print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.5710
- Title
- Object: An Indian prince on a visit to a friendly court.
- Description
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Hastings walks (right to left) towards Westminster Hall, which is sketched in the upper left corner of the design, and indicated by a signpost inscribed 'New Palace Yard'. He is preceded by a young military officer, evidently Major Scott, holding a hookah, the smoke from which is inscribed 'Articles of Impeachment'. Hastings is smoking the hookah, saying, "Old care in a Whiff of Tobacco I'll Smother". He wears a jewelled and feathered turban, tunic, and knee-breeches with a long cloak which is held up by two little black boys (right). Thurlow walks behind him, holding over his head a large fringed umbrella, and saying, "My Magnimity [sic] will cover a Multitude of thy Crimes and Misdemeanors". In the lower left corner of the design is a gibbet inscribed 'The Governor', from which dangles a noose. Beneath it sit two dogs with the heads of Fox and Burke. Fox (right) says, "Brother Edmund I'll finish the Law". Burke says, "I'll bring the Culprit to justice". 10 April 1788
Etching
- Production date
- 1788
- Dimensions
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Height: 273 millimetres
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Width: 346 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
One of many satires on the supposed protection given to Hastings by Thurlow, see BMSat 7278, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.5710
