print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.4813
- Title
- Object: The northern phiz
- Description
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Lord North, very short and fat, in profile to the right conversing with a Jew. He holds up in his left hand a mask, representing his own face, and says, "This countenance is always the Same let your deeds be ever so Black". The Jew, in profile to the left, has a beard, and wears a wide-brimmed hat and long coat; he holds up his right fore-finger, saying to North, "Its such Base Metal its only fit to make Halfpence on't". Fox, with a fox's head, stands behind North (against whom he is urinating) and says, "he'll come North about you if you don't mind Mordeca[i]". Beneath the design is engraved, "A Copper Countenance, Selling by Private Contract, the property of a Noble Lord out of office having no further use for it." 27 March 1782
Etching
- Production date
- 1782
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 169 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
A satire on the fall of North's ministry, 20 Mar. 1782.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.4813