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Mr and Mrs Bull. looking over their accounts.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Piercy Roberts

After: George Moutard Woodward
Published by: Piercy Roberts
Title
Mr and Mrs Bull. looking over their accounts.
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English: John Bull, a gross 'cit', in an armchair, stares in horror at the ledger before him; his wife, Hibernia (left), weeps, with her clasped hands resting on the back of his chair. John's ledger is: 'Army &c . . . 200,000 \ Navy &c . . . 10,000 \ [Civil] List 2,000000 \ ------16,000 \ Secret Service 200000 \ [? half-]pay 60000 \ ------100,000'. Mrs. Bull says: "By St Patrick, I thought there would be a pretty reckoning - you know Mr Bull, when I was first united to you, I said you was very careless about your accounts - always leaving it to your Foreman Mr Billy - & I knew he was in the habit of laying it on thick." John exclaims: "Thick! D------n me but it is laid on with a Trowel - it almost lift's my Wig off - to look at it". His hands, feet, profile, and (ill-fitting) wig register dismay. Addington, wearing wig and robe, leaning insinuatingly towards John, points to Bonaparte who sits on the extreme right displaying a large plan on which are two small islands: 'Trinidad' and 'Ceylon'. Addington says: "Ay! but Johnny - look what this Gentleman has to shew you". Bonaparte, handsome in military dress, with gorget and sash, says: "Here Mr Bull - here's crumbs of Comfort - Cedar, Cinamon, and Tobacco for nothing." c. May 1802
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Depicted people Associated with: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Date 1802
date QS:P571,+1802-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 270 millimetres

Width: 348 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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1868,0808.7019
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) Addington speciously reassures John, showing himself ready to accept the French interpretation of the treaty, see BMSat 9852, &c. For Ceylon and Trinidad, the only conquests retained by Great Britain at the Peace, see BMSat 9866. For John Bull and Hibernia as man and wife see BMSat 9864, &c. The figures of the ledger are imaginary: an appeal was made on 29 Mar. for the payment of arrears on the Civil List (£990,053). 'Parl. Hist,' xxxvi. 372 ff.

Van Stolk, No. 5967. Listed by Broadley.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-7019
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