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John Boyne
approximately 1750-1810
Sir Zealous Godfrey giving a bouillon raffraichissant, to his friends
etching with stipple
image: 290 x 220 mm; plate mark: 349 x 247 mm; sheet: 344 x 245 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2551
Published:
[London] : Publish'd Aprill 7, 1784, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street, [1784]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printmaker from BM Satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Lord North, on the left, and Charles Fox, in dressing gowns and night caps, sit in armchairs as invalids with a melancholy expression on their faces. They are approached from the right by a man who carries two soup bowls filled with frogs. One frog is falling to the ground, two more sit on the floor. He is the Duc de Bouillon who, while in England, called himself Mr. Godfrey and showed interest in Foxite politics.
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