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Two to One, an attempt to outwit the young pawnbroker   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
Two to One, an attempt to outwit the young pawnbroker
Description
English: Pitt, in profile to the left, stands behind the counter of a pawnbroker's shop; he hands to an exultant Jew a paper inscribed '4000'; a large sack stands on the counter between them. The Jew says: "As mush above Four Tousand as you pleash, and dere vos de costs, precious stones in de rough, but no rubbish, by Cot a mighty - is dere Moses?" The second Jew also stands in profile to the right, his hands raised in deprecatory affirmation; he answers: "No, I vos Swear dat." Both are bearded and wear low wide-brimmed hats. A stout man advances from the left, carrying a pyramid of three tea-chests on his head; he says: "They wont know Sloe Leaves from Bohea." In the background under an arched doorway a fashionably dressed cloth-merchant carrying his rolls of stuff addresses a man in Highland dress (left) with a roll of material under his arm: "Do you think they will measure every Yard of my Cloth?" The Scot answers: "Yes, but my stuff will do for I have a bonny friend [Dundas] to Speak for me." In the shop window are three balls, 'Money Lent', and various objects. Above Pitt's head are shelves on which are a bellows, warming-pan, &c. c.May 1793
Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 247 millimetres
Width: 350 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.6295
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Probably a satire on Pitt's loan, see BMSat 8325. Lord King was an almost silent supporter of the Government.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6295
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