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An enquiry concerning the clock tax   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: George Moutard Woodward

Published by: S W Fores
Title
An enquiry concerning the clock tax
Description
English: Pitt (left) sits in profile to the right beside a writing-table, pen in hand; he looks up with dismay at a man (right) who approaches, hat in hand, holding up one leg to display his stocking. The visitor says: "Please your Honor - I am a Delegate - from the worthy and respectable Society of Hosiers, to know whether your Honor means to extend the Tax to Clocks upon Stockings." He holds his three-cornered hat; the stamp of the royal arms inside the crown shows that it has been taxed. Pitt holds a large 'Tax Pen'; his left hand rests on a scroll headed '[T]axes', the list incomplete: 'Shoe Strings Knee Strings Hair Strings Halte...'. A bundle of 'Tax Pens worn out' lies on the table. Other 'Tax Pens' stand in a large pot of 'Permanent Ink'. 9 August 1797
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 308 millimetres
Width: 219 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6652
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

For the clock tax see BMSat 9027. Pitt's dismay is probably due to the word 'Delegate', - then associated with the naval mutineers, see BMSat 9021.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6652
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