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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?
A recent escape / [I. Cruikshank].
Published
London : Pubd. Decr. 21st, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, 1795.
color engraving
image: 10 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (270 x 359 mm); sheet: 11 9/16 x 14 7/8 inches (293 x 378 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1244
Notes
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
A satire on Pitt's unpopularity, owing to dearth and military failure. Color engraving of Pitt and Fox facing each other, their heads in profile. Pitt's face, hair, and elegant riding-dress are spattered with mudd; he holds a hat and switch, and stands with bent knees, saying "These are the Blessed effects of Your Patriotism, & be D -- to you." Fox, neatly dressed and very fat, holding his hands to his chest, grins broadly, saying, "Why dost thou shake thy Dirty Locks at me? Thou canst not say I did it--Muddy Banquo!"
Associated names
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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