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| Keywords: Stealing-Off-Gillray.jpeg SUMMARY Charles Fox fleeing the House of Commons in terror accompanied by a fierce greyhound wearing a collar marked Opposition Grey-hound A small animal with the head of M A Taylor runs behind In the background the Opposition benches with members of the Opposition eating papers marked with the positions of the party The hands of Pitt are shown holding a long scroll of paper enumerating the government's positions <br> According to Wright Evans Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray 1851 OCLC 59510372 p 160 On the secession of Fox from Parliament during this session to lament as his party said in his retirement the evils which his zeal and talents could not avert The Tories said on the contrary that he had deserted his post because he could no longer conceal his mortification that all his endeavours to do mischief had failed; and he is here represented making his exit in a panic caused by the discoveries of his pretended secret practices with the Irish rebels and by the recent successes of Government accompanied only by his two faithful dogs Grey and the diminutive M A Taylor Sheridan and the rest of the party keep their places although thrown into the utmost confusion by the overthrow of their hopes 1 print etching hand-colored London H Humphrey 1798 Novr 6th institution Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LOC-image cph 3g08772 accession number LC-USZC4-8772 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08772u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 49 MB level color pick white point cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1798-11-06 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication PD-art-100 James Gillray Caricatures of the United Kingdom Charles James Fox Fear in art People with dogs in art 1799 cartoons House of Commons of the United Kingdom | ||||
