"The Duchess of Devonshire (right) fights Mrs. Hobart (left). The right fist of the Duchess is near her opponent's nose, her left hand is on her hip. Mrs. Hobart, both fists extended, says: "I'll have no more for my Nose Bleeds"; the Duchess answers: "I have not done yet Madam." A backer stands behind each; Fox (right) says, "Well done Georgiana to her again". A hand extends from clouds holding a laurel wreath over his head. Wray, behind Mrs. Hobart, says, "If she Cant Beat her A Scrutiny Shall". A hand from clouds holds a fool's cap over his head on which is a butterfly and an ass's ear. Behind Wray, holding a cane, stands Lord Hood saying, "Alas poor Judas you will lose ye day". The dishevelled hair of the ladies hangs down their backs: Mrs. Hobart, very stout and 'décolletée', the Duchess, slim and wearing a riding-habit with a coat of military cut. She has two Fox favours in her hat, ostrich feathers (see BMSat 6530), and a fox's brush. The other has feathers in her hair and a large favour inscribed 'Hood & Wray'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rival canvassers
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Canvassing: Duchess of Devonshire -- Countess of Buckinghamshire -- Fighting: fist fights -- Laurel wreaths -- Fool's caps., Mounted to 32 x 43 cm., and Countermark center of sheet: W.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 16th, 1784, by H. McPhail, N. 68 High Holborn
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
On the left stands a vertically divided figure of Lord Hood on its right and Sir Cecil Wray on its left, the ministerial candidates in the Westminster election. Lord Hood holds an ensign's flag with an incomplete St. Andrew's cross and a broken scepter on it. Sir Cecil holds a spear with a magpie sitting on its top. From the right of the image, the King, with the scepter in his hand and the crown suspended above his head, drives two reluctant electors toward the figure of the candidates, vowing that the election results will be as he commanded
Alternative Title:
Magpye candidates and Magpie candidates
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Stafford, Oxford Mart
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political elections, Scepters, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum Catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: compact over Westminster election, 1790 -- Gibbets -- Chains -- Putti -- Allusion to Henry Hervey Aston, d. 1798 -- Allusion to Philip Thicknesse, 1719-1792 -- Junius -- Allusion to George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine, 1751-1824., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pub. June 21, 1790, by W.S.[sic] Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue for: The history of the Westminster election, with folds in the plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Signs: Sign-posts -- Allusion to George III.
Publisher:
Pub. 19 May, 1784, by WH, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Donkeys, Horses, and Political elections
Political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse ...
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Horse-racing -- Signs: Sign-posts -- Horses -- Asses -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire., and Mounted to 28 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 19 May, 1784, by WH, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805