[The coalition stage coach] [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [5 May 1783]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 31 x 43.2 cm, on sheet 36 x 53 cm
- Notes:
- Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image. - 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, - Variant Titles:
- Such was the love of office of the noble lord ...
- Topics:
- Carriages & coaches.
Horses. - Topics:
- Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Ownership.
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.
Sayers, James,--1748-1823--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1783.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1783. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Orbis Record:
- 6819372
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr32979
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6226
- OID:
- 16819303
- PID:
- digcoll:4776518
