File:John Bull troubled with the blue devils. (BM 1935,0522.11.197).jpg
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[edit]John Bull troubled with the blue devils. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
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Title |
John Bull troubled with the blue devils. |
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Description |
English: John Bull (left), elderly and shrunken, sits before his fire, in shirt-sleeves, night-cap, and slippers, gazing terror-stricken at the swarm of demons which advance upon him in a cloud of smoke from the fire. The largest, with bull's horns and a dagger in each hand, is 'Tax on Income'. The 'Additional House Tax' threatens him with its claws; the 'Hair Powder Tax' is a virago, the 'Tax on Windows' an owl; the 'Tax on Tea' has a tea-pot for body, the 'Tax on Salt' is a bird, the 'Wine Tax' has the head of an ass and the body of a bottle. These are accompanied by smaller fantastic winged creatures. A cat sleeps by the fire (right). 23 May 1799
Hand-coloured etching |
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Date |
1799 date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1935,0522.11.197 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For the Income Tax see BMSat 9363, &c, for tea and windows BMSat 6634, &c, for hair-powder BMSat 8629, &c., the wine tax BMSat 8798, &c. The tax on salt was raised in 1798 from 5s. to 10s. a bushel. Cf. BMSats 8745, 9553 (a sequel). Probably the basis of G. Cruikshank's more elaborate 'The Blue Devils - !!', 10 Jan. 1823. Reid, No. 1162. .................................................................... Formerly in an album; a print by George Cruikshank (1935,0522.11.196) is mounted on the verso |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-11-197 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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