"An election mob in which Townshend and his supporters, as butchers, are violently attacking the populace with cleavers and marrow-bones. They wear aprons with butchers' steels dangling from the waist. George Hanger (right), his hat decorated with thr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July [...]th. by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Coleraine, George Hanger, Baron, 1751?-1824, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Axes, Butchers, Crowds, Political elections, Riots, Sailors, British, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Pubd. as the act directs by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, Chelsea Hospital for Women (London, England), and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, Weavers, and Political elections
Charles Fox, with a fox's head, seated in an ornate chair resting on two poles, is carried by four men with asses' heads. Several others, also with asses' heads, men and women alike, cheer him enthusiastically displaying various items pertaining to th...
Alternative Title:
Westminster electors chairing their favorite candidate
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by Mrs. Darchery April 16, 1783 St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Donkeys, Geese, Owls, and Clothing & dress
A smiling Charles Fox, as Guy Vaux, seated in a chair resting on two poles, is carried by Hall, the apothecary, and Sam House, two of his staunch supporters. He holds in one hand a dark lantern, inscribed, "amor patriae," and in the other a bundle of ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., House, Samuel, -1785., Hall, Edward, active 1784-1790., and Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political elections, Chairs, Lanterns, and Clothing & dress
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, promis...
Alternative Title:
Westminster candidate coming north about the geese
Description:
Title from etched below image.
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
An obese man with fox's head, holding a sheet of paper inscribed "On the Freedom of Election," is facing his very thin opponent with a hound's head holding a sheet inscribed "Services done in America." They represent, respectively, Charles James Fox, ...
Alternative Title:
Fox and Hound and Rival candidates
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Clinton, Duke of, 1752-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Foxes, Dogs, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 18. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duchess of Devonshire (right), in profile to the left, kisses a fat butcher, putting her arms round his shoulders. She wears a hat trimmed with feathers and ribbons. A plump woman approaches the butcher from the left holding out her arms and shou...
Alternative Title:
Most approved method of securing votes
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, and Political elections
"The Duchess of Devonshire (right), in profile to the left, kisses a fat butcher, putting her arms round his shoulders. She wears a hat trimmed with feathers and ribbons. A plump woman approaches the butcher from the left holding out her arms and shou...
Alternative Title:
Most approved method of securing votes
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, and Political elections
"The Duchess of Devonshire (right), in profile to the left, kisses a fat butcher, putting her arms round his shoulders. She wears a hat trimmed with feathers and ribbons. A plump woman approaches the butcher from the left holding out her arms and shou...
Alternative Title:
Most approved method of securing votes
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, and Political elections
"The Duchess of Devonshire (right), in profile to the left, kisses a fat butcher, putting her arms round his shoulders. She wears a hat trimmed with feathers and ribbons. A plump woman approaches the butcher from the left holding out her arms and shou...
Alternative Title:
Most approved method of securing votes
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, and Political elections
"The interior of the shop of an apothecary or quack medicine vendor. Three persons have entered (left): the Duchess of Devonshire stands full-face offering the apothecary (right) a purse, while she holds out her right hand to Fox who stands beside and...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 14, 1784, by G. Jackson, No. 21 Great Russell St., Covent Garden
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Leake, John, 1729-1792, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Canvassing, Interiors, Quacks, Medicines, Pharmacists, Political elections, and Sexually transmitted diseases
"Satire on the disputed Westminster election of 1751; view on St James's Street during a procession on the day the Hon. Alexander Murray was released from prison; on the left two men stand in wigs declaring "No Knee Worship" and "It's a Dirty Place"; ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Murray, Alexander, d 1777 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Political elections, Petitions, and Carriages & coaches
"The candidates for Middlesex and their supporters race (right to left) to Brentford. The foremost rider is Wilkes on a horse wearing a royal crown (indicating George III); he holds up the cap of 'Liberty' on its staff. Half a length behind, and neare...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Middlesex (England), and England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821, Byng, George, ca. 1735-1789, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, House, Samuel, -1785, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Elections, Crutches, Donkeys, Hobby horses, Horse racing, Horses, Justice, Liberty cap, Pharmacists, Political elections, Scales, Symbols, and Traffic signs & signals
"Four men stand in the pillory, in pairs. The arrangement is not that of the actual pillory: they stand on a cross-bar which connects two high posts, one at each side of the design, each of which supports a board, through the holes in which are thrust...
Alternative Title:
Supporters of Fox and liberty
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 24, 1784, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Honesty, Pillories, Political elections, and Stocks (Punishment)
