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John Bull troubled with the blue devils.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

After: George Moutard Woodward
Published by: S W Fores
Title
John Bull troubled with the blue devils.
Description
English: John Bull (left), elderly and shrunken, sits before his fire, in shirt-sleeves, night-cap, and slippers, gazing terror-stricken at the swarm of demons which advance upon him in a cloud of smoke from the fire. The largest, with bull's horns and a dagger in each hand, is 'Tax on Income'. The 'Additional House Tax' threatens him with its claws; the 'Hair Powder Tax' is a virago, the 'Tax on Windows' an owl; the 'Tax on Tea' has a tea-pot for body, the 'Tax on Salt' is a bird, the 'Wine Tax' has the head of an ass and the body of a bottle. These are accompanied by smaller fantastic winged creatures. A cat sleeps by the fire (right). 23 May 1799
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 387 millimetres
Width: 226 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1935,0522.11.197
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For the Income Tax see BMSat 9363, &c, for tea and windows BMSat 6634, &c, for hair-powder BMSat 8629, &c., the wine tax BMSat 8798, &c. The tax on salt was raised in 1798 from 5s. to 10s. a bushel. Cf. BMSats 8745, 9553 (a sequel). Probably the basis of G. Cruikshank's more elaborate 'The Blue Devils - !!', 10 Jan. 1823. Reid, No. 1162.

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Formerly in an album; a print by George Cruikshank (1935,0522.11.196) is mounted on the verso
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-11-197
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