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The ex-rector of St Stevens. and his clerk in solemn supplication to their deity.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The ex-rector of St Stevens. and his clerk in solemn supplication to their deity.
Description
English: Fox and Sheridan, as demons, are seated, one in the pillory, the other below him in the stocks, so arranged as to represent a pulpit with the clerk's desk below it. Their hands are posed as if in prayer to the Devil (left), who faces them seated on an inverted crown which rests on the upper beam of a guillotine inscribed '"In te Spes Nostra'. All three have horns projecting through their bonnets-rouges, and all have barbed tails with the legs and hoofs of a satyr. The Devil is naked, the other two wear coats. Fox sits on a platform supported by spears; he leans forward, his head and hands confined, saying, "The Prayers of this Congregation are desired for one Tooke [The 'e' is scored through] dangerously Afflicted------In sedition privy conspiracy & Rebellion". Sheridan, his hoofs thrust through the holes of the stocks, his hands together above an open book inscribed 'Fox's Book of Martyrs' (cf. BMSat 6657), says, "Dear Daddy Deliver us". The Devil, who holds a sceptre in both hands, looks at him with an anxious scowl. 13 October 1794
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Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 277 millimetres
Width: 354 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.713
Notes

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

Horne Tooke had been arrested on 16 May 1794 on account of correspondence which was believed to show that he was engaged with the Corresponding and Constitutional Societies in promoting a rising. A true bill was returned on 6 Oct. against Thomas Hardy, Tooke, and ten others for high treason. In spite of Hardy's acquittal (5 Nov.) Tooke was tried but acquitted (22 Nov.), and the other prosecutions were dropped. Fox protested against measures to repress non-existent or exaggerated sedition, but spoke of the accused persons as his 'personal and political enemies' (this applies particularly to Tooke, author of 'Two Pair of Portraits', see BMSat 9270). 'Parl. Hist.' xxxi. 921-9. For the trials see BMSats 8502, 8624.
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