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Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis.   (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
Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis.
Description
English: Pitt steers a small boat, 'The Constitution', with a single sail, a Union pennant flying from the mast, through huge waves between a high rock (left) and a whirlpool whose circumference is an inverted crown which merges in the swirling water. He is in profile to the right, gazing fixedly at a castle on a promontory (right) among still waters, which flies a flag inscribed 'Haven of Public Happiness'. Britannia, a buxom young woman, sits in the boat, her hands raised in alarm, her head turned towards the rock, on the summit of which is a large bonnet-rouge with a tricolour cockade on a post within a ramshackle fence. Spray dashes against Scylla; beside the rock and in the foreground (left) three sharks with human heads closely pursue Pitt's boat: Sheridan, Fox, and Priestley (good profile portraits), their eyes fixed menacingly on the boat. They are: 'Sharks'; 'Dogs of Scylla'. Beneath the title: 'or - The Vessel of the Constitution steered clear of the Rock of Democracy [cf. BMSat 8310], and the Whirlpool of Arbitrary-Power.' 8 April 1793
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 304 millimetres
Width: 356 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
J,3.12
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For the enthusiasm for the Constitution see BMSat 8287, &c. For the Opposition Whigs, cf. BMSat 8315. An anticipation of Canning's 'The Pilot that weathered the Storm'.

Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 168-9 (reproduction); Wright and Evans, No. 102. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-12
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