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James Gillray
1756-1815
The cole-heavers
[London] : Pubd April 16, 1783, by W Humphrey, No 227 Strand, [1783]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.369
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[London] : Pubd. April 16, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, [1783]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Library's copy annotated in pencil on verso with notes identifying the subjects of Gillray's caricature.
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By James Gillray.
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."
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