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The Q.A. Loaded With The Spoils of India and Britain, print, Thomas Rowlandson (MET, 59.533.256)

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Thomas Rowlandson: The Q.A. Loaded With The Spoils of India and Britain.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q318584 s:en:Author:Thomas Rowlandson
 
Thomas Rowlandson
Description English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death 13 July 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 21 April 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Old Jewry London
Work location
London, Paris (1774), France, Germany, Italy, Rotterdam (ca. 1794),
Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q318584
Title
The Q.A. Loaded With The Spoils of India and Britain.
Description
Description from Thomas Greggo (1880): March 6, 1758. The Q. A. loaded with the Spoils of India and Britain.— The Q. A. (Queen's Ass) is a zebra ; William Pitt is seated, with well-stuffed panniers, in front of this novel steed, loaded with costly spoils, Rights and Wrongs; round the Zebra's neck is a bag of Bulse, containing some of Warren Hasting's famous ill-gotten diamonds. William Pitt is sharply whipping his beast, and declaring ' I have thrown off the mask, I can blind the people no longer, and must now carry everything by my bought majority.' The Q. A. is also trumpeting forth, 'What are children's rights to ambition ? I will rule in spite of them, if I can conceal things at Q.' A law lord, said to be intended for Lord Edward Thurlow, who has hold of the animal's head, is filled with certain gloomy apprehensions : ' So many Scotchmen have left their heads behind in this d—d town for treason, I begin to tremble as much as the thief in the rear for my own.' The thief in the rear is the Duke of Richmond, who, with one of his famous defence guns between his legs, is assisting Pitt's advance with a goad, and crying 'Skulking in the rear, out of sight, suits best my character.' A finger-post is pointing to Tower Hill, by B—m (Buckingham) House
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Dimensions Sheet: 9 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (23.5 × 31.8 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Drawings and Prints
Accession number
59.533.256
Credit line The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/738116

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