Carlo Khan's triumphal Entry into Leadenhall Street
print made by James Sayers
1783
British Museum 1868,0808.5059
Edmund Burke leads an elephant, on which is seated Charles James Fox dressed as a turbanned prince, down Leadenhall Street to the India Office. At his side is a flag with "The Man of the People" crossed out or erased and "BAΣIVEVS BAΣIΛEΩN" (king of kings) written above. The elelphant has the face of Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford.
A crow on the chimney of the building to the left is annotated with the text:
The Night Crow cried foreboding luckless Time.
Shakespeare
The caricature is a satire on Fox's India Bill.
—This description is indebted to the British Museum catalogue.
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