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James Gillray
1756-1815
The cole-heavers
etching, hand colored
image: 213 x 323 mm; plate mark: 249 x 350 mm; sheet: 240 x 331 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2443
Published:
[London] : Pubd. April 16, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, [1783]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
By James Gillray.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Print shows Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail, holding open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. He is saying "Pretty Pickings Charley". The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, Taking care of themselves."
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