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[edit]There's more ways than one
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Print made by: James Gillray
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There's more ways than one |
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English: A fox (Fox) climbs up a signpost from which hangs the sign of the Crown. The gibbet-shaped post is wreathed with a vine with large bunches of grapes. Fox seizes a branch and gapes greedily for a bunch just within his reach. His left leg is supported on a pile of papers, one bundle of which is inscribed 'Libels'. The topmost paper is an open book: 'Review of the Charges against Warren Hasting[s] Publishd by Stockdale'. In the doorway of the Crown Inn (right) stands Pitt, grotesquely thin except for his head; he wears an apron over the legs of a skeleton. Alarmed at the fox, he drops a tankard of beer on which is a crown. Behind him appears Thurlow, in Chancellor's wig and gown, with an expression of gloomy apprehension. 18 February 1788
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Charles James Fox | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1788 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.5684 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) On 14 Feb. 1787 Fox denounced the pamphlet, 'Review of the Charges...' [ut supra] as 'a gross and scandalous libel' on the Committee for prosecuting Hastings, on Parliament, and on the King. Pitt agreed that extracts read by Fox were libellous (though not on the King). 'Parl. Hist.' xxvii. 1 ff. (The pamphlet is B.M.L., E. 2157/2.) Fox is greedy for the fruits of office as in BMSats 5962, 6204, &c. For the Coalition see BMSat 6361, &c. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 95. Wright and Evans, No. 27. Reprinted, 'G. W.G.', 1830. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5684 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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