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East India reformers or new ways & means.
Description
English: North, Fox, and Burke in a room in the India House, the wall of which is inscribed "Committe [sic] Room". They stand in front of a long table behind which is a tall arm-chair inscribed "President's Chair". Fox (centre) squats over a torn paper on which he is excreting, inscribed "[East] India Com[pa]ny's Charters". North, standing on Fox's right, hands him another torn paper, "Rights & privileges . . . Honourable East India Company". From Fox's left pocket projects a "List of Commissonor[s] [sic]". Under North's right arm is a large bundle of papers, some inscribed "100000", Stock, and "000"; his right hand is in his coat-pocket. Burke (right), in profile to the right, is kicking and pushing out of the door two East India Directors, one, whose wig has fallen off in the struggle, looks round over his shoulder at Burke, who says, "I will direct ye". On the right, in very incorrect perspective, are what appear to be two chests full of coins, one is inscribed "Dollars". On the ground beside them are money-bags inscribed "Rupees" and a "Lack" [lakh] with a label, "100000". In the centre of the floor in front of North and Fox is a heap of coins. 18 December 1783
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Depicted people Representation of: Edmund Burke
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 346 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5062
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) On the table are torn papers inscribed "accounts", "India Bonds", coins, a book inscribed "Ledge[r]", and an ink-stand. On the wall (left) is a framed picture of two small figures in a room, one intended for Fox; it represents a foul and scurrilous tale told of Fox (according to which he bets upon a certainty), which is related in 'The Gamblers', 1777, pp. 43-4, a poem, published anonymously, by Theophilus Swift. It was the subject of a print, 'The Gamesters', 13 May 1784.

One of many attacks on Fox's India Bill, see BMSat 6271, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5062
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