The countryman's dream of coalescing virtue and vice [graphic] / W.D.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. as the Act directs, by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly
March 20th 1784

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & drypoint, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 35 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6457

Notes:

Title from item.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.

Abstract:

Thomas Powys, sleeping in a chair on the left, and Charles Marsham, with a tankard, two of the country gentlemen urging the union between Fox and Pitt, preside over a maypole dance in front of the "St. Albans" tavern, their meeting place. The maypole is decorated with a sleeping head of George III. Dancers include members of the Coalition cabinet, pictured with devil's horns: Charles Fox, with a fox's body, Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, and the Duke of Portland, and members of the preceding cabinet, pictured with haloes: Lord Thurlow, in a judge's robe, a smiling Lord Shelburne, and the Duke of Richmond. They are watched on the left by the "nurse North," with horns, holding baby Pitt, with a halo, and on the right, by the Prince of Wales, dancing to his own tune he is playing on a pipe and a drum.

Associated Names:

Dent, W., fl. 1783-1793 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Portland, William Hen
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:

784.03.20.04+

Orbis Record:

7003609

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05450

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727455

PID:

digcoll:947422