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Spanish Messenger   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
Spanish Messenger
Description
English: Pitt (right) locks a huge padlock inscribed 'Dispatches' which fastens the lips of a messenger in riding-dress, holding his cap and whip; he says "Nothing shall transpire". Behind him (right) stands (?) Sir Archibald Macdonald, saying, "That's right Billy lock the fellow up again. Dam the haughty Dons proud Stomacks for not sending better News". Thurlow (left), turning his head in profile to the right, says, with a ferocious expression (? to Pitt) "Dam your Shilly shally". Behind, two men stand facing each other holding their fingers to their lips and making gestures to enforce silence. One (right) resembles Hall the Whig apothecary of Westminster. Beneath the title is etched:



'"You secret, black and Midnight Things; what is't you do?"
Shakespear' 20 June 1790


Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Edward Hall
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 192 millimetres
Width: 237 millimetres (damaged)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5943
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

An attack on secret diplomacy: at this time the crisis between England and Spain, see BMSat 7645, &c, was acute and complicated, dispatches were being exchanged, and war seemed probable. Spain hoped for the support of France, possibly of Russia and Austria. Rose, 'Pitt and National Revival', pp. 572 ff. J. H. Clapham in 'Camb. Hist. of Foreign Policy', i. 197-201.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5943
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