File:Political playthings for prostitute patriots. (BM 1851,0901.527).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,476 × 2,500 pixels, file size: 1.36 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Political playthings for prostitute patriots.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

Print made by: Frederick George Byron

Published by: William Holland
Title
Political playthings for prostitute patriots.
Description
English: Burke, in court dress, and wearing a ribbon and star, sits, erect and complacent, in an ornate armchair, his left foot on a footstool. His head is turned in profile to the right towards Pitt, who advances towards him, and is about to place an earl's coronet on his head, saying, "This for thy long and secret services". Burke answers "Thanks, my noble Master - all the Wierd Sister of Beaconsfield prophesied is now fulfill'd" (an allusion to Burke's quotation of the song of the witches in Macbeth: 'Black spirits and white . . .', see BMSats 7854, 7855, 7856.) 22 May 1791
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Edmund Burke
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 279 millimetres
Width: 270 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.527
Notes

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

One of many satires on Burke's quarrel with Fox, see BMSat 7854, &c., and like BMSat 7866, &c, an attempt to discredit Burke.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-527
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Licensing

[edit]
This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.

Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current07:56, 15 May 2020Thumbnail for version as of 07:56, 15 May 20202,476 × 2,500 (1.36 MB)Copyfraud (talk | contribs)British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1791 #9,536/12,043

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Political_playthings_for_prostitute_patriots._(BM_1851,0901.527).jpg&oldid=654708804"