print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1876,1014.20
- Title
- Object: Buy my pretty Guinea pigs!
- Description
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Fox, with the body of a pig or boar, stands in profile to the right holding a board on his head on which stand little pigs on their hind legs, with human heads. He is very fat and swarthy with a tail more like that of a lion than of a pig. Pitt is much the largest of the pigs on the board, he wears powdered hair with a bag, but has no tail. He is surrounded by other little pigs who appear to be dancing, much amused, all wearing powdered wigs. Fox sings:
"Here is a long tail Pig and a short tail Pig, and a Pig without ever A Tail
Here are Guinea Pigs and sucking Pigs with a remarkable pretty Guinea Pig that has never a Tail!" 1 July 1795
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 343 millimetres
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Width: 242 millimetres (corners missing)
- $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)
A satire on Pitt's hair-powder tax, see BMSat 8629, &c. For the guinea-pig see BMSat 8628. Cf. BMSat 8660.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1876,1014.20
