A flock of geese, i.e., Westminster electors, chants Fox's name and pecks at grains thrown them by Lord North from the purse "Treasury grains" he is holding under his arm. Next to him, a smiling Charles Fox, with a "list of voters" in his hand, promises the geese "anything for your votes." Behind them, Edmund Burke holds a flag inscribed, "for the liberty of the flock." Standing behind the geese is William Pitt who declares himself their guardian against the "wolves in sheeps cloathing."
Alternative Title:
Westminster candidate coming north about the geese
Description:
Title from etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 26 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political elections, Geese, Bribery, and Corruption
Charles Fox, with a fox's head, seated in an ornate chair resting on two poles, is carried by four men with asses' heads. Several others, also with asses' heads, men and women alike, cheer him enthusiastically displaying various items pertaining to the Westminster election which he won unopposed on April 7. The geese, representing the electors, lead the way holding in their beaks strings attached to the poles. The triumphant procession is watched with disbelief by three owls sitting on a tree branch in the upper right corner of the image
Alternative Title:
Westminster electors chairing their favorite candidate
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by Mrs. Darchery April 16, 1783 St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Donkeys, Geese, Owls, and Clothing & dress
The country girl's policy: or, the Cockney outwitted and Cocknies outwitted to a pleasant new tune
Description:
Verse - "All you that are to mirth inclin'd". - In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Imprint below the third and fourth columns., Date from ESTC., Mounted on leaf 21. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the printing office in Stonecutter Street, Fleet Market
George as a farmer and Charlotte dressed simply as a farmer's wife sit outside a cottage (left) smiling as they point to a pair of large foxes hanging from a gallows in the middle of their farmyard. A rooster and geese stand looking up at the fox; in the foreground sheep and rams observe the scene before them, some with looks of alarm
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 46., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Oxford magazine
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dwellings, Foxes, Farmyards, Geese, Gallows, and Sheep
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Kelly, Justice of the Peace, fl. 1784 -- Medal of the Justices of the Peace in Westminster -- Chairing: Fox on goose -- Prince of Wales as a goose -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Mottos: 'Ich Dien' -- Apothecary's mortar and pestles -- Election flags -- Allusion to butchers -- Allusion to Spittalfields weavers -- Musical instruments., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Published, as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Foxes, Geese, Political elections, and Trumpets
James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. The central image is that of a street scene outside the London and British Colleges of Health: James Morison is presented as a fox standing on a box of 'Universal vegetable pills' surrounded by geese, who represent the public; he says "My 'Universal pills' are quite divine! If one don't do, you may take nine." and "Various humorous images of foxes and geese comprising (clock-wise from top left); a fox dressed as an eighteenth century fop offering a glass to a goose wearing a bonnet; a fox butcher, standing outside his shop and offering a dead goose to a vixen dressed in a shawl and bonnet, other poultry hanging outside; a fox in militray uniform and playing on a drum, leading a column of geese; a fox preaching to a congregation of geese; the large central image; a fox in a smart tailcoat advertising his 'Universal Vegetable Pills' to an interested gathering of geese; the 'British College of Health' and the 'London College of Health' beyond, the latter with two well-dressed foxes drinking on a balcony, observed by a crowd of geese (lettered below image "The Fox and Goose"; a short poem or song following)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched beneath large central image., Dimensions from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1859,0316.518., "Illustration to the third volume of Cruikshank's 'My Sketchbook' (1834)"--British Museum online catalogue., See further: Transactions of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy, London 1974, v. 1, no. 3., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary remedies -- Morison's Pills., 1 print : etching ; sheet 12.5 x 15.6 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of all design and text apart from large central image and the title "The fox and the goose" beneath it.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Morison, James, 1770-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Alternative medicine, Quacks and quackery, Human behavior, Animal models, Patent medicines, Foxes, Geese, and Animals in human situations
George III, shown as a lion holding a sceptre and seated under a canopy, receives a deputation of ganders led by a fox (Charles Fox) and a muzzled bear (Lord North). The first of the ganders reads a petition requesting the dismissal of the elephant (William Pitt) who stands to the lion's left. On the right side of the throne, a bull (John Bull) with its head lowered, appears ready to attack the deputation. The text of "The ganders address" is etched below the image, together with the text of "The lion's answer" in which the King rejects the petition
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The text of "The ganders address" has the same manuscript corrections as listed in George., and Mounted to 45 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Petitions, Bears, Elephants, Foxes, Geese, and Thrones
Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men in coats with military facings are having a violent fight with some geese. A goose (left) is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of one, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword which is in his left hand. The other (right) is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks, one lies dead on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Sepr. 17th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Geese, Fighting, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men in coats with military facings are having a violent fight with some geese. A goose (left) is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of one, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword which is in his left hand. The other (right) is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks, one lies dead on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner., First of two plates on leaf 32., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Sepr. 17th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Geese, Fighting, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
