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A dish of mutton-chop's.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: S W Fores
Title
A dish of mutton-chop's.
Description
English: Pitt, Hastings, and Thurlow sit at a circular dinner-table on which is the King's head in a large dish. The dish is ornamented with a crown and the words 'Mal. y . Pense'. Pitt (left) sits in profile to the right cutting off a piece of the tongue with a knife and fork. Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, faces him, using two large spoons greedily (cf. BMSat 7166), he is taking brains from a hole in the King's forehead. Hastings, in oriental dress, sits between them gouging out an eye with a spoon and fork. Besides Pitt is a sauce-boat inscribed 'Sauce', beside Thurlow a bottle inscribed 'Vinegar'. 28 March 1788
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 200 millimetres
Width: 287 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5703
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

An anticipation of the attacks on Pitt during the Regency crisis, cf. BMSats 7382, 7936, &c. For Thurlow and Hastings see BMSat 7278, &c. For the signature cf. BMSat 7416.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5703
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