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The Courier   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Courier
Description
English: Satire on George III's attempts to bring William Pitt back into government in place of George Grenville in May 1765; the Duke of Cumberland was used as intermediary. In this print Cumberland is shown on horseback as a courier riding to Pitt's country house at Hayes, Kent; the house is shown as a hovel with Pitt's bandaged gouty foot protruding from the doorway balanced on a stool; a sign with a bladder reads "Popularity / The Blown Bladder by W[illiam] P[itt]". The road forks towards a tavern with the sign of a crown from which thistles emerge, lettered "M[ansfiel]d / J[ohn] Bull". In the foreground, three trees surrounded by fencing marked by crowns represent the three kingdoms, England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Depicted people Representation of: Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
Date circa 1765
date QS:P571,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 209 millimetres (trimmed)
Width: 345 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4365
Notes

Pitt was said to have pretended to poverty after retiring.

See also a second state where the tavern is removed and replaced with a padded stool (1868,0808.4366).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4365
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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