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A peep into Bethlehem.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
A peep into Bethlehem.
Description
English: Wolcot (Peter Pindar) and Burke (right) face each other across a small table on which are writing-materials. Burke, as in BMSat 7529, is naked to the waist and bare-legged, wearing a rosary round his neck; he declaims, with upraised right arm. Wolcot listens, elbows on table. Behind and between them stands Margaret Nicholson (see BMSat 6973, &c), crowned with straw, a bunch of straw clenched in each outstretched hand. Burke puts one foot on 'Ode upon Ode' (Wolcot's satire on George III, see BMSat 7163), the other on 'Rights of Man' (see BMSat 7867, &c.) and 'Common Sense' (cf. BMSat 8146). Wolcot sits on his '[Odes to Mr] Pain[e]'; beside him on the ground are his 'Lousiad' (see BMSat 7186) and '[Peter's] Pension' (see BMSat 7399). Beneath the design:



'Ah! then dismounted from his spavin'd hack,
To Bethlehem's walls with B***e I saw him borne,
Where the strait waistcoat close embrac'd his back;
While Peggy's wreath of straw, did either brow adorn,
And there they sit; two grinners, vis a vis;
He writing Grub-street Verse, B**'*e ranting rhapsody.
vide Melancholy Catastrophe by Peter Fig Esqr'
[cf. BMSat 7596, &c, on Peter Wheeler]. [?1793 [Perhaps earlier. Dated 1800 by Grego, but Burke died in 1797]]


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Depicted people Representation of: Edmund Burke
Date circa 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 242 millimetres
Width: 167 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.13145
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Probably a pl. to a book. Wolcot and Burke are associated as antagonists of Paine; the former's 'Odes to Mr. Paine' was published in 1791. Burke was depicted as insane in BMSat 7529 (1789); see also BMSats 7689, 7863.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 13.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-13145
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