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James Gillray
1756-1815
The minister in ; The minister out
Published
[London] : Pubd. April 22d, 1782 by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand, [1782]
etching
image: 200 x 316 mm; plate mark: 241 x 346 mm; sheet: 228 x 333 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2384
Notes
Printmaker from BM Satires.
Title from item.
Four lines of verse under each image: When the ministers in, how subservient his friends ...
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Title from item.
Four lines of verse under each image: When the ministers in, how subservient his friends ...
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Two frames, depicting Fox (with a fox's head) on the left and Lord North on the right. Three sycophants attend to Fox as he defecates, one wiping his rear, another offering a chamber pot emblazoned with the royal arms. On the right the same three figures have accosted North and empty the chamber pot on his head.
Associated names
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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