Stay Classy, Politics!

[bellatrys]

Unconventional female sexuality, center-left politics, and political patronage linked in cartoon of the Duchess of Devonshire and her protege the Right Honorable Charles Fox - who scandalized British politics by dressing up* like one of George Washington's soldiers (!) to show his opposition to the War - depicted as a suckling pig (or a wolf in

Comments

[shininghalf]

Looks more like the big bad wolf than a pig to me. But point taken. ^_~

[fledgist]

Oh, that's a pig all right. Pigs can be quite hairy.

Well, at first I thought it was a boar

[bellatrys]

(="boor", pune or play on words) but now that Fox in the Stars has raised the lupine possibility, I'm wondering if I was wrong at first - more of a paw than a hoof there? I will have to amend my note.

Re: Well, at first I thought it was a boar

[fledgist]

Perhaps you're right, though the head looks more like that of a swine than that of a wolf to me.