Neithe [sic] war nor peace! [graphic] : the astonishing coalition.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[9 March 1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching ; plate mark 13.8 x 18.6 cm, on sheet 22 x 28 cm

Notes:

Title etched at bottom of image.
Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Companion print to: War.

Abstract:

On the right, rising from the clouds are Charles Fox and Edmund Burke, both gesticulating violently in their attack on the "Preliminary Articles of Peace" (with the United States). Joining them is Lord North in the foreground, his left arm raised. He is interrupted in his speech by a barking dog appearing from under the scroll listing the articles. On the left in the background, Cornwall, the Speaker, overlooks the floor. A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6187.

Variant Titles:

Neithe war nor peace
Neither war nor peace
Astonishing coalition

Topics:

Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790.
Dogs.
Public speaking.

Topics:

Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cornwall, Charles Wolfran,--1735-1789--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1783.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1783.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

6791045

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37160

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6188
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 45

OID:

16737716

PID:

digcoll:4711291