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Noah's ark improved, or an attempt to land in the teeth of the wind.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Noah's ark improved, or an attempt to land in the teeth of the wind.
Description
English: A man stands in the bows of a small boat which is attempting to land on the sea-shore at a point where there is a notice board: 'No Landing Place Here'. Two fat bishops (right) stand on the shore blowing violent blasts towards the boat, making the breakers roll backwards from the shore; one wears a mortar-board cap, the other a mitre. The boat flies a large flag inscribed 'Revolution Cutter'. Its occupant, Lord Stanhope, who is in profile to the right, stretches out a stick towards the bishops, clenching his left fist; from his pocket protrudes a paper inscribed 'fifteen Ways to Plague a Parson'. Behind him (left) in the boat are three sacks, inscribed respectively, 'Shot N° 1. Tithes in Kind'; 'Shot N° 2. Penal Laws. How to discover a Witch. No Evil Spirits to be fed with Animal Food'; and 'Shot N° 3. No Person to cut off the ears of his Majesty's Subjects No Person to cast out Devils without a Licence'. 3 April 1790
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 253 millimetres

Width: 351 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5925
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

The print illustrates the comprehensive Toleration Bill which Stanhope introduced on 18 May 1789, 'to relieve members of the Church of England from sundry Penalties and Disabilities'. See G. Stanhope and G. P. Gooch, 'Life of Charles Third Earl Stanhope', 1914, pp. 82 ff. 'Parl. Hist.' xxviii. 102 ff., 131-3, 214-18. For Stanhope and bishops cf. BMSat 7539, &c.; and the Repeal of the Test Act, BMSat 7629; and the Revolution Society and the French Revolution, BMSat 7889, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5925
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