print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6610
- Title
- Object: The General Sentiment
- Description
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Pitt is suspended by the neck from an irregular cross-bar formed of a label across the design containing the words 'May our heaven born minister be Supported from Above'. These words ascend from the mouths of Sheridan, crouching furtively, and Fox, standing, on the extreme left and right of the design. Both wear bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades and have a conspiratorial air. Pitt's arms and legs are extended like those of a puppet; his head is turned in profile to the left, a cap is drawn over his eyes. 22 March 1797
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1797
- Dimensions
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Height: 349 millimetres
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Width: 240 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', VII, 1942)
Cf. BMSat 9011. The formula is that of a 'sentiment', i.e. a toast (for its double meaning cf. Sheridan's toast, 'The Duke of York and his brave followers', the French). Farington heard Gale Jones speak 'with great inveteracy against Pitt, and of his being brought to publick execution', at a London Corresponding Society mass meeting, 7 Dec. 1796. 'Diary', i. 119.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6610
