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The new paper mill or Mr Bull ground into 20 shilling notes   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The new paper mill or Mr Bull ground into 20 shilling notes
Description
English: Pitt (left), grotesquely caricatured, turns the handle of a mill while John Bull in the hopper above his head shrieks despairingly "O! my poor wife and Children! Murder Murder!!!" Large tears splash from his eyes. Pitt looks up at him, saying, "Ha Ha, Johnny your not half grown down yet." The mill is inscribed 'By Royal Authority'. A label (left) containing the words of an invisible speaker (the King) projects into the design: "What! What, what does he cry out already why hes not half grown down yet!" From the spout of the mill (right) notes pour out, inscribed '20 shilling Notes, 20 shilling', or '20'. These are 'For the People'. Near Pitt is a large sack: 'Specie for our own use'. Dundas (right), in Highland dress, runs off to the right with a large sack of 'Specie for Wimbledon'. He says: "Grind away Billy! my boy! I shall soon be back for tother load! Grind away Billy!" 12 March 1797
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Depicted people Portrait of: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 349 millimetres (damaged)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6607
Notes

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

For the stoppage of gold payments see BMSat 8990, &c. The issue of £1 and £2 notes was authorized by an Act passed 3 Mar. 1797. Cf. BMSats 8654, 9025, 9400 where Pitt and Dundas, encouraged by George III, exploit John Bull.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6607
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