File:The Chamber of Commerce, or L'Assemblée des Not-ables Anglois (BM Y,10.77).jpg
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The Chamber of Commerce, or L'Assemblée des Not-ables Anglois
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Print made by: James Sayers
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The Chamber of Commerce, or L'Assemblée des Not-ables Anglois |
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English: A number of men with asses' heads sit round a table signing a petition. They are upon a platform in a ramshackle room; a ladder rests against its left corner; on the ladder appear the head and shoulders of Fox in back view; he holds strings attached to the noses of the asses. The ass seated at the head of the table (left) hands down to him a 'Petition to the House of Commons for Delay [signed] Ign[or]amus'. An ass holds a long document, the 'Commercial Treaty with France', which falls across the table on to the ground; on his right shoulder an ass rests his head; another on the left sleeps with his head resting on a pile of books on the table. A spectacled ass writes busily; next him, at the end of the table (right), an ass leans back asleep. The nose of a braying ass appears through a door on the extreme right. Behind the table an ass places a notice on the wall: 'Chamber of Commerce at a Meeting held the 10th of February Resolved'. This partly covers another bill: 'Chamber [of] Commerce at a Meeting 9th Decr 1786 Resolv[ed]'. On a shelf (left) a figure of Mercury with a wooden leg dances, flourishing a caduceus; the right hand is broken off; behind it part of a vase is visible inscribed 'Wedgwood'. Figure and vase are on a pedestal inscribed 'Ex Quovis Ligno non fit Mercurius'. A casement window with broken panes and a raftered ceiling indicate the squalor of the room. 14 February 1787
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| Depicted people | Representation of: Charles James Fox | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1787 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
Y,10.77 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on the attitude of the Chamber of Manufacturers towards the Commercial Treaty with France. The attempt by the Opposition to use this body to oppose the treaty, as had been done in the case of the Irish Propositions (see BMSat 6785, &c), failed, though it was induced to petition (12 Feb.) for the postponement of the parliamentary consideration of the treaty. Wedgwood (here indicated by his wooden leg), who had organized the industrial opposition to the Irish Propositions, was in favour of the French Treaty and in correspondence with Eden on its terms (which were highly favourable to English industrialists). 'Parl. Hist.' xxvi. 377ff.; 'Auckland Correspondence', i. 402 ff.; 'Camb. Hist. of Br. Foreign Policy', i. 167 ff. See BMSat 6995, &c. BMSat 7141 is on the same theme. For the pun in the title cf. BMSat 7158. Placed in Sarah Sophia Banks's album of the work of James Sayers. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Y-10-77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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