Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobler the portrait of him taken just before he was turnd. off. [graphic]

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Title: Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobler the portrait of him taken just before he was turnd. off. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobbler
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [9 January 1789]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd. January 9th 1789 by H. Humphries, New Bond Street, London
Abstract: "Pitt in the guise of a robber who is about to be hanged. He aims a pistol at the head of a cobbler, saying, "You Rascall, You keep a Shop, and shall pay for it". The cobbler, kneeling hat in hand, in profile to the left, says, "Lord Sir, mines only a Stall, Have mercy on my Wife & Family". Part of his bulk or stall appears behind him (right). Behind Pitt (left) Richmond kneels on the ground, holding out his cocked hat for the coins which the former drops into it; he points to houses of playing-cards which are round him on the ground and represent his scheme of fortifications ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Caption below image: Some account of the life and behavior of William Pett alias Billy the Bamboozler.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
DeGrey's manuscript note on verso.
Watermark: initials F N D [...]
Provenance: Parsons; February 1933. Thomas Philip Robinson, Earl DeGrey, 1781-1859.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 40 x 53 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Annotations (Provenance)
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic): Regency
Card games
Shoemakers
Taxes
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Regency > England
Card games
Shoemakers
Taxes
England > 1789
England > London > 1789

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