The cole-heavers [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
[16 April 1783]

Copyright Date:

[16 April 1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching ; sheet 25 x 36 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6213

Notes:

Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge.
Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.

Abstract:

Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves."

Variant Titles:

Coal-heavers

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Bags
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790
Coins
Corruption
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Harvey, Francis
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Obesity
Riviere & Son

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:

783.04.16.02+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6807154

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05182

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10724746

PID:

digcoll:551431