File:The slough of despond;-vide-the patriots progress. (BM J,3.43).jpg
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Summary
The slough of despond;-vide-the patriots progress.
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Artist |
Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
The slough of despond;-vide-the patriots progress. |
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Description |
English: The head and shoulders of Fox (like Christian in 'The Pilgrim's Progress') emerge from a pool of liquid mire; he looks despairingly up and to the right, his (half-submerged) hands raised in supplication. On his back is a bundle inscribed 'Contents French Gold, French Loyalty, French Daggers [cf. BMSat 8285, &c.], And Crimes, more num'rous than the sands, upon the Ocean's shore.' His hat has fallen off, the tricolour cockade and motto 'Ca ira' are half submerged. His large club rises from the slough: 'Patriots Staff - i.e. Whig Club' [cf. BMSat 8987, &c.]. Before him floats an open book: 'Gospel of Liberty by the four Evangelists St Paine St Price St Priestly St Petion [see BMSat 8122] \ Fly to the Wrath to come." Fox says: "Help! Help! - will no kind Power lend a hand to deliver me ? - Oh! what will become of me ? - all my former Friends have forsaken me! - if I try to go on, I sink deeper in the Filth; & my feet are stuck so fast in the Mire, that I can not get back, 'tho I try; - Ah me! - this Burden upon my Back overwhelm's me, & presses me down! - I shall Rise no more! - I am lost for ever, & shall never see the Promis'd Land!!"
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Depicted people | Representation of: Charles James Fox | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1793 date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
J,3.43 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A satire on the isolation of Fox and a few followers by the decision of the majority of the Whigs at a meeting at Burlington House, 11 Dec. 1792, to support the Government. See debates of 13 and 15 Dec, 'Parl. Hist.' xxx. 1 ff.; 'Auckland Corr.' ii. 479, 481-3; Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', pp. 87 ff. Cf. BMSats 8140, 8304, 8305, 8366. For the subsequent split in the Whig Club see BMSat 8315. One of many prints of Fox as a Jacobin. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 165 (reproduction), Wright and Evans, No. 90. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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