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Assertaining the Value of the Convention, or, One short Weighty Word in its favor   (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: James Aitken
Title
Assertaining the Value of the Convention, or, One short Weighty Word in its favor
Description
English: Brook Watson stands holding up the beam of a large pair of scales; one scale (left) inscribed 'Fishery' contains a pile of dolphin-like creatures representing whales; the other, inscribed 'Expence', is full, of coins. He puts his wooden leg (inscribed 'Pension') in the 'Fishery' scale, making it outweigh 'Expence', saying, "*Feeling - as I feel, what are three Millions put in the Scale against as many Whales as we can catch?" From his coat-pocket protrude fish inscribed 'Feeling', smaller ones project from his waistcoat pockets. His head is turned in profile to the left, and he holds out his right hand to address four of the Opposition who stand on the left: Sheridan, looking at the whales, holds out his hands towards them, saying, "I feel a want of something". Fox scowls at the whales, saying, "I feel a want of weight". Burke looks up, saying, "I see too much Feeling". Behind them is the profile of a man with a long Jewish nose and bushy eyebrows, identified as M. A. Taylor. Behind the right scale and on the extreme right Alderman Curtis and Pitt stand side by side, both in profile to the left. Curtis has a loaf under his arm and holds open a large sack; he says, "Tho' a Fisherman I can make a Loaf - and hope to make a few Fish". Pitt says, "I feel myself bold with the opinion of the first City in the World". January 1791
Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 208 millimetres
Width: 275 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.5997
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

A satire on the debate of 14 Dec. 1790 on the Convention with Spain. Watson seconded Duncombe's motion for an address of thanks to the King, saying 'he could not help feeling considerable satisfaction in seconding a motion so agreeable to his own sentiments . . .'. 'Parl. Hist.', xxviii. 971. Curtis made his maiden speech and 'proclaimed that he was himself a fisherman, and gloried in the character ... he considered the Southern fishery more valuable than the Greenland ...'. Ibid., pp. 973-4. Fox spoke at length against the Convention and was answered by Pitt. Burke did not speak. Curtis and Watson were M.P.s for London. For the Convention see BMSat 7687, &c.; for the attitude of the City, BMSat 7680, &c. Loaves and fishes are a recurrent theme with Dent., e.g. BMSat 6915.
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