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D5459 - George Murgatroyd Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist - [c1780]-1840
- 1 - Drawings - [c1780]-1809

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D5459/1/42
Former Reference	D5459/1/36
Title	[Fox, North and Burke]
Date	[1780-1789]
Description	A group of three bust portraits of Fox, Burke and North in a circular frame hangs from a branch in an infernal landscape. Fox (left) faces forward, wearing his customary blue coat and tan waistcoat. In the centre Burke wears clerical dress and a Jesuit biretta. On the right, North is depicted in profile in a red coat and blue sash. The 'picture' is suspended by a pink ribbon from a branch which crosses the top left-hand corner of the picture, and another branch, with leaves, descends from the top right-hand corner. A black devil with wings reclines against a rock in the bottom right-hand corner and points up to the picture with his left hand. Another devil sits cross-legged and grinning in the bottom left-hand corner. The background is filled with flames. Available on CD 157.
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Artist	Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Archive Creator	George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further Information	Woodward appears to have taken the design for the central circle from the frontispiece to The 'Beauties of Fox, North and Burke', a pamphlet consisting of quotations from speeches by the politicians made before the coalition (BM Sat 6393). The design was also used in adverts and broadsides, and so it is not inconceivable that Woodward might have seen it. The only major change which Woodward makes is to portray Burke as a Jesuit priest, something first done by Gillray in 1783. Date based on dates of the Fox-North coalition (1783).
Physical Description	Coloured drawing. Size 215 x 176 mm. Portrait.
Copies	A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
Related Material	For other depictions of Fox, North and Burke see D5459/1/48 and D5459/1/53. For depictions of Fox see D5459/1/36 etc.
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