print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6680
- Title
- Object: The Birth of Billy Bugaboo!
- Description
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A fat Devil, naked except for slippers, stands on the corner of a rectangular rock, poised on one toe; he grins over his left shoulder at Pitt, whom he expels from his posteriors. Pitt, his feet still confined, shoots down head first in a slanting direction, into the arms of Dundas (right), held out to receive him. He is fully dressed, wearing a bag-wig, and grotesquely thin, with a long neck. The head and arms of Dundas emerge from a corner of the roof of 'The Treasury'. In the lower left corner, opposite Dundas, are the heads and shoulders of Sheridan and Fox, looking up; each holds his nose. Fox says: "What a stinking breath he has got Sherry". Both grin, and both wear bonnets-rouges. 13 August 1797
Etching
- Production date
- 1797
- Dimensions
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Height: 351 millimetres
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Width: 246 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)
Pitt was called 'our Hell-born Minister' in a widely distributed inflammatory placard dated Norwich, 16 Oct. 1795. Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', p. 284. Cf. BMSat 9011.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6680
