print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.5030
- Title
- Object: The E.O. table
- Description
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From the 'Rambler's Magazine'. Seven players standing round an E.O. table. On the left stand Fox and North, holding hands, both having secured the greater part of the money at stake. Fox, with a fox's head, holds a money-bag, saying, "My Noble Friend this is Coalition money". North says, "This is better then Dealing in Whipcord". The other figures are poorly characterized and cannot be identified. Behind Fox a man partly visible (? the Earl of Surrey) says "I'll back you up Charley". A man with a melancholy expression looks at North, saying, "Is it thus you Keep up your Corporation". A cheerful-looking man, with a money-bag and a pile of guineas (the only other player who has secured a share of the winnings), says, looking to two despairing players on the right, "You should have gone North about". They say, "I am Undone! I am Undone!" and "D--m E.O. and all the Vowels in the Alphabet". The last speaker resembles the Duke of Grafton.
Beneath the circular E.O. table crouches the Devil, saying "I have play'd for you all & have won you all". 1 August 1783
Etching
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 millimetres
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Width: 109 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
On 17 June, Pitt, in bringing forward his Bill for Reform of Abuses in Public Offices, instanced the waste of stationery in the Treasury under North, the bill for whipcord in 1781 being £340; see 'Parl. Hist.' xxiii. 953; Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, iii. 458; see also BMSat 6241, 6257. For E.O. see BMSat 5928.
(Supplementary information)
Accompanied by a magazine clipping.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.5030