Honest Billy [graphic].

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Title: Honest Billy [graphic].
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [18 February 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 18, 1785, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "Design in an oval. half length portrait of Pitt in the House of Commons, standing at the table on which are books and two documents inscribed 'Parliamentary Reform' and 'Commutation Act'. Three shadowy seated figures watch him: Fox (left) says, "Oh that I had him at Brooks's! I'd Reform him". Next, a man wearing a hat says, "If I had him at Deal I'd soon Smuggle him - Oh that poor Charley had continued in, He'd never suppress our trade". The third says, "He has made a Bankrupt of me. Oh that I could Adulterate". (The smuggled tea had been much adulterated.) Above the design is etched, 'Save, oh Save my Country!!! My Fathers' dying words I never can forget.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Temporary local subject terms: Tax: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Parliamentary reform, 1785 -- Allusion to Pitt's suppression of smuggling -- Allusion to Pitt's suppression of tea adulteration -- Literature: quotation from William Pitt, 1708-1778.
Mounted to 26 x 19 cm.
Provenance: Suckling; February 1960;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 30 cm, on sheet 22 x 17 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1785
England > London > 1785

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