Shakespeare's prophecy, the last act but one in The Tempest, or, the Jack daws in borrowed feathers / [Cruikshank].

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Isaac Cruikshank
Shakespeare's prophecy, the last act but one in The Tempest, or, the Jack daws in borrowed feathers / [Cruikshank].
engraving
image: 27.7 x 43.2 cm; sheet: 29 x 45.5 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2845
Published: 
[London] : S.W. Fores, 1795.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Trimmed to within plate mark.

Summary: 

Thurlow, Fox, and Sheridan as 'Caliban', 'Trinculo', and Stephano in their stolen finery are driven off by ministerial hounds set on by 'Ariel' (Pitt) and 'Prospero' (George III). Thurlow (left) in Chancellor's wig and gown, holding up the mace, the purse of the Great Seal under his arm, runs first, saying, "There is no Peace to the Wicked by G---d". He is worried by a dog, wearing legal wig and bands, who is Loughborough (his successor). Fox follows, wearing royal robes and holding the orb and sceptre, he looks over his left shoulder to say: "Every man shift for all the rest, & let no man take care for himself: for all is but fortune: - Coragio, bully Monster, Coragio!" Behind him, with a terrified expression, runs Sheridan wearing a long gown.

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