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Fox victorious or treachery overthrown.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Fox victorious or treachery overthrown.
Description
English: A monster representing Sir Cecil Wray, or Treachery, lies on his back beside a pond, one elbow in the water. He has a frog's mouth, a naked hairy body with a rat's tail, and wears the peculiar-shaped hat worn by Wray; in his right hand is a dark lantern, emblem of conspiracy, in his right a large key, emblem of the back stairs, cf. BMSat 6564, &c. A fox, carrying off a goose, stands over Wray, urinating upon him savagely, and saying:



"May you never, never rise!
By treachery to gain the prize
Thus I treat you with contempt
Until pass 'd actions you repent.
As I was trusted with the Key
I meant to pick their bones quite free
But Fox the keenest of his race
Has thus o'erturn'd me with disgrace."

A gosling lies on its back beside Wray. The goose and gosling appear to represent the Westminster electors (cf. BMSat 5843, &c.) whose bones Wray had expected to pick. In the distance (left) is a small cottage, on the roof of which a cock stands crowing. 21 May 1784


Etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 170 millimetres
Width: 231 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5314
Notes

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

For Wray's defeat see BMSat 6562, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5314
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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