- Published / Created:
- [26 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.02.26.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, with a fox's body, sits on the ground facing a building inscribed, "The Treasury," with the entrance signed, "Back door." He laments the loss of power and his inability to "get oer this mighty Pit [i.e., William Pitt]" shown as a large oval hole in the ground in front of him. Six geese stand on the other side of the 'pit' ridiculing him. A reference to the struggle between Pitt and Fox in Parliament prior to its dissolution
- Alternative Title:
- Fox in the dumps
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feb. 26th, 1784 as the act directs by S. Neele, 352 near Exeter Change Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Geese, Foxes, and Nooses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Geese triumphant, or, Fox in the dumps [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 December 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.12.11.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Political satire; a farmer rides to market on a cow from an inn named 'Joe Jolly', with a goose and a cockerel in a basket attached to his saddle, and a notice reading 'Tax on Horses' under the cow's hoof; a small group cheer him from the lintel and window of the inn."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Pitt outwitted
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Below plate line, letter press explanatory text: A farmer in Cheshire, who kept a good team of horses, but had not entered one as a hackney or saddle horse, having occasion to go to Stockport market on Friday, actually saddled a cow, and rode her in triumph to and from the market, attended by a numerous concourse of spectators, who heartily enjoyed the joke - See Morning Herald of Friday Dec. 3, 1784., For a later state by a different publisher, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Three lines of text below the image., and Watermark in center of sheet: Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, Decr. 11th, 1784, for M. Smith, No. 46 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation, Horses, Cows, Defecation, Farmers, Geese, Newspapers, Spectators, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Cheshire farmers policy, or, Pitt outwitted [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- March 31, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.03.31.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A flock of geese, i.e., Westminster electors, chants Fox's name and pecks at grains thrown them by Lord North from the purse "Treasury grains" he is holding under his arm. Next to him, a smiling Charles Fox, with a "list of voters" in his hand, promises the geese "anything for your votes." Behind them, Edmund Burke holds a flag inscribed, "for the liberty of the flock." Standing behind the geese is William Pitt who declares himself their guardian against the "wolves in sheeps cloathing."
- Alternative Title:
- Westminster candidate coming north about the geese
- Description:
- Title from etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 26 x 33 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the Act directs by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Political elections, Geese, Bribery, and Corruption
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The West-tr candidate coming north about the geese [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 21st, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.05.21.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fox and the geese triumphant [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, shown as a lion holding a sceptre and seated under a canopy, receives a deputation of ganders led by a fox (Charles Fox) and a muzzled bear (Lord North). The first of the ganders reads a petition requesting the dismissal of the elephant (William Pitt) who stands to the lion's left. On the right side of the throne, a bull (John Bull) with its head lowered, appears ready to attack the deputation. The text of "The ganders address" is etched below the image, together with the text of "The lion's answer" in which the King rejects the petition
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The text of "The ganders address" has the same manuscript corrections as listed in George., and Mounted to 45 x 32 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Petitions, Bears, Elephants, Foxes, Geese, and Thrones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The ganders addressing the lion to have the elephant remov'd [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Feby. 24th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.02.24.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, with a fox's body, speaks to his supporters, shown as geese with human heads who crowd the windows of the King's Arms Tavern and the street below. At the top of the building, Fox's arms are supported by Burke and Lord North, each with a fox's body. Among the geese are the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Robinson in the upper right window, Sam House, shouting, "Huzza," in the bottom central window, and Jeffery Dunstan, the popular 'mayor of Garrett,' standing on the roof of a coach driven by the Earl of Surrey who stands on its box. The coach and its procession converge with a procession led by a goose carrying a standard with Cromwell's portrait signed, "Fox for ever," and the Cap of Liberty on its pole
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Cattermoul, No. 376, Oxford Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., House, Samuel, -1785., Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797., Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1746-1815., Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800., and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, Political campaigns, Public speaking, Liberty cap, Foxes, and Geese
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The man of moderation addressing his friends from the King's Arms, Westminster [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.02.24.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Charles Fox, with a fox's body, speaks to his supporters, shown as geese with human heads who crowd the windows of the King's Arms Tavern and the street below. At the top of the building, Fox's arms are supported by Burke and Lord North, each with a fox's body. Among the geese are the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Robinson in the upper right window, Sam House, shouting, "Huzza," in the bottom central window, and Jeffery Dunstan, the popular 'mayor of Garrett,' standing on the roof of a coach driven by the Earl of Surrey who stands on its box. The coach and its procession converge with a procession led by a goose carrying a standard with Cromwell's portrait signed, "Fox for ever," and the Cap of Liberty on its pole
- Description:
- Title from item. and Reissue by Hannah Humphrey of no. 6422 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 24 Feby. 1784 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., House, Samuel, -1785., Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797., Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1746-1815., Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800., and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, Political campaigns, Public speaking, Liberty cap, Foxes, and Geese
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The man of moderation addressing his friends from the King's Arms, Westminster [graphic]