The Gothamites in council humbly inscribed to the geese in disgrace sometime call'd the honest men of P-h. [graphic]Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker[21 February 1751]engTitle etched above image.Attributed to Boitard on stylistic grounds; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.3913.Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Two black geese of middle age, by some thought cunning, few thought sage ...Caption in the lower left corner of plate: In the porch the emblems of disappointment, malice, envy ...Caption in the lower right corner of plate: **A cuckow with an asse's head singing his own wise productions."Price one shilling."Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth: Municipal Council as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The farmer and the snake' -- Burgesses as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The dog and the shadow' -- Literature: The geese in disgrace, a tale. Portsmouth : printed by W. Horton, for J. Wilkinson, 1751 -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Gangs of sailors -- Taverns: 'The Hercules's Pillars', Portsmouth -- Shops: Agent for Prizes -- Navy: ships -- Ships: Centurion, at anchor in Portsmouth, 1751 -- Maps: map of Nova Scotia -- Map of Gibraltar -- Allusion to trade with Newfoundland -- Furniture: dining chairs -- Lancets -- Postillion blowing horn -- Gothamites -- Aldermen -- Birds: hen and chicks -- Storks -- Eagle grasping fulmen -- Cuckoo with ass's head -- Dining tables -- Trades: surgeon, as a goose -- Medicine: in bottles -- Wheelbarrows -- Emblems -- Trade with Lima, 1751 -- Personifications: Covetousness, Disappointment, Malice, Envy -- Medical procedures: bleeding.