A warm birth for the old administration [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. April 2d, 1783, by W. Humphrey
[2 April 1783]

Copyright Date:

[2 April 1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 35 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5970
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 46

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Reissue, with altered date in imprint; originally published April 2, 1782, by W. Brown.
Text etched below title: Take the wicked from before the king, & his throne shall be establish'd in righteousness.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.

Abstract:

George III sleeps on his throne while Fox introduces Lord North to the Devil pulling him by his neck cloth. On the right Sandwich and Germain, members of the previous administration, are being carried off by a demon through a doorway labelled Pandaemonium, as Mansfield and Bute are hurried in the same direction.

Variant Titles:

Warm berth for the old administration

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Devil
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785
Sleeping
Th

Topics:

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1783
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1782

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

783.04.02.02+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6797398

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05173

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10724739

PID:

digcoll:552444