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Billys hobby horse or John Bull loaded with mischief.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Billys hobby horse or John Bull loaded with mischief.
Description
English: Pitt, much caricatured, rides John Bull who walks (left to right) on his hands and feet. He flourishes a scourge with four lashes inscribed respectively: 'War. War. War.'; 'Tax Tax Tax'; 'Opression Opression'; 'Monopoly' (cf. BMSat 9546). A heavy bit is in John Bull's mouth, and Pitt wears top-boots with vicious spurs. He says: "Ge up Johnny I'll stick Close to you my Boy". From his coat-pocket protrudes a paper: 'The Art and mistery of managing Neddys'. His saddle and saddlecloth are inscribed: 'Princes D[ebts]' (see BMSat 8673, &c), 'Princess', 'Tax on Hair Powde[r]' (see BMSat 8629, &c), 'National Dbt', 'Imperial Loan', 'New Loan', 'Subsidies' (see BMSats 8658, 8821, &c). John Bull, a stout citizen with unkempt hair, says: "What, What, What, Maister Billy is it come to this you load me so with Taxes I must rise for want of Bread". The opening words and a milestone (left) 'To St Jamess', show that John Bull is also George III, though he has little resemblance to the King.


In the background (right) a crowd of plainly-dressed and respectable men is being addressed by an orator. From the back of the sea of heads a few sticks or weapons are raised. A sign-post is inscribed 'St Georgs Fields'. 6 July 1795


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Caroline of Brunswick
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 351 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1876,1014.30
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) On 29 June, while riots due to dearth were going on throughout the country, the Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) held a large meeting in St. George's Fields, demanding annual parliaments and manhood suffrage, and speedy peace with 'the brave French Republic'. Biscuits were distributed embossed 'Freedom and Plenty, or Slavery and Want'. The chairman was John Gale Jones. See 'Lond. Chron.', 30 June (where the meeting is described as composed of 'the lowest class of the people'); 'History of Two Acts . . .', 1796; Stanhope, 'Life of Pitt', 1879, ii. 111-12. Cf. BMSat 8685. Pitt's house in Downing Street was mobbed in June. Ashbourne, 'Pitt', 1898, p. 163. One of many satires on the dearth and discontent of 1795, see BMSats 8669, 8671, 8672, 8676, 8680, 8681, 8701, 8707, 8708. For food prices see BMSat 8665. Cf. also BMSat 8687, &c. For the dearth of 1799-1800 cf. BMSat 9545, &c.

A print was 'shewn about' on 10 July 'evidently designed by some seditious persons to influence the minds of the people by the late rise in the price of bread. It exhibits a large tree, with innumerable branches, from which, by way of fruit are suspended 'loaves of bread! different joints of meat! heads of cabbage!' a bottle, with "Gin" inscribed upon it. Under these several men are sitting, with their mouths wide open and these words printed on a label - "if you don't fall I must rise". The Ministers and other personages are represented at some distance diverting themselves with the misery of the scene.' 'Oracle', 11 July 1795.
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