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Going to open the budget.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: George Moutard Woodward

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Going to open the budget.
Description
English: Pitt, 'chapeau-bras', stalks haughtily from his coach (left) towards the door of the House of Commons (right), his head thrown back, left hand on his breast, a small empty bag in his right hand. Documents inscribed 'Taxes' protrude from his coat-pocket. Spectators cluster in the foreground to see him pass. A very stout constable with a long staff motions them back, shouting, "make way there for the Minister Take Care of your Pockets". He wears the red waistcoat of the Bow-street runner and is probably Townsend (there is a certain resemblance to Dighton's portrait). A stout citizen puts his hands in his coat-pockets, pulling them together to protect them from Pitt at whom he stares fixedly. A young man puts his hand on his shoulder and points at his pocket. A young woman looks contemptuously at Pitt, saying, "what a bit of a thing it is". Behind Pitt a footman folds up the steps of his carriage and is about to shut the door. A dog, his collar inscribed 'Paid for', sniffs at the man and befouls his leg. The fat coachman sits impassively on the box. 28 November 1796
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 267 millimetres
Width: 335 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6570
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Pitt's budget speech was made on 7 Dec. Cf. BMSat 8836, &c. For the dog-tax see BMSat 8794, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6570
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