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The contrast, or 1784 and 1785 compared.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The contrast, or 1784 and 1785 compared.
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English: From the 'Rambler's Magazine'. A design in two compartments, the left inscribed '1785', the right, '1784'. On the left is a street scene; Pitt is being mobbed. A glazier attacks him from the left, a butcher (right) standing in front of his shop is about to smite him with a leg of mutton. From a first-floor balcony a servant-maid urinates upon him and threatens him with a mop. She is being egged on by Fox who stands beside her.


On the right is a city feast; Pitt stands at the table making a speech, citizens listen attentively. 1 August 1785


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Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 107 millimetres
Width: 170 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5439
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Pitt's unpopularity in the City owing to the Shop Tax is contrasted with his popularity in 1784, notably when he was entertained by the Grocers' Company, see BMSat 6442, &c. Pitt was actually hooted and burnt in effigy on 15 June on account of the tax. 'London Chronicle', 16 June 1785. For the tax see BMSat 6798, &c. For Pitt and the City cf. BMSat 6813.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5439
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