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Wonders wonders wonders & wonders   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Wonders wonders wonders & wonders
Description
English: Couples of notorious enemies stand clasping hands in friendship. In the foreground (centre) is a group of three: Fox with a fox's head stands between Shelburne [This figure is not without a certain resemblance to North, but is more like Shelburne, and the similarity to 6 in BMSat 6173 by the same artist leaves no doubt of his identity.] (left) and Lord Denbigh (right), who has the body of a fox-hound. Fox holds Shelburne's right hand, his left arm is on the shoulder of Denbigh, who puts his forepaws affectionately on his shoulder. Fox says,



“I now will play the Foxes Part,
And gain a Secret from each Heart,”

Shelburne, smiling, says,

“I should not have used you so ill,
If I had not swallow'd a Scotch Pill,”

Denbigh says,

“Through you & Burke I lost my Place,
Yet I forgive the sad Disgrace.”

On the extreme left stands Britannia, holding her spear, her shield beside her, the head of the British lion, 'couchant', appearing from behind it. Her right hand grasps that of America, who holds in her left hand a staff surmounted by the cap of Liberty. She wears the feathered head-dress and kilt of a red Indian. Britannia says, “Come, Come, shake hands, and lets be Friends”; America answers, “With all my Heart, I've gain'd my Ends”.
As a pendant to the pair stand Wilkes and George III on the extreme right clasping hands, Wilkes holds up his left hand saying,

“Your M . . . y has been long deceived
And at your Subjects was much griev'd,”

The king answers,

“Enough! my Fault I own, my Subject Loyal,
And you much love, 'pon my Word Royal.”

Between and slightly behind these three groups are two other couples: the Duke of Richmond (left) takes the hand of Parson Bate, wearing gown and bands and holding the Morns [H]erald. Richmond says, “Parson I you forgive, I know youre Bate”. Bate answers “I did repent when it was too late”. As a pendant to this pair, stand Sir Hugh Palliser and Keppel, both in naval uniform. Palliser rests his right hand on a stick, Keppel grasps his left hand in both of his. Palliser says, “By Twitcher's Arts I you accus'd”; Keppel answers, “And to forgive I ne'er Refus'd”. Beneath the design is engraved:

“If Kat------to can Bring Such Wonders to pass
He sure deserves the Honor to Kiss the Kings------” 1783


Etching
Depicted people Representation of: Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 258 millimetres
Width: 382 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.108
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

The title is taken from the advertisements which Katerfelto circulated broadcast in London at this time, see BMSat 6326, &c. For Fox and Shelburne see BMSat 6022, &c. They were eventually reconciled (c. 1796) by their joint opposition to Pitt: Russell, ‘Memorials & Correspondence of Fox’, 1854, iii. 129. For Denbigh's deprivation of the Mastership of the Fox-hounds see BMSat 5976. The vendetta between Wilkes and George III was ended over the opposition to Fox's India Bill and their amity was the subject of caricatures in 1784. For Keppel and Palliser see BMSat 5536, 5537, &c; for Richmond and Bate, BMSat 5666. Similar in manner to BMSat 6173.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-108
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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