File:(Association meeting at York) (BM 1868,0808.4671).jpg
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Title |
[Association meeting at York] |
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Description |
English: A representation, partly allegorical,of the meeting of the Association at York on 30 Dec. 1779 when the petition of the county was agreed to and a committee of sixty-one appointed. Men sit and stand in ranks on each side of a large table strewn with documents; though on a small scale, many appear to be portraits. On a raised dais at the back of the room three women sit behind a smaller table, each with a document, one holds an olive branch. They are identified by Mr. Hawkins, evidently from a contemporary key to the print, as Civil Union, Moderation, and Harmony influencing the conduct of the meeting. Athene, with her spear, an owl on her helmet, holds out to them a scroll inscribed "Constitution Liberty Peace Œconomy", the primary objects of the meeting. The chairman [Christopher Wyvill] holds in his hand a paper inscribed "York Decr 30th 1779". On the table are books: "Ct Kal 1779, Ct Kal 1780", i.e. the Court or 'Royal Kalendar' giving lists of office-holders and place-holders; "Hist. of England, [Probably that of Mrs Macaulay] Bacon, Lydney [sic. i.e. Sydney], Newton, Lock". Documents are inscribed "Partiat Cont [presumably 'partial contracts'] M.S. &A".; "Unmeri[ted] Pentio[ns], Sinecures"; "Magna Charter"; "Bill of Rights"; "Navy Extra[ordinaries]"; "Army Extr."; "Board of Trade"; "Board of Works"; "Customs Qys N.B. x"; "Ordnance Qys NB. xx".
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Depicted people | Representation of: William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1780 date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4671 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The print is also an approving comment on Burke's great speech of 11 Feb. 1780 on his 'Plan of Economical Reform' in which he made a panegyric on the finance of Necker and urged the abolition of (inter alia) the Board of Works, Board of Trade, and Board of Ordnance. 'Parl. Hist.' xxi. 1-74. See also BMSat 5644, 5645, 5662. For the Yorkshire Association see BMSat 5638, &c. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4671 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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