The eclipse [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd March 26, 1783, by H. Macphail No. 68 High Holborn
[26 March 1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 36 x 26 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6467

Notes:

Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publication date from George: 1784.
Mounted to 41 x 30 cm.

Abstract:

The figure of Britannia entreats the King to look up at the irradiated face of William Pitt floating in front of a large, dark cloud that carries the faces of Charles Fox in the center, Lord North to the left, and Edmund Burke to the right. Fox's dark face is partially obscured by the rays surrounding Pitt.

Topics:

Britannia (Symbolic character)
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Eclipses
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Pitt, William, 1759-1806

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:

784.03.26.02+

Orbis Record:

7004797

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05458

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727463

PID:

digcoll:947473