Coalition arms
[London] : [Published by M. Smith, March 8, 1784; and sold at No. 46, in Fleet Street], [1784]
Imprint from the British Museum online catalog.
Motto within the design reads: Neck or Nothing.
An earlier state of the print has different letterpress text printed below and the initials of the artist with date, "JN: 1784", etched within the image at right, in this state burnished out of the plate but still visible.
Letterpress explanatory text printed on the same sheet below the etching begins: Lately granted by a new College of Arms to two Illustrious Persons for their numerous and distinguished Virtus. "Go and do thou likewise." They are thus emblazoned: First Quarter. A Standard with the Thirteen Stripes of the American States; Base, Edmund St Omer's [Burke], like a skilful Dentist, drawing the Teeth of a Lion. ...
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and cropped with probably loss of imprint.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Print shows Lord North and Charles James Fox standing with a large escutcheon between them which rests on the back of George III. North is holding a flag in his right hand inscribed "Coalition" with two demons depicted, in his left hand he is holding a flag with thirteen stripes. Fox is holding a staff topped with a liberty cap. A key to the quardrants, "to the Coalition Arms," is printed below the image.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 871.