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The fall of Dagon - or rare news for Leadenhall Street.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: William Humphrey
Title
The fall of Dagon - or rare news for Leadenhall Street.
Description
English: The image of Dagon has fallen from an overturned rectangular pedestal (right) whose base is inscribed 'Broad Bottom'. The image is a stout man with a double-faced, Janus-like head, consisting of the faces of North and Fox, decapitated; the hands are severed at the wrists; it lies prone, the face of North to the ground, that of Fox uppermost.


In the distance is Tower Hill, with a scaffold surrounded by tiny figures representing a crowd. A figure kneels before a block, the headsman's axe is raised. In the middle distance (left) is the gable end of an inn, its sign that of a headsman's axe. A stout man stands beneath it. It is inscribed 'Tower Hill'. Beneath the title is engraved:
'And behold Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord & the head of Dagon and both the Palms of his hands were cutt off upon the threshold.' 4 January 1784


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Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 228 millimetres
Width: 307 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,2.104
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The defeat of the India Bill and fall of the Coalition was 'rare news' for the India House in Leadenhall Street, see BMSat 6271, &c, 6399. Coalition Ministries were usually designated 'Broad Bottom'. The original sketch for this satire, very feebly drawn by an amateur, together with Rowlandson's drawing, which closely follows the intention of the original, are in the Print Room. The title and inscriptions were written by the amateur. (201 c. 6/16.)

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 112.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-104
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