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The Election Race between Jack True Whig and Sam Block   (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 Election Race between Jack True Whig and Sam Block
Description
English: Lord John Townshend (left), seated on a fox (C. J. Fox), distances Lord Hood, seated on a goose, in a race 'To St Stephens' (the words on a signpost on the extreme left). On the right the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, is indicated, with the hustings and a shouting crowd, waving hats with election favours. Between and behind the two candidates runs (right to left) George Hanger holding up on a pole an enormous wig to which is attached a banner inscribed 'This is the True Whig'; he says, "No court Cacklers - Jack for ever", and brandishes his bludgeon (cf. BMSat 6924), which is inscribed 'Club Law'. Both he and Townshend's fox trample on the prostrate bodies of geese; other dead geese lie on the ground. These represent the electors of Westminster, see BMSat 5843, &c. Behind Hanger walks a sailor brandishing a club inscribed 'To preserve the Peace'; he shouts "The Navy & Hood", and carries on a pole a smaller and more fashionable wig, with a banner inscribed 'This is the True Whig'. Townshend's fox turns his head to lick his rider's hands; his enormous tail floats behind him, reaching the head of Hood's goose. Hood wears naval uniform; the reins which he holds are inscribed 'Treasury', indicating (correctly) that his candidature was (in part) financed by the Treasury. See BMSat 7339, &c. 18 July 1788
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Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 198 millimetres
Width: 276 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5756
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5756
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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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