Title

'The Retreat of Carlo Khan from Leadenhall St.', 1783. Artist: Anon

Caption

'The Retreat of Carlo Khan from Leadenhall St.', 1783. Fox, seated cross legged on, and facing the tail of an ass with the face of Lord North. The ass is led by a female representing London. George III waves from India House while Burke follows as a priest. This is an allusion to the defeat of Fox's India Bill.

Date

1783

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19A94_359

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,6Mb) / 11,4in x 17,1in / 3414 x 5119 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior city animal road building buildings London England female women woman people religious street politics religion monarch color colour lane king royal avenue dress location century city of london cobbled royalty priest ass lady concept outside defeat surreal defeated politician 18th century Eighteenth Century statesman Guildhall Library & Art Gallery India House Leadenhall Street sovereign TGN Edmund Burke Frederick North King George III King of Great Britain etching caricature satire Anon Anonymous John Frederick Edmund Lord George III North Earl of Guildford 2nd Earl of Guilford Lord North Burke John Boyne;Boyne