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A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination   (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 warming his imagination
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 8656. Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book inscribed: 'Fundamental Principles of Government for 1795', at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, his left hand in his breeches pocket. On the chimney-piece lie two books: 'Court Cookery' and 'Locke on Human Understanding'. Hanging above it is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent' on which confused scrawls are depicted. On the back wall (left) is a bracket supporting a bowl of gold-fish, above which is a picture of the 'Treasury Bench': three Ministers seated as if in Parliament, in back view with their coats drawn aside to show their bulky posteriors; the wall of the Treasury forms a background. Beneath the title is etched in two columns:



'"Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head;
"What plenteous stores of knowledge may contain
"The spacious tenement of Pogy's brain!
"Nature in all her dispensations wise,
"Who form'd his head-piece of so vast a size,
Hath not, 'tis true, neglected to bestow
Its due proportion on the part below;
And hence we reason, that to serve the state
His top & bottom, may have equal weight."' 13 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
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,3.3
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A satire on Grenville's eagerness for lucrative office, and on the failures of the continental campaigns of 1794-5, as in BMSat 8656. Grenville was noted for the heaviness of his posteriors, here caricatured. See BMSat 9569.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 191; Wright and Evans, No. 129. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-3
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