print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.4915
- Title
- Object: The fox and stork
- Description
-
The fox and stork in Æsop's fable are Fox and Shelburne. The stork (right) is dipping his beak into a transparent long-necked jar, whose square base is inscribed "The Treasury Jar", and taking the guineas which are at the bottom. The stork's head is that of Shelburne, his chin is inserted in the jar, and he smiles triumphantly; over the stork's neck is suspended the Garter ribbon. The fox (left), with bushy eyebrows, bulbous nose, and hairy chin of Charles Fox, stands on its hind-legs, its fore-paws resting on the jar, looking at the inaccessible guineas with a melancholy expression. 14 January 1783
Etching
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 168 millimetres
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Width: 244 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)
See BMSat 6010, &c, and for Shelburne BMSat 6018, &c. Possibly by an imitator of Colley's style. [? Gillray.]
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.4915
