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James Gillray
1756-1815
Coalition dance : "let us dance & sing, - God bless the king, - for he has made us merry men all."
[London] : Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand, [1783]
etching, hand colored
image: 227 x 321 mm; plate mark: 248 x 348 mm; sheet: 284 x 434 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.371
Notes
By James Gillray.
Later state, with the title at head of image and the head of Fox changed from that of a fox to that of a man.
Later state, with the title at head of image and the head of Fox changed from that of a fox to that of a man.
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy annotated in pencil on verso with notes identifying the subjects of Gillray's caricature and stating that the impression is the 2nd state of this etching.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Lord North, Charles Fox and Edmund Burke, holding hands and dancing around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood," in allusion to one of his speeches. A demon seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle.
Associated names
Humphrey, William, ca. 1740-ca. 1810, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
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