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The dagger drawing orator.
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The dagger drawing orator. |
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| Description |
English: Probably from a magazine. Fox (left) and Burke (right) stand facing each other on the floor of the House of Commons. Burke threatens Fox with a dagger; in his left hand he holds 'An Act. . . Aliens'; he tramples on a paper inscribed 'Rights of Man' (Paine's answer to his 'Reflections', see BMSat 7867, &c). Fox staggers back in terror. Between and behind them is the Speaker in his chair, and one of the clerks seated behind the table. On each side members watch the scene; those behind Fox are terrified, those behind Burke seem complacent. end December 1792
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Edmund Burke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1792 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.6251 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) For the famous dagger scene see BMSat 8147. The Alien Bill was introduced into the House of Lords 21 Dec. 1792. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6251 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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