Evening consolation

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Evening consolation
etching & aquatint, hand colored
image: 315 x 241 mm; sheet: 353 x 253 mm
Peel 2506
Published: 
[London] : Pubd. Apl. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, [1785]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

A companion print to BMSat 6790.
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.

Summary: 

Fox in the foreground (right) leans back disconsolately in a low chair; in his right hand is an empty purse, in the left 'Pitts Speech'. Beside him in his upturned hat are a dice-box and dice. On the left Burke, stripped to the waist, kneels before his three-legged stool on which is propped an open book inscribed 'Reform'; he is flagellating himself with a birch-rod held in his right hand, and a rosary attached to a cross in his left. Behind, as if seen in a camera obscura or through a window, North is embracing a young woman wearing tattered garments; above their heads is the view of an avenue inscribed 'St James's Park'. Cf. British Museum online catalog.catalogue.

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