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The right hon: C. J. Fox's scrutiny of his amiable colleague Lord North.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The right hon: C. J. Fox's scrutiny of his amiable colleague Lord North.
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English: An extract from a speech by Fox attacking North in 1779 engraved on a scroll with etched figures in the four corners. In the upper left corner North, seated on the Treasury Chest, listens with gestures of alarm; two dismayed supporters sit behind him. In the opposite corner (right) Fox stands, right fist raised left arm extended. He has risen from the 'Hunger & Poverty Bench', behind which two of his supporters sit listening complacently. In the lower left corner the Devil (half length) looks up through a single eye-glass at North, saying, "Whom I have put together let none put asunder" (cf. BMSat 6189). In the opposite corner (right) a satyr reclining on the ground holds up the scroll on which Fox's speech is engraved saying, "Charley is at his Old Tricks!" The speech fills the greater part of the design:


'The Speech of the Right Hon: C. J. Fox in the House of Commons, On January the 22d [i.e. June 22nd], 1779.
The Noble Lord (North) after owning that we had no foreign Alliances had triumphantly spoken of unanimity . . .' [see 'Parl. Hist.', xx. 936, quoted in 'Beauties of Fox, North, and Burke, 1784'. The passage ends, altering the words in the 'Beauties' (where they were correctly quoted)]: 'The Idea of a Coalition with such a Monster was too horrid to be Admitted for a Moment! Gentlemen must Have foregone their principles & have given up their Honor before they could have approached the Threshold of an Alliance so Abominable so Disgracefull and so Everlastingly to be Cursed by Englishmen!' 7 June 1784


Etching, partly hand-coloured
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 184 millimetres
Width: 309 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5339
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

A satire on the Coalition, cf. BMSat 6393, &c, with an allusion in the title to the Westminster scrutiny, see BMSat 6553, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5339
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