print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0901.66
- Title
- Object: Changing places;- alias; fox stinking the badger out of his nest
- Description
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North (left) in the guise of a badger, runs off leaving a little cave under a rock. Charles Fox as a fox (right) snarls at him, while he excretes a stream inscribed "Eloquence". The badger is identified as North by a ribbon tied round his body, and by the four points of the compass in a circle on his head, his snout being inscribed "North". The fox stands over a bag inscribed "Faro Bank" from which guineas are pouring, playing-cards are strewn on the ground at his feet. In the foreground is a small bundle inscribed "Budget" within which are bars inscribed "Soap" and a small barrel inscribed "Small Beer" in allusion to the taxes proposed by North in his budget speech of 11 Mar. Behind the badger is a sign-post, the two arms of which terminate in well-drawn hands. The hand of the arm pointing left, in the direction to which North is running, holds the head of a halberd, the arm is inscribed "To Tower Hill". The other arm points downwards at the cave which the badger has left, and is inscribed "To the Treasury". Behind Fox is a terminal statue inscribed "Janus", one head being that of a bearded old man, the other that of a fox, it is crowned by a cylindrical headdress (?a dice-box) on which are two dice. The scene is a wooded landscape with hills. In the distance a hunt is in progress, a stag pursued by dogs; the foremost rider is the king, a minute figure who is falling from his horse after having leapt a gate. His crown falls from his head, his saddle, with the stirrups flying, is falling to the ground. 22 March 1782
Etching
- Production date
- 1782
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 355 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
North resigned on 20 Mar., see BMSat 5963; on the 25th Fox took office as foreign secretary under Rockingham. For Fox's faro bank see BMSat 5972 and for North's budget, BMSat 5965, 5968, 5969, 5970, 5971, 5974, 5975, 5977. 5982, 5986, 5988.
For threats to North of the scaffold see BMSat 5969, &c. BMSat 6176 is a sequel to this print; see also BMSat 6186, 6196, 6204.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0901.66