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Cicero in Catilinam   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Sayers

Published by: Thomas Cornell
Title
Cicero in Catilinam
Description
English: A scene in the House of Commons. Pitt stands by the table in back view, right arm held out, his head turned to address Fox. Fox (right) and North are seated on the front Opposition bench; Fox, wearing his hat and holding a stick, bites his fingers and turns his head away from Pitt, looking sulky and abashed. North, his forehead puckered in a frown, conceals his face behind a paper on which he is writing. The Speaker, Cornwall, stands (left) in profile to the right; below him the Clerks of the House, John Hatsell, Clerk (left), and John Ley, Clerk Assistant (right), are seated at the table. Beneath the title is etched:



"Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu etiam"
"furor iste tuus nos eludet? &c &c". 17 March 1785


Etching
Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt the Younger Charles James Fox
Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 347 millimetres
Width: 287 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5424
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Perhaps an allusion to the dispute between Pitt and Fox on 9 Mar., in a debate on the Scrutiny, when Pitt accused Fox of 'speaking of the recently elected House with the most insolent contempt and invective', and was restrained by the Speaker from quoting the words of another member spoken in a former debate. 'Parl. Hist.' xxv. 140, 142. For Fox as Catiline cf. BMSat 6426, 7492, 8067, 8072.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5424
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