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Mr S-n's Speech, or, the triumph of Genius over Injustice with an illustration of a Nabob's defence   (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
Published by: J (or W) Dickie
Title
Mr S-n's Speech, or, the triumph of Genius over Injustice with an illustration of a Nabob's defence
Description
English: Design in an irregular diamond-shaped lozenge set in a rectangle, in the corners of which are small subsidiary designs. Sheridan stands on Mount Parnassus, holding up a small Irish harp above his head, his left hand is clenched, his left leg held up as if kicking: he has just hurled Hastings down the precipitous mountain. Hastings falls head downwards through clouds into space; his jewelled turban falls off, a book of 'Oriental Tragedies' drops from his hand. Sheridan wears a laurel wreath, his head is irradiated; he says "Hence vile Author". In the air by his head flies a tiny Pegasus, his tail inscribed 'Conviction'; on his back stands Apollo blowing a trumpet to which is attached a banner inscribed 'Soaring Speech'. The lower columns of a round temple, inscribed 'Apollo's Court', are visible on the summit of Parnassus. On its slopes, below Sheridan, are Burke and Fox blowing trumpets.


The four small designs in the corners of the print are numbered: 'I'., in the upper right corner, is 'Journeymen manufacturing the Defence'. Three asses wearing coats stand round a headless corpse inscribed 'State necessity'. One, holding a heart, says "Humanity unbounded they dared to resist". Another says "Assertions boldly justifying". They are Law, Plumer, and Dallas, Hastings's counsel, see BMSat 7321. Behind (left), Hastings sleeps in an armchair.
2., in the upper left corner, is Nabob making his Defence. The scene resembles the House of Commons, not Westminster Hall. Hastings kneels before the Speaker, saying, "To this defence I'll stick."
3., in the lower right corner, is 'Denying his Defence'. A demon emerges from swaddling clothes inscribed 'Preface'. Burke (right) stands ringing a bell; he says, "O yes, who owns this Bastard". Thurlow (left) stands with a hand on Hastings's shoulder, saying, "I'll swear its none of yours". Hastings answers, "None but the Wrapper [the preface] mine."
4., in the lower left corner, is 'Defence turned upon him pointedly'. Sheridan (left) uses a pitchfork to attack Hastings, who has the face, tail, and hooves of a demon, and cries 'Peccavi'.
After the title is etched, 'With an illustration of a Nabob's Defence'. 9 June 1788


Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 248 millimetres
Width: 202 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5745
Notes

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

For Sheridan's famous speech see 'The Long-winded Speech', also by Dent, taking a contrary view of the achievement. For the trial see BMSat 7269, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5745
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