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The cole-heavers
Title
The cole-heavers [graphic] / J. Gillray fecit.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, [16 April 1783]
Manufacture
[London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6213 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
Provenance
Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919.
Summary
Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds 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. 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."
Variant and related titles
Coal-heavers
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 04, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1783.
Etchings - England - London - 1868.
Restrikes.
Also listed under
Field & Tuer, publisher.
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