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Alexander the Great conquering all the world   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: William Moore
Title
Alexander the Great conquering all the world
Description
English: Thurlow (left) represents the world; his stomach protrudes in the form of a globe. He faces Hastings, who pours into an aperture in the globe guineas from the end of his turban which expands into a cornucopia. Thurlow, his hands raised deprecatingly, says "Lack [lakh] a day how you distress me". His hat is inscribed 'Spain', his wig 'Tartary', his shoulder 'C. of Good Hope', his arm 'Moorish State', his sleeve-ruffle 'France', his hands 'Alg' and 'iers', his robe 'Africa' and 'Chu[rc]h and State', his globe-waistcoat: 'Pacific O.', 'Great Britain', 'Europe', 'Torrid Zone'; his legs, 'Bengal', 'Ireland'; his shoes 'As-ia'. Hastings wears a large feathered turban wreathed with jewels, and a long cloak over his oriental dress. His belt is inscribed 'Virtues', through it are thrust an axe, a halter, and two (?) clubs. 28 February 1788
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Depicted people Associated with: Warren Hastings
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 149 millimetres
Width: 102 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5688
Notes

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

For Hastings and Thurlow see BMSat 7278, &c. For Hastings as Alexander the Great cf. BMSat 7273. An allusion is perhaps intended to 'The World' as a ministerial paper, cf. BMSat 7369.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5688
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