English: Lord Denbigh (right) stands in profile to the left on a country road, his aquiline nose exaggerated. A procession of six foxhounds, the last of which has just left his mouth, runs down his body and along the road from right to left. A fox runs across a field on the right and Denbigh holds out his right arm as if directing the hounds towards it. The road is edged by trees; a sign-post behind Denbigh has two arms, one (left) points "To Coventry", the other (right) "To Lutterworth". On the right is a milestone, "XI miles to Coventry". The background is an undulating landscape of grass and trees with a rectangular country house in the distance. 16 April 1782
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Representation of: Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
Basil Feilding (1719-1800), Earl of Denbigh, was Master of the Royal Harriers and Foxhounds from 1762 until the change of ministry in March 1782. The post disappeared as a result of Burke's Bill of Economical Reform. Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, ii. 287. The house probably represents Newnham Paddox, his estate in Warwickshire. Walpole called him in 1773 "the lowest and most officious of the Court-tools". 'Last Journals', 1910, i. 175. See BMSat 5763, 6162.
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