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[edit]The catastrophe!
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The catastrophe! |
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English: Below the title: '"And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose, and got \ "him home to his house, and put his household in order and hanged himself. - 2 Sam - chap. 17. v. 23.' Melville, in Highland dress, hangs from a noose, his feet slightly above the floor, where a small 'Stool of Repentence' has been kicked aside. Before him are an open hamper containing wine-bottles, labelled 'A Hamper of the right sort for Billy' [cf. BMSat 8651, &c]; a large sack of 'Private Pickings', and two smaller sacks, inscribed 'Small savings'. Beside these lies his Scots bonnet, with a thistle and a brooch with a St. Andrew's cross. On the window (l.) is a bill: 'This House to be let on a Repairing Lease'. On the r., as if looking through a doorway, stands the ass, saddled, and with the head of Pitt, which looks towards the body, braying "He-Ho! He Ho! He Ho!" c. May 1805
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| Depicted people | Associated with: William Pitt the Younger | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | between 1800 and 1810 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.7357 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) See BMSat 10377, &c. Melville resigned his office of First Lord of the Admiralty on 9 Apr. On 6 May Pitt announced his removal from the Privy Council, see BMSat 10409. For the story of Ahithophel (applied to Fox) cf. BMSat 6015 (1782, reissued 1785, imitated by G. Cruikshank in 1821). |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-7357 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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