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A great man in distress or, How to grow rich & avoid becoming chargable to the Parish. A subscription experiment   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
A great man in distress or, How to grow rich & avoid becoming chargable to the Parish. A subscription experiment
Description
English: Fox, a ragged and bare-footed beggar, walks (left to right) past the door of the '[Crown] & Anchor' Tavern holding out his hat. On his chest is a placard: 'Pray pity the poor Galilcan [the prefix Anti has been scored through but left legible] undone by French Affairs.' In his right hand is a staff. He weeps, saying, "Oh! A heart of Stone would melt at the misfortunes of my Life - How I was cast away aboard the Portland East Indiaman - How I have since been buffeted about by adverse winds in the Republic - How I have been scarce able to keep head above water in Brooks - How I was stranded with a French Cargo - and lost most of my Crew in Constitution Bay and now left to starve but for sweet Charity." At his feet are dice and a dice-box, with an empty cornucopia, suggesting that his profits from faro, see BMSat 5972, are ended. (Cf. a scurrilous pamphlet, 'A Looking-Glass for a Right Honourable Mendicant . . .', 1794, pp. 24-5.) 11 June 1793
Etching with a tonal effect
Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 336 millimetres
Width: 248 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.6298
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

A satire on the subscription raised for Fox by his friends, see BMSat 8331, &c. He traces his misfortunes from the defeat of the Coalition over the India Bill, see BMSats 6283, 6368, &c, and cf. BMSat 8311. For the disruption of his party see BMSat 8315, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6298
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