Six figures stand in an extended circle playing a game of handball with Lord North, who is in the air, his round body and globe-shaped head representing a ball. He is wearing his garter ribbon and star and says "I am in a Nasty Situation. I almost wish I was no-Thing". Strips inscribed "Bribery" and "Taxes" decorate his stockings; the privy purse is falling from him, as is a paper inscribed "How to Diminish Public Money by Private Contract". The players wear large muff-shaped gloves with which to strike the ball. Three stand in the foreground: Wilkes (left), with a violent squint, is saying "I will have 46 Strokes at him"; a man in gown and bands (possibly Parson Horne, afterwards Horne Tooke) is saying "O he will be a Nice Bone for ye Divil to pick"; Charles Fox (right), in the form of a fox, is saying "Keep it up my Boys". In the middle distance are two small figures: one (left) says "There he goes Neck or Nothing"; the other [Burke] says "This is sublime &amp; Beautiful". The sixth player in the distance is very small and not characterized. Beneath the design is etched:
<p><br><br>"I Hope you're Pleas'd with this Game at Hand Ball 
<br>Which seems to Prognosticate SOMEBODYS fall
<br>Ah may it be Bandied about------and so forth
<br>To shew we Can beat all the Games of the North."  c.1780?
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<br>Etching with some surface tone
1780<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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