Paddy O Pitts triumphal exit [graphic].

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Title: Paddy O Pitts triumphal exit [graphic].
Alternative Title: Paddy O Pitt's triumphal exit
Published / Created: [20 June 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the Act directs, June 20, 1785, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Variant state of No. 6799 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Second state, with alterations to design.
Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: allusion to tax on maidservants -- Allusion to tax on shops -- Allusion to window tax -- Petitions: trampled London petition -- Trampled Manchester petition -- Trampled Westminster petition -- Westminster riots -- Signs: sign-posts -- Propaganda -- Butchers' cleavers -- Dogs -- Cats -- Shops to let -- Irish Propositions -- Staff of Liberty -- Allusion to the custom of riding the black ram --Expressions of speech: "I'll darken his daylights."
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis, partially obscured by image.
Mounted to 23 x 43 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 36.7 cm, on sheet 27 x 41 cm
Edition: [2nd state].
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): George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Liberty cap
Subjects: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Liberty cap
England > 1785
England > London > 1785

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