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Presentation of the Mahometan credentials -or- the final resource of French atheists.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Presentation of the Mahometan credentials -or- the final resource of French atheists.
Description
English: The King and Queen, seated on the throne (left), receive with astonished horror a deputation from Turkey. An arrogant Turk stands proffering a large rolled document with pendent seals on which are crescents: 'Powers for a new Connexion between the Port, England & France'. Beside him (left) another Turk grovels on the ground. Fox and Sheridan, kneeling with crouching humility, hold up the long cloak of the Turkish emissary; their bonnets-rouges are decorated with crescents. Behind them Priestley bows low (right). Turks with spears and banners stand behind him. To a spear topped with a crescent is attached a tricolour flag inscribed 'Vive la Republique'.


Pitt, a naked mannikin, one foot on the royal dais, clutches the King's knee in terror: a chain from his wrist is attached to a royal crown lying on the ground. Behind him, and beside the throne, stands Dundas in Highland dress, tall and impassive, holding a pike. The King and Queen are much caricatured: the King stares, biting his fingers and clutching the Queen; she puts her fan before her face but looks through its sticks (as in BMSat 9528) at the Turks. The three elder princesses (not caricatured) peep from behind the throne on the extreme left. 26 December 1793


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Princess Augusta Sophia
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 315 millimetres
Width: 364 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.673
Notes

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

The print has little political relevance and probably derives from jests on the Turkish plenipotentiary, cf. BMSats 7935, &c, 8423. The attitude to Pitt is exceptional (cf. BMSat 8363) and probably non-political, as in BMSat 8054.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-673
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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