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The chancellor of the inquisition marking the incorrigibles.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
The chancellor of the inquisition marking the incorrigibles.
Description
English: Burke, writing as he walks, advances towards the door of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern, over which is inscribed 'British Inquisition'. He wears a skull-cap and long legal robe, from his waist hangs a bag like that of the Great Seal, on which the royal arms are replaced by a crown and anchor and having a skull at each corner. His head is in profile to the left and he scowls with fiercely protruding lips. He holds up a large sheaf of paper headed 'Black List', his pen touching the last word of the inscription (a parody of Richard III): 'Beware of N--rf--k! --P--tl--d loves us not! - The R--ss--l's will not join us The Man of the People [Fox] has lived too long for us! The Friends of the People must be blasted by us! Sherridan, Ersk[ine].' On one of the door-posts is a narrow slit inscribed 'Anonymous - Letter Box'. The door of the famous tavern appears to be correctly depicted, but its lamps are surmounted by royal crowns. 19 March 1793
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Edmund Burke
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 347 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
J,3.48
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A satire on the split in the Whig party, see BMSat 8315, on the attitude to his old friends of Burke (much more anti-revolutionary than Pitt and Grenville), cf. BMSat 7865, &c, and on the propagandist activities of the 'Association for preserving Liberty and Property ...', known as the Crown and Anchor Society (because its head-quarters were in that building), see BMSat 8138, &c. It received much correspondence (Nov. 1792-Feb. 1793), some anonymous, on seditious or suspect activities, see B.M. Add. MSS. 16,919-28. Cf. BMSats 8138, &c, 8284, 8289, 8318, 8424, 8609, 8699, and Index of Persons, s.v. Reeves (called by Coleridge in 1795, 'captain-commandant of the spy-gang', 'Essays on his own Times', 1850, i. 79 n.). For the Friends of the People (formed 11 Apr. 1792) see BMSat 8087. For Gillray's attitude to the Society cf. BMSats 8318, 8699.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 167. Wright and Evans, No. 99. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-48
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