A young man, slim and elegant, with the head and tail of a fox seated between two hairdressers. He tears fragments from 'Magna Charta' to be used as curl-papers. He is draped in a sheet, below which appear flowered breeches. A valet with a 'Last dying Speech' hanging from his pocket holds a mirror. On a chair are a flowered coat and sword with a paper "Inquiries into the late Riots" (cf. BMSat 4850). On the floor are "A petition to the Commission[ers] of the Customs", a book entitled "A New Essay on Politick By C - F- Esqr" and a bag of "Poudre à la Maréchale". On a table are jars inscribed "Bergamot", "essence", "rouge". A bust [ ? Wilkes] is on a pedestal inscribed "Cato bewailing the loss of Liberty". On brackets on the wall are statuettes of Venus and the three Graces and a clock whose hands indicate that the time is 12.30 (or 6). ? 1771
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1771<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1771-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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