File:Spanish Messenger (BM 1868,0808.5943 1).jpg
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[edit]Spanish Messenger
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Print made by: William Dent
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Spanish Messenger |
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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:
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Depicted people | Associated with: Edward Hall | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1790 date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.5943 |
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Notes |
(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. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5943 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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