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Drawing for twelfth-cake at St Annes Hill.!!   (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
Drawing for twelfth-cake at St Annes Hill.!!
Description
English: Fox, as host, stands behind a table on which is a large Twelfth-cake decorated with trees of Liberty and crowned by a bonnet-rouge. He and all his guests are inspecting the tickets they have drawn from a bonnet-rouge full of papers which lies on the corner of the table opposite Sheridan (right). Fox delightedly holds out his ticket, 'Perpetual Dictator'. The others (left to right) are: first 'Tierney', his ticket 'A Nabob'; then Lord Moira, stiffly in profile to the left, 'The Irish Hoaxter' (cf. BMSat 9184); the Duke of Bedford, seated, 'Collector of Taxes' (see BMSat 9167), Norfolk, on Fox's right, 'Perpetual Toast Master' (see BMSat 9168, &c.); M. A. Taylor, very small and wearing a bonnet-rouge, his ticket inscribed 'Go to Roost' (he was 'the Chick of Law', see BMSat 6777); Erskine, on Fox's right, Soliciter General (cf. BMSat 8502), Burdett, 'Keeper of the Prison in Cold Bath Fields' (see BMSat 9341), Sheridan (the impecunious), seated, 'First Lord of the Treasury', and (?)Byng, [Perhaps Grey.] M.P. for Middlesex, looking nearsightedly at 'Bastile Jervise'. On the wall is a placard: 'Rules to be observed at this Meeting 1 That the Cake be decorate with appropriate insignia 2 That the tickets be deposited in a Bonnet Rouge and drawn in Rotation 3 That the Old Fashioned Game of King and Queen be exploded & Catch as Catch can Substituted in its stead.' 16 January 1799
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford
Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 262 millimetres
Width: 423 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
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1868,0808.6814
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

One of many satires on the supposed Jacobin sentiments of the Opposition. Fox was accused of making himself Perpetual Dictator by his India Bill, cf. BMSat 6380, &c. Tierney, a holder of E. India stock, made his mark in 1783 by opposing Fox's India Bill; he was President of the Board of Control from Sept. 1806 to Mar. 1807; cf. BMSat 9416. The title implies that the activities of Opposition are transferred from Parliament to Fox's house (see BMSat 9217, &c.) by the Secession, see BMSat 9018, &c. Cf. BMSats 6464, 7509, similar applications of the twelfth-cake to political aspirations.
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