File:The high and mighty pug answering Fox's proposals of peace (BM 1868,0808.4863).jpg
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The high and mighty pug answering Fox's proposals of peace
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The high and mighty pug answering Fox's proposals of peace |
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English: A fox stands with a pen in its right paw looking up at a pug dog which sits on a raised platform (left). The pug (Holland) holds a tobacco-pipe in its right paw, beneath its feet is a torn document inscribed "To their High Mig &c. . . ". (The States General at The Hague were styled their High Mightinesses, "Hogen Mogen".) He is saying to Fox, "The King Your Master proceeding so arbitrary, obliged me to join the powers at war with him; I cannot therefore treat of a separate peace". The head and shoulders of George III appear just within the right margin of the print, he leans forward addressing Fox, whose back is turned towards him, "My Fox in this negotiation thou art a mistaken goose". 25 July 1782
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| Depicted people | Representation of: Charles James Fox | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1782 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.4863 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) When Fox became Foreign Secretary he at once made overtures through the Russian Minister in London for a cessation of hostilities with Holland as a step to a separate peace. This was received by the States General with coldness and contempt. Fox had asserted before he came into office that he had the means of making a separate peace with the Dutch. Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, ii. 277-8; Malmesbury, 'Diaries', i. 497 ff.; 'Corr. of George III', vi, pp. 10, 38-9, 62. Cf. BMSat 5989. For the actual peace with the United Provinces see BMSat 6292. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4863 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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