Dissolution [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. as [the] act directs, Feby. 6, 1784 by B. Walwyn No. 9 Pedlars Acre West Bridge
[1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 27 x 36 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6404

Notes:

Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark.
Mounted to 28 x 41 cm.

Abstract:

George III, seated in an open car pushed across the clouds by Pitt, Thurlow, the Duke of Richmond, and Lord Sydney, aims a "thunder of dissolution" at the Coalition ministers represented by Fox, Lord North, and Burke, who fall backwards into the abyss and flames below the clouds.

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-180
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:

784.02.06.01+

Orbis Record:

6967679

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05395

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727403

PID:

digcoll:947409