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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
"Pity the sorrows of a poor man".Vide, Scene in Bloomsbury Square
Description
English: Burke (left) as a shambling beggar, holds out his hat towards the Duke of Bedford who looks between the folding gates of Bedford House, holding one side to keep them almost closed. Their words float upwards from their mouths: Burke says: ""Pity the Sorrows of a poor old Man, add a trifle to what has been bestowed by Ministry to stop my Complaints: - O give me opportunity of recanting once more! - Ah! remember me in your Golden Dreams! - great Leviathan of liberty, let me but play & frolick in the Ocean of your royal Bounty, & I will be for ever your Creature; - my Hands, - Brains, - my Soul & Body, - the very Pen through which I have spouted a torrent of Gall against my original Friends, and cover'd you all over with the Spray, every thing of me, & about me, shall be yours - dispence but a little of your Golden store to a desolate Old Man". Bedford says: "Hark'ee, old double Face, - its no use use [sic] for you to stand Jawing there, if you gull other people, you won't bother us out a single Shilling, with all your canting-rant, - no, no, it wo'nt do, old Humbug! - let them bribe you, who are afraid of you, or want your help, - your Gossip wont do here: -"


Burke wears the red and blue of the Windsor uniform, his dress is tattered, one foot protrudes through his shoe. In his right hand is a sheaf of broadsides: 'Last Dying Speech of Old Honesty the Jesuit' [cf. BMSat 6026, &c.]. On his back is a sack inscribed '£4000 pr Annum' indicating his two pensions. From his back protrudes a book inscribed 'Reflections upon Political Apostacy'. The design is framed by the stone gateway of Bedford House, each side surmounted by a sphinx (cf. BMSat 8639). 25 February 1796


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 348 millimetres
Width: 245 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6505
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A satire on Burke's 'Letter to a Noble Lord', published Feb. 1796, see BMSat 8788, &c, on his former position as the pen and brains of the Whigs, and on his supposed apostasy, a favourite theme of Gillray, see BMSat 7865 (1791), &c. For his pensions see BMSat 8654, &c. For Bedford's wealth cf. BMSat 8783.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 200. Wright and Evans, No. 144. Reprinted, 'G. W. G.', 1830. Reproduced, Magnus, 'Edmund Burke', 1939, p. 273.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6505
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