Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Kelly, Justice of the Peace, fl. 1784 -- Medal of the Justices of the Peace in Westminster -- Chairing: Fox on goose -- Prince of Wales as a goose -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Mottos: 'Ich Dien' -- Apothecary's mortar and pestles -- Election flags -- Allusion to butchers -- Allusion to Spittalfields weavers -- Musical instruments., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Published, as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Foxes, Geese, Political elections, and Trumpets
Freedom of election, Rival candidates, a farce, perform'd at Covent Garden Theatre, and Rival candidates, a farce performed at Covent Garden Theatre
Description:
Title etched below image., Caption title above the image: The rival candidates, a farce, perform'd at Covent Garden Theatre!, Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Publication date based on British Museum catalogue, v. 6, no. 6511., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Election riots, 1784 -- Petticoat government -- Overturned coaches -- Eye-patches -- Market women -- Hustings -- Election favors -- Facade of St. Paul's Cathedral -- Covent Garden: Piazza -- Election flags -- Allusion to The rival candidates by Henry Bate Dudley, Bt., 1745-1824 -- Election slogans -- Cake stalls -- Allusion to 'Back stairs.'
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
"Fox is being chaired by demons, who advance towards flames (left) in which stands a devil with a pitch-fork waiting to receive him. Fox, seated, holding out his hat, his left hand on his breast, says, "Westminster was pretty Hot but this much more so". The demons who support Fox's chair and prance along behind it appear to have been copied from the Devil in British Museum Satires No. 6283. The foremost has the same twisted ram's horns, the claws of a bird of prey, and barbed tail. He shouts "Fox for Ever". His companions resemble him with slight variations. One also says "Fox for Ever", another, holding up a dice-box, says, "He is the Devels own Representative". Two little demons stand in front of the flames; one says "Fox for Ever", holding up a fox's brush, the other blows a trumpet. Two heads of demons look from the fire, and two small black winged creatures are flying in the flames."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of the people below stairs, Infernals' choice, and Infrnals' choice
Description:
Title etched above image., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: Tho Reynard for Westminster's surely thrown out, Yet Hell will elect him you need not to doubt, As member theyve chaird him the only thats fit, To manage affairs in the Bottomless Pitt., Temporary local subject terms: Election litters -- Allusion to 'Belowstairs' -- Gambling: Dice-box -- Demons -- Pitch-forks -- Chairing: Fox -- Election slogans: 'Fox for ever' -- Election slogans: 'Man of the people'., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. April 12, 1784, by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Devil, Demons, Chairs, Pitchforks, and Political elections
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the Colossus of Rhodes -- Thunderbolts -- Allusion to gambling: crown decorated with playing cards -- Crowns -- Rising sun -- William Pitt, 1759-1806, as rising sun -- Allusion to East India Bill, 1783 -- Covent Garden: Hustings -- Canvassing: Duchess of Devonshire -- Butchers -- Election flags -- Asians., Watermark in center of sheet., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, May 28th, 1784, by F. Clarkson, 73 St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
A short and obese Demosthenes (Charles Fox) with a worried expression on his face, appears to be delivering a pledge. He stands between tall and thin figures of Themistocles (Admiral Hood) on the left and Judas Iscariot (Sir Cecil Wray) on the right, who watch him with a condescending smile
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Publisher's name and address at end of imprint statement are stipple engraved and fainter than the text at the beginning of imprint, which is etched.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political elections, Public speaking, and Clothing & dress
Five men stand round six chamber-pots, arranged in two piles of three, each inscribed 'Poll Book 1784' and supported on a rectangular block or table on which the title is engraved. Each man holds his nose. One (left) in profile to the right, who holds a spoon, is vomiting; he says: "I already am sick Of this poisonous trick The busines so thick T'would weary old Nick With spoon or stick Right from wrong to pick." His vis-à-vis (right), who stirs the contents of a pot with a spoon, says: "The cause I may gain, Though with labour and pain I can hardly refrain From puking amain Thro such fillth for to tag Is wares [sic] than euphorbium bag" (an allusion to the bag thrown at Fox in Westminster Hall, see BMSat 6426, &c). The other three stand together behind the table; the central one says, "A hogo here is. Worse than Cats pis Than Devils Spew. Or Asafoetida." Two demons hold out a net which stretches behind the scrutineers. One (left) says: "Ay Brother and by my tail, The Sheriffs shall admit no bail." The other (right) says: "Spread the net and you shall see Many a false oath will come to me."
Alternative Title:
Examination of the filth
Description:
Title etched in image., Attributed to printmaker only identified as 'Phillips' in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Plinths -- Nets -- Demons -- Scrutiny: Westminster election, 1784, begun on April 23, 1784 -- Allusion to the euphorbium bag thrown at Fox in Westminster Hall on February 14, 1784 -- Poll books as chamber pots -- Cutlery: Spoons.
Publisher:
Publish'd by S. Fores, No. 3, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Great Britain. Parliament
William Pitt, acting as an auctioneer in the dissoluted Parliament, sells from the rostrum decorated with Royal Arms "useless valuables," such as "Magna Charta." Cornwall, the Speaker sitting below the rostrum, records bids in the "Sundry acts." In front of him stands Thurlow in Chancellor's robes making dismissive comment on "nonsensical bidings of those common fellows," i.e. members of the House of Commons who leave through the door on the left. Last of them, Fox, turns back vowing to bid "with spirit" for lot 1, "rights of the people in 558 vol." held on display by Henry Dundas. A reference to the dissolution of the Parliament by the King on March 25.
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 26th by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Auctions, and Clothing & dress
Political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue for: The history of the Westminster election, with folds in the plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Signs: Sign-posts -- Allusion to George III.
Publisher:
Pub. 19 May, 1784, by WH, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Donkeys, Horses, and Political elections
"A canvassing scene in a poor and disreputable district of Westminster, indicated by 'Peter Street' on the corner of the house. The Duchess of Devonshire canvasses a cobbler; she sits supported on Fox's knee, putting one foot on a cobbler's stall that he may do some imaginary repairs, for which she lavishly pays the man's wife, who leans forward, both hands held together to receive coins. The cobbler and his wife are behind a stall protected by a pent-house roof. On this is a notice, 'Shoes made and mended by Bob. Stichitt Cobler to her Grace the Tramping Dutchess NB Dogs Wormd Cats Gelded'. From an open casement window above it a man leans out waving a fox's brush; he holds a tankard and a long clay pipe in his left hand. Beside him a woman holds her head to vomit from the window, her elbows supported on the sill. A dog lies under the cobbler's stall. Fox, his right knee on his hat on the ground, the other supporting the duchess, turns round to give his right hand to a ragged man to whose mouth Sam House holds a tankard, his other hand pressed on the elector's head, who is shown by his long shovel to be a scavenger. Behind, a chimneysweeper with his brushes and his boy with brush and shovel are amused spectators. These figures fill the space to the left of Fox and the duchess. Behind are the irregular gabled roofs and casement windows of old Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cobling voters and abject canvassers
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate reissued for The history of the Westminster election. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: London: Peter Street -- Old Westminster -- Gabled roofs -- Casement windows -- Coblers' stalls -- Dishes: Tankards -- Clay pipes -- Shovels.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament