Nuptial Bower,Evil One,Charms of Eden,Milton,William Pitt,Courtship,Charles Fox

Title: The nuptial-bower; - with the evil-one, peeping at the charms of Eden, from Milton / Js. Gy. inv. & fect.
Creator(s): Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
Date Created/Published: [London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1797 Feby. 13th.
Summary: Cartoon shows William Pitt escorting Eleanor Eden to a vine-shaded bower within which are three large sacks with the British pound symbol on them, possibly representing Pitt's debt. Bunches of grapes, crowns, and medallions, suspended from ribbons, hang from the bower. A devil-like creature, 'the Evil-One', representing Charles James Fox, peers around the bower from the right.
Notes:
Captioned: 'To the Nuptial-Bower he led her Blushing like the Morn.'
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8985
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Gillray and the Art of Caricature.
Subjects:
Pitt, William,--1759-1806.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806.
Courtship--1790-1800.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1790-1800.
Etchings--Hand-colored--1790-1800.
Bookmark /2001695210/
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