File:Two Pair of Portraits (BM 1868,0808.6794).jpg
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[edit]Two Pair of Portraits ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: James Gillray
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Title |
Two Pair of Portraits |
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Description |
English: Pl. facing p. 574, vol. i, where a transcript of Horne Tooke's pamphlet, published for the Westminster Election of 1788, is styled 'Description of the Print'. The title continues: 'presented to all the unbiassed Electors of Great Britain, [The original title, reprinted on p. 574, continued: 'and especially to the Electors of Westminster.' The whole text of the pamphlet is reprinted in the Review, pp. 574-9, 702-9, but not in parallel columns as in 1788.] by John Horne Tooke'. Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length [Horne Tooke described his portraits as 'not whole lengths, and left for some younger hand hereafter to finish . . .', p. 7.] portraits of Fox (Ieft) and Pitt (right); he holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulder at the spectator, saying: ""Which two of them will you chuse \ "to hang up inyour Cabinets; \ "the Pitts, or the Foxes? - \ "Where, on your Conscience, \ "should the other two be hanged?" [Op. cit., final words.] Fox's left hand rests on a pedestal inscribed 'Deceit', on which the head of a fox holding a mask is just discernible. Pitt's right hand rests on a similar but rather higher pedestal inscribed 'Truth'; Truth's head and a hand holding a mirror are just discernible. Their expressions support the two inscriptions. From the painter's pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Sketches of Patriotic Views - a Pension, a Mouth Stopper a Place.'
Hand coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1798 date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.6794 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Fox and Horne Tooke, equally the subjects of attack, had become reconciled, cf. BMSat 8813, and the latter, a violent opponent of Pitt, is exhibited as a renegade by a literal illustration of his own pamphlet. Cf. BMSat 7371. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 253. Reproduced, Grego, 'Hist. of Parliamentary Elections', 1892, p. 305. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6794 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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