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James Gillray
1756-1815
Guy Vaux
etching, hand colored
image: 220 x 324 mm; sheet: 240 x 334 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2434
Published:
[London] : Pub. by W Humphry [sic], No. 227 Strand, [not before June 15], [1782]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Above upper left border: "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 6."
Later state of a print that previously appeared with the imprint of "E. D'Achery" and dated "June 15th, 1782."
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
One the left, George III, represented as a donkey and wearing a fool's cap, sits asleep on his throne, his wrists manacled. Beneath his chair is a keg of gunpowder, and a sack containing crown and sceptre leans against the wall. Entering the doors on the right is Fox (depicted as a fox) followed by members of the new ministry, including from left to right, Wilkes, Richmond, Burke, Keppel, Shelburne (carrying another barrel of gunpowder), and Dunning.
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