W.G. Phillips identified as printmaker in George.
With four lines of etched verse in two columns flanking the caption title: See the Godlike Youth advance / Sports prepare and lead the dance / Fetes prepare and laurels bring / Songs of triumph to him sing.
A burlesqued representation of the chairing of Fox on the declaration of the Westminster poll on 17 May. The scene is one side of the Piazza, Covent Garden. In front (right) is a woman (? the Duchess of Devonshire) riding an ass and waving a fox's brush. A man in the crowd beside her waves his cap, shouting "Petticoat Forever". Next to her marches a man holding a wand of office; then comes a man carrying a coffin on his shoulders on which is a skull and 'Memento Memori 1784'. He is followed by a man holding a bludgeon, who looks round at Sam House. Sam, with a satisfied grin, holds a wand of office; he leads a band of butchers with marrow-bones and cleavers; they have a flag with the words 'Marrow bones & Cleavers Constitutional Supporters'. They are followed by a man holding up a branch inscribed 'Tree of Good & Evil'. Next are men playing musical instruments, a horn, trumpet, &c. Behind them the crowd surrounds Fox's triumphal chair: Fox is a grotesque creature with pointed ears, seated in a chair decorated by a thicket of branches in which is stuck a flag with the words 'Sacred to Female Patriotism' and two hearts. Near the front of the procession is a body of men on horseback with a flag inscribed 'Perdition to Scrutiny's & High Bailiffs'. Cf British Museum online catalog.