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Motion for Restoring his H- to Dignity, or Mentor reconducting Telemachus to the Elysian Fields. A Fancy piece in watercolours   (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: E Macklew
Published by: J (or W) Dickie
Title
Motion for Restoring his H- to Dignity, or Mentor reconducting Telemachus to the Elysian Fields. A Fancy piece in watercolours
Description
English: Fox (right), as Mentor, leads the Prince of Wales (left) towards the 'Elysian Fields', represented by a table covered with cards, dice, &c, by two courtesans drinking, by a horse-race, and by a pugilistic encounter; the table is in the foreground (right), the other scenes are on the slope of a hill receding into the background. On the table one of the packs of cards is inscribed 'Brooks'; a book is 'Hoyle' [on Whist], another is 'Faro Laws'; the letters 'E' and 'O' indicate roulette (see BMSat 5928, &c). The two women sit at a round table on which are bottles of 'Champagne' and 'Claret'. Fox wears a cloak over a tunic and has bare legs. The Prince (Telemachus) looks in profile to the right with surprised pleasure towards the 'Elysian Fields'. He wears a hat with three feathers, and burlesqued classical costume: cloak, ermine-trimmed tunic, &c. On the left, in profile to the left, stands Alderman Newnham, knocking at the door of the 'Treasury'. The knocker, inscribed 'Delicacy', is on a mask with the features of Pitt. On the door the words 'Knock and it shall be opened' have been scored through. Newnham wears a furred livery gown over an apron. He holds his hat in his left hand and from his left arm hangs a shield with the arms of the City of London in reverse and the Prince's motto 'Ich Dien'. 2 May 1787
Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 206 millimetres
Width: 357 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5642
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

On 20 Apr. 1787 Alderman Newnham, M.P. for the City, asked Pitt if the Ministry proposed to rescue the Prince from his financial embarrassment. The question was debated on 24 and 30 April; on the latter date Fox roundly denied the Prince's marriage to Mrs. Fitzherbert. 'Parl. Hist.' xxvi. 1009, 1019, 1064 ff. Cf. BMSats 6965, &c, 7165, &c. For Fox and the Prince cf. BMSat 6401, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5642
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