W.G. Phillips: Satirist, etched various plates signed with initials "WG" which seem to have been those of a WG Phillips. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Beneath the design is etched six lines of verse: The Mirror of Truth is here held up to view ... Because the Shoe pinches they'r heard to cry out.
An election crowd is being addressed by Fox (left) from the hustings. The lower part of the pillars of the portico and the door of St. Paul's Church are behind Fox; the houses of the NW. corner of Covent Garden Piazza, with spectators looking from the windows, form a background on the right. Fox stands, right fist raised, saying: "Gentlemen I sincerely do wish you to lead / To Greatness to Glory to Freedom ... The Victory gained & Treachery o'erthrow / Gratefully - in what ee'r you Wish I am your own." He is surrounded by supporters. Among the more conspicuous figures in the foreground (left to right) are: a boy astride a small cask which is labelled 'Small-beer Sr C W [Cecil Wray]', its tap is padlocked; he wears a key, shouting "No back Stairs". Behind him is a man with a flag inscribed 'Fox & the Constitution'. A tall lank man leaning on a crutch is 'Corruption'. Next him a man sits on the shaft of his ginger-bread barrow, saying, "Here's your Spice Nuts". The barrow, on which is a bottle and glass, is inscribed "Fox Gin & Gingerbread for ever". A small dog befouling the ground represents 'Ease'. A very stout man is shouting: "May your Understanding lax For making the Receipt Tax." He is 'Alderman Calipash', representing the clamour raised in the City against the Receipt tax proposed by the Coalition and attacked by Wray. Other figures in the foreground are labeled "Politician", "Virtue", "Indian tyrant", and "Rights of the People"