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The Patent Wigg. No fit you Zir, perhaps you got de paine in you Head, make you tink so, dis wigg will fit any Loyal subject. give but an Eye to it zir as I hold it.
Wetherell.
Pub, Aug.t. 1. 1793 by S. Fores. No. 3, Picadilly.
Etching. 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7"), with wide margins.
A bald Charles James Fox stands in a barber shop, with George III as a barber, holding up a wig. A satire on Fox's Whigs being influenced by Thomas Paine's republican ideas.
BM Satire 8338.
[Ref: 36447] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Wetherell.
Pub, Aug.t. 1. 1793 by S. Fores. No. 3, Picadilly.
Etching. 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7"), with wide margins.
A bald Charles James Fox stands in a barber shop, with George III as a barber, holding up a wig. A satire on Fox's Whigs being influenced by Thomas Paine's republican ideas.
BM Satire 8338.
[Ref: 36447] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
The Patent Wigg. No fit you Zir, perhaps you got de paine in you Head, make you tink so, dis wigg will fit any Loyal subject. give but an Eye to it zir as I hold it.
Wetherell.
Pub, Aug.t. 1. 1793 by S. Fores. No. 3, Picadilly.
Coloured etching, part 18th century watermark. 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7"). Tear at top right entering plate taped.
A bald Charles James Fox stands in a barber shop, with George III as a barber, holding up a wig. A satire on Fox's Whigs being influenced by Thomas Paine's republican ideas.
BM Satire 8338.
[Ref: 54452] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Wetherell.
Pub, Aug.t. 1. 1793 by S. Fores. No. 3, Picadilly.
Coloured etching, part 18th century watermark. 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7"). Tear at top right entering plate taped.
A bald Charles James Fox stands in a barber shop, with George III as a barber, holding up a wig. A satire on Fox's Whigs being influenced by Thomas Paine's republican ideas.
BM Satire 8338.
[Ref: 54452] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Patent Wigg. No fit you zir, perhaps you got de paine in you Head, make you tink so [...]
Wetherell.
Pub, Aug.t. 1. 1793 by S. Fores. No. 3, Picadilly.
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7") large margins. Slight mark on top left. Remainder of album sheet on reverse.
Interior scene in which Charles James Fox stands in a wigseller (carrying a royal patent) but is told a certain wig doesn't fit him because he has a [Thomas] 'paine' in the head. Commentary on the influence of republican ideas on Fox's Whig party.
BM Satires 8338; for uncoloured impression see ref.36447.
[Ref: 44822] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Wetherell.
Pub, Aug.t. 1. 1793 by S. Fores. No. 3, Picadilly.
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7") large margins. Slight mark on top left. Remainder of album sheet on reverse.
Interior scene in which Charles James Fox stands in a wigseller (carrying a royal patent) but is told a certain wig doesn't fit him because he has a [Thomas] 'paine' in the head. Commentary on the influence of republican ideas on Fox's Whig party.
BM Satires 8338; for uncoloured impression see ref.36447.
[Ref: 44822] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)