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A journey to York. A journey to Weymouth.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Anonymous

Published by: William Holland (?)
Title
A journey to York. A journey to Weymouth.
Description
English: A design in two compartments, one above the other, contrasting the reception of the Prince of Wales in York with the (imaginary) reception of Pitt on a visit to the King at Weymouth.


[1] The Prince's travelling chaise is being dragged (right to left) through the streets by an enthusiastic crowd. The Prince and a companion are seen within the chaise, on the door are the Prince's feathers and 'G.P.' On the left the corporation in their robes wait to receive the Prince, the mayor indicated by his chain; one man holds the civic mace, another a flag inscribed 'Long Live Britannia's future hope'. One of the crowd waves a Union flag inscribed 'The Prince & old England for ever'. Behind the chaise the crowd is headed by a man holding a large flag inscribed:

'Success to the Howards
- Russells
- Percies [Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland, at first a supporter of Pitt, took the Foxite side in the Regency crisis (as one of the 'armed neutrality') and was offered office by Fox. 'D.N.B.' The other names are those of Whig families except for Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, a supporter of the Coalition who, though a friend of Fox, had been in North's ministry.]
- Cavendishes
- Benticks
- Spencers and Earl Fitzwilliam'

The horses from the chaise, one ridden by a postilion, are led by the cheering crowd.
[2] Pitt's carriage, driving headlong (left to right), is attacked by an angry crowd with axes; one horse falls to the ground; a bystander, pointing at Pitt, who leans in terror from the carriage, says, "The Ax ought to be differently employed, he borrows two Millions, to pay off one - Damn his Finance and Excise." A company of firemen (left) direct a hose upon Pitt's head; two women empty chamber-pots upon him from a window. A woman shouts to them "That's right my Girls shower your blessings on him He will by & by excise all he dislikes about You." On the extreme right a gallows bestrides the road, a noose hanging from it; a man on its cross-bar exclaims: "Bring him to me & I'll pay off the National debt This is what the Country owes him." Men stand below with pikes. In the background (left) is the sea with a ship at anchor (partly concealed by buildings); her Union flag is lowered. c. August 1789


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Depicted people Associated with: William Wenthworth Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl of Fitzwilliam
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 256 millimetres
Width: 325 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5880
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) [1] The Prince's visit to York was the occasion of a Whig demonstration. He arrived at York race-ground on 24 Aug. in Earl Fitzwilliam's carriage, from which the horses had been taken: 'they were drawn in by the populace with great éclat', 'London Chronicle', 27 Aug. On 25 Aug. the Corporation (Mayor T. Hartley) presented him with the freedom of the City and with an address praising his conduct during the Regency crisis (see BMSat 7377, &c.). Ibid., 29 Aug.; Huish, 'Memoirs of George IV', 1831, i. 240-2. [2] Pitt is attacked for his chastity, for his excise, see BMSat 7545, &c, and for the Sinking Fund which was established in 1786, see BMSats 6915, 6960, 7135, 7175, 7842, 7871. See Rose, 'Pitt and National Revival', pp. 188-95. Pitt visited the King at Weymouth on Cabinet business in August. 'Hist. MSS. Comm., Dropmore Papers', i. 488-9.

As pointed out in an email from David Alexander (17/02/09) this print was probably published by William Holland as it is listed as having just been published on The High Road to Preferment, 26 Sept 1789 (BM Sat 7556).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5880
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