File:Billy's Blossoms addressed to the addressers (BM J,4.26).jpg
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editBilly's Blossoms addressed to the addressers
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Print made by: William Dent
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Title |
Billy's Blossoms addressed to the addressers |
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Description |
English: Pitt stands erect, each hand in a large sack full of coins which leans against him. From his head extend branches covered with large flowers which fill more than half the design. A blast inscribed 'Vox Populi' is directed at them causing their leaves to flutter to the ground. The stomach of Pitt, who is very thin, is inscribed 'Poverty'; the sacks are (left) 'Fruit for Family Use' and (right) 'Fruit, 60,000 Annual'. The branches are inscribed 'Pride', 'Presumption', 'Obstinacy', and 'Petulance'. The flowers are: 'Fortifications' (BMSat 6921, &c), 'Tax on Maids' (BMSat 6794, &c), 'Tax on Farmers' (cf. BMSat 6672), 'Coalition with Dundas', 'Manchester Fustian Duty', 'Stamp Duties' (BMSat 6914, &c), 'Tax on Windows', 'Commutation' (BMSat 6634, &c), 'Test Act' (cf. BMSat 7628, &c), 'French Treaty' (a fleur-de-lis) (BMSat 6995, &c), 'Irish Propositions' (BMSat 6785, &c), 'Standing Army', 'Four Regiments', 'Declaratory Bill' (BMSat 7280, &c), 'A Landman First Lord Building at the Admiralty' (Chatham had succeeded Howe, cf. BMSat 7482), 'Shop Tax' (BMSat 6798, &c), 'Reform neglected' (BMSat 6478, &c), 'Scrutiny' (BMSat 6553, &c), 'Excise Law', 'Peerage' (BMSat 6631, &c), 'Dissolution' (BMSat 6476, &c), 'Flag Promotion' (BMSat 7126, &c), 'Regency' (BMSat 7382, &c), 'Patronage', 'India Controul' (BMSat 7152, &c). Some of the flowers have formed fruit, some of which has fallen to the ground: 'Pension', with leaves inscribed 'Watson's Windfall' (BMSat 6965, &c), and 'Pension', the leaves inscribed 'Carleton's Windfall' (ibid.). Other fruit on the ground is 'Sinecures', 'Gratuities', and '12,000'. Beneath the title is etched 'Addressed to the Addressers'. 8 January 1789
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Depicted people | Representation of: William Pitt the Younger | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1789 date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
J,4.26 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A catalogue of the ways in which Pitt was supposed to have incurred unpopularity, the Regency question (see BMSat 7377, &c.) taking a significantly obscure position. At this time addresses to Pitt thanking him for supporting the right of Parliament in the establishment of a regency were pouring in (e.g. Glasgow 24 Dec, Leicester 1 Jan., Southampton and Maidstone 3 Jan. 'London Chronicle', and the Common Council, Sharpe, 'London and the Kingdom', iii. 213-15). See BMSats 7392, 7482, 7483, 7488, 7489, 7495. Pitt's popularity was undoubted, 'the general run of the country being strongly with Mr Pitt. . .'. 'Auckland Correspondence', ii. 267. (Supplementary information) Pasted on the verso is a slip of paper with "Hon.W.Pitt" in the hand of Sarah Banks, registered as J.4-222 (but not entered on computer) |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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