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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: S W Fores
Title
The Test
Description
English: Dissenters are engaged in burning churches and attacking the clergy. In the foreground a stout bishop on his knees is being kicked and assailed by men with bludgeons; beside him is a book: 'Refutation of Dr Price'. He exclaims, raising his hands, "Murder, fire, thieves". One of his assailants says, "Make room for the Apostle of Liberty"; the other, "God assisting us nothing is to be feared". Under this group is inscribed: 'And when they had smote the Shepherd, the Sheep were scattered'. Behind (right) a Gothic building, from which extends a sign of the Mitre and Crown, is being demolished. Price sits astride on the beam supporting the sign; in one hand is an open book, 'Love of our Country', in the other is a firebrand inscribed 'The Flame of Liberty'. Beneath, two men in steeple-crowned hats are feeding a fire with faggots, whose flame and smoke, inscribed '39 Articles', ascends in a thick cloud. Next the burning building, and on the extreme right, is a porch (over a doorway) in which stands Fox, blowing a horn and pointing down to a placard over the doorway: 'Places under Government to be disposed of. NB, Several Faro and E.O. Tables in good Condition'. An adjacent placard is: 'day next charity sermon by Revd chas Fox'. A group of eager fanatics with lank hair rushes towards the doorway, holding up to Fox money-bags inscribed '30.000', '10.000' and '20.000.' In the foreground (right) are two fanatics struggling for the bag of the Great Seal; one raises a mace inscribed 'Brotherly Love' to strike his opponent; under his foot is a paper: 'Repeal of the Test Act'.


In the background (left) is a group of figures engaged in demolishing a church with pickaxes; a rope pulls over the cross on the steeple. Two of this group look towards Price: a parson inscribed 'P------ly' (Priestley) waves his hat, saying, "Make haste to pull down that old Whore and we'll build a new one in its place"; a lean man, fashionably dressed (evidently Stanhope), extends his arms, saying, "Address to Assemblee national". Beneath the design
is etched:

'Bell and the Dragon's Chaplains were
More moderate than these by far,
For they poor Knaves! were glad to cheat
To get their wives and children meat;
But these will not be fobb'd off so;
They must have wealth and power too,' 20 February 1790


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 270 millimetres
Width: 388 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5914
Notes

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

This propagandist print anticipates Fox's motion for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts on 2 March, see BMSat 7628, &c. It illustrates the great impression caused by Price's famous sermon 'on The Love of our Country' on 4 Nov. 1789 to the Revolution Society, after which he moved the address to the National Assembly of France congratulating them on the revolution, which was signed by Stanhope as Chairman. G. Stanhope and G. P. Gooch, 'Life of Charles third Earl Stanhope', 1914, pp. 86-7 (see BMSat 7889, &c). Six answers (1790) to Price's sermon are in the B.M.L., none by a bishop, but one by Archdeacon Coxe. See BMSats 7628, 7685, 7686, 7689, 7690, 7822, 7858.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5914
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