File:(Fox, Pitt and Thurlow.) (BM 1868,0808.5360).jpg

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[Fox, Pitt and Thurlow.]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[Fox, Pitt and Thurlow.]
Description
English: Thurlow as Balaam, riding (right to left) on an ass with the head of Pitt, is confronted by Fox (left) holding a sword with a serpentine blade and the shield of Britannia. The ass says, "Am not I thy Pitt=ifull Ass; upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine". Thurlow, on a larger scale than Fox and the ass, which is much overweighted, wears his Chancellor's wig and gown and holds his mace against his right shoulder; he looks fixedly at Fox. A low and irregular stone wall forms a background.


Beneath the design is etched:
'And they came unto Balaam and said unto him, thus saith Balak the Templeite, let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me, for I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore I pray thee, curse me this People.
Balaam rose up in the Morning and saddled his Ass, and went with the Lords of the Bed-Chamber, now the Man of the People stood in the way for an adversary against him, and when the Ass saw the Man of the People, he fell down under Balaam and Balaam's anger was kindled; and he smote the Ass with the Mace.' 24 July 1784


Etching
Depicted people Associated with: George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 240 millimetres
Width: 342 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5360
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

The satire has little relation to the political situation. For Thurlow's part in negotiating between the king and Pitt cf. BMSat 7502. For hostility between Pitt and Thurlow see BMSat 8096, &c.; for Temple see BMSat 6417, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5360
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