The State Hackney Coach.They go fast whom the devil drives.
[n.d., c.1773].
Engraving 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on bottom and indent into plate. Small top margin.
Satire on the corruption of politics. From the 'London Magazine', xli. 589. It illustrates 'A Dialogue between a Politician and a Chinese'. A richly carved glass-coach is being driven on a road which leads past buildings to the Tower of London. Inside King George III leans back fast asleep. At the back stands a devil wielding the reins attached to a bit in the mouth of the coachman (Lord North) his other hand whips him with a long lash. North controls the eight running ministers who power the coach; the leader of which is characterised with a foxes head which could be Lord Holland or perhaps Charles Fox and the other identifiable minister is Jeremiah Dyson as he was often characatured as a black man because he was given the nickname 'Mungo' (the black slave in Isaac Bickerstaffe's The Padlock) by Isaac Barré.
BM 5098
[Ref: 55992] £130.00
Engraving 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on bottom and indent into plate. Small top margin.
Satire on the corruption of politics. From the 'London Magazine', xli. 589. It illustrates 'A Dialogue between a Politician and a Chinese'. A richly carved glass-coach is being driven on a road which leads past buildings to the Tower of London. Inside King George III leans back fast asleep. At the back stands a devil wielding the reins attached to a bit in the mouth of the coachman (Lord North) his other hand whips him with a long lash. North controls the eight running ministers who power the coach; the leader of which is characterised with a foxes head which could be Lord Holland or perhaps Charles Fox and the other identifiable minister is Jeremiah Dyson as he was often characatured as a black man because he was given the nickname 'Mungo' (the black slave in Isaac Bickerstaffe's The Padlock) by Isaac Barré.
BM 5098
[Ref: 55992] £130.00