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The Only Booth In The Fair - Portland & Co., Late Shelburne / I. Boyne Invt & Exct, London.

The Only Booth In The Fair - Portland & Co., Late Shelburne / I. Boyne Invt & Exct, London.

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TITLE:  The only booth in the fair - Portland & Co., late Shelburne / I. Boyne invt & exct, London. CALL NUMBER:  PC 1 - 6206 (b&w print) (A size) [P&P]PC 1 - 6206 (color print) Another impression REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-45468 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  Print shows a country fair amusement with Charles James Fox, on a raised platform, wearing a dunce or liberty cap labeled "Vox Populi" receiving bribes from Lord North, to the right, on the platform, Lord Shelburne and the Duke of Portland point toward North and Fox; a group of spectators stands in the foreground. MEDIUM:  1 print : etching. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  London : [Published as the Act directs No. 2 Shoe Lane Fleet St.] : Sold by W. Humphrey 227 Strand, [1783 April 9] CREATOR: Boyne, John, ca. 1750-1810, artist. NOTES: Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6206 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 853. SUBJECTS: Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806. North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792. Lansdowne, William Petty,--Marquis of,--1737-1805. Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck,--Duke of,--1738-1809. Politics & government--England--1780-1790. Sideshows--1780-1790. Bribery--England--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1780-1790.Etchings British 1780-1790. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a45663 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45663 CONTROL #:  2004673536