Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online catalog.
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Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Warren Hastings (left) stands looking round with contemptuous anger at Burke and Fox (right) who are flinging mud at him. Burke, wearing a Jesuit's biretta and a long gown, stands with wide-stretched arms, mud in both hands; a prancing and grinning satyr clings to his right arm and looks round mockingly at Hastings. Fox, straddling across a puddle, stoops to collect mud in both hands, looking at Hastings. Behind him a little ragged chimney-sweep shouts and capers, holding his brush in one hand, mud in the other. Behind the assailants a corner of Westminster Hall is freely sketched. Hastings wears oriental draperies, with a feathered and jewelled turban, and a long cloak, his right hand is clenched, his left grasps his sheathed sabre. On the extreme left are two lawyers; one, with a cunning leer, takes (unnoticed) a purse from Hastings's draperies." Cf. British Museum online catalog.