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A political hypocondriac!!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A political hypocondriac!!
Description
English: A design based on BMSat 7449. Pitt (right), wearing dressing-gown and slippers, sits erect in a high-backed arm-chair, clasping his hands in terror at the visions which assail him. Three goblinlike creatures hold up a sheet inscribed 'Assess'd Taxes', a window in this makes it resemble the side of a house. A hideous profile head wearing a wig inscribed '£ 1. 1s' glares up at Pitt. From clouds emerges a hand holding a hat inscribed '2 Shilling' and another holding by the tail a puppy inscribed '5 Shilling'. Three little Jacobin soldiers advance towards Pitt; the foremost prods his ankle with his bayonet. Behind Pitt's back is the head of a horse with a large blank eye, and (above) a two-wheeled cart. Next the horse is a cottage. Above Pitt's head hang a noose of rope and a dagger. Behind his chair, as if to show the origin of these apparitions, is a row of three decanters: 'Rum', 'Brandy', 'Red Port'.


Dundas, as a doctor, sits (left) with his back to Pitt writing a prescription. He wears Highland dress with a feathered Scots bonnet. Above his head are the words: 'My Patient is in a very bad way I fear, but we must try what can be done for him let me see - mix four Ounces of German Promises with tree [sic] of Prussian Sinceriti to which add 3 - grains of indemnity for the past - and one of Security for the Future - I think that will do. - ' Both men are in profile to the left. 18 April 1798


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 309 millimetres
Width: 402 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6726
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

A satire on Pitt's foreign policy, cf. BMSat 9364, and on the burden of taxation, especially the Triple Assessment, see BMSat 9043, &c, the dog tax, see BMSat 8794, &c, and the hair-powder tax, BMSat 8629, &c. 'Indemnity and security', as war-aims, were used as a gibe against Pitt, see BMSat 9364. They were so used by William Smith (a cousin of Wilberforce): 'now for indemnity and security and then again for security and indemnity, ever changing with the events of the war'. Pitt answered, 'in the termination of every war, there are two objects, reparation and security; but the great object was security'. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxi. 1207, 1215 (debate on Grey's peace motion, 26 Jan. 1795). Fox wrote of the Peace Preliminaries, Oct. 1801: 'Indemnity for the past and security for the future are now evidently construed into Ceylon and Trinidad.' 'Memorials and Corr.', 1854, iii. 345. The formula was enunciated by Auckland at the Antwerp Conference in Apr. 1793. 'Dropmore Papers', iii, p. xxii. For Prussia cf. BMSat 8658. For Pitt as a hard drinker cf. BMSat 8683.
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