The jubilee [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. August 2d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
[2 August 1782]

Copyright Date:

[2 August 1782]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 28 x 37 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6018
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 40

Notes:

Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Hon. Edward Conway, Cannon of Christ Church, 1757-1785 -- Ministries: fall of Rockingham's ministry --Literature: allusion to Little Red Riding Hood -- Conway family as rats -- Mottoes: sic transit gloria mund.
Suckling.

Abstract:

Depicts a fox (Charles James Fox) hanging from a gibbet around which dance members of the Conway family, headed by a blindfolded General Conway who is led by the nose by Shelburne. The Conways are all depicted as rats, with the exception of General Conway and his brother Lord Hertford. Shelburne is shown Janus-like with two faces, his own and that of the Devil. Refers to the resignation of Fox after Shelburne's appointment and Conway's support of the latter. A sequel to British Museum satire 5966.

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Darchery, Elizabeth [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Blindfolds
Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795
Dance
Devil
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Foxes
Gallows
Harvey, Francis
Hertford, Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquis of, 1718-1794
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
R
Rats

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

782.08.02.01+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6813759

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05038

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10724636

PID:

digcoll:552561