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Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
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A courtroom in which a chaplain sits in the middle of a group of councillors, three of whom are linked to a chain pulled by the devil with the head of a bull; below, two defendants receive a subpoena. Etching, 1772.
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.Date: [February 1772?]Reference: 581184i
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A man with the head of a fox (Henry Fox) is pulling the king's sedan chair, and calls for help from George Bubb Dodington, who is drinking in an inn. Etching, 1757.
Date: [1757]Reference: 37216i- Pictures
Two devils hanging Lord Bute and Henry Fox (left); the Princess of Wales grieving (right). Etching, 1763.
Date: [8 April 1763]Reference: 580763i
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Three marble vases and a sarcophagus. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [between 1768 and 1778]Reference: 757006i
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A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i