File:Black Harry (BM 1868,0808.10014).jpg
Original file (1,063 × 1,600 pixels, file size: 465 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
editBlack Harry ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Title |
Black Harry |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: The knave of a pack of cards facing left. with the head of the Duke of Grafton. In his right. hand he holds an arrow. An anchor inscribed "Bradshaw" lies diagonally across his person. 1 August 1772
Etching |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Representation of: Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1772 date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
1868,0808.10014 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Political Register', xi. 1. This is an allusion to the appointment of Thomas Bradshaw, a Treasury Clerk, as a Lord of the Admiralty in succession to Charles Fox on 6 May 1772. An anonymous letter in the 'Public Advertiser', 8 May 1772, addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty and transcribed by Walpole, explains the intention of this satire: "... by means of his uncommon address in administering to the pleasures of the great, he was appointed one of the Secretaries of the Treasury, which office he held during the Duke of Grafton's administration, and by exerting his happy talents between his Grace and the celebrated Nancy Parsons, he so far ingratiated himself with the Duke that he became his chief confidant, . . . and of course became his Grace's bosom friend; for which service he first received a pension of fifteen hundred pounds a year for three lives, and that not being sufficient is now made one of you...". Walpole's comment is, "The Duke of Grafton's ambition was to be at the head of the Admiralty, and he had insisted on Bradshaw being placed at the Board as a spy on Lord Sandwich, and to learn the business, that he might be his Grace's Secretary there, if he could obtain the command". 'Last Journals', 1920, i. 109-10. Cf. Grafton, 'Autobiography', ed. Anson, 1898, pp. 258-63. Bradshaw, like Dyson, was one of the official M.P.'s who were singled out for distrust and abuse. Cf. Mason, 'Heroic Epistle', 'The R*g*ys,------s, Mungos, B*------ds*s there' [Rigbys, Calcrafts. . ..], and 'Letters of Junius', ed. Everett, 1927, pp. 153, 269. See Walpole, 'Memoirs of the Reign of George III', 1894, iv. 45-6 and n. See also BMSat 4962, 5018. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
Licensing
editThis image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag. Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag. |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 19:58, 9 May 2020 | 1,063 × 1,600 (465 KB) | Copyfraud (talk | contribs) | British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1772 #3,495/12,043 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Orientation | Normal |
---|---|
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 |
File change date and time | 12:55, 14 September 2005 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |