Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. A reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Fox to various groups of the Opposition, [With one or two exceptions the identifications are those of Miss Banks; the characterization is excellent, and most are unmistakeable.] in which the arrangement has political and social significance. Three Grenvilles bow to the host and hostess; the Marquis of Buckingham, wearing his ribbon, holding hat and gold-headed cane and showing a gouty leg and foot, bends low. Next is Lord Grenville, clasping his hat to his breast, more ingratiating but less obsequious than his brother. Next is the stout Lord Temple, awkwardly imitating his uncle's gesture. Fox, wearing a sword, returns Buckingham's bow, his hand on his heart; on his right. stands the fat Mrs. Fox, curtseying, and ogling Grenville. She holds a fan on which is a profile portrait of 'Napoleone Ist'; from her pocket projects a flask of 'French Brandy', indicative of her antecedents as well as her sympathies. On the extreme right. is the Prince of Wales, in back view, the greater part of his figure cut off by the margin, but unmistakable. From his pocket projects a paper: 'Henry IV. Sc. I [sic] Pr of W -l know you all, & shall . . . while.' A short fat man gazes up at him admiringly, obsequiously amused; he is identified by Miss Banks as 'Mr [i.e. General] Fitzpatrick', but resembles M. A. Taylor. Beside him is a dog, his collar inscribed 'Tommy Tattle' [? Thomas Tyrwhitt]. Mrs. Fitzherbert sits, in semi-state, in the corner of a sofa, holding a fan on which are the Prince's feathers and 'Ich Dien'; she is about to take a ticket, 'Coalition Masquerade', proffered with ingratiating vivacity by Lord Carlisle. Next Carlisle behind the sofa stands the Duke of Clarence, facing the Prince, and cruelly caricatured. Mrs. Jordan takes his right. arm, but is reading Jobson & Nell [characters in 'The Devil to pay] with the Farce of Equality'. Behind the pair are Col. McMahon, sly and furtive, and a large man, resembling the Duke of York. [Identified by Miss Banks as 'Mr. Tyrwitt', but Tommy Tyrwhitt was noted for his small size. ] Behind Mrs. Fitzherbert, Erskine, in wig and gown, delightedly holds up a large paper (the words partly obscured): 'Arraignments for the new Broad-Bottom'd Administration, Citn Volpone... Lord Pogy [Grenville]... Madame Volpone... Cit... Ego [Erskine], Lord High [Chancellor], Greyhound [Grey], H... Tooke..., Tierney' [imaginatively legible]. On the edge of the Prince's group and immediately behind Fox, his back to Mrs. Fitzherbert, stands the tall stiff Moira (regarded as politically the leader of the Prince's adherents), gazing with startled anxiety at the obeisance of the Grenvilles. Behind Mrs. Fox is a family group: the Duchess of Devonshire, with a fan inscribed 'The Devonshire Delight or the new Coalition Reel', Lady Bessborough wearing a miniature of 'Nelson', and, behind them, their brother, Lord Spencer. In the foreground on the extreme left. the Duke of Bedford, wearing spurred top-boots, sits at a small table holding out an open book: 'Scheme for improving of the Old English Breed \ French Rams.' Next him sits the Duke of Norfolk, fat and gouty, resting on his knee a frothing tankard of 'Whitbreads' Entire', a foaming glass in his other hand. Under his chair are bottles, with one of 'Port' spilling its contents, and a large military cocked hat with tricolour cockade. Behind Norfolk, Sheridan, gross and conspiratorial, offers his snuff-box to Windham; in his pocket is a pamphlet: 'in the Press - Coalition, a bran new Pantomime'. Behind Bedford and on the extreme right. is a group of three: Adair holds 'The Morning Chronicle'; on this are 'Verses upon the Death of ye Doctor by Bawb a dara' ['a dulphoola']. He reads with concern, and is watched in consternation by Tyrwhitt Jones, who sniffs at a bag of 'Camphor', and by little General Walpole. Behind these groups are those who have just entered through a tall arch-way and wait to make their bow to Fox. Close behind the bowing Lord Grenville are Lady Derby with her little husband clinging to her arm. She is handsome and massive, no longer the lank spinster of Gillray's earlier caricatures; she holds up a fan inscribed 'Strolling Players in a Barn'. Behind them are the hideous Nicholls holding a double eye-glass to his single eye and Lady Buckinghamshire, who advances impassively. Between Tyrwhitt Jones and Nicholls is the Duchess of Gordon in tartan and with tartan drapery attached to her head by a thistle; she holds up a fan inscribed 'Over the Water with Charley [Fox]', and ogles the tall Lord Cholmondely, who looks down at her with complacent contempt. Advancing through the archway are the stiff and clumsy Salisbury holding a broken wand of office, with his wife, wearing a plumed helmet (or hunting-cap) and dishevelled hair and high collar and stock. In the background near the wall is an isolated group in close and serious conversation: Tierney (left) and Burdett [Miss Banks says Lord Stanhope] facing each other, with Horne Tooke full face between them. All were individualists, outside Whig circles. The room is palatial. The centre decoration of the wall is an elaborately carved candelabra on a bracket: Napoleon, crowned, naked, and grotesquely emaciated, supports on his shoulders a terrestrial globe, straddling across his large inverted Republican cocked hat. He looks intently down at Fox. On the left and in shadow is an oval bust portrait of George III, 'Pater Patriae'. The frame is decorated with palm-branches. On the right, in a tropical landscape, Indians kneel or prostrate themselves with gestures of adoration before an enormous rising sun. They are 'Worshipers of the Rising Sun'. The ornate frame is garlanded with grapes and surmounted by the Prince of Wales's coronet and feathers. After the title: 'Respectfully Dedicated to the admirers of a "Broad-Bottom'd-Administration."' Description from the British Museum.