[The coalition stage coach] [graphic] / JS f.

Creator:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published 5th May 1783 by Thomas Cornell. Bruton Street,
[5 May 1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 31 x 43.2 cm, on sheet 36 x 53 cm.

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Notes:

Title from British Museum catalogue.

Abstract:

He had been content to get up behind, vide the Duke of C------. . . s's Speech Morning Chronicle 15th April". This was a speech by Chandos on the Irish Judicature Bill, 14 April, violently attacking the Coalition: "he particularly arraigned the conduct of Lord North, and said that not being able to get again upon the state coach-box, he had been content to get up behind." 'Parl. Hist', xxiii. 755.
A stage coach is drawn by two starved horses across rough terrain. An anxious looking Duke of Portland, the nominal head of the government, is being taught how to drive by Charles Fox who is in control of the reins. Their relationship is undescored by the crests on the side panels of the coach with the fox sitting on ducal coronet. Lord North stands in the basket behind, in place of a footman, watching with anger the proceedings on the box. The front left wheel is broken after going over the "Loan" rock; a larger "Reform Bill" boulder is ahead of the horses.
The text below image is a paraphrase of the Duke of Chandos's speech criticizing North's coalition with Fox: "Such was the love of Office of the noble Lord, that finding he would not be permitted to mount the Box,

Topics:

Carriages & coaches.
Horses.

Topics:

Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck,--Duke of,--1738-1809--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1783.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1783.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

6819372

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr30246

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6226

OID:

16194390

PID:

digcoll:4047618