Carlo Khan's Triumphal Entry into Leadenhall Street

When Charles Fox and Lord North's Whig coalition government proposed nationalization of the British East India Company in 1783, James Sayer responded with this portrait of Fox as "Carlo Khan," an Indian potentate riding an elephant with North's face. Regarded as one of the most influential political caricatures in history, Sayer's print established "Carlo Khan" as a symbol of the alleged rapacity of Fox's Whig party. When the nationalization plan was later discarded, Fox commented that the print had "done him more mischief than the debates in Parliament or the works of the press."