The Hanoverian horse and British lion lamplighter including a streetseller and man

including a streetseller and man with sandwich boards in the foreground

exaggeratedly attenuated below the waist

showing the ruins after the fire of 23 July

The explosion

The Hanoverian horse and British lion lamplighter including a streetseller and man'The Hanoverian horse and British lion', 1784. Scene in the House of Commons. On the left Charles James Fox is riding the British lion, facing William Pitt the Younger on the horse of Hanover. Satire on the dissolution of Parliament which was prorogued on 24 March 1784 and dissolved on 25 March. Fox was a popular politician but was implacably opposed by King George III and his favoured minister, Pitt.