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James Gillray
1756-1815
The minister in ; The minister out
etching
image: 200 x 316 mm; plate mark: 241 x 346 mm; sheet: 228 x 333 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2384
Published:
[London] : Pubd. April 22d, 1782 by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand, [1782]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printmaker from BM Satires.
Title from item.
Four lines of verse under each image: When the ministers in, how subservient his friends ...
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Two frames, depicting Fox (with a fox's head) on the left and Lord North on the right. Three sycophants attend to Fox as he defecates, one wiping his rear, another offering a chamber pot emblazoned with the royal arms. On the right the same three figures have accosted North and empty the chamber pot on his head.
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