Publication date from George.
Publication statement etched as part of design.
With four lines etched below image: I Hope you're Pleas'd with this Game at Hand Ball / Which seems to Prognosticate SOMEBODYS fall / Ah may it be Bandied about------and so forth / To shew we Can beat all the Games of the North.
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark.
"Six figures stand in an extended circle playing a game of handball with Lord North, who is in the air, his round body and globe-shaped head representing a ball. He is wearing his garter ribbon and star and says "I am in a Nasty Situation. I almost wish I was no-Thing". Strips inscribed "Bribery" and "Taxes" decorate his stockings; the privy purse is falling from him, as is a paper inscribed "How to Diminish Public Money by Private Contract". The players wear large muff-shaped gloves with which to strike the ball. Three stand in the foreground: Wilkes (left), with a violent squint, is saying "I will have 46 Strokes at him"; a man in gown and bands (possibly Parson Horne, afterwards Horne Tooke) is saying "O he will be a Nice Bone for ye Divil to pick"; Charles Fox (right), in the form of a fox, is saying "Keep it up my Boys". In the middle distance are two small figures: one (left) says "There he goes Neck or Nothing"; the other [Burke] says "This is sublime & Beautiful". The sixth player in the distance is very small and not characterized."--British Museum online catalog.