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The Reason
Description
English: Satire on the supporters of Robert Walpole at the time of the parliamentary motion to remove him from office, echoing the composition of BM Satires 2490. Walpole drives an open landau from right to left in front of Westminster Hall towards the Exchequer building; "young Billy" (the Duke of Cumberland?) sits inside waving a paper lettered, "642 Petitions for 77 C[ommi]ss[io]ns", other papers lie on the seat opposite; a bishop as postillion rides the leading horse; two placemen push the coach from behind; two men representing oppositions journals, "the Englishman" and "Commonsense" are run over. The Duke of Argyll kneels before Walpole saying "These are friends of mine" as he presents two Scots who raise their kilts behind. On the right, Lord Hervey holding a fan and seated on a wheeled toy horse is drawn forward by two men, one of whom assures him, "set fast Fanny we are sure to Win". In the foreground are a group of bishops saying "We will pray/Let them fast"; General Ligonier, on horseback, his feet nearly touching the ground, addresses Walpole with, "Dragoon 'em Sir"; officers of the royal household including the Lord Chamberlain (the Duke of Grafton) and Lord Steward (Duke of Dorset) anxious because the opposition had refused to allow any increase in the the Civil List; Dr Conyers Middleton holding a copy of his Life of Cicero (which drew implied parallels between its subject and Walpole) leads an ass, lettered Court Evil (i.e., Ralph Courteville, alias Freeman) and laden with the Gazetteer, the government supporting journal. The leader of another coach appears on the right, its rider shouting, "Never to late to serve our Country" as it mows down bystanders. Letterpress verses below in eleven stanzas, each ending with the chorus, "Doodle, &c." 2 March 1741
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Depicted people Representation of: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
Date 1741
date QS:P571,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 204 millimetres (etching)
Height: 292 millimetres (printed area)
Width: 327 millimetres (etching)
Width: 328 millimetres (etching)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3650
Notes

This is the first state; for the second state with addition shading, see, "J,1.40".

Bickham claimed that this was a copy of a print that he had published: "the only Original, and publish'd first, The Reason. Price 6d. N.B. The other Reason appears to be no Reason at all" (Daily Post, 7 March 1741; see BM Satires 2490); in the Daily Post, 20 March 1741, he describes this print as a "pyratical Reason", continuing, "Note. Their is an unmeaning Print taken from the above Motion and Reason, (the Author having quite mistaken the Point) and proves to be no Grounds at all." There is no impression of Bickham's print in the BM collection.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3650
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