The vision of justice with a view of the Harmonic Society [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Published Feby. 18, 1784, as the act directs by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
[18 February 1784] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 30.1 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 39 x 38 cm.
- Notes:
- Title from item.
Under title: "Third sketch".
Mounted to 41 x 29 cm. - Abstract:
- William Pitt, in a dramatic pose, reaches up with his right hand for a sword presented to him by three cherubs encouraging him to defend King and country. With his other hand he indicates a volume inscribed, "Locke on the human understanding" on the table behind him. Above the table hangs a portrait of Lord Chatham. Members and supporters of the North-Fox coalition look on through an open window, gathered under a flag labeled "The Harmonic Society."
- Topics:
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1
Daggers & swords
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Tables - 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:
- 784.02.18.02.1+ Impression 1
- Orbis Record:
- 6972375
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr05406
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10727414
- PID:
- digcoll:947423
