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A keen-sighted politician finding out the British conquests.   (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 keen-sighted politician finding out the British conquests.
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 8659. Grenville seated in an ornate armchair peers near-sightedly at a map of 'The Globe' in two hemispheres which he holds up to his face. The eastern hemisphere, at which he is not looking, shows an exaggeratedly large tract of 'French Conquests'. His posteriors and legs, very solid in BMSat 8659, are thin. He sits before a light rectangular table on which are ink-stand and pens and two books, 'Court Calender' and 'Locke on Human Understanding' (as in BMSat 8659). On the wall are two pictures, the subjects merely indicated: 'The Treasury' (left) shows the arched gate and stone wall of many satires; 'Brittania Triumphant': Britannia seated with spear and shield. A patterned carpet completes the design.


Grenville fixes his attention on scarcely visible successes in the W. Indies, ignoring the French conquests in Europe. The 'Court Calender' and 'The Treasury' indicate eagerness for the perquisites of office, cf. BMSat 8061 (1792). 8 June 1795


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 330 millimetres
Width: 253 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1851,0901.738
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-738
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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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