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A red-hot politician
Title
A red-hot politician [graphic] / JN fect. sct 1785.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1785]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 21 x 16 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Edmund Burke -- Allusion to Burke's speech on public economy, 11 February 1780 -- Allusion to William Pitt's tax proposals, 1784.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Five lines of text below image: You may talk what you will of Mustor Pitt's wirtues, but I will maintain it, that Muster Burke Gemmen is the most wirtuous honest man in the King's dominions, if he had his won very Gemmem we shoud not be Burthern'd withe such vicked txes, but zounds, Mr. Burke Gemmen caunt carry the whole House of Commons in his belly.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
A man sits a tavern table facing left, his right arm raised as if making a strong point. On the table is tankard filled with a large head of froth; on the tankard are etched the words "Spotted Dog Holy Well sc." From his pocket a rolled document with the heading "Burke on oecon[omy]."
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 14, 2006
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1785.
Etchings - England - London - 1785.
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