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William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham

Also known as: William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham; primary name: Pitt, William; other name: (1st Earl of) Chatham
Details: individual; politician/statesman; British; Male
Life dates: 1708-1778
Biography: 1735, entered parliament as one of the "boy patriots" who gathered around Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham, and Frederick, Prince of Wales, in opposition to Robert Walpole. Encouraged bellicose pursuit of trading interests in the East and West Indies but opposed support of Hanover against the French in the War of Austrian Succession (1740-48). 1756, appointed Secretary of State and promoted the Seven Years War. 5 October 1761, forced to resign in favour of the Earl of Bute. 1766, created Earl of Chatham and served for two years as Lord Privy Seal (but effectively leading the Administration).

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Production date: 1844

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Museum number: 1901,1022.1655 |
Producer name: BIOG21802 Drawn by:Pryse Campbell |
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Museum number: 1891,1117.1863 |
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drawing

Museum number: 1901,1022.1656 |
Producer name: BIOG21802 Drawn by:Pryse Campbell |
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Museum number: 1901,0213.2 |
Producer name: Attributed to:John Singleton CopleyAttributed to:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1737-1815

drawing

Museum number: 1913,0528.19 |
Producer name: BIOG23600 Drawn by:John Singleton Copley |
Production date: 1737-1815

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1859,0806.426 |
Producer name: BIOG47520 Drawn by:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1755-1834

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Museum number: 1886,0111.33 |
Producer name: BIOG18084 Drawn by:John Bacon |
Production date: 1740-1799

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Museum number: 1886,0111.34 |
Producer name: BIOG18084 After:John Bacon |
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Museum number: 1887,0307,II.48 |
Producer name: BIOG68368 Factory of:Derby Porcelain Factory |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Factory in:Derby (Derbyshire)

intaglio

Museum number: 1887,0307,I.514 |
Producer name: BIOG81098 Factory of:Wedgwood & Bentley |
Production date: 1769-1780 |
Production place: Factory in:Etruria (England)

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Museum number: M.4722 |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

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Museum number: M.4828 |
Producer name: Designed by:John KirkAfter:Isaac Gosset |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

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Museum number: M.4721 |
Production date: 1766 |
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Museum number: M.4720 |
Producer name: BIOG113725 Designed by:Thomas Pingo |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

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Museum number: 1947,0607.172 |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

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Museum number: M.4796 |
Producer name: BIOG110742 Designed by:John Kirk |
Production date: 1773 |
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Museum number: M.4727 |
Producer name: BIOG113725 Designed by:Thomas Pingo |
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Museum number: M.8664 |
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Museum number: M.4719 |
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Museum number: 1906,1103.391 |
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Museum number: M.4718 |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

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Museum number: 1915,0701.1 |
Production date: 1759 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

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Museum number: M.4731 |
Producer name: BIOG113725 Designed by:Thomas Pingo |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

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Museum number: M.4723 |
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Museum number: M.4829 |
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Museum number: 1906,1103.394 |
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Museum number: SSB,228.10 |
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Museum number: M.8665 |
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Museum number: 1885,0310.3 |
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medallion

Museum number: 1895,0603.21 |
Cultures/periods: x41047 Post-Medieval |
Production date: 18thC |
Production place: Made in:Battersea

pamphlet

Museum number: 1865,1111.465 |
Producer name: Published by:William HonePublished by:Hone |
Production date: 1821 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

portrait medallion

Museum number: 1919,0305.4 |
Producer name: Factory of:WedgwoodModelled by:John Flaxman |
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portrait medallion

Museum number: 1909,1201.158 |
Producer name: Modelled by:John FlaxmanFactory of:Wedgwood |
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Title: Harlequin |
Museum number: 1855,0609.1942 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1768

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Title: Oliver Cromwell to honest Will Pat Esq |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4047 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1757

print; satirical print

Title: Chatham's ghost, or a peep into futurity. Che sara, sara |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4681 |
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Title: Iohn Bull in clover Iohn Bull done over |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.53 |
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print

Title: Earl of Chatham. |
Museum number: 1980,U.548 |
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print; satirical print

Title: A peep in the garden at Hayes |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4506 |
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print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.4397 |
Producer name: BIOG21802 Print made by:Pryse Campbell |
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print

Title: Lord Chatham |
Museum number: 1917,1208.938 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:John Henry Frederick Bacon |
Production date: 1779

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Camden Chatham |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9982 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1771

print; satirical print

Title: The Courier |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4366 |
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print

Title: The Right Honorable William Pitt. |
Museum number: 1891,0414.333 |
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Production date: 1837

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Museum number: 1868,0808.12406 |
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print; satirical print

