File:An unwelcome visit. (BM 1878,0511.1389).jpg
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An unwelcome visit.
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson
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An unwelcome visit. |
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English: A stout John Bull sits in an arm-chair holding a long pipe in his left hand which rests on a circular table beside a glass and bottle of 'Coniac'. He looks up with an anxious scowl at an elderly man who stands (right), saying, "I 'am come again about the Taxes Sir - if agreeable to you to discharge them". The tax-collector holds a large open book, 'New Taxes for the Year 1796', [The last figure is doubtful] in which he writes with his left hand. He wears a hat in which a pen is thrust, an ink-bottle hangs from a button, in each pocket of his greatcoat is a large book, one being 'Additional Taxes on Window Lights'. Under his arm is another large book: '[T]axes Receipts Taxes'. Beside the taxpayer sits a dog, who glares up at the tax-collector with an expression resembling that of his master. 26 December 1794.
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| Date | 1794 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1878,0511.1389 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A satire with little application to actual taxes. Pitt's budget of 1794 was uncontroversial. 'Parl. Hist.' xxx. 1353-62. There was, however, in 1794 a new tax on crown or plate glass, described as an article of luxury. Ibid.; see BMSat 8425. The window-tax on houses with less than seven windows was repealed in 1792 (cf. BMSat 8065) and rates were not raised till 1797, while dairies were exempted in 1796. Dowell, 'Hist. of Taxation', ii. 210 f. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1878-0511-1389 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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