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John Bull in a rage forcing Nic Frog to fight against his will.   (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
John Bull in a rage forcing Nic Frog to fight against his will.
Description
English: A fat and placid Dutchman leans cross-legged against a large barrel, smoking. His musket is under his left arm, bayonet resting on the ground. He wears civilian dress with a cartouche-box slung across his shoulder. An irate and ugly John Bull, his face blotched with drink, runs up to him, putting a sword in Nic's right hand, saying, "Why, you cold-blooded dolt, can nothing move you? I say you shall be in a rage - I am in a rage. Damme, you shall go to war; now what say you?" Nic answers, the words within the smoke which issues from his mouth: "I say nothing - you know John, I dare not contradict you." Pitt's profile, enclosed in an obtuse angle, projects from the right margin, saying, "tell him they will open the Scheldt, and he shall fight Dam him." In the background is the sea with ships. On the right is a Dutch town with a jetty projecting into the sea, and (in the middle distance) two bales of commerce. On a mound (left) a sentry stands at attention. 9 February 1793.
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 233 millimetres
Width: 359 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1917,1208.4098
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

A satire arising from the debate of 1 Feb. (the day that France declared war on England and Holland). Fox maintained that England was forcing the Dutch into a war which they wished to avoid. 'Parl. Hist.' xxx. 308. Pitt claimed that treaties impelled England to defend Holland: 'If Holland has not immediately called upon us for our support and assistance, she may have been influenced by motives of policy, and her forbearance ought not to be supposed to arise from her indifference about the river Scheldt.' Ibid., p. 284. On 16 Nov. 1792 a Declaration of the British Government's determination to execute the terms of the Alliance of 1788 (see BMSat 8633) was delivered to the States General. J. H. Rose has shown that the Dutch had appealed (29 Nov.) for help, but were nervously anxious to temporize, while Pitt and Grenville stiffly refrained from revealing Foreign Office secrets. 'Pitt and the Great War', 1911, p. 77; 'Cambridge Hist. of British Foreign Policy', i. 226-8, 236. For the negligent ill-will with which the Dutch (torn by faction) conducted the war, see BMSats 8313, &c, 8345, 8477, 8496, 8608, &c. Cf. BMSat 9412, &c. For the negotiations, &c, leading to war see Stoker, 'William Pitt et la Rév.fr.', 1935, pp. 149-209.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1917-1208-4098
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