File:The Birth of Billy Bugaboo! (BM 1868,0808.6680 1).jpg
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[edit]The Birth of Billy Bugaboo!
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The Birth of Billy Bugaboo! |
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Description |
English: A fat Devil, naked except for slippers, stands on the corner of a rectangular rock, poised on one toe; he grins over his left shoulder at Pitt, whom he expels from his posteriors. Pitt, his feet still confined, shoots down head first in a slanting direction, into the arms of Dundas (right), held out to receive him. He is fully dressed, wearing a bag-wig, and grotesquely thin, with a long neck. The head and arms of Dundas emerge from a corner of the roof of 'The Treasury'. In the lower left corner, opposite Dundas, are the heads and shoulders of Sheridan and Fox, looking up; each holds his nose. Fox says: "What a stinking breath he has got Sherry". Both grin, and both wear bonnets-rouges. 13 August 1797
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Depicted people | Representation of: William Pitt the Younger | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1797 date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.6680 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Pitt was called 'our Hell-born Minister' in a widely distributed inflammatory placard dated Norwich, 16 Oct. 1795. Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', p. 284. Cf. BMSat 9011. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6680 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date and time of digitizing | 13:28, 9 November 2006 |
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