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The rise of India stock, & sinking fund of oppression
Title
The rise of India stock, & sinking fund of oppression [graphic].
Publication
[England] : Publish'd as [the] act directs, [ca. January 1784]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 34.9 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from item.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Summary
George III, his back to the viewer, supports one side of a scale containing the East India House with his left hand, while with a sword in the other, he severs the cords supporting the right hand scale, thus ejecting North and Fox. A reference to the King's action against the India Bill and to the fall of the Fox-North coalition.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 10, 2005
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6394
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1784.
Political cartoons - England - 1784.
Etchings - England - London - 1784.
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