File:A locust (BM 1868,0612.1249).jpg
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[edit]A locust
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Print made by: W O'Keeffe
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A locust |
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| Description |
English: A grotesque locust with the head of Pitt, its four legs terminating in bird's claws, walks upon the large oval links of a chain fastened in a circle by a padlock (right). The head, much caricatured, has a large predatory mouth with a protruding tongue, from which issue the words: "I feed on a Lands Destruction". His hair is erect and frizzed (in reference to the hair-powder tax, see BMSat 8629, &c), and his queue is in a bag. Within six of the ten links is a word: 'Oppression', 'War', 'Destruction', 'War', 'Famine', 'War'. Within the circle: 'Poor Old England link'd in Trouble'. Pitt is advancing towards the coast (left), where there is a notice-board: 'Towards France'. Beneath the title: 'A Dreadful Devouring Insect, an Emblem of Destruction & Famine.' 1 August 1795
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| Depicted people | Associated with: William Pitt the Younger | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1795 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0612.1249 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) One of many prints showing Pitt's growing unpopularity, owing to taxes, dearth, and military failure, see BMSat 8664, &c. For high food-prices see BMSat 8665, &c. News of the disaster of Quiberon reached London on 29th July, after a succession of contradictory rumours. 'Lond. Chron.', July 16, 18, 20, 23, 24, 30, &c. See 'Windham Papers', 1913, i. 280, 325-9, &c.; 'Navy Records Soc., Spencer Papers', ed. J. S. Corbett, i. 63-70; Fortescue, 'Hist. of the Br. Army', iv. 416-23; and BMSats 8676, 8678, 9046, 9156, 9157, 9231. For Pitt as a devouring insect see also BMSats 8672, 8676, 8805, 8996. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0612-1249 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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