"There's more ways than one" : vide coalition expedients.
[London] : Pubd. Feby. 18th, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [18 February 1788]
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
"A fox (Fox) climbs up a signpost from which hangs the sign of the Crown. The gibbet-shaped post is wreathed with a vine with large bunches of grapes. Fox seizes a branch and gapes greedily for a bunch just within his reach. His left leg is supported on a pile of papers, one bundle of which is inscribed 'Libels'. The topmost paper is an open book: 'Review of the Charges against Warren Hasting[s] Publishd by Stockdale'. In the doorway of the Crown Inn (right) stands Pitt, grotesquely thin except for his head; he wears an apron over the legs of a skeleton. Alarmed at the fox, he drops a tankard of beer on which is a crown. Behind him appears Thurlow, in Chancellor's wig and gown, with an expression of gloomy apprehension."--British Museum online catalogue.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.