Prince Pitt [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Prince Pitt [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Cut purse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole ...
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [1788]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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Either a copy or the original of British Museum satire no. 7388, in any event similar design except that Sydney, the coronet, and the tailor's goose are absent and inscriptions have been added; the satire alludes to taxes imposed by Pitt prior to 1788. The Prince says: "I appeal to the People of England to defend their own Rights and those of the House of Brunswick against this Banditti of Plunderers". Richmond says: "Tho' a Bastard of the Stuart Race, I have only 17,000£,per Ann: from the Poor, for my duty on Coals - make it 20,000 Prince Pitt, and I am yours for ever." (An allusion to the 'Richmond shilling', see BMSat 7393.) Grafton says: "I am as good a bastard as R------d, & yet I have only 6 or 7000£ a year upon the Excise on Wine & spiritous liquors - But Prince Pitt has promis'd me an additional Tax on Malt." Pitt says: "The Prince of Wales has no more right to the rightegency than I have." The paper in his hand is inscribed, not 'Dornford's Address', but 'Shop Tax Window Tax Candles Tax Horse Tax Hat Tax Westminster Scrutiny Irish Propositions Fortification Schemes Degradation of Naval Officers Excise Laws &c. &c. &c. &c.'"
- Description
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Title from caption below image.
Alternative title from quote at top of image: "A cut purse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole and put it in his pocket. Hamlet."
Possibly by Gillrary. Cf. British Museum catalogue.
Five lines of text in upper left corner of print: A cut purse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole, and put it in his pocket. [Quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet].
Three colums of text below title: See here Prince George! our Sovereign's darling son, old England's hope & heir to Britains throne ...
Lewis Walpole Library: Local card catalog suggests that this is also a reference to Horace Walpole.
Mounted to 47 x 29 cm. - Provenance
- Suckling; 1956;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 46.5 x 28.5 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 788.12.00.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Etchings England London 1788 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name)
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 - Subject (Topic)
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Regency
Military uniforms
British - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Regency > Great Britain
Military uniforms > British
England > 1788
England > London > 1788
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8110570
- Object ID (OID)
- 10731043