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[Envy.]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[Envy.]
Description
English: A serpent with a human head, having satyr's ears, rises on its tail which issues from an inverted earl's coronet. The body is coiled in a horizontal figure of eight, the head is in profile to the right, glaring fiercely, words issuing from the mouth in a blast: 'let the Minority go to the Bell'. No title, above the design:



'All human Virtue to its latest breath
Finds Envy never conquered but by death' 11 February 1796 [So dated by Miss Banks; presumably the date or purchase]


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 229 millimetres
Width: 189 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,4.4
Notes

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

Perhaps a satire on the Earl of Abingdon, eccentric and reputed foolish, who opposed the Treason and Sedition Bills, see BMSat 8687, &c. There is some resemblance to Abingdon, none to the leading Opposition peers. No debate in the Lords is reported in the 'Parl. Hist.' between 2 Dec. 1795 and 4 Mar. 1796. Cf. BMSat 8520.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-4
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