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As it is or the wind changed   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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As it is or the wind changed
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 5963. Lord North fleeing from left to right. before a number of pursuing foxes, his hands held up in alarm. He looks over his shoulder at the foxes with an expression of terror saying, "Take it, take it, I resign I'm out I'm out". This is addressed to the foremost fox (evidently Charles Fox), who has seized the end of North's garter ribbon in his mouth and is pulling it off. Labels in the mouths of the three foxes who come next after their leader are inscribed: "Where's your Puffing Majority now; You might have kept your breath to have cool'd your porridge; Let the boisterous Gentleman go for I have piss't his fire out & he cannot Longer do any Mischief"; this animal is urinating on a smoking torch which lies on the ground. April 1782
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Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 200 millimetres
Width: 259 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4834
Notes

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

North resigned on 20 Mar. See 'Parl. Hist.' xxii. 1214 ff. and BMSat 5963, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4834
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