A shot at the Min----r for a call of the House [graphic] : a hasty speech of yesterday's business / JS [monogram] f.

Creator:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823, artist.

Published/Created:

[London]
Publ'd 6th Febry. 1787 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Strt.,
[6 February 1787]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.9 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 23.8 x 33 cm

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http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr30263a

Notes:

Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"Fox (right), wearing a hat, stands in profile to the left, discharging a blunderbuss at the Commercial Treaty (left), a long scroll whose lower portion rests on the floor. The muzzle of his weapon is the head in profile of Lord George Cavendish, from whose mouth missiles emerge. On bands round the muzzle are etched the Cavendish motto, 'Cavendo tutus'. From Fox's pocket protrudes a paper inscribed 'Methuen Treaty'. Behind Fox three seated members are indicated but not characterized; Burke leans forward from behind them holding out his hat in agitated approval. After the title is etched, 'a hasty Sketch of Yesterdays Business'."--British Museum online catalogue.
On 5 Feb. Pitt moved for a committee of the whole House (on 12 Feb.) on the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with France. Cavendish moved an amendment to delay the debate. Fox then spoke, attacking the treaty as (inter alia) a sacrifice of the Methuen Treaty with Portugal, and alleging that Pitt was 'opposed by the whole body of the people', and 'wrong in every article of his scheme'. 'Parl. Hist.' xxvi. 346 ff.

Variant Titles:

Shot at the Minister for a call of the House

Topics:

Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--France.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.

Topics:

Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
France.--Treaties, etc.--Great Britain,--1786 September 26.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1787.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1787.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

7789302

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr30263a

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 7137

OID:

16194417

PID:

digcoll:4047624