print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6209
- Title
- Object: A Bugaboo!!!
- Description
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George III, grotesquely caricatured, strides forward in profile to the right, holding Pitt on his shoulders, grasping his thin leg in a huge hand. He has an enormous head with a goggling eye and huge mouth wide open, from which issues fire and smoke inscribed: 'Guards/ Encampments!' 'Proclamation!' 'Spies!' 'Spa Fields Bastile!' 'Bristol Bastile!' 'Birmingham Bastile!' 'Manchester Bastile!' 'Informers!' 'Confinement Dungeons!' 'Racks!' 'Tortures!' 'No Lenity!' 'No Mercy!' 'No Bribery!' 'Not even Petticoat influence shall prevail!!!' Pitt is on a much smaller scale, but bestrides the King with drawn sabre and arrogantly tilted profile; his is evidently the dominant influence. 2 June 1792
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 342 millimetres
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Width: 450 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)
For the Proclamation of 21 May against tumultuous meetings and seditious writings see BMSat 8095; it was followed by loyal addresses. A network of societies and affiliated clubs rapidly spread in London and the manufacturing towns; they circulated cheap editions of Paine's 'Rights of Man', &c. See 'Ann. Reg.', 1792, ii. 152*~3*. Riots broke out in several places owing to the dearness of provisions, and in Manchester and Sheffield disaffection gained ground among the troops sent to keep order. Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', p. 62. Cf. BMSat 8115, &c.
(Supplementary information)
See also Bindman, 1989 (cat no 69, p. 116).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1989 May-Sep, BM, Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and French Revolution
1990 Jan-Mar, Manchester, Whitworth AG, Britain and French Revolution
1990 Jun-Sep, Vizille, Mus/rev Francaise, Britain and French Revolution
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6209
