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A Right Honble Democrat Dissected   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
A Right Honble Democrat Dissected
Description
English: A whole length figure of Fox, bisected vertically, the organs of his body and his ribs being laid bare as if for dissection. The left half (on the right) is dressed as a Frenchman, he has no left shirt-sleeve but has ruffles attached to his wrist according to the English gibe. In his left hand is a dagger inscribed 'Penetration'. In his teeth he holds a toy windmill inscribed 'Genius', its four sails inscribed, respectively, 'For the King', 'Monarchy', 'For the People', 'Republic'. His forehead is 'Self-interest'; his right shoulder is 'Attachment', his left 'Apprehension'. On his right shirt-sleeve are dice-box and dice and the words: 'British Industry', 'Interest of Levellers', 'Jews', 'Gamesters', 'Adventurers'. His clenched right fist is inscribed 'Argument'. On his left arm are an axe and noose and the words: 'French Industry', 'Advocate for Atheists', 'Jews', 'Papists', 'Dissenters &c'. His right ribs are 'Duplicity', 'Drunkenness', 'Whoredom', 'Gambling', 'Envy', 'Inconsistency', 'Prophaness'; his left ribs: 'Enmity', 'Cruelty', 'Madness', 'Distress', 'Treachery', 'Ingratitude', 'Despair'. His organs are inscribed 'Gallic', 'Aristocratic', 'Fraternity', 'Oratorical Lungs variably verbose' [a pair of bellows], 'Common Wealth', 'Intemperance', 'Democratic', 'French Principles', 'Reservoir for Royalty'. These are flanked by 'Fat of Pidgeons' and 'Fat of Friends'.


One breeches pocket is inside out and inscribed 'Equality', the other bulges with 'Assignats'. On the English (right) leg is a knave of Clubs ('Pam') with the head of Fox (cf. BMSat 6488, &c.) and the word 'Hypocrisy'. He wears a top-boot inscribed 'Post-haste to Old Scratch', and tramples on papers inscribed: 'Religious Duties', 'Moral Duties'. On his left leg are two oval miniatures: 'Perdita' (cf. BMSat 6117, &c.) and 'Armstead' (cf. BMSat 7370, &c), and the words: 'Valor', 'Fornication', and 'Step to French Measures'. He wears a buckled shoe and tramples on papers inscribed 'Religion', 'Liberty', 'Order', 'Law', 'Property'. Across his breeches are the words 'Private Virtues'. 15 January 1793


Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 248 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6273
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

One of many prints of Fox as a Jacobin, cf. BMSat 8286. Cf. BMSat 9013, a similar dissection of Pitt.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6273
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