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Ahitophel in the dumps.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Elizabeth Darchery
Title
Ahitophel in the dumps.
Description
English: Fox, with a fox's head, riding (right to left) an ass, his hands are clasped in front of him, the reins hang on the animal's neck, he looks down with a dejected expression. The ass is looking up and braying at a gallows (left) which bestrides the road and through which he is about to pass; it is inscribed "Let desert mount," and from it hangs a noose. In the centre of the road, and directly under the gallows, is a block against which leans a headsman's axe. Beneath the title is engraved:


"And when Ahitophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his Ass, and arose, and went & hanged himself, &c." 30 July 1782


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Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 350 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.90
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A satire on Fox's resignation, and chagrin at the appointment of Shelburne to succeed Rockingham instead of the Duke of Portland, who, it was supposed, would have been a man of straw, leaving Fox virtual premier. The title comes from both the Book of Psalms and the Second Book of Samuel while the inscription "Let desert mount" is a citation from Shakespeare's Henry IV, part II, act IV, scene 3.

Walpole, 'Last Journals', 1910, ii. 448 ff. See also BMSat 6010, &c. Reissued in 1785 with the imprint, "Pubd July 30th, 1785 W. Humphrey, Strand". Grego, 'Gillray', p. 71; Wright and Evans, No. 17.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-90
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