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A Court Conversation   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A Court Conversation
Description
English: Satire on the role of Henry Fox and the Newcastle ministry in the Byng affair, and the ministry's consequent fall; Fox points Anson (shown as a goose) to where the effigy of Byng is being burned in the street; Anson holds out the London Gazette where Byng's self-incriminating dispatch had been published and suggests that Fox was responsible for distorting its contents; behind them Hardwicke, Newcastle and Lyttelton collapse as a picture of the Siege of Port Mahon falls on their heads; on the floor a dog identified as Andrew Stone defecates on the "Bill for Militia" while tearing up the Act of Settlement (i.e. the British Constitution); on the wall a neglected map of America is covered by cobwebs.
Etching and engraving
Depicted people Representation of: Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
Date circa 1756
date QS:P571,+1756-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
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Height: 211 millimetres (image)
Height: 217 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 308 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 302 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3999
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3999
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