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A new way to secure a majority; or no dirty work comes amiss
Description
English: One side of a poor street, 'Liberty Lane', showing (left) a cobbler's bulk or stall, next it the shop of a 'botching tailor', next it a 'penny barber's'. The one-storied cottages recede in perspective from the left, the roofs being visible only on the right; Fox is canvassing the residents. He kneels in the roadway, putting his face to the bare posteriors which the cobbler, who is within his stall, offers to him. A placard beside the stall is inscribed 'Shoes neatly mended by W. Heeltap'. Beside the stall (left) a man stands, saying, "What a prickley Beard the Rascal has got". Over the central house is inscribed 'Tim, Stick Toiler Small Jobs done here'. The tailor, wearing a nightcap, sits on the sill of his casement window, his back towards Fox, with a pair of open shears in his hand. He says "Mine will be a Savory Rellish If he's fond of Cabbage". For cabbage cf. BMSat 5805, 7867, 8035, &c. Over the barber's window projects a striped pole, from which hangs a board inscribed 'Shave for a penny'. In front of its window a man is walking away from Fox, saying, "No Ray" [Wray]; from his bare posteriors he emits a blast inscribed "Fox for ever". On the extreme right a man disappears into a doorway, his bare posteriors emitting a cloud of smoke inscribed 'Love and Liberty'. 3 May 1784
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Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 242 millimetres
Width: 350 millimetres (unevenly cut)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5288
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) One of the few satires on the canvassing of Fox in which the Duchess of Devonshire is not introduced. See BMSat 6474, 6493, &c.

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Dorothy George's suggestion that the otherwise unknown Watts is in fact Wells is very probable. The letterer must have misread the name in manuscript.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5288
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