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Patience on a monument. Smiling at grief.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Patience on a monument. Smiling at grief.
Description
English: Pitt (right) sits on a plain and solid monument, shaped roughly like a seat, raised from the ground by a projecting base. He sits arrogantly, in profile to the left, looking down at John Bull on his knees, and bowed down under a bulky burden of 'Taxes' and 'Assess'd Taxes'. John, full-face, looks out of the corners of his eyes at Pitt with a sour and calculating grimace, saying, "Tis more than I can bear." Pitt answers: "O Dear Johnny! tis nothing when you are used to it!" His left arm hangs over the back of the monument, which is Security; the base of his seat is 'Maiority', the base of the whole is: 'No Reform - Necessary' (see BMSat 8635, &c). 23 January 1798
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 295 millimetres
Width: 203 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6693
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

One of many satires on the Assessed Taxes, see BMSat 9043, &c. Cf. BMSat 9162.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6693
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