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James Gillray
1756-1815
The cole-heavers
[London] : Pubd. April 16, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, [1783]
etching, hand colored
image: 213 x 323 mm; plate mark: 249 x 350 mm; sheet: 295 x 416 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.369
Notes
By James Gillray.
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy annotated in pencil on verso with notes identifying the subjects of Gillray's caricature.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail, holding open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. He is saying "Pretty Pickings Charley". The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, Taking care of themselves."
Associated names
Humphrey, William, ca. 1740-ca. 1810, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
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