A goose lets blood from a seated gentleman holding a crutch, while geese representing Portsmouth aldermen sit in council. Etching, 1761.

[London] (King Street Covent Garden) : Dan Job, Feb 21 1761.

1 print : etching ; sheet 23.9 x 33.7 cm

The Gothamites in council. Humbly inscribed to the geese in disgrace sometime call'd the honest men of P--h. ... Each goose was hank'ring for a place. **A cuckow with an asses's head singing his own wise productions. Below the image are verses in two columns: "Two black crownd geese of middle age, / By some thought cunning, few thought sage; / Who oft had smother'd discontent, / And long on mischief been intent / Now thought it oppertune to try, / The force of independancy: / But honestly to state the case, / Each goose was hank'ring for a place."

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. III, part 2, London 1877, no. 3117, pp. 803-805

Wellcome Collection 575563i