For the benifit [sic] of the champion [graphic] : a catch to be perform'd at the New Theatre Covent Garden ... / etch'd by T. Rowlandson.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey
[20 May 1784]

Copyright Date:

[20 May 1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 26 x 36 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6591
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 142-3

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Title continues: ... for admission apply to the D-ss.
Date of publication from Grego.
Text below title: NB. Gratis to those who wear large tails.
Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Market women -- Fox and North as market women -- Catch-singers -- Fox, North and the Duchess of Devonshire as catch-singers -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Fox and goose -- Literature: Aesop, fl. 620-564 B.C., Fables -- Music: Catch (round) -- Election favors -- Crutches -- Tombstones -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Foxes.
L. Sanders; March 1962; Acquisitions no.: 962-3-1-2.
Mounted to 27 x 42 cm.

Abstract:

"The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's brush, puts her left hand on Fox's shoulder, pointing to a tomb-stone beside her (left) inscribed, beneath its skull and cross-bones, 'Here lies poor C--C--L--RAY'. She sings: "Look neighbours look here lyes Poor C-------ray [Cecil Wray]". Fox, his left hand grasping a crutch-headed stick, turning to North, sings "Dead & turn'd to Clay". North (right), also with a stick, sings "What Old C------l". Through the wings peers the anxious-looking, spectacled profile of Burke (right). Three framed pictures decorate the wall behind the performers: 'The fox who had lost his Tail' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6530), a tail-less fox looking at four others who are discussing the situation. This is flanked by two oval pictures, 'Fox and Crow' (left), the fox looking up longingly at the crow on a branch, and 'Fox and Grapes' (right), a fox on its hind-legs below a vine-branch, cf. British Museum Satires No. 5962."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

For the benifit of the champion
For the benefit of the champion

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Great Britain. Parliament
Harvey, Francis
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Riviere
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805

Topics:

Westminster (London, England) -- Politics and government

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:

784.05.20.01+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

7661154

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05568

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727840

PID:

digcoll:947559