File:The dog tax. (BM J,3.84).jpg
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The dog tax.
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Print made by: James Gillray
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The dog tax. |
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| Description |
English: Two dogs with human faces hang from a gibbet inscribed 'not Paid for'; two others stand beneath, looking up at them with complacent triumph, these are 'To be Paid for'. The gibbet is formed of two uprights with a cross-bar. The pendent dogs who face each other in profile with expressions of despair are Sheridan (left) and Fox (right); their necks are linked by a chain. Fox has a fox's brush (as in BMSat 8796). He urinates upon Dundas who is immediately beneath him, facing Pitt. Dundas is a fat mongrel, Pitt a lean greyhound (as in BMSat 8797). 12 April 1796
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1796 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
J,3.84 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) The dog tax was proposed by Dent on 5 Apr. and accepted with alterations by Pitt, for 'the dogs of the opulent'. See 'Parl. Hist.' xxxii. 994-1006. It was operative from 6 July. See BMSats 8796, 8797, 8802, 8803, 8840, 9017*, 9195. Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 201-2. Wright and Evans, No. 145. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, 'Social England', ed. Traill, 1904, v. 649. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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