Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: tankard inscribed 'House' -- Trades: poll clerks -- Theaters: Covent Garden -- Hustings -- Election favors -- Elections: parochial poll books -- Parishes: St. James's Parish -- St. Martin's Parish., Watermark in center of sheet., and Mounted to 25 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aprill [the] 16, 1784, by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, and Political elections
"The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's brush, puts her left hand on Fox's shoulder, pointing to a tomb-stone beside her (left) inscribed, beneath its skull and cross-bones, 'Here lies poor C--C--L--RAY'. She sings: "Look neighbours look here lyes Poor C-------ray [Cecil Wray]". Fox, his left hand grasping a crutch-headed stick, turning to North, sings "Dead & turn'd to Clay". North (right), also with a stick, sings "What Old C------l". Through the wings peers the anxious-looking, spectacled profile of Burke (right). Three framed pictures decorate the wall behind the performers: 'The fox who had lost his Tail' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6530), a tail-less fox looking at four others who are discussing the situation. This is flanked by two oval pictures, 'Fox and Crow' (left), the fox looking up longingly at the crow on a branch, and 'Fox and Grapes' (right), a fox on its hind-legs below a vine-branch, cf. British Museum Satires No. 5962."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benifit of the champion and For the benefit of the champion
Description:
Title etched below image., Title continues: ... for admission apply to the D-ss., Date of publication from Grego., Text below title: NB. Gratis to those who wear large tails., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Market women -- Fox and North as market women -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Fox and goose -- Literature: Aesop, fl. 620-564 B.C., Fables -- Music: Catch (round) -- Election favors -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Foxes., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 25 x 35 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Formerly mounted on leaf 82 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, Politics and government, Singers, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's brush, puts her left hand on Fox's shoulder, pointing to a tomb-stone beside her (left) inscribed, beneath its skull and cross-bones, 'Here lies poor C--C--L--RAY'. She sings: "Look neighbours look here lyes Poor C-------ray [Cecil Wray]". Fox, his left hand grasping a crutch-headed stick, turning to North, sings "Dead & turn'd to Clay". North (right), also with a stick, sings "What Old C------l". Through the wings peers the anxious-looking, spectacled profile of Burke (right). Three framed pictures decorate the wall behind the performers: 'The fox who had lost his Tail' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6530), a tail-less fox looking at four others who are discussing the situation. This is flanked by two oval pictures, 'Fox and Crow' (left), the fox looking up longingly at the crow on a branch, and 'Fox and Grapes' (right), a fox on its hind-legs below a vine-branch, cf. British Museum Satires No. 5962."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benifit of the champion and For the benefit of the champion
Description:
Title etched below image., Title continues: ... for admission apply to the D-ss., Date of publication from Grego., Text below title: NB. Gratis to those who wear large tails., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Market women -- Fox and North as market women -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Fox and goose -- Literature: Aesop, fl. 620-564 B.C., Fables -- Music: Catch (round) -- Election favors -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Foxes., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.3 x 34.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 82 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, Politics and government, Singers, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's brush, puts her left hand on Fox's shoulder, pointing to a tomb-stone beside her (left) inscribed, beneath its skull and cross-bones, 'Here lies poor C--C--L--RAY'. She sings: "Look neighbours look here lyes Poor C-------ray [Cecil Wray]". Fox, his left hand grasping a crutch-headed stick, turning to North, sings "Dead & turn'd to Clay". North (right), also with a stick, sings "What Old C------l". Through the wings peers the anxious-looking, spectacled profile of Burke (right). Three framed pictures decorate the wall behind the performers: 'The fox who had lost his Tail' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6530), a tail-less fox looking at four others who are discussing the situation. This is flanked by two oval pictures, 'Fox and Crow' (left), the fox looking up longingly at the crow on a branch, and 'Fox and Grapes' (right), a fox on its hind-legs below a vine-branch, cf. British Museum Satires No. 5962."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benifit of the champion and For the benefit of the champion
Description:
Title etched below image., Title continues: ... for admission apply to the D-ss., Date of publication from Grego., Text below title: NB. Gratis to those who wear large tails., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Market women -- Fox and North as market women -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Fox and goose -- Literature: Aesop, fl. 620-564 B.C., Fables -- Music: Catch (round) -- Election favors -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Foxes., and Mounted to 27 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, Politics and government, Singers, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"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 nearer the spectator, is Mainwaring, holding up a sword whose blade is inscribed 'Justice'. His horse's human head is blindfolded, in its mouth is a pair of scales; in one balance is 'Byng Dunston', in the other and heavier, 'Wilkes Manwaring'. The horse probably represents Justice, its rider was a well-known Middlesex Justice and chairman of the Middlesex Sessions. Behind Wilkes, his horse's head hidden, is a rider not identified, he has lost his stirrups and clutches his saddle with both hands. Behind these three and in the centre of the design is George Byng, the friend of Fox and the Prince of Wales, M.P. for Middlesex since 1780. He rides a pair of horses (representing the Coalition), standing with one foot on the saddle of each; the near horse has the head of Fox, the other that of North; the tail of the near horse is a fox's brush inscribed 'Grace'. The fore legs of the pair touch a paper inscribed 'Test'. Byng's whip is inscribed 'Coalition' and he is saying, "Spur them up behind Doctor, or I shall lose the race", addressing Hall, the Westminster apothecary, who rides like a hobby horse a pair of crutches tied with a ribbon; in place of a hat he wears a mortar inscribed 'All [sic] Blue and Buff'; he holds up his pestle as if it were a whip. Behind Byng, Jeffery Dunstan rides an ass with long ears and the head of Sam House; he looks round to address the Duchess of Devonshire who is the last of the cavalcade. The Duchess (right) rides astride, her bunched-up skirt showing spurred half-boots. Her horse has the head of the Earl of Surrey; she says, "Byng for ever - and may the Hearty Cock ever stand stout in our sarvice". Dunstan says, "Well said my Dutchess - Charly's Whipper-in for ever. Huzza". The Duchess wears a heavily trimmed hat in which is a large election favour and four fox's tails, each inscribed 'Byng'. On the extreme left is a sign-post pointing 'To Brentford'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 36 cm.
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
