Charles James Fox as a newsboy delivering newspapers to the Treasury, spreading panic and advertising his suitability for a government post. Etching by James Gillray.

  • Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
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1 print : etching ; image 36 x 25 cm

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The Daily Advertiser; Vide, Dundas's speech in the House of Commons. - "for a dozen years past, he has follow'd the business of a Daily-Advertiser, daily stunning our ears with a noise about plots & ruin & treasons & impeachments; while the contents of his bloody-news turns out to be, only a Daily Advertisement for a place & a pension. Js. Gy. d. et ft.

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British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. vii, London 1942, no. 8981

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Wellcome Collection 31797i

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