File:Whiggism, or Master Billy learning his Task (BM J,2.105).jpg
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[edit]Whiggism, or Master Billy learning his Task ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: William Dent
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Title |
Whiggism, or Master Billy learning his Task |
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Description |
English: Thurlow, seated (left), a birch-rod in his right hand, in the other an open book inscribed 'A new guide to India', looks towards Pitt, who stands before him dressed as a young girl though wearing a bag-wig. Pitt stands in profile to the left; to his waist is tied a key marked 'T'. (for Treasury) which is decorated with bells and resembles a child's coral (cf. BMSat 7325). Thurlow was again appointed Chancellor (23 Dec. 1783) on the dismissal of the Coalition; he wears an enormous Chancellor's wig.
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Depicted people | Representation of: Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1784 date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
J,2.105 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Shelburne was Baron Wycombe in the English peerage until 1784, when he was created Earl Wycombe and Marquis of Lansdowne. One of many indications of Shelburne's unpopularity, here attacked for the peace of 1783, see BMSat 6171, &c; it illustrates the danger to Pitt of including him in his Ministry, cf. Orde's letter to Shelburne, Fitzmaurice, 'Shelburne', 1912, ii. 284. For Thurlow's part in overtures from the King to Pitt in 1783 cf. BMSat 7502. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-105 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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