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A permanent piece/peace on a firm basis   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: J (or W) Dickie
Title
A permanent piece/peace on a firm basis
Description
English: Pitt lies on the ground face downwards, having fallen from an overturned rectangular pedestal (right). This is inscribed 'Plaster of Paris', and has the inscription: 'Erected in Honor of a Treaty of Commerce and Friendship between two Rivals Nations'. He has been overthrown by a blast inscribed 'Amsterdamers Gale'. His body is 'British Brass'. A torn scroll hangs above his head: 'Plan for paying off the national Debt'; torn fragments inscribed 'Peace Establishment' lie on the ground. Under his left arm is a document: 'French Treaty, or a long and lasting Peace secured by reciprocal Advantages'. A torn paper is inscribed 'System of Treaties'. Beneath the title is etched:



'Alas, Poor Billy! - I know him well Britannia; a fellow of infinite Vanity, of most consummate Conceit; he hath sworn a thousand times to the goodness of his Treaty of Amity and Commerce; and now, how easily a Dutch Squall overturns it - Here hang those lips that have deceived I know not how oft. Where be your reciprocal advantages, your lasting Peace, your French Faith, and where your Gibes that were wont to set your Boys on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grining? quite chop-fallen? - Now get ye to your Juvenile Crew, and tell them that however they strut and brag inexperience to this must come! make them laugh at that --- --- ---
Parody from Hamlet by Publico -' 12 October 1787


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Depicted people Associated with: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 167 millimetres
Width: 245 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5659
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

The print misrepresents the situation: Prussian intervention backed by promises of support from England had already (by September) been successful in the United Provinces. England was the chief gainer, and France, by passively accepting intervention after her undertakings to the Patriots in Holland, was discredited. The result was a personal triumph for Pitt. Rose, 'Pitt and National Revival', p. 381. 'Camb. Hist. of British Foreign Policy', i. 175. See BMSat 7172, &c. For the French treaty see BMSats 6995, &c.; for the Sinking Fund, BMSat 7551, &c. The design appears to be imitated from BMSat 6365.
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