<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The infrnals [sic] choice, or, The man of the people below stairs [graphic].</dc:title><dc:date>[12 April 1784]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"Fox is being chaired by demons, who advance towards flames (left) in which stands a devil with a pitch-fork waiting to receive him. Fox, seated, holding out his hat, his left hand on his breast, says, "Westminster was pretty Hot but this much more so". The demons who support Fox's chair and prance along behind it appear to have been copied from the Devil in British Museum Satires No. 6283. The foremost has the same twisted ram's horns, the claws of a bird of prey, and barbed tail. He shouts "Fox for Ever". His companions resemble him with slight variations. One also says "Fox for Ever", another, holding up a dice-box, says, "He is the Devels own Representative". Two little demons stand in front of the flames; one says "Fox for Ever", holding up a fox's brush, the other blows a trumpet. Two heads of demons look from the fire, and two small black winged creatures are flying in the flames."--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched above image.</dc:description><dc:description>Four lines of verse in two columns below image: Tho Reynard for Westminster's surely thrown out, Yet Hell will elect him you need not to doubt, As member theyve chaird him the only thats fit, To manage affairs in the Bottomless Pitt.</dc:description><dc:description>Temporary local subject terms: Election litters -- Allusion to 'Belowstairs' -- Gambling: Dice-box -- Demons -- Pitch-forks -- Chairing: Fox -- Election slogans: 'Fox for ever' -- Election slogans: 'Man of the people'.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>