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A Vestrician dish, or a caper sauce for a goose pye.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: F Assen

Published by: J Jones
Title
A Vestrician dish, or a caper sauce for a goose pye.
Description
English: The stage at the Opera-House in the Haymarket. A dancer is posing gracefully on the right foot, his body thrown back, his arms extended; he has the head of a fox and a fox's brush. The left of the stage is seen from the right, with three tiers of boxes on the left and some of the seats in the pit immediately below the stage. In these seats and boxes are men and women with the heads of geese, their necks thrust eagerly forward. A scenery of trees is indicated on the left of the stage.


Beneath the design verses are printed, "The Words by G. S. C.". They express the strong feeling against the Frenchman's receiving so great an ovation and so much money while England and France were at war. The first and last verses are:

"1
If a Fox should appear from a pilfering band,
Who has rifl'd your Roots and have damag'd your Land
What Loons wou'd allow such a Thing still to fleece,
If they were not a meer Set of Cackling Geese."

"6
I now have a Guess at the Reason, I vow;
So the longer we live, still the wiser we grow;
It is a French Fox, all Pomatum and Grease,
That so prettily tackles our English Geese." 16 June 1781


Mezzotint with a poem in letterpress text beneath the plate
Depicted people Representation of: Gaetano Apollino Baldassare Vestris
Date 1781
date QS:P571,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 167 millimetres (plate)
Height: 302 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 213 millimetres (plate)
Width: 213 millimetres (sheet)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,2.82
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A satire on Vestris.

For Vestris see also BMSat 5903-4, 5908, 5909, 5910.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-82
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