File:Wha wants me? (BM J,4.41).jpg
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[edit]Wha wants me?
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Print made by: James Gillray
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| Title |
Wha wants me? |
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English: Dundas in Highland dress, wearing a Scots cap over a legal wig, crouches with his head turned in profile to the right. With his voluminous tartan plaid he covers Pitt, who sits close against him in profile to the left on the pan of a close-stool inscribed 'Extracts from the Treasury', his profile, feet, and ankles alone being visible. 2 June 1792
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1792 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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J,4.41 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) An illustration of an ironical speech by Courtenay on 25 May in the debate on the Proclamation against Seditious Writings. He ridiculed Dundas for his 'accommodating disposition' towards Pitt, comparing him with 'an officer who paraded the streets of Edinburgh at night with a large cloak, vociferating at the corner of every alley, "Wha wants me".' 'Parl. Hist.' xxix. 1493. A ballad, 'Wha wants me', founded on this speech, was sung for months in the streets of Edinburgh, beginning: 'John Bull he is a canker'd carle; he'll nae twin wi' his gear; And Sawney now is ten times waur, gin a' be true I hear; But let them say, or let them do, it's a ane to me; I'll never lay aside my cloak - my wha wants me? O wha wants me, sirs? Wha wants me? I'll take my stand near Downing Street, with aye - Wha wants me?' Kay, i. 376. The design was imitated by Kay, see BMSat 8118. Cf. also BMSat 8146. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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