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The high-flying-candidate : (i.e. Little Paul-Goose) mounting from a blanket / Js. Gillray invt & fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The high-flying-candidate : (i.e. Little Paul-Goose) mounting from a blanket / Js. Gillray invt & fect.

[London] : Pubd Novr 11th 1806 by H. Humphrey. 27 St James's Street, [1806]
etching, hand colored
image: 225 x 346 mm; plate mark: 249 x 352 mm; sheet: 271 x 379 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.340
Notes
A satire on the Westminster election in November 1806 and on the candidacy of James Paull.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Hood and Sheridan tossing Paull high in the air from a Coalition-Blanket. Paull is dressed as a tailor with a tape-measure, and is droping a tailor's goose (i.e. an iron) and shears. In Sheridan's pocket is a pamphlet: 'The Devil among ye Tailors'. Below the blanket is a flat tombstone: 'Sacred to the Memory of Poor Charley late Member for the City of Westminster - We ne'er shall meet his like again!!!' From this the ghost of Fox is rising and he is saying: "O Temporal O Mores." Behind Hood is a mob of cheering sailors with banners; two are inscribed: 'Hood and Sheridan - for Ever! - no Skulking to Buonaparte, and Navy and volunteers No Sarver ['] no Taylor." They wear favours inscribed 'Hood' and they shout "Hood & Sherry". Behind Sheridan are cheering volunteers in uniform with a banner: 'Sheridan and Hood! - Volunteers and the Navy.' They shout "Sherry & Hood for Ever"; "No Stitchlouse"; "Sherry", "Sheridan". Behind is the end of the hustings with placards indicating the polling places for the parishes of 'St James' and 'St George'. Behind the blanket, and in the distance, is a cheering mob shouting "Hood for Ever", "Sherry for ever", "Paul for Ever", "Cucumber for Ever", and "Paul & Cabbage."

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints