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The political cudgellers, or the mace of the House of Commons rendered of no service.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: J Barrow

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
The political cudgellers, or the mace of the House of Commons rendered of no service.
Description
English: Pitt (left) and Fox (right) are engaged in a cudgelling match. Fox holds out the mace (which has more resemblance to a sceptre), but it is broken by a blow from the staff held by Pitt (which resembles that held by the king in BMSat 6504). On Fox's arm is a shield inscribed 'Resolutions', on that of Pitt is one inscribed 'Addresses'. The background is the lower part of a building showing three sash-windows drawn like an architect's elevation. 5 April 1784
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Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 246 millimetres
Width: 344 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0612.1243
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The allusion is to the resolutions against Pitt's ministry moved by Fox in the House of Commons (see BMSat 6380, &c.) and to the great number of loyal addresses which were made to the king thanking him for the dismissal of Fox and appointment of Pitt, satirically designated 'popular frenzy', see BMSat 6438, &c.

Cf. an election advertisement by Hood and Wray: 'Mr Fox has upheld the House of Commons against the Freeholders, Electors, and people of Great Britain, in the case of the Middlesex Election, and in all the late important questions in Parliament.' 'Westminster Election', p. 95.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0612-1243
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