File:Shelb-n badgered and foxed (BM 1873,0712.837).jpg
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Title |
Shelb-n badgered and foxed |
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Description |
English: A sequel to BMSat 5964. Lord Shelburne, seated on a chair in a landscape, holding up a document inscribed "Preliminaries . . .", is being violently attacked by a fox (left) and a badger (right). The fox and the badger resemble those in BMSat 5964. The fox (Fox) is tearing at Shelburne's leg with his paws, and at the "Preliminaries" [of Peace] with his teeth, while is excreting and urinating against Shelburne with great violence. Shelburne looks over his left shoulder at the badger (North), who is rushing at him from the right and has seized his coat in his teeth.
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Depicted people | Representation of: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1783 date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1873,0712.837 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The attack on the Preliminaries of the Peace which revealed unmistakably the coalition of Fox and North against Shelburne took place on 17 not 18 Feb. In the Commons the Ministry were defeated by 224 to 208, in the Lords they had a majority of 13, though the terms of Peace were much attacked. 'Parl. Hist.' xxiii. 435-98; Walpole, 'Last Journals', 1910, ii. 481; Fitzmaurice, 'Shelburne', 1912, ii. 235 ff. The first of many satires on the Coalition. Overtures to bring Fox and North together began in December and had been anticipated in July. Fitzmaurice, op. cit., ii. 231; 'Corr. of Lord Auckland', 1861, pp. 7 ff. The theme of the fox and the badger was developed by Rowlandson in 'The Loves of the Fox and the Badger, or the Coalition Wedding', 7 Jan. 1784. See also BMSat 5964, 6186, 6196, 6204. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-0712-837 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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