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Museum number: 1906,0823.19 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: c.1750s

print; book-illustration

Title: Earl of Chatham. |
Museum number: 1866,1208.430 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1766-1778

print; book-illustration

Title: The Right Honble the Earl of Chatham seized with a fit in the House of Peers previous to his death |
Museum number: 1872,1109.153 |
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Production date: 1770-1800

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Title: The Operation |
Museum number: 1855,0609.1932 |
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Title: A family party. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13375 |
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print; satirical print

Title: Sic transit gloria mundi |
Museum number: 1904,0819.716 |
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Production date: 1762

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Museum number: 1865,0610.1109 |
Producer name: BIOG17911 Print made by:William Austin |
Production date: 1773

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Title: The Right Honble William Pitt, Esqr |
Museum number: 1902,1011.5172 |
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Production date: 1740-1767

print; book-illustration

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Museum number: Ee,5.62 |
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Production date: 1766-1776

print; book-illustration

Title: Guillaume Pitt Comte de Chatham / Garde du Sçeau privé d' Angleterre. |
Museum number: 1874,1010.219 |
Producer name: Print made by:Simon François Ravenet IAfter:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1757

print; book-illustration

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Museum number: 1871,1209.5332 |
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Production date: 1795

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1873,0510.3661 |
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Production date: 1764

print; satirical print

Title: Sic transit gloria mundi |
Museum number: 1940,0712.1 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print

Title: The Scotch Butt Or the English Archers |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4186 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The political cartoon for the year 1775 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10072 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1775

print; satirical print; puzzle-picture

Title: An Answer to Smoak the [rebus for 'Boot'] A Political, Satirical & Hieroglyphical Dialogue [rebus fo |
Museum number: 1871,0610.473 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1761

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Title: An extraordinary gazette, or the disapointed politicians. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4584 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1778

print

Museum number: Q,2.36 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Keyse SherwinAfter:Richard Brompton |
Production date: 1778

print; satirical print

Title: The Installation Feast |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4215 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1873,0510.3664 |
Producer name: BIOG21802 Print made by:Pryse Campbell |
Production date: 1763-1766

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1865,0114.523 |
Producer name: Print made by:Barend de BackerAfter:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1763

print; satirical print

Title: The Knights of Baythe, or the One Headed Corporation |
Museum number: Cc,3.44 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1763

print; satirical print

Title: The Great Financier, or British Oeconomy for the Years 1763, 1764, 1765 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4370 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1765

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Samson pulling down the Pillars |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9765 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1767

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: The anti-patriot: a satyrical poem |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5444 |
Producer name: BIOG166534 Published by:E Rich |
Production date: 1785

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.10092 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: c.1750s

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Janus |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9924 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770

print; satirical print

Title: The ganders addressing the lion, to have the elephant remov'd. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5161 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print; admission-ticket

Museum number: C,2.1817-1825 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1778-1817

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1895,1031.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jonathan SpilsburyAfter:Thomas Pingo |
Production date: 1778

print

Title: Mr Pitt Late Secretary of State |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2503 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1761-1777

print

Title: The Right Honourable William Pitt Esqr Paymaster General of His Majestys Forces... |
Museum number: 1902,1011.2685 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard HoustonAfter:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1754

print; satirical print

Title: The Claims of the Broad Bottom |
Museum number: J,1.165 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1743

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The Hydra |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9881 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770

print; satirical print

Title: The Triumvirate & the Maiden |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4243 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1762

print; book-illustration

Title: Earl of Chatham. |
Museum number: 1917,1208.3448 |
Producer name: BIOG31656 After:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1766-1778

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.12422 |
Producer name: BIOG21802 Print made by:Pryse Campbell |
Production date: 1764

print; satirical print

Title: Boney in possession of the millstone |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7151 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1803

print; book-illustration

Title: Death of the Earl of Chatham |
Museum number: 1978,U.1957 |
Producer name: After:John Singleton CopleyPrint made by:F F Walker |
Production date: 1836

print

Museum number: Q,2.35 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Keyse SherwinAfter:Richard Brompton |
Production date: 1778

print; satirical print

Title: The State of the Nation An Dom 1765 &c |
Museum number: J,1.47 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1765

print; satirical print

Title: The Jack-Boot, exalted |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4173 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print

Title: Iohn Bull in clover Iohn Bull done over |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8407 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1819

print; satirical print

Title: The Cat's Paw |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4392 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1766

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1906,0823.17 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: c.1750s

print; satirical print

Title: This is the Unembarass'd Countenance or, an Irish Post Face |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3818 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1746

print; satirical print

Title: Six medallions shewing the chief national servises of his new friends the old ministry | Inscribed t |
Museum number: 1849,1003.50 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1765

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