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The state jugglers 1773
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English: Lord North as a juggler squats on a table which is on a raised platform. He wears a harlequin's suit with his ribbon and star and holds a mask in his right. hand, in his left. a conjuror's box. On the table are three large money-bags, a pack of cards, balls, and cones. Behind him are ministers and ministerialists (l. to right.): Dyson as Mungo the African slave holds up a round box, Sandwich holds his cricket-bat over his shoulder, on his head rests the model of a man-of-war. Behind North on his right. is Mansfield in judge's wig and robes; on North's left is Bute, holding a coronet over North's head; in front of Bute is Charles Fox or Lord Holland with a fox's head. On the right. are three other ministers all wearing ribbons, one with a military coat being Barrington, Secretary-at-War. In front of the table is a serpent on a pedestal. Below the platform is a crowd of people, some watching the juggler, others turning aside with gestures of despair. The principal figures are: a seated man holding a pole on the top of which is a pair of breeches with the pockets inside out to show his poverty; a standing man with a ragged coat holds his head in despair; an emaciated Asiatic lies on the ground.


The text explains the scene as a vision, a juggler's booth in St. James's Street, the serpent being a "symbol of the Practitioner's address, cunning and deceit". The figures round the juggler seeming to applaud were aiding his cheats. "Handfulls of gold being thrown up in the air . . . scattered mischief and destruction all round." The exasperated crowd at last demolished the booth and the scaffold. 1 May 1773


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Depicted people Representation of: William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Date 1773
date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 189 millimetres
Width: 112 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1855,0609.1961
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Westminster Magazine', i. 272.

The commercial crisis of 1772, see BMSat 4961 &c, continued during 1773, see 'Corr. of George III', ed. Fortescue, ii. 436. The Secret Committee had made charges of rapacity and oppression against servants of the East India Company. 'Parl. Hist.' xvii. 535, 829.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1855-0609-1961
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