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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
For the Benefit of the Champion.
20 May 1784RCIN 810094
A hand-coloured print of the Duchess of Devonshire on the left with her hand on the shoulder of Charles James Fox who, together with Lord Frederick North, are dressed in women's clothes. Fox and North both hold crutches. The Duchess points to a tombstone whilst the bespectacled Edmund Burke peers through the door at the right. William Humphrey's re-issue of a print originally published by on 6 May by J Hedges (RCIN 810093)
Inscribed in the plate: Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. / Pubd and sold by Wm Humphrey
Bibliographic reference(s)
BM Satires 6591 (BM Satires : Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum ... 11 v. in 12.)
