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The Canvas, or Representative Shade from the original in the possession of Mr P-   (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: J Brown
Title
The Canvas, or Representative Shade from the original in the possession of Mr P-
Description
English: A satire on the Westminster by-election. Pitt (left) displays to the electors a large framed whole length portrait of Lord Hood, heavily shaded; Hood stands in profile to the left holding his hat as if to receive alms. The frame is surmounted by a crown and the words 'Lord Aye & No'; in the upper corners are inscribed 'Pro | mises'; on its lower edge is an anchor inscribed 'Professional Line'. Pitt stands on a hustings supporting the picture; below (left) are men wearing blue and buff and shouting "No court Candidate - Hearty Jack and true Whigs for ever". Behind him is a corner of the pediment of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Attached to Pitt's coat is a large key, either the key of the back stairs, see BMSat 6564, &c, or perhaps of the Treasury, labelled 'Spare not', the words 'Waste not' having been scored through. Beneath the title is etched:



'From the Original in the possession of Mr P------.
Addressed to the Electors of the City of Westminster.
Electors if you know what's good,
You'll re-elect my kind Lord H------d,
A Tory Staunch, of bottom sound,
One that would run each Whig aground,
And who to please the Court, did try
To keep out Fox, by Scrutiny,
And hop'd the conq'ring day to see,
When worthy small beer W-----y [Wray] and he
To Commons might together trot;
But, alas! so it happen'd not
For true Foxites, not ov'r civil,
With their real votes play'd the Devil
And noble H------d, Oh sad disgrace!
Was fore'd with Fox to take his place.
But in the House, as soon as seated,
With commutation you are treated
An Act, with which he did agree,
That barters light for wholesome Tea,
And, but late on Flag promotion,
Of old service he'd no notion,
Men with experience worn out
Should be pass'd over without doubt,
And surely he was in the right,
For some may be too old to fight;
Then railing at that is monstrous rude,
Calling his wisdom ingratitude.
Nay, with Shop-tax and each supply
He most cheerfully did comply,
In short, I him have found so true,
(Would with all such I had to do)
With Ayes and Noes did implicit come,
With all the grace of Orator Mum;
Except once he turn'd on his heel,
And that for the Shop tax repeal,
For which I rapt well each knuckle,
Calling him solit'ry chuckle,
And I, (least he should again offend,)
His Substance to Admiralty send,
And as Aye or No are easy said,
Beg you'd contented vote for the Shade.' 14 July 1788


Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 259 millimetres
Width: 128 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5022
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Hood's appointment as a Lord of the Admiralty on the resignation of Howe caused a by-election in Westminster. On 14 July Fox took the chair at a meeting at which Lord John Townshend was proposed by Lord John Russell, who spoke at length against the re-election of Hood. Polling began on 14 July; for the first two days Townshend outstripped Hood, for the next three this was reversed, but 'The friends of the country had a meeting; 15,000 l. were subscribed, and houses opened . . .', 'Auckland Correspondence', ii. 223. The total Whig costs were said to be £50,000. Oldfield, 'Hist. of Boroughs', 1792, ii. 258. On the sixth day Townshend began to recover his advantage. The poll closed on the fifteenth day with 6,392 votes for Townshend and 5,569 for Hood. See 'London Chronicle', 15 July; 'Ann. Reg., 1788', p. 210. The decision to contest the election was against the wish of the chiefs of the party, and the result was unexpected. The expenses to both sides were so heavy that a compromise between the parties was arranged for the General Election of 1790, see BMSat 7638, &c. For the importance attached to this election by the Foxites see 'Auckland Correspondence', ii. 222-3, 224; Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, v. 169. Grenville heard of Townshend's candidature only on the evening of the 14th. Buckingham, 'Courts and Cabinets', i. 413. Cf. Laprade, 'Pitt and Westminster Elections', 'Am. Hist. Rev.' xviii. 271-3. For election handbills, &c, see B.M. Add. MSS. 27,837, pp. 13-31.

For the election see BMSats 7340-54, 7356, p. 515, 7357, 7359-64, 7366-72. For the Scrutiny see BMSat 6553, &c.; for the Commutation Tax, BMSat 6634, &c.; for the Shop Tax, BMSat 6798, &c.; for naval promotions, BMSat 7126, &c.
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