The Honble. Spruce Billy Beau prime minister of Lilliput [graphic].

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Title: The Honble. Spruce Billy Beau prime minister of Lilliput [graphic].
Alternative Title: Honorable Spruce Billy Beau prime minister of Lilliput
Contributor: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, attributed name.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 June 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 20 1791 by W. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Abstract: Pitt dressed in a Elizabethan-style costume, with a large feathered hat on his head, faces the viewer. He gesters with his left hand and holds a stick in his right
Description: Title etched below image.
Possibly by Richard Newton.
Two lines of verse below title: A Tory I am and a very young man ...
Provenance: Suckling; January 1960.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.5 x 21.3 cm, on sheet 33 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Subject (Topic): Influence
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Influence
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

Access: Public
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