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The Motion
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English: Satire on opposition tactics in the parliamentary motion to remove Robert Walpole from office showing a coach drawn by six horses moving at speed along Whitehall past the Banqueting House towards the Treasury and the Holbein gate, and running down several men; based on BM Satires 2479. The postillion on the leading horse is identified as Lord Chesterfield; the coach is driven by the Duke of Argyll, wearing a Scotch bonnet and carrying a flaming sword, between whose legs sits a spotted dog with the word "Bubb" lettered on its collar, i.e., Bubb Doddington; Lord Carteret leans out of the coach shouting to the diriver, "Let me get out"; the footman standing behind is Lord Cobham; George Lyttelton rides up behind. The Bishop of Lichfield accompanied by a hog, bows to the coach; Samuel Sandys stands beside a street lamp, dropping the "Place Bill" and throwing up his hands, crying, "I thought what would come of putting him on the Box". To the left, Lord Pulteney, leading his supporters by the nose, and followed by a group of children, pushes a wheelbarrow laden with oppositiion newspapers, dice and a dice box resting on them. The roadway is lined with bollards and there are sentry boxes at intervals. Letterpress verses beneath in three columns; second state after the addition of "Whitehall" and "Treasury". 1741
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Depicted people Associated with: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
Date 1741
date QS:P571,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 190 millimetres (etching)
Height: 300 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 311 millimetres (etching)
Width: 353 millimetres (sheet)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1880,1113.2723
Notes

For the motion to remove Walpole see BM Satires 2478.

The Bishop of Lichfield's hog is a reference to his "Vindication of the Miracles", 1729-34, where he mentions the casting out of devils from men into hogs. In 1740 Sandys had unsucessfully attempted to bring in a bill to limit the number of placemen in the House of Commons.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-1113-2723
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