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Political-ravishment, or the old lady of Threadneedle-street in danger!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Political-ravishment, or the old lady of Threadneedle-street in danger!
Description
English: The 'Old Lady' is a thin old harridan, dressed entirely in 'One' pound notes, and seated on an iron-studded treasure-chest inscribed 'Bank of England', fastened by two heavy padlocks. She shrieks and throws up her skinny arms at Pitt's advances: he has taken a long stride towards her from the right, his right hand round her waist; his left dips into a cavernous pocket and takes out guineas. Their profiles almost touch, and he appears about to kiss her. She shrieks: "Murder! - murder! - Rape! - murder! - O you Villain! - what have I kept my Honor untainted so long, to have it broke up, by you at last ? - O murder! - Rape! - Ravishment! - Ruin! - Ruin! - Ruin!!!" Pitt's hat lies on the ground; beneath it is a scroll headed 'Loans'. A lightly sketched arc of the rotunda of the Bank forms a background. 22 May 1797
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 257 millimetres
Width: 364 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
J,3.68
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For the suspension of cash payments see BMSat 8990, &c. Fox called the Restriction 'avowed bankruptcy' and 'flagrant breach of faith and undisguised robbery'. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxiii. 48 (3 Mar.). The crisis actually eased the situation; there was little discrepancy between the value of notes and bullion until 1809. The Bank, far from being ravished, was given the sovereign power of creating money without limit. See E. E. Cannan, 'The Paper Pound, 1797-1821', 1919. The print evidently relates to the Motions of the Duke of Bedford and Grey on the advances by the Bank to Government, in which the need for the suspension of cash payments is attributed to foreign loans, advances on Treasury Bills, and on bills of exchange from abroad. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxiii. 516 ff. (15 and 16 May). Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 220-1. Wright and Evans, No. 167. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.

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See 1851,0901.852, for reactions to the introduction of paper money in 1797.
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