File:The thing in a nasty situation. (BM 1868,0808.4758).jpg
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[edit]The thing in a nasty situation. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
The thing in a nasty situation. |
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Description |
English: Six figures stand in an extended circle playing a game of handball with Lord North, who is in the air, his round body and globe-shaped head representing a ball. He is wearing his garter ribbon and star and says "I am in a Nasty Situation. I almost wish I was no-Thing". Strips inscribed "Bribery" and "Taxes" decorate his stockings; the privy purse is falling from him, as is a paper inscribed "How to Diminish Public Money by Private Contract". The players wear large muff-shaped gloves with which to strike the ball. Three stand in the foreground: Wilkes (left), with a violent squint, is saying "I will have 46 Strokes at him"; a man in gown and bands (possibly Parson Horne, afterwards Horne Tooke) is saying "O he will be a Nice Bone for ye Divil to pick"; Charles Fox (right), in the form of a fox, is saying "Keep it up my Boys". In the middle distance are two small figures: one (left) says "There he goes Neck or Nothing"; the other [Burke] says "This is sublime & Beautiful". The sixth player in the distance is very small and not characterized. Beneath the design is etched:
Etching with some surface tone |
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Depicted people | Representation of: Edmund Burke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1780 date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4758 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Fox had on some occasion called Lord North "that thing". (Note by Mr. Hawkins.) Perhaps an allusion to the loan of 1781, see BMSat 5834, 5835. Hand Ball was played especially in the south of Scotland. 'O.E.D.' Apparently by the same artist as BMSat 5568, 5648. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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