Don Quixote & his squire Sancho attacking a windmill [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd as the act directs, March 2d 1784 by S. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
[2 March 1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6434

Notes:

Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 29 x 33 cm.

Abstract:

Charles Fox, in an armor with shield and spear and a barber's basin for a helmet, marches towards the "Treasurey" building that has windmill sails on it with Pitt's head at their center. Fox is encouraged in his endeavor by a timid-looking Lord North who pats his posterior.

Variant Titles:

Don Quixote and his squire Sancho attacking a windmill

Topics:

Armor
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Windmills

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:

784.03.02.01 Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6980897

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05427

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727433

PID:

digcoll:947443