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The kettle hooting the porridge-pot

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The kettle hooting the porridge-pot

[London] : Pubd July 23d 1782 by P.J. Leatherhead, [1782]
etching, hand colored
image: 219 x 330 mm; plate mark: 248 x 351 mm; sheet: 243 x 342 mm
Peel 2390
Notes
George suggests that the imprint is probably fictitious.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows Shelburne as a kettle and Fox as a porridge-pot. Shelburne's body is in the form of a kettle, much blackened underneath; the handle, attached to his chest and shoulders, extends over his head. He points at Fox; his left foot is on the neck of a goose, which lies on its back on the ground. He is saying, "Oh do but look how black his Arse is!" Fox, with the head of a fox, his body a large circular pot, blackened underneath, is running away with an alarmed expression. In the centre of the design is a sign-post, its arm, pointing to the right, is terminated by a well-drawn hand holding a die in its fingers, but pointing with its fore-finger in the direction in which Fox is running. The arm of the post is inscribed "TO BROOKS'S"; from it hangs a rope with a noose at the end of it. On the post is hung up a placard inscribed "To be Lett- either as a Gibbet or Direction Post".

Associated names
Leatherhead, P. J., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department