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The ghosts of Mirabeau and Dr Price appearing to old Loyola.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Frederick George Byron

Published by: William Holland
Title
The ghosts of Mirabeau and Dr Price appearing to old Loyola.
Description
English: Burke kneels in profile to the left, holding up a crucifix and rosary as a defence against the ghosts of Mirabeau (d. 4 Apr. 1791) and Price (d. 19 Apr. 1791), who emerge from clouds on the left, draped in sheets. Each holds out menacingly an open copy of Burke's book: 'Reflections on the French Revolution', and 'Reflections on the French Revolution by E Burke'. Mirabeau says:



"------Do not repent these crimes,
For they are heavier than all thy woes can stir;
A thousand knees ten thousand years together,
Naked, fasting, upon a barren mountain
And still Winter, would not move the Gods
To look that way thou wert."

Price says:

""Neither man nor angel can discern
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone,
By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth; - "
Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric,
That have so well been taught her dazling fence,
Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc'd; Yet should
I try, the uncontrouled worth of this pure cause would
Kindle my rapt spirits to such a flame of
Sacred vehemence, that dumb things would be mov'd
To sympathize, till all thy magic structures reared
So high, Were shattered into heaps o'er thy false head."

An old woman on the extreme right, holding a chamber-pot under her petticoats, sprinkles Burke's head with the contents, using a bunch of feathers like a holy-water aspergillum. She says, "This Holy Water, my dear master, shall wash you pure from every stain in the world, ay; and in the world to come by my own soul". Burke says: "Thus fortified I don't fear the Devil nor any of his Imps! No, nor the whole Host of Opposition." 17 May 1791


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 246 millimetres
Width: 410 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6054
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) One of many satires on Burke for his book, see BMSat 7675, &c, and for his quarrel with Fox, see BMSat 7854, &c, which involved a breach with his party. For the old accusation that he was a concealed Roman Catholic, cf. BMSat 6026, &c.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 293 (?).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6054
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