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English: In a rotunda whose walls are decorated with Ionic columns and garlands, Fame stands on a high cylindrical pedestal, blowing her trumpet. She is a winged figure, partly draped, in her left hand is a second trumpet. Beside her stands a boy with butterfly wings, wearing a bow and quiver, in his right hand he holds a flower. Four other winged boys fly down from the pedestal with gifts for a crowd of suppliants who kneel below. One of them offers to a naval officer a pair of crutches, a wooden leg, and a paper inscribed "Half Pay"; the officer holds a print of a man-of-war decorated with flags; his ankle is in a sling. A parson is about to receive a bishop's mitre and a paper inscribed "Living"; his foot rests on a Bible, beneath which is a paper inscribed "Protestt Religion", probably a reference to the Quebec Act, see BMSat 5228, &c. Behind him a famished-looking man, holding a large volume inscribed "Philosophy", is being offered a paper inscribed "No literary Property". (In the case of Donaldson v. Beckett, 1774, the House of Lords decided that the Act of 1709 had abolished the perpetual copyright of the common law. See 'Parl. Hist', xvii, pp. 953, 1077 ff., 1400 ff.; Hume, 'Letters', 1932, ii. 286-9.) A fashionably-dressed man kneels on Britannia's shield beneath which lies "M. Charta", a torn document; across it lies the cap of Liberty on its staff and a paper inscribed "General Warrants"; he is being offered a fool's cap and a collar or circlet attached to a chain. A man in legal robes is being given a bag of money and an order in the form of a Maltese cross.


In the foreground stands a small blindfolded cupid, holding an arrow and a heart. On the left stand two spectators: one is evidently Sir John Fielding the magistrate, wearing a gown, his eyes bandaged as he was accustomed to sit at Bow Street, he holds a cross-hilted sword, emblem of Justice; the other is a military officer with a wooden leg. Beneath the design is engraved,

"Plaudits of Fame, tho' Mortals prize!
Fancy's the God they Idolize." 1 October 1774


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Depicted people Representation of: Sir John Fielding
Date 1774
date QS:P571,+1774-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 182 millimetres
Width: 122 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1873,0712.822
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

Cf. BMSat 5275, also a satire on social injustice.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-0712-822
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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