'A Block for the Wigs' by James Gillray - Hand Coloured Etching

Cartoon shows a carousel on which sit government ministers Charles Fox, Lord North, Edmund Burke and Admiral Keppel. Beam in the centre of the carousel platform is a pillar topped by a bust of King George III, a wig and Union Jack suspended over the bust. In the background two robbers lower a large bundle from the window of a building. An inscription above the cartoon reads “Poor John Bull’s house plunder’d at noon day.”

Published by William Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, 5 May 1783