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Black Harry
Description
English: The knave of a pack of cards facing left. with the head of the Duke of Grafton. In his right. hand he holds an arrow. An anchor inscribed "Bradshaw" lies diagonally across his person. 1 August 1772
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Depicted people Representation of: Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Date 1772
date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 173 millimetres
Width: 109 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.10014
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Political Register', xi. 1. This is an allusion to the appointment of Thomas Bradshaw, a Treasury Clerk, as a Lord of the Admiralty in succession to Charles Fox on 6 May 1772. An anonymous letter in the 'Public Advertiser', 8 May 1772, addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty and transcribed by Walpole, explains the intention of this satire: "... by means of his uncommon address in administering to the pleasures of the great, he was appointed one of the Secretaries of the Treasury, which office he held during the Duke of Grafton's administration, and by exerting his happy talents between his Grace and the celebrated Nancy Parsons, he so far ingratiated himself with the Duke that he became his chief confidant, . . . and of course became his Grace's bosom friend; for which service he first received a pension of fifteen hundred pounds a year for three lives, and that not being sufficient is now made one of you...". Walpole's comment is, "The Duke of Grafton's ambition was to be at the head of the Admiralty, and he had insisted on Bradshaw being placed at the Board as a spy on Lord Sandwich, and to learn the business, that he might be his Grace's Secretary there, if he could obtain the command". 'Last Journals', 1920, i. 109-10. Cf. Grafton, 'Autobiography', ed. Anson, 1898, pp. 258-63.

Bradshaw, like Dyson, was one of the official M.P.'s who were singled out for distrust and abuse. Cf. Mason, 'Heroic Epistle', 'The R*g*ys,------s, Mungos, B*------ds*s there' [Rigbys, Calcrafts. . ..], and 'Letters of Junius', ed. Everett, 1927, pp. 153, 269. See Walpole, 'Memoirs of the Reign of George III', 1894, iv. 45-6 and n. See also BMSat 4962, 5018.
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