print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7214
- Title
- Object: The honest- private and great-colonel
- Description
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Pitt dressed as a volunteer officer, drills Fox and Sheridan, who stand at attention, holding muskets. Pitt, in back view, turns his head to Fox (1.) and points with his sabre, held horizontally, to Sheridan (r.). Fox stands correctly, Sheridan raises his right. arm above his head and grins broadly. Pitt says: "Keep your Eye upon the Corporal Mr Honesty and when I have drilled you to my likeing perhaps I may take you under my command Mr Honesty". Fox says: "I do I do great Colonel I shall mind my Manoeuvres Great Colonel." The scene is the open country. 21 November 1803
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Width: 255 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', VIII, 1947)
Probably an allusion to the manoeuvres in progress for Pitt's return to office with a Ministry in which Fox and members of his party should be eluded; see BMSat 10127 (a sequel). Sheridan's rank, gesture, and expression seem to register eagerness for office at all costs, but may indicate only his 'tude to the volunteers, see BMSat 10082. For Pitt as Volunteer see BMSat 10113, &c. In the speeches at the Lord Mayor's banquet on 9 Nov. much praise was given to the volunteers.
Broadley, i. 204. Reproduced, Wheeler and Broadley, ii. 140.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7214
