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[Frontispiece from an unidentified pamphlet.]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[Frontispiece from an unidentified pamphlet.]
Description
English: A circle enclosing emblems of liberty and reform is surrounded by symbols of oppression., Liberty, holding her cap on a staff, points to a column inscribed '561 Free and unbought Votes'. She stands under a tree whose fruits are: 'Religious Liberty', 'Universal Suffrage', and 'Annual Parliaments']. Large volumes at her feet are: 'Rights of Man' (see BMSat 7867, &c), 'Godwins Political Justice' (see BMSat 9240), and 'Thelwals Lectures' (see BMSat 8685, &c). The sun is rising. Beneath the circle are four lines signed 'P. Pindar', beginning:



'Wide was the sphere of Ignorance, alas!
And faint, too faint, of Truth's young Sun the ray;'

The King's head, in profile to the left, emerges from behind the upper rim of the circle; his crown covers his eyes, and chains are attached to it which, after encircling the neck of a bishop (left) and Pitt (right), hang down on the left and right margins of the design. The bishop (left) says "From Plague, Pestilence & Famine from Battle & Murder & Sudden Death"; Pitt (right) adds "Good Lord deliver us". Documents are attached to the chain (left to right): 'Spies & Informers'; 'National Debt 400 000 000'; 'Trea[son] & Sedition Bills' (see BMSat 8687, &c); 'America 100 000 000' (presumably losses due to the American war, see vol. vi); 'Slave Trade' (see BMSat 7848, &c.); 'Ock[za]kow' (see BMSat 7841, &c); 'Nootka Sound' (see BMSat 7645, &c); 'Barracks'; 'rainian [sic] & Prussian Subsidies' (see BMSat 8821, &c); 'Just & Necessary War 100 000 000' (see BMSat 8599); 'Secret Se[rvice]'. Two piles of books form, with the chains, a border to the design and a support for the Bishop and Pitt. The former pile is headed by the '[H]oly Bible', below which are: 'Book of Mart[yrs]', 'Fast Sermon', 'France A Warning', 'Breslaw Deception', 'Divin[e] Rig[ht of Kings]'. Pitt supports his elbows on 'Burkes Refl[ections]' (see BMSat 7675, &c), beneath which are 'Sublime & Beau[tiful]', 'Reaves & Co', (see BMSat 8699), 'Works', 'Ar Youngs Works', 'Fast Service', 'Divine Right of Kings', 'On Just & Nec[essary] War'. Two youths (half length) gaze upwards; one (left) says: "Ah! Billy when thou hast famish'd us thou dost right to lock up our mouths" (see BMSat 8693, &c); the other (right): "Poor George thou'rt as much enslav'd as thy People."
Beneath is an oval design of a mob standing on the edge of water in which two men are being ducked. One asks "What's amiss"; two men who mishandle their victim answer: [1] "Amiss why the Rascal presumes to think for himself"; [2] "Killing not Murder". One of the crowd shouts: "Church & King for ever"; another: "More good news". In the background are (left) a large church flying a flag, and burning buildings. Beneath:
'And they offered burnt Offerings & heave Offerings to their Gods, the Gods of Slavery, & many fell a Sacrifice.
And the Burden was heavy on the People.' 1798?


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Depicted people Associated with: Philip Breslaw
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 149 millimetres
Width: 108 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1879,1109.195
Notes

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

The views expressed are those of the Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) and similar bodies. The position of the Bible suggests an irreligious attitude which is exceptional (though widespread according to W. H. Reid, 'Rise and Dissolution of the Infidel Societies . . .', 1800; cf. BMSat 8697), and whose expression was vetoed by Place and the leaders of the movement. For Reeves's activities see BMSat 8699, &c. Breslaw was a conjuror who published books on 'deceptions'; his 'Last Legacy . . .' was 1784. Arthur Young wrote 'Example of France a Warning to Britain', 1793, and similar but less important works in 1795 and 1797. For Fasts ordered by Proclamation see BMSat 8428, &c. Pitt is (ignorantly or factiously) pilloried for the Nootka Sound Convention, see BMSat 7687. For 'Barracks' see BMSat 8805.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1879-1109-195
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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