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The Case is Altered, 29 April 1784

 Item — Box: LF100 Box 1
Reference code: LF100/2
The Case is Altered, 29 April 1784
The Case is Altered, 29 April 1784

Scope and Contents

Engraving. Fox drives (right to left) Sir Cecil Wray as a pauper in the county pass-cart to the place of his settlement in Lincolnshire. Fox sits on the high driving seat of a ramshackle cart flourishing his whip and looking round at Wray, who sits disconsolately in profile to the right, his hands clasped and resting on the side of the cart. Fox says: "I will drive you to Lincoln where you may Superintend the Small beer & brick dust." Wray says: "I always was a poor dog But now I am worse than ever." Hood stands (right) in profile to the left looking at the cart and saying Alas poor Wray. A signpost (left) points to Lincoln. On a tilt which covers part of the cart, behind Wray’s head, is inscribed 'The Lincoln shire Caravan for Paupers'.

Wray’s country house was Summer Castle, near Lincoln. An accusation of parsimony, combined with his proposals for the abolition of Chelsea Hospital and for a tax on servants, seriously prejudiced his chances at Westminster. Grego, Rowlandson, i. 132-3 (reproduction). Reproduced. Grego, 'Hist. of Parliamentary Elections', 1892, p. 281. Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 6562.

Dates

  • Creation: 29 April 1784

Conditions Governing Access

Physical item available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

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