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Billy's Fantoccini or John Bull over curious.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Billy's Fantoccini or John Bull over curious.
Description
English: John Bull (left) addresses Pitt, who drags behind him a puppet-show on wheels, the front of which is removed, showing the interior of the House of Commons. Pitt, right hand on breast, bows towards John, who is a stout yokel in a tattered and belted smock; in his left hand are the strings which, passing through the end of the box containing the puppets, are attached to the figures inside, including the Speaker and members on both sides of the House. The galleries are empty. He is very thin with swathed gouty legs and large slashed shoes. John wears spectacles, an empty purse hangs from his belt, he holds his hat, in the crown of which are the royal arms, the stamp showing payment of the tax.


He bends towards Pitt, saying, "I cant get a peep at what is going on in the Box. now thats very hard. I always had had a look in when I liked - Now Bless ye Master Billy let me have one Squiny". Pitt answers: "I assure you Mr Bull - I know no more than you do, what is going forward! - I have been ill with the gout, a considerable time [see BMSat 9226] - Besides if you were to peep - the Machinery is intirely beyond your shallow comprehention!" The open front of the puppet-show is draped, like the proscenium of a theatre, with a curtain, and this is inscribed 'Mobilitate Viget \ Virgil'. A stout member is speaking, close to the Speaker's table. The benches are full. 16 July 1798.


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 273 millimetres
Width: 424 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6760
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Evidently a satire on the clearing of the House of strangers for the debates on Ireland on 14 and 21 June. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxiii. 1487, 1514. The 'Anti-Jacobin', 25 June, pillories among 'Lies' a paragraph in the 'Morning Post', 15 June: 'Fifteen new Peers are immediately to be made. One of them is Mr. Baker who proposed the exclusion of the Public from the Gallery of the House of Commons', with the comment, 'Englishmen who are not in the habits of seeing the French Papers, can have no idea of the avidity with which the violent language of the 'soi-disant' Patriots is received in France, and officially diffused through the Country.' Cf. BMSat 9194.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6760
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