print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.5015
Title: Object: The state windmill
Description: A later state (uncoloured), having the same date and publication line with additions: rats run up the lowest sail of the mill. A bearded Jew sits on the ground in front of the mill holding a document inscribed "Bond £10,000 Chs Fox to Moses Mordecai"; he says, "I must have my monies before Sharles's Tax on Receipts". The receipt tax was announced in Lord John Cavendish's budget speech, 26 May, was petitioned against by the City of London, and was the subject of a debate in the House of Commons on 11 June, see BMSat 6243, 6244. North says after 'Charley', "I wish I had some of my whip cord to keep me steady", showing that the date of the reissue is after 17 June, see BMSat 6254. Keppel says, "This gale is nothing to the storm of the 27th of July, and no danger of a Lee Shore". Cf. BMSat 5992, &c. 10 June 1783 Etching
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Production date: 1783
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Dimensions: Height: 279 millimetres; Width: 219 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Edmund Burke; Representation of: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville; Representation of: Charles James Fox; Representation of: George Johnstone; Representation of: Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel; Representation of: Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Representation of: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope; Representation of: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne; Representation of: Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Representation of: Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk; Representation of: Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow; Representation of: Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
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Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.5015

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