File:Launce and his dog Crab (BM 1868,0808.6055).jpg

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Launce and his dog Crab   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Frederick George Byron

Published by: William Holland
Title
Launce and his dog Crab
Description
English: Fox (left), in Elizabethan dress, stands weeping, supporting his head against a long staff held in his left hand; in his right hand is a feathered hat. From his head issues a line surrounding a long quotation etched in the upper right portion of the design. A dog (right) with the head and spectacles of Burke looks up at him, saying:



"I'm now Mr Pitt's in Downing Street
And I'll bark at all the Whigs I meet."

Fox repeats the long speech of Launce, the servant of Proteus, in 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', ii. 3, beginning:

"Nay, twill be this hour ere I have done weeping . . . I think Crab my dog be the sowrest-natur'd dog that lives . . ." and "ending but see, how I lay the dust with my tears." 22 May 1791


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 266 millimetres
Width: 301 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6055
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires on the quarrel between Fox and Burke, when Fox wept in the House of Commons, see BMSat 7854, &c, and, like BMSat 7865, an attempt to discredit Burke. For his supposed apostasy see also BMSats 7689, 7833, 7868, 7871, 7872, 7913, 8076, 8115.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6055
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