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The Lord of the Vineyard.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: William Humphrey
Title
The Lord of the Vineyard.
Description
English: Fox and North stand outside a high door under a stone arch, stretching out their arms to receive an enormous bunch of grapes which the Duke of Portland, who looks over the door, is handing down to them. He is saying "Take it between ye". On the keystone of the arch is Portland Place.[Portland Place is, of course, a punning allusion to Portland, the new prime minister. It was then recently built, having been designed by the Adam brothers about 1778. Lord Stormont, President of the Council in the new ministry, was living at No. 15.]


Fox (left) has a fox's head with bushy eyebrows. He has grasped the bunch in both hands and is taking a great bite at the grapes; North (right) stands on tip-toe but is not touching the grapes.
Beneath the title is etched:

"Says the Badger to Fox,
We're in the right Box,
These grapes are most charming & fine;
Dear Badger you're right,
Hold them fast squeeze them tight,
And we'll drink of political Wine." 3 April 1783


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 360 millimetres
Width: 253 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.130
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) One of many satires on the Coalition, see BMSat 6176-9, &c. For Fox and North as fox and badger see BMSat 5964, 6176, 6186, 6196.

Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 46-7. Wright and Evans, No. 12. Reproduced, A. L. Simon, 'Bottlescrew Days', 1926, p. 44.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-130
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