The state nurses [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, March 11, 1784, No. 50 New Bond Street
[11 March 1784] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 349 x 247 mm, on sheet 37 x 27 cm
- Notes:
- Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Place of publication from address.
Mounted to 41 x 28 cm. - Abstract:
- Charles Fox, dressed as a nurse, stands in front of a brick house, indicating an empty cradle with a label, "Reynard state cradle wrocker." Lord North, also in nurse's clothes, leans out the window above the entrance holding out a dirty diaper. On the wall to his left is pasted advertisement for employment the "nurses" seek, referring both the the defeat of Fox-North Coalition and Fox's close association with the Prince of Wales.
- Associated Names:
- Barrow, J., active 1782-1785 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher] - Topics:
- Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790
Cradles
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Governesses
Houses -- England -- 1780-1790
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:
- 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:
- 784.03.11.03+ Impression 1
- Orbis Record:
- 7002629
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr05443
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10727448
- PID:
- digcoll:947442
