<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>Fox victorious, or, Treachery overthrown [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Phillips, W. G., active 1784, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>May 21, 1784.</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"A monster representing Sir Cecil Wray, or Treachery, lies on his back beside a pond, one elbow in the water. He has a frog's mouth, a naked hairy body with a rat's tail, and wears the peculiar-shaped hat worn by Wray; in his right hand is a dark lantern, emblem of conspiracy, in his right a large key, emblem of the back stairs, cf. British Museum satires 6564, &amp;c. A fox, carrying off a goose, stands over Wray, urinating upon him savagely, and saying: "May you never, never rise!  By treachery to gain the prize  Thus I treat you with contempt  Until pass 'd actions you repent.  As I was trusted with the Key  I meant to pick their bones quite free  But Fox the keenest of his race  Has thus o'erturn'd me with disgrace." A gosling lies on its back beside Wray. The goose and gosling appear to represent the Westminster electors (cf. British Museum satires 5843, &amp;c.) whose bones Wray had expected to pick. In the distance (left) is a small cottage, on the roof of which a cock stands crowing."--British Museum catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Printmaker identified as W.G. Phillips in British Museum catalogue.</dc:description><dc:description>Publisher's name erased from plate.</dc:description><dc:description>Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Sir Cecil Wray as monster of treachery -- Key to the Back Stairs -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Emblems: Fox and goose -- Westminster electors as goose and gosling -- Defeats: Wray, 1784 -- Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Huts.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>