print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6612
- Title
- Object: The In's and Outs or the Jesuits treatment of his friends
- Description
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A burlesque of Gillray's 'Malagrida', driving post (BMSat 8069), the action being more violent. Lansdowne's coach (left) is driven by a French ragamuffin, wearing a bonnet-rouge and tricolour cockade, who lashes the galloping horses with revolutionary fury. Lansdowne, sly and sleek in his peer's robes, leans from the window raising a threatening fist, to say: "Drive you dog! Vite, Vite, I shall be too late, he'll alter his mind get away you Fellows you clog the Wheels charity begins at home." Fox lies prostrate under the wheels, shouting despairingly, "Stop! I say Stop & take me with you!" Sheridan runs beside the hind-wheel, saying, "What leave me behind, ha. your old Acquaintance." The beehive crest on the coach-door is surrounded, not with bees, but with winged cherubic heads, each wearing a bonnet-rouge with a cockade. Pitt's coach (on a larger scale than in BMSat 8069) gallops from the gateway of St. James's Palace; Dundas drops reins and whip at the sight of the dove with an olive-branch flying towards the Palace. Pitt leans out in exaggerated terror. From a small window over the gateway the King's agitated profile emerges, saying to Pitt: "What! What. What, are you off." 25 March 1797
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1797
- Dimensions
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Height: 248 millimetres
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Width: 437 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)
Probably inspired by the Address by the Livery to the King praying him to dismiss his ministers as a step to obtaining peace, see BMSat 9001. The driver resembles Stanhope, cf. BMSat 8448.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6612