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In memory of Monday Decemr 17th 1783   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
In memory of Monday Decemr 17th 1783
Description
English: Pitt, with Britannia and the British Lion, attacks a many-headed monster with a serpent's tail which encircles a column inscribed 'British Constitution'; on this is a bust of the king. Pitt wears Roman armour; he holds a club in his right hand, Britannia's shield in his left, and appears to represent Hercules slaying the hydra. The necks of the monster join in a flattened mass on which stand Pitt, Britannia, and the lion, all three threatening the heads, which are those of the late Ministry: (left to right) North, Burke, Lord John Cavendish, Lord Derby (who had been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), Keppel, Portland, and Fox.


The bust of George III is in profile to the left; against his shoulder rests a shield inscribed 'Dieu et mon Droit'. The whole group rests on a platform or pedestal, and appears to represent a piece of sculpture, the title forming part of the design. On each side of the title is inscribed:

'Ye British Chiefs who mount the waves
And ye who meet the tented foe:
Behold the young the wise the brave;
Repelling all your countrys woes.' 8 March 1784


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 315 millimetres
Width: 255 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5172
Notes

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

December 17th was the date of the defeat of the India Bill in the Lords, see BMSat 6283, 6368, &c. From a constitutional standpoint, one of the most extreme of the attacks on the Coalition. See BMSat 6399, 6405, &c. Similar in design and intention to BMSat 6450.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5172
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