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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/1/92 |
| Former Reference | D5459/1/8 |
| Title | The Hole in the Wall |
| Date | [1790-1809] |
| Description | Charles James Fox , wearing a blue smock-like garment, beige breeches, and a striped revolutionary bonnet and cockade stands cowering with a club marked 'OPOSITION' (sic) in his right hand. To his right is a wall labelled 'CONSTITUTION', with a large hole through which a long-necked William Pitt is poking his head and saying 'PE BOO CHARLY'. Available on CD 158. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | Fox found it difficult to translate his personal popularity into political success and did not hold office between the breakdown of the Fox-North coalition and the Westminster Election in 1784 and the 'Ministry of All Talents' in 1806. He had openly supported the revolutionaries in France, hence his revolutionary cockade in the drawing.
The drawing was produced between the French Revolution in 1789 and Pitt's death in 1806.
Similar in style to D5459/1/94 |
| Physical Description | Coloured drawing. Mounted on paper. Size 292 x 226 mm (including mount) |
| Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Related Material | For more depictions of Fox see D5459/1/36 etc. For more depictions of Pitt see D5459/1/61 etc. |
| Term | Elections |
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