print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6284
- Title
- Object: Which way shall I turn me how shall I decide.
- Description
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Fox sits on the ground, contemplating suicide. His hair rises in horror as he listens to words which dart towards him in the guise of flashes of lightning: 'Thy Country Expatriate thee'; 'Thy Crony's Impeach thee' [cf. BMSat 7861]; 'The Wigs forsake thee' [cf. BMSat 8315]; 'The Prince discards thee' [cf. BMSat 8311]; 'Thy Friends Abjure thee'; 'The People despise thee'; 'All true friends to their King & Constitution Abhor thee' [cf. BMSat 8287]. Two messages (left) are surrounded with rays: 'The Sans Culottes admire thee'; 'The Poissards Love thee'. In Fox's right hand is a dagger, under his left hand is a large bowl of 'Poison'. Beside him (left) is a gallows inscribed 'Pro Patria', from which hangs a noose. 25 March 1793.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1793
- Dimensions
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Height: 254 millimetres
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Width: 350 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', VII, 1942)
Cf. BMSat 6191 (1783) in which Fox is offered by the Devil the choice of dagger, pistol, halter, poison. One of many prints of Fox as a Jacobin, cf. BMSat 8286.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6284
