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A new Tenant for the old Room   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
A new Tenant for the old Room
Description
English: Satire on Nicholas Paxton, solicitor to the Treasury, and his refusal to answer questions from the Committee of Secrecy enquiring into the conduct of Robert Walpole; the right hand side of the print is an echo of the scene of John Myddelton in Newgate (BM Satire 2534). Paxton and a woman are escorted into Myddelton's former cell by a gaoler holding two large keys; Myddelton is glimpsed through the door as he departs. An empty chair faces a roaring fire above which is drawn a hanging man and the initials "R.T.".
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Depicted people Representation of: Nicholas Paxton
Date 1742
date QS:P571,+1742-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 167 millimetres (trimmed)
Width: 243 millimetres (trimmed to image)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3689
Notes

See also BM Satires 2543 and 2544.

Stephens suggests that the initials "R.T." stand for the highwayman Richard Turpin who was hanged in 1739
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3689
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