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Sturdy Beggars or Supported by Involuntary Contribution   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Sturdy Beggars or Supported by Involuntary Contribution
Description
English: A very fat 'John Bull', surrounded by suppliants, stands full-face, larger in scale than the other figures and forming the centre of the design. He is in shirt-sleeves, his hands deep in his breeches pockets; he looks sideways at Pitt, his face wrinkled in suspicious calculation. Pitt (right) kneels, hat in hand, in profile to the left, extending a (patched) hat for alms: "Consider Johnny it is not for myself I beg but for a Great Family your Charity!" On the extreme right is the monstrous profile of George III with a hand holding out a hat; he says: "Hay! Hay! a large Family a very large Family. John." [Cf. BMSat 8661.] John answers Pitt: "What would you strip me you unconcinable fellow! why you wont leave me a bed to lye on! consider the hard Times Billy! nothing stirring Starvation is the order of the day!!!" Dundas (left), in Highland dress, kneels in profile to the right, holding out his Scots cap in both hands; he says: "The Flat melts a little more gammon Billy theres an Abraham Newland [bank-note, cf. BMSat 7839] peeping out already." The Duke of Clarence, behind Dundas, wearing sailor's trousers, says "I shall be in a Pretty Pickle [cf. BMSat 7835, &c] if I get none of your charity". Fox's head projects into the design from the left margin, saying, "When you are in suspicious company Johny Keep your Hands in your Pockets" [these are evidently well filled]. 13 October 1797
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Portrait of: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 344 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6657
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

A satire on the Loyalty Loan, opened Dec. 1796, the first instalment being payable on 31 Oct. 1797. It had fallen to a heavy discount, entailing loss on the subscribers. See BMSat 8842, &c. Addington's suggestion of a legalized voluntary contribution was not made till 4 Dec. 'Pickle' is an allusion to Mrs. Jordan.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6657
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