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Flight to Switzerland with his Woman and Faithful Black   (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: William Moore
Published by: J (or W) Dickie
Title
Flight to Switzerland with his Woman and Faithful Black
Description
English: Fox, seated on the back of the Devil, flies (left to right) across the Channel; behind him sits Mrs. Armstead clasping his shoulders; both smile with cunning satisfaction. Behind the couple floats a bushy fox's brush. From Fox's coat-pocket protrude two dice-boxes containing dice and a label: 'Subscription'. From the water (left) emerges the head of Lord John Townshend, saying, "My dear Friend, don't leave me in the Lurch, I can scarce keep chin above Water, and if they bear down upon me I shall certainly Sink". The water surrounding him is littered with torn scrolls inscribed 'Perjury', 'Bribery', 'Subornation', 'Corruption', 'Expences', 'Violence' (cf. BMSats 7352, 7366, &c). A ship in full sail approaches, flying a pennant inscribed 'Petition'. On the coast (right) are three adjacent scenes placed diagonally, left to right: [1] inscribed 'Landed', is headed 'Refreshing with right Geneva [gin]'. Mrs. Armstead drinks from a bottle; the Devil stands beside her with a glass, one hand on her shoulder. [2] The next scene is 'Settling the Election expences': Fox stands at a gaming-table, throwing dice with three men of French appearance. [3] On the extreme right Fox leads Mrs. Armstead through a doorway with the inscription 'Neat Lodgings'; a bunch of grapes (a tavern sign) hangs over it, indicating a brothel. On the house, and above Mrs. Armstead, is a placard: 'To be let and entered immediately'. This is called 'Going with a convenient Friend to a convenient House'. The two adjacent scenes are bracketed as 'Ways and Means'. (Cf. BMSat 7902.) 15 August 1788
Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Elizabeth Bridget Fox
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 214 millimetres
Width: 387 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5783
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

After the election, see BMSat 7339, &c, Fox went with Mrs. Armstead to Switzerland. Gibbon wrote (4 Oct.): 'The man of the people escaped from the bloody tumult of the Westminster Election to the lakes and mountains of Switzerland, . . . the wit and beauty of his Companion are not sufficient to excuse the scandalous impropriety of shewing her to all Europe. . . .' 'Letters', 1896, ii. 179-80. Cf. BMSat 7379, a similar print on Fox's return.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5783
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