The pit of Acheron, or, The birth of the plagues of England [graphic] / FN: 1784.

Published/Created:

[London?]
[publisher not identified]
[January 1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 29 x 34 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6364

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue.

Abstract:

In a cave with Westminster Bridge visible in the background at left, three witches stand around their cauldron, from which flames ascend, together with the heads of Fox, North, and Burke. The witches add other ingredients to the cauldron, including a paper marked rebellion, while one hag opens a sack from which emerge Thomas Erskine, and John Lee in the shape of a snake. An attack on the Coalition and the India Bill. Initials FN in lower right of image probably refer to Fox-North coalition.

Variant Titles:

Birth of the plagues of England

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Cauldrons
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Lee, John, 1733-1793
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Witches

Topics:

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- 1784
Political cartoons -- England -- 1784
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1784

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

784.01.00.02+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6902978

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05343

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727358

PID:

digcoll:947349