Gillray (James) After.
Two Pair of Portraits _ presented to all the unbiassed Electors of Great Britain, by John Horne Tooke,
£150
, John Miller, and Edinburgh, W. Blackwood,, 1824-27.
a later close copy from Miller and Blackwood’s ‘The Caricatures of Gillray’, this political satire by Gillray was first issued by John Wright in his ‘Anti-Jacobin Review’ in 1798. It depicts the political reformer and writer, John Horne Tooke, as an artist sitting before two pairs of portraits, the print’s title being that of an earlier pamphlet he had written. On the easel before him are three-quarter-length portraits of Charles James Fox, as the embodiment of Deceit, and William Pitt the Younger representing Truth. On the floor to one side is a similar pair of half-length portraits of their respective fathers, Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, and William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham. Horne Tooke asks the ‘unbiassed electors’ “Which two of them will you chuse to hang in your Cabinets, the Pitts or the Foxes? Where on your Conscience should the other two be hanged?”.
220 by 285mm (8¾ by 11¼ inches).
original hand-coloured engraving on wove paper, with touches of gold heightened with gum-arabic, a repaired short tear through the upper plate mark but outside the image, some surface dirt and minor handling creases, [BM Satires 9270]
| Dimensions | 220285811 cm |
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| Dimensions | 220 by 285mm (8¾ by 11¼ inches). |
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