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[edit]A new way of posting a libel
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A new way of posting a libel |
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| Description |
English: An obese bill-sticker stands in profile to the right posting up with a long-handled implement a bill: 'Five Hundred Pounds Reward Wheras------ -------' Under his arm is a rolled bill. He wears a cocked hat and bag-wig, with a large apron. On the receptacle for paste slung from his shoulder is a coat of arms with the motto 'Templa quam dilecta' and a marquis's coronet. He says: "There it is in capitals, - the Libel at full length, and five hundred pounds reward - he that runs may read, I think I shall be a match for the Ghost!!" Other adjacent bills are inscribed: 'In the Dead of Night a new Song'; 'O Dear what can the matter be', and 'Theatre Royal Good Natur'd Man Part of Croaker by------Farse of the Alarmist'. 23 November 1795
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| Depicted people | Associated with: George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1795 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0612.1250 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Although the arms are incorrect, they are intended for those of the Marquis of Buckingham, who is the bill-poster. He writes, 13 Nov. 1795, of an 'impudent forgery' published in the 'True Briton', signed Nugent Buckingham, offering £500 reward 'for a paltry libel upon the whole race of Grenvilles, which I would not have given 5 farthings to have kept out of every newspaper'. 'Hist. MSS. Comm., Dropmore MSS.', iii. 146. The play-bill allusions seem directed against the Treason and Sedition Bills, see BMSat 8687, &c. The (correct) motto is that of the Grenvilles. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0612-1250 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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