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A good-shot;-or-Billy-ranger, the game keeper, in a fine sporting country   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
A good-shot;-or-Billy-ranger, the game keeper, in a fine sporting country
Description
English: Grenville (left) stands in St. James's Park in profile to the right, firing a gun with a wide barrel at a group of winged money-bags, &c, flying in the upper right corner of the design, rising on smoke issuing from the chimneys of 'Buckingham House'. A pen in his round hat indicates his Secretaryship. Dead game hangs from his person: a hare whose body is a money-bag inscribed 'Secretaryship of State £7000 pr Ann.', a goose, whose similar body is inscribed 'Sinecures £9000pr Ann.', and two goslings, respectively 'Private Pension £4000' and '£3000 pr Ann.' The central bird at which he fires at close range is a winged document: 'Ranger of the Park'; winged bags are '75000 pr Ann', '3000 pr Ann', and '7000 pr Ann'. All these he hits. A winged ducal coronet is flying up towards the line of fire. A group of dogs with human faces surrounds him; they lick his boots, look up at him expectantly, or watch the shot; one has a collar inscribed 'Whitehall'. The southern part of the east front of Buckingham House fills the right part of the design. Behind Grenville are trees. Beneath the title is etched:



'"He shoots a good Shot; it will do a Mans heart good to see him; he will
"charge you & discharge you, with the motion of a Pewterers hammer; and "when he has his Game in View, he will about, & about, & come you in, &
"come you in; rah, tah, tah, will he say; & away again will he go, & again
"will he come; & round will he wheel! O! I shall never see such another "Fellow.' 1 February 1792


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 355 millimetres
Width: 252 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.581
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) On 13 Dec. 1791 Grenville succeeded Lord Orford in the sinecure post of Ranger and Keeper of St. James's and Hyde Parks, which he exchanged in 1794 for the more lucrative one of Auditor of the Exchequer. He had misgivings at taking the place, writing (7 Dec. 1791) of 'the degree of invidiousness and clamour which my receiving any new favour . . . would be subject to, especially at a moment when Government are rather under difficulties'. Buckingham, 'Court and Cabinets of George III', ii. 197. Cf. BMSat 8096.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 139. Wright and Evans, No. 83. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-581
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