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The champion of the people
Title
The champion of the people [graphic].
Publication
[London] : By W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand, [not before 11 March 1784]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 34 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Reissue, with alterations to the text and design; beginning of imprint statement, part of the sword's blade, and the word "Justice" on the sword have been burnished from plate.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. March 11, 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand." Cf. No. 6444 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 120.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
Charles Fox, in an armor and holding the "Shield of Truth," raises broken sword to fight a many-headed monster representing William Pitt and his supporters. In the background, a party of armed "English" and "Irish" gathered under the "Standard of Universal Liberty" decorated with an image of Britannia, watches with approval. Behind the monster, four men representing foreign powers caper with joy around the "Standard of sedition."
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 13, 2005
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1784.
Etchings - England - London - 1784.
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