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The Cat's Paw   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Cat's Paw
Description
English: Satire on William Pitt's return to office in 1766, suggesting that he is being manipulated by Lord Bute. An interior of a room with a blazing fire into which Bute, as a monkey with a plaid, encourages Pitt, as a cat, to reach for a chestnut (political office); the cat urinates. On the left, a group of English politicians and a bishop, beneath a "View of Chatham" with the setting sun, express their shock and dismay, but one of their number raises his arms in pleasure cries, "I'm Established" (this is presumably Lord Rockingham who supports the new ministry). On the right, a group of Scots delighted that they will obtain preferment gather around the Duke of Bedford; behind them is a "View of the Isle of Bute" with a rising sun. The chimney-piece is a crown with a thistle and white rose surrounded by a wreath of thorns.
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Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham
Date circa 1766
date QS:P571,+1766-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 176 millimetres (image)
Height: 244 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 338 millimetres (image)
Width: 348 millimetres (trimmed?)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4392
Notes

In fact Bute no longer had political influence by 1766, but it was alleged for many years that he was the secret power behind the throne.

For a 'sequel' to this print, see BM Satires 4161.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4392
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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