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[Fox and Burke as Hudibras and Ralpho]
Description
English: No title. Fox and Burke (half length) seen through the barred window of a brick building in which they are imprisoned. They are Hudibras and his squire as in BMSat 6361, but in a prison instead of in the stocks. Above the barred aperture is inscribed 'Bailiffs for Middlesex' showing that it is a sponging-house for debtors (cf. BMSat 6483, &c). Outside stands the Duchess of Devonshire looking at them over her right shoulder. She wears a hat with a 'Fox' favour, trimmed with feathers and fox's tails as in the canvassing caricatures, but wears a plain riding-dress of masculine cut [Cf. 'Her Grace sometimes rides about in a black riding habit, which is very convenient in case she should be obliged to enter into contact with a Chimneysweeper'. A newspaper paragraph quoted in 'Westminster Election', p. 246.] instead of the usual voluminous petticoats. Her left hand rests on a tasselled cane. She is Hudibras's Lady who visited the pair in prison and released them; her words are etched beneath the design:



'O heavens! quoth she, can this be true?
I do begin to fear 'tis you:
Not by your individual whiskers,
But by your dialect and discourse.
That never spoke to man or beast
In notions vulgarly exprest:
But what malignant star alas!
Has brought you both to this sad pass?
Hudibras, canto I mo.' [i.e. Part II, canto 1].

On the brick wall of the prison bills are posted: 'Several Pouting lips to be hired by the day by Deven'; [ One of the advertisements for Hood and Wray ran: 'To be hired for the day, several pair of ruby pouting lips, of the first quality, [etc. etc.].' 'Westminster Election', p. 99.] Hood Ray Fox; 'Hood and Wray for ever; Leakes justly famous pills for curing the veneral . . . [cf.B MSat 6530]; No Coalition No Bribery'. 17 April 1784


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Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 301 millimetres
Width: 238 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5256
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires on the Westminster Election, see BMSat 6474, &c. For the Duchess of Devonshire, see BMSat 6493, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5256
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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