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A disunion or the family compact disturbed.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: S W Fores
Title
A disunion or the family compact disturbed.
Description
English: Lord Lansdowne (left) holds a performing monkey by the chain which is attached to its waist; he says, "Come along Jeky come my little Jeky I'll give you a Dinner never mind M - he's a Turn Coat". The monkey runs towards his master. In Lansdowne's left hand is the end of a heavier chain from which a bear has broken loose and is walking away from him, saying, "no. no. you dont catch me at Jesuits Colledge again". They are outside the high brick wall of Lansdowne House, indicated by the 'Berkeley Square' on the corner. Fox approaches the bear from behind, raising both his arms and holding his hat so that the initials 'CF' in the crown are visible. He says, "he Capers like a Morris Dancer", indicating that the bear is John Morris, K.C., M.P. for Calne. Pitt follows Fox, looking anxiously at the bear. 26 February 1791.
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 326 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6007
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Joseph Jekyll and John Morris had been returned by Lord Lansdowne for his borough of Calne, Wilts.; Jekyll in 1787 (on the death of James Townsend), Morris in 1790. (Morris vacated the seat Jan. 1792 and was replaced by Benjamin Vaughan. [According to Fitzmaurice (Shelburne, ii. 399) Morris held the seat for a few months only; he was, however, returned at the general election, replacing Barré.]) Jekyll was attacked for his connexion with Lansdowne in 'Jekyll, an Eclogue'. The attitude of Lansdowne to political parties was doubtful, but tended more and more to opposition to Pitt. Fitzmaurice, 'Life of Shelburne', 1912, ii. 368 ff. For Shelburne as Malagrida the Jesuit see ibid., i. 388 and BMSat 6006, &c.
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