[Charles James Fox] Gorgon. This horrid head in antient times was known, / To petrify beholders into stone. / But Pitt the Perseus of the present day, / With patriot zeal has took its pow'r away, / The venom'd heads from him receiv'd no quarter / Or stings that pointed at the India Charter.

Publishd by EHedges N.º 92 Cornhill March 13 1784.
Etching. 235 x 225mm (9¼ x 8¾"), with very large margins.
A caricature of Fox as Medusa, his hair a tangle of snakes with the heads of the Coalition Ministry: North, Stormont, Keppel, Portland, Burke, Derby, John Cavendish, Sheridan and Carlisle.
BM Satires 6450.
[Ref: 63626] £280.00