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- subject matching 'Pitt & Fox'
Caricaturists thrive when their targets are visually distinctive. Gillray received a gift in Pitt and Fox, as not only could both be easily caricatured, but their appearances contrasted strongly with each other. The contrast is most effectively seen in prints in which they both appear, such as 'A Smoking Club' (D12470) and 'Bank-notes, - paper-money, - French-alarmists...' (D12601), when the fair, exaggeratedly slender figure of Pitt is contrasted with the portly, dark and unshaven Fox. A series of prints appeared in the early 1790s in which Gillray appeared to be playing with Pitt's shape. These include 'An excrescence; - a fungus; - alias - a toad-stool upon a dung-hill' (D12435), and 'A sphere, projecting against a plane' (D12438).
'And Adam had power over all the beasts of the earth'
probably by James Gillray, published by William Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 9 January 1780
NPG D12288
by James Gillray
hand-coloured etching, published 14 August 1782
NPG D12296
'Crumbs of comfort' (Charles James Fox; Edmund Burke)
by James Gillray
hand-coloured etching, circa August 1782
NPG D12298
'The discarded viceroy silenced' (Charles James Fox and two others)
by James Gillray, published by Elizabeth d'Achery
hand-coloured etching, published 22 May 1782
NPG D12320
'Paridise regain'd' (King George IV; Charles James Fox; Mary Robinson (née Darby))
probably by James Gillray, published by J. Langham
hand-coloured etching, published 20 February 1783
NPG D12329
'A sun setting in a fog; with the old Hanover hack descending' (Charles James Fox; King George III)
by James Gillray, possibly published by John Williams
hand-coloured etching, published 3 June 1783
NPG D12992
William Pitt ('The Minister endeavouring to eke out Dr Pr*ty***n's bisho-prick')
by James Gillray, published by R. Phillips
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published March 1787
NPG D12357
'There's more ways than one' (Charles James Fox; William Pitt; Edward Thurlow, Baron Thurlow)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 18 February 1788
NPG D12373
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 20 May 1788
NPG D12382
by James Gillray
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 19 July 1788
NPG D12385
'King Henry IVth the last scene'
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 29 November 1788
NPG D12391
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published July 1788
NPG D12998
William Pitt ('The vulture of the constitution')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 3 January 1789
NPG D12395
by James Gillray, published by John Harris
etching, published 9 April 1789
NPG D12402
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
line engraving, published 20 February 1789
NPG D13068
'Swearing to the cutting monster or- a scene in Bow Street'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 20 May 1790
NPG D13001
William Pitt ('An excrescence; - a fungus; - alias - a toad-stool upon a dung-hill')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 20 December 1791
NPG D12435
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 14 May 1791
NPG D13072
'A sphere, projecting against a plane' (William Pitt; Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 3 January 1792
On display in Room 11 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D12438
William Pitt ('The bottomless-Pitt')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 16 March 1792
NPG D12442