New Ministers Going on Duty, 14 February 1806
Scope and Contents
Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. Fox and Erskine strut along the east pavement of St. James's Street, about to cross the road to the Palace gateway, part of which is on the extreme left. Before them runs a little ragged boy waving his hat and screaming "Clear the way for his M------'s Ministers". Fox, immensely fat, wears old-fashioned court dress, heavily laced, embroidered, and ruffled; he is chapeau-bras, left hand grasping his sword. Behind him walks Erskine, wearing a Chancellor's wig reaching to the knee, and a gown festooned over his arm, but still trailing behind him. Fox puffs, Erskine walks mincingly; both hold papers. From the corner house on the west side of St. James's (? White's) a man wearing a cocked hat, and seated at a table on which is a coffee-pot, looks quizzically from a window, saying, ""What strange alterations \ "of Times I have seen, \ "Between, this, & when good Cousin Bess was a Queen." Description from the British Museum.
Dates
- Creation: 14 February 1806
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Language of Materials
English
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