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The coalition party beating up for recruits
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The coalition party beating up for recruits |
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English: Fox, North, and Burke form a recruiting party: North stands (centre) holding a pike, his hand on his hip, saying, "All gentlemen Voluntiers who will serve his Majesty Carlo Khan, repair to the Portland Block, or the Sign of the Duke------". On his high grenadier's cap is the word 'Coalition'; a fox's brush hangs from it and on its summit is a fox suspended above the points of a compass like a weathercock, the fox pointing to 'N'. Fox (right) beats a drum saying, "Present Pay, good Quarters and a handsome Landlady" (the Duchess of Devonshire). Burke (left), taking a ragged recruit by the hand, addresses him with raised forefinger : 'Join the Coalition and you shall be cloathed'; the recruit says, 'Serjeant Kite & Corporal Trim for ever!' Burke wears a Jesuit's biretta (cf. BMSat 6026) decorated with a fox's brush and the words 'Sublime & Beautiful'. ? c. Mar. - April 1784
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Edmund Burke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1784 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.5055 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) This satire probably relates to Fox's canvass for Westminster, see BMSat 6474, &c. Cf. a squib quoted in 'Westminster Election', p. 244: 'To-day Mr Fox and his Company will perform "The Recruiting Officer" [by Farquhar]. The part of 'Captain Brazen' by Mr Fox, that of 'Serjeant Kite' by Sam House, and the other characters as usual.' For Carlo Khan see BMSat 6276, 6473, &c. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5055 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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