Great cry and little wool

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
Great cry and little wool
etching
image: 210 x 310 mm; plate mark: 225 x 312 mm; sheet: 224 x 313 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2416
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[London] : Published 22 Decr. 1783 by Humphrys, Strand, [1783]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Printmaker from BM Satires.
Title from item.
Several letters in title and in imprint are etched reversed.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

Summary: 

Charles Fox, dressed only in breeches, tries to flee from the Devil who caught him by the leg and is shearing off the hair from his chest. On the left, in front of the "India House" a group of elated men dance around a burning stake to which is tied a fox. A reference to the rejection of the India Bill in the House of Lords and the demise of the Coalition government.

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