A Hint for Another Statue or a Sketch of a Modern Weather Cock, 2 January 1804
Scope and Contents
Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Windham (not caricatured) stands on a 'whirligig', two planks crossing each other at right angles and pivoted at the point of intersection, so that four planks point to four points of the compass. This rest on a high rectangular pedestal: 'An Unfit Pedestal for a Senator'. The stones of the pedestal are 'Obstinacy', 'Opposition', 'Passion', 'Envy', 'Voilence' [sic], 'Perverseness', 'Arrogance', 'Inconconsistancy'; its base is 'Versatility'. The two planks on which Windham's feet rest are 'Pittite' and 'No ite'; the other two are 'Foxite' and 'To be filled up Soon'. Windham declaims: "Perish Commerce,!! Down with the Volunteers!! they are not to be trusted!! They are all Democrats!" On each side of his pedestal stands a (contrasted) volunteer, looking up at Windham. Erskine (left), slim and handsome, in smart cavalry uniform, wearing a barrister's wig and holding a sword, says: "I say Mr Change about if you had said that any where else but up there I would have given you the Devils own licking". On the right a yokel in a smock, holding a long pike, says: "Why Measter Whirligig you told us the other day that we should bait Bulls and so to make us Bold & courageous & now you want us not to fight that Butcher Boneyparte tho I have tean great pains to learn to Pike him." In the background, across the Channel, a little Napoleon gesticulates furiously, flourishing his sabre: "That's right my good fellow put down those cursed Volunteers & I'll soon come over, & then I'll call you a Boneite." Behind Jiim massed tents stretch along the French coast. Description from the British Museum.
Dates
- Creation: 2 January 1804
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