print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6567
- Title
- Object: Billy's Political Plaything
- Description
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Pitt stands (left), flogging a top (right) surmounted by the head of Fox; tears gush from the closed eyes. Fox wears a bonnet-rouge and registers intense melancholy. Pitt scowls down at him, his head turned in profile, left arm bent, with closed fist. His right hand, raised above his head, holds a scourge, whose lashes are close to the top which is shaped like a pointed and decapitated egg. 21 November 1796
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 327 millimetres
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Width: 231 millimetres (trimmed)
- $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', VII, 1942)
Reproduced, B. Lynch, 'Hist. of Caricature', 1926, pl. viii..
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6567
