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The cup presented to Mr. Wilkes by the city of London in 1772   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John June

After: Robert Dighton
Title
The cup presented to Mr. Wilkes by the city of London in 1772
Description
English: An ornate two-handled cup with a lid. It is decorated in relief with the City Arms and with a scene representing the assassination of Julius Caesar under which is inscribed:



"May every Tyrant feel
The keen deep Searchings of a Patriots steel.
Churchill."

The maker's name is round the base of the cup:

"Morson & Stephenson fee. Ludgate Hill."

In the background are the arms used by Wilkes but without the motto ('Arcui meo non confido'), cf. BMSat 5245. 1 November 1774


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Depicted people Associated with: John Wilkes
Date 1774
date QS:P571,+1774-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 167 millimetres
Width: 110 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4486
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1774, p. 457. One of the three cups which had been voted by the Common Council 24 Jan. 1772 to the three City patriots, Wilkes, Crosby, and Oliver for their opposition to the House of Commons over the printing of debates, see BMSat 4850,4853, &c. Cf. BMSat 4887. The cup is described on p. 457. The bas relief "seems to indicate an idea of the meaning of the dagger or short sword in the City Arms very different from what the Antiquarians have hitherto suggested", namely, either the dagger with which Walworth slew Wat Tyler, or the short sword of St. Paul.

The print is perhaps intended as an election warning against the excesses of the patriots.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4486
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