The heads of the Mutiny Bill laid on the table [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. Feby. 20th, 1784, by E. Darchery, St. James's Street
[20 February 1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 18.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 20 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6415

Notes:

Title from item.
Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.

Abstract:

The heads of Burke, North, and Fox lie on a long table, in front of which are executioner's block and axe, with the words "pro bono publico" above them. Behind the table sits Thurlow wearing judge's robes, asking the House of Lords to approve the display of the heads at Temple Bar (last done after the defeat of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746). The title refers to Fox's attempts to postpone the Mutiny Bill.

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Decapitations
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Tables
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806

Topics:

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1784
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1784

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:

784.02.20.01 Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6972415

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05407

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727415

PID:

digcoll:947390