A long pull, strong pull, and pull all together [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub. Jan. 9th, 1783 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
[9 January 1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, engraving & stipple engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 34 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6165

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The figure on the right identified by George as Edmund Burke is identified here as Lord John Cavendish.

Abstract:

William Petty, Lord Shelburne, braces himself against the door to the Treasury in order to resist the pull of the rope tied around his waist. He is helped by John Dunning dressed in legal wig and cloak. The four men attempting to remove Shelburne from the Treasury are, from left to right, Charles James Fox, intent on forming a new administration; Admiral Augustus Keppel and the 3rd Duke of Richmond, both members of the Shelburne administration but opposing Shelburne; and Edmund Burke, later paymaster-general in the Fox-North administration.

Associated Names:

Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810 [Publisher]

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 1735-1806
Ropes
Tug of war

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics & government, 1760-1789

Language:

English

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:

783.01.09.01+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6782983

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05112

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10724692

PID:

digcoll:553421