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- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.01.01.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A stout farmer rides (left to right) past an inn on a cow. The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Ho[rses]'. The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn, and snaps his fingers, saying, "Pitt be D------d". A basket containing poultry hangs from the saddle. Part of the inn is on the left of the design, its sign is a stout man holding a foaming tankard gazing at three sacks, inscribed 'Joe Jolly 1784' (a '7' appears to have been etched over the '4'). Five amused spectators stand by the door; from a window above two men applaud the farmer."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue of a print originally published in 1784., Pitt's budget of 1784 imposed an annual tax of 10s. on saddle- and carriage-horses, exempting those used for trade and agriculture. On 27 November 1784 one Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to and from the market of Stockport in protest against the horse-tax. See Chambers, 'Book of Days', ii. 627, where there is a copy of a similar print., and For a variant state, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jan. 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation, Horses, Farmers, Cheering, Cows, Defecation, Geese, Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Spectators, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > How to avoid the horse duty [graphic]
