The minister in [graphic] ; The minister out.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. April 22d, 1782, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
[22 April 1782]

Copyright Date:

[22 April 1782]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.1 x 34.6 cm, on sheet 30 x 49 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5978

Notes:

Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Four lines of verse under each image: When the ministers in, how subservient his friends ...
Old Print Shop ; Mar. 1961 ; Acquisitions no.: 961-3-1-19.
1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 24 x 33 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 37 x 56 cm.

Abstract:

Two frames, depicting Fox (with a fox's head) on the left and Lord North on the right. Three sycophants attend to Fox as he defecates, one wiping his rear, another offering a chamber pot emblazoned with the royal arms. On the right the same three figures have accosted North and empty the chamber pot on his head.

Variant Titles:

Minister out

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Chamber pots
Defecation
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Harvey, Francis
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Riviere & Son

Language:

English

Genre:

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

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:

782.04.22.01+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6765856

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr04952

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10723590

PID:

digcoll:553091