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The kettle hooting the porridge-pot.   (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: J P Leatherhead
Title
The kettle hooting the porridge-pot.
Description
English: Shelburne (left), as the kettle, looks at Fox (right), the porridge-pot, who is running away. Shelburne's body is in the form of a kettle, much blackened underneath; the handle, attached to his chest and shoulders, extends over his head. He has a complacent smile and holds out his hands, pointing towards Fox; his left foot is on the neck of a goose, which lies on its back on the ground. He is saying, "Oh do but look how black his Arse is!" Fox (right) with the head of a fox, his body a large circular pot, blackened underneath, is running away with an alarmed expression, his hands held up, his tongue hanging out. In the centre of the design, between the two figures is a sign-post, its arm, pointing to the right, is terminated by a well-drawn hand holding a die in its fingers, but pointing with its fore-finger in the direction in which Fox is running. The arm of the post is inscribed "TO BROOKS'S"; from it hangs a rope with a noose at the end of it. On the post is hung up a placard inscribed "To be Lett- either as a Gibbet or Direction Post". A landscape with bushes forms the background. 23 July 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
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Height: 240 millimetres
Width: 336 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1851,0901.89
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

Fox, destitute on leaving office, is running off to his gambling associates at Brooks's for his support, cf. BMSat 5972; while, politically speaking, Shelburne is depicted as equally black. See Walpole to Mann, 8 July, 1782. 'Letters', xii. 292. Fox's geese, in caricature, usually represent the electors of Westminster, see BMSat 5843, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-89
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