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The young heir among bad councellors, or the lion betray'd   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The young heir among bad councellors, or the lion betray'd
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English: George III, as a lion, blindfolded and in chains, sits on a low platform surrounded by his counsellors, whose advice is inscribed on labels coming from their heads. These are (l. to right.): Sandwich (Jemmy Twitcher) with goat's legs, holding a cricket-bat and wearing a cricketing cap on the top of which rests an anchor to show that he is First Lord of the Admiralty. He says: "Be advised by me and I'll give them a twitcher".[Twitcher is dialect for a severe blow. 'O.E.D' See BMSat 4877] A dog with the letter "N" resting on his head to show that he is Lord North, holds the chain riveted on the lion's right paw, saying: "Be guided by me and go North about"; with one leg, which terminates in a barbed point, he is stabbing the lion's breast, blood gushes out and is being drunk by rats. North's other leg is in a jack boot, emblem of the supposed influence of Bute, see BMSat 3860, &c. The Duke of Grafton, standing behind the lion, caricatured but not travestied as an animal, says: "shall a Lion regard the barking of Dogs". (This favourable treatment is due to the fact that the caricaturist had not anticipated Grafton's appointment as Lord Privy Seal on 8 June 1771.) Lord Mansfield in judge's wig and robes and holding a book, says: "Let us put our own Laws in full force." Fletcher Norton (Sir Bull-face Double Fee) in his Speaker's robes, with horns and talons for fingers, says: "I'll defend you as long as it is my Interer" [sic]. in front of him stands Charles Fox as a young fox, wearing a bag-wig, his right hand, thrust through a muff, holds the ace of clubs, his left t is in a dice-box, and two dice are on the ground beside him; he is looking through a single-eye glass; these emblems show his fondness for gambling and for French fashions. The lion is saying: "I know you are all my friends and will take care of my Estate". 1 June 1771
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Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1771
date QS:P571,+1771-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 154 millimetres
Width: 105 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.9962
Notes

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

>From the 'Oxford Magazine', vi. 176. The accompanying text explains that, owing to the influence of "a north country servant" the king's present ministers are Jacobites, and that he has "discarded with contempt the descendants of those whose ancestors" brought his family into possession of their estates. An indication of the Whig creed that 'Revolution families' had a hereditary claim to office. Cf. BMSat 4303.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9962
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