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Impeachment.   (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 Brown
Title
Impeachment.
Description
English: Burke stands directed to the left making a speech, right arm raised, left hand on his breast. He wears spectacles and from each eye a beam of light, inscribed 'False Optics', is directed upon two pairs of documents on the floor: 'True Case of Mr Hastings' and 'As it appears to Honest Edmund'; the others, 'True Case of Powell' and 'As it appeared to honest Edmund'. A large tail or excretion resting on the ground behind him is 'Misgovernment'. In the upper left corner of the design just beyond his right hand is a large bunch of grapes (rupees) inscribed 'Lack', implying that his violence against Hastings is due to deprivation of office. On the wall behind his head (right) is a picture of Fox crucified, dice taking the place of nails piercing his hands. Below his feet is inscribed Carlo's 'India Bill' (cf. BMSat 6368, &c). Burke, dressed as a Jesuit (cf. BMSat 6026), kneels at his feet holding up a cross. Beneath the title is etched:



'His notions do fit things so well,
That which is which, he cannot tell,
But oft times, tho' sure as a gun,
Mistakes the other for the one,
For whilst one thing seems to catch the eye,
To another he'd his hand apply;
With words honest Edmund has the knack,
To paint, as suits best, things white or black,
Thus Hastings is black, which is as clear,
As that Powell did pure white appear;
But he knows what's what, and that's as high,
As Oriental wit e'er could fly.' 19 March 1786


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Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 269 millimetres
Width: 212 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5497
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Burke's attacks on Hastings are contrasted with his reinstatement of Powell, as in BMSat 6925, of which this appears to be an imitation, with the added coarseness characteristic of Dent.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5497
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