The habeas corpus, or The wild geese flying away with Fox to America – Historic Print
![The habeas corpus, or The wild geese flying away with Fox to America, [London] : Pubd. by J. Barrow, No. 84 Dorset Street, Salisbury Court Fleet Street, 1782 August 27. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/de/dec16799e2ff-L.webp)
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The habeas corpus, or The wild geese flying away with Fox to America
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Here Charles James Fox is shown as a fox borne away by a flock of wild geese toward America, a satirical jab at the Whig leader's long sympathy for the colonists. Published in London on August 27, 1782, the hand-colored etching is the ninth in a series issued by the printseller J. Barrow, and it appeared while peace talks to end the American Revolution were under way. Caricaturists of the period often used animal fables like this one to mock politicians, and the title suggests that Fox's critics saw his American sympathies as a kind of desertion from Britain.
| Created / published | [London] : Pubd. by J. Barrow, No. 84 Dorset Street, Salisbury Court Fleet Street, 1782 August 27. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1780-1790.Etchings Hand-colored 1780-1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. No. 9 in a series published by J. Barrow. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6029 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 824. |
| Subjects | Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806. Geese--England--1780-1790. Foxes--England--1780-1790. Sailing ships--England--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Peace. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,448 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219076 |
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