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The Wonderful Word Eater lately arrived from abroad   (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
Title
The Wonderful Word Eater lately arrived from abroad
Description
English: Fox, directed to the left, stands eating a long scroll which he holds in both hands; it rests on the ground and its lower end is cut off by the left margin. It is inscribed: 'The Influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished - [Dunning's famous resolution, cf. BMSat 5659] The Rights of the People - Omni[po]tence'. Fox has an enormous brush, which curls above his shoulder, inscribed: 'The Power of the People has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished - The Rights of the Crown Hered[itary]'. He tramples under his right foot a paper inscribed 'Rights of Parliament'; under the left are the cap and staff of Liberty and the sword of Justice lying on the 'Bill of Rights' and 'Magna Charta'. Beneath the title is etched:


'Who wonderfully outdoes all the wonderous Fire Eaters, Stone Eaters, Toad Eaters, &c &c that ever exhibited, engaging to crack, Scronch, swallow and digest as many of the largest and hardest Words in the English language as will reach round Westminster, with as much facility as Demosthenes swallo'd pebbles.
This most extraordinary Character is now eagerly eating, in St. Stephen's Chapel, for the Amusement of some of the Royal Family, several of the Nobility & Gentry, a great quantity of Popular Words he fabricated a few years ago, & making others which he may be expected to devour in a short time.' 29 December 1788


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 141 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,4.15
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Like BMSat 7391, a parody of the advertisements of the 'Stone Eater' (one of which is pasted on the back of the print), cf. BMSat 7287, &c. One of many satires on the Regency crisis, see BMSat 7377, &c. It is directed against Fox's assertions in the debate of 10 Dec, see BMSat 7381, &c. Cf. BMSat 6207 (1783). an earlier attack on Fox for inconsistency.

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Lettered with title, nine lines of description, and publication line: "Sold by W.Moore No.308 Oxford Street". Pasted on verso a broadside about 'The Original Stone Breaker' (see J.4-271)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-15
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