Last coalition

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
Last coalition
etching :
sheet: 94 x 63 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3270
Published: 
[London] : [Pub 29th Decr. 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand], [1783]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Individual image removed from a larger print entitles "Two new sliders for the state magic lanthern", consisting of a series of ten images in two rows, presented as two magic lantern "sliders" (long slides containing multiple images to be successively pushed or slid before the lens); this being number nine of ten numbered panels.

Summary: 

Print shows Fox, North, and Burke seated in a tumbrel beneath a gallows.

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