Coalition minuet [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub. by E. Dachery March 29, 1783, St. James Street
[1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & engraving with stipple engraving; plate mark 176 x 244 mm., on sheet 19 x 26 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 5, no. 6197

Abstract:

Design in oval. In a ballroom, Lord North, dressed as a lady in hooped petticoats and wearing his Garter ribbon, is dancing with Charles Fox who holds his hat in his left hand. Behind them sits Lord Chancellor Thurlow playing the bagpipes while at the same time receiving a bag of money handed him by Britannia who sits next to him. Thurlow retained the chancellor's office through two administrations preceding the North-Fox coalition before he was forced by Fox to resign. The bag of money may refer to the pension he was then granted.

Topics:

Bagpipes
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790
Dance
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1783
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

Call Number:

783.03.29.01

Orbis Record:

6792810

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05168

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10724733

PID:

digcoll:552550