A man with the head of a fox (Henry Fox) is pulling the king's sedan chair, and calls for help from George Bubb Dodington, who is drinking in an inn. Etching, 1757.

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[1757]
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37216i
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A man with the head of a fox (Henry Fox) is pulling the king's sedan chair, and calls for help from George Bubb Dodington, who is drinking in an inn. Etching, 1757. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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At the entrance to St James's Palace in Westminster, one of the bearers of a sedan chair, who has the head of a fox, waits at the front of his chair, which is painted with the number 1 and the figure of Britannia: it is the king's chair, and the chairman is Henry Fox, Lord Holland. The almost unseen person on the right who calls "Chair chair" is therefore King George II. Fox calls out "Odd man, odd man", meaning that he needs a second person to take the back poles of the sedan chair. He receives a response on the left, where George Bubb Dodington emerges from an inn: the inn sign outside it has the legend "Intire but bub". Dodington says "Here, here I come".The composition refers to the King's request to Fox to form a ministry after the Duke of Newcsatle resigned, and to Dodington's willingness to serve in any capacity

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[London], [1757]

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1 print : etching ; image 6.3 x 10.4 cm

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Oddities 1757.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires,vol. III, part ii, London 1877, pp. 1125-1126, no. 3576 or 3577

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Wellcome Collection 37216i

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