Frontispiece / Design'd at Brookes's ; Executed at St. James's Palace.

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John Stockdale
Frontispiece / Design'd at Brookes's ; Executed at St. James's Palace.
Peel 3255
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[London?] : [J. Stockdale?], [1784]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Statement of responsibility, and source of frontispiece from George.
Frontispiece plate issued as an illustration in: The beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke : selected from their speeches, from the year 1770, down to the present time. With a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public. With a frontispiece of Fox, North, and Burke ... (London : Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784).

Summary: 

Fox, North, and Burke chain and blindfold the British Lion who wears a royal crown. Fox (left) stoops to put the chain round his neck. North (centre) kneels placing a bandage over his eyes. Burke (right) stands holding the chain, a key, and a padlock. In the background stands Pitt, holding the hand of Britannia who, contrary to custom, wears a feathered hat. Behind him the (rising) sun, half below the horizon, a face in its disk, sends out rays. Cf. British Museum online catalog.

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