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Billy's Babel   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Billy's Babel
Description
English: Political satire; a figure of Britannia lies under a tower of bricks, each labelled with a tax, her head on a sack marked "Budget", exclaiming "'Tis More Than I can Bear"; to the left are the Archbishop of Cantebury, saying "Blessed is he who Buildeth on a good foundation ...", and Pitt, saying "My Yoke is Easy and my Burden light"; to the right is a figure with a magnifying glass, exclaiming on the size of the tower, and a dog with a man's face and a scholar's cap. 30 May 1791
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 365 millimetres
Width: 300 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1985,0119.122
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1985-0119-122
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