Caption title continues: "If you would know mens hearts, look in their faces."--Lavater.
Issued as a folded plate in the Anti-Jacobin review and magazine; the plate was also issued separately and unfolded.
Library's copy shows no evidence of folding.
Bust portraits of seven leaders of the Whig Opposition party, including Fox, Sheridan, the Duke of Norfolk, Tierney, Burdett, Lord Derby, and the Duke of Bedford, each with his caricatured double, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes below the title.The first pair are Fox and Satan with text: I. The Patron of Liberty, Doublûre, the Arch-Fiend; followed by Sheridan, his double clasping a money-bag: II. A Friend to his Country, Doubr. Judas selling his Master; the Duke of Norfolk, his double crowned with vines, holds a brimming glass to his lips: III. Character of High Birth, Doubr. Silenus debauching; Tierney: IV. A Finish'd Patriot, Doubr. The lowest Spirit of Hell; Burdett: V. Arbiter Elegantiarum, Doubr. Sixteen-string Jack [a noted highwayman]; Lord Derby, his double wearing a bonnet-rouge terminating in the bell of a fool's cap: VI. Strong Sense, Doubr. A Baboon; and The Duke of Bedford: VII. A Pillar of the State, Doubr. A Newmarket Jockey.