Coalition arms [graphic] / JN, 1784.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published by M. Smith, March 8, 1784, and sold at No. 46 in Fleet Street
[8 March 1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching ; plate mark 20 x 26 cm., on sheet 32 x 26 cm.

Notes:

Original issue of no. 6441 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires; with the printmaker's initials and date intact.
The printed explanation of the arms below the plate begins: "Key to the coalition arms," and ends with: "These arms were given from the Herald's Office to the two men, for their many and distinguished virtues. 'Go and do thou likewise.'"
Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.

Abstract:

The shield of the Coalition Arms rests on the prostrate figure of the King who tries to free himself from his burden. His efforts are resisted by two supporters of the shield, Lord North (dexter) and Charles Fox (sinister) who each press him down with a foot. North holds a flag with two dancing devils and sign "Coalition," and a small flag with thirteen stripes. Fox holds a stick with a tattered liberty cap on its top. The shield is divided into four quarters. In the first one, Burke, standing under the sign, "Reform bill," pulls a lion's teeth. In the second, the "implements of gambling" are combined with an axe and the head of "Charles Martyr" [i.e., Charles I]. In the third, Fox, shown as a fox, and North, hang from a gallows. In the fourth, a seated figure of Britannia with an olive branch is drawn upside down. The whole is supported by a motto, "Neck or nothing."

Topics:

Britannia (Symbolic character)
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790
Coats of arms
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Foxes
Gallows
Gambling
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Liberty cap
Lions
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792

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:

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Call Number:

784.03.08.01.1+

Orbis Record:

6982483

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05435

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727440

PID:

digcoll:947428