Banditti [graphic] / I.B.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published by E. Hedges No. 92 Cornhill
Dec. 22, 1783

Copyright Date:

Dec. 22, 1783.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving & stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 27 x 37 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6281

Notes:

Title from text in image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Later state, with title etched within bottom part of image instead of below image. See British Museum catalogue.
Publication line above image in upper left is mostly burnished from plate; transcription from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.

Abstract:

The Coalition ministers are gathered around the table placed in the mouth of a cave. On the left sits Lord North wearing armor under his cloak, a goblet in his left hand. Opposite him on the right is Charles Fox, dressed as a centurion and sitting on a fox. He leans on the table keeping his right hand on three dice signed, "Madras," "Bombay," and "Bengal," and clutching a dice box in his left. Behind him Admiral Keppel, the date of the battle of Ushant (1778) on his helmet, raises his goblet in a toast. Behind him Sheridan, with ass's ears and "School for Scandal" written across his head cover, watches the Duke of Portland count out money to Lord Carlisle. On Portland's shoulder leans Lord Cavendish in a centurion's armor under his cloak. Between him and North sits Burke in a Jesuit's outfit reading his own "Plan of oeconomy [sic]." Under the table lie the corpses of Lords Shelburne and Ashburton, ousted by the Coalition.

Associated Names:

Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810 [Printmaker]
Hedges, Edward, active 1780-1794 [Publisher]

Topics:

Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825
Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789

Language:

Italian

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

783.12.22.03.2+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6961639

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05279

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727315

PID:

digcoll:552221