print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1991,0720.28
- Title
- Object: The New State Coach setting out on the first Journey
- Description
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Political satire: Pitt is the coachman driving the "Union Fly" with Fox and another politician in harness over a road littered in boulders marked "Subsidies", "Income Tax", "War of Extermination" etc.; John Bull and his wife ride on the roof, lamenting the bumps and not getting a place inside, it being full of the coahman's friends; another man falls by the wayside with bundles of "Pickings" for himself and his family. May 1804
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1804
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 348 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The man who has fallen from the coach is probably Addington, and the politician in harness with Fox could be the Duke of ; for another impression of this print see 1985,0119.183
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1991
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1991,0720.28