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The votes of compulsion or the magpye candidates
Description
English: A figure divided vertically from the crown of the head, composed half of Lord Hood (left) and half of Sir Cecil Wray (right), the two Ministerial candidates for Westminster, stands on the left. On the right, and on a smaller scale, the king drives two electors towards Hood and Wray. That part of the candidate who represents Hood is dressed in naval uniform, and holds out a flag resembling an ensign, from which half of the St. Andrew's cross is missing; on it is a broken sceptre. Wray's half is dressed in military uniform (he was a captain in the Lincolnshire militia), and holds a long spear, on the point of which sits a bird intended for a magpie but with more resemblance to a dove. The king wears his Garter ribbon and star, a crown is suspended above his head; in his right hand he holds a staff identical with that used by Pitt in a cudgelling match against Fox, see BMSat 6501. (It has two circular knobs at the butt-end, and a cross-piece near the tip.) He says: "I am resolved to have a P------t [Parliament] of my own Chusing see therefore that you Vote as I have Commanded". The two electors advance reluctantly towards the candidate, saying:



"Thus are we Driven to Vote for Hood & Wray
Our Tongues say Yes but our hearts say nay." 6 April 1784


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 249 millimetres
Width: 353 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5227
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) For the Westminster Election see BMSat 6474, &c.

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The publisher W.Stafford of Oxford M? is unknown. The handwriting of the title is certainly that of William Holland, and so the print has been indexed as his.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5227
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