The Rt. honble. catch singers

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James Gillray
1756-1815
The Rt. honble. catch singers
etching, hand colored
image: 217 x 310 mm; plate mark: 251 x 347 mm; sheet: 244 x 328 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2447
Published: 
[London] : Pubd. May 2d. 1783, by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand, [1783]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Printmaker from BM Satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

Summary: 

Charles Fox and Lord North sit on a bench, raising together a two-handled tankard in celebration of the coalition's victory. North (as Boreas) blows at the froth spilling it carelessly on a document inscribed "Westminster Petition" thus implying the new ministry's contempt for the Westminster Association's demands for parliamentary reform.

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