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]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.340
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[London] : Pubd Novr 11th 1806 by H. Humphrey. 27 St James's Street, [1806]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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A satire on the Westminster election in November 1806 and on the candidacy of James Paull.

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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."

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