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a glowering Fox surrounded by erstwhile colleagues, following his resignation after Rockingham's death, evoking Milton's Satan banished from Paradise, etching, 305 x 235mm., slight spotting, [BM Satires 6372], James Sayers, 1784; with a small portrait of Rockingham, and A Hasty Sketch of Yesterday's Business, depicting a headless Fox addressing the Commons, by Bretherton and Sayers, [BM 6069 and 6437]; with a small mixed group of other caricatures of 1784, including The Pit of Acheron, by Thomas Rowlandson [BM 6364], Public Influence or a Scramble for Coronets, by Samuel Collings [BM 6631], The Cheshire Farmer's Policy or Pitt outwitted, a farmer riding a cow to avoid Pitt's horse tax, by John Nixon [BM 6672] , Give Justice Her Claims, showing Wilkes and George III hanged, [BM 6569], and an earlier portrait of the Lord of the Treasury, the anti-Wilkes Jeremiah Dyson, 'Mungo', 1769, [BM 4267] (8)