File:The Long-Winded Speech, or the oratorical organ harmonized with sublime and beautiful inflation (BM 1948,0214.512).jpg
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The Long-Winded Speech, or the oratorical organ harmonized with sublime and beautiful inflation ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: William Dent
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Title |
The Long-Winded Speech, or the oratorical organ harmonized with sublime and beautiful inflation |
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Description |
English: Sheridan leans forward making a prolix speech indicated by ribbons which issue from his mouth; he is the mouthpiece of Burke at the instigation of Fox: Fox (right) kneels applying to Sheridan's posteriors a bellows formed of the profile head of Burke. The ribbons are inscribed: 'Jaghire Elephant Oude Bamboo Cages Begums Begums Begums Plundered Princesses Sacrificed Begums Filial duty wantonly destroyed Shackled Eunuchs Sustenance forbid Strangled Ministers Treaties violated Rebellion Nominal Cruelties confirmed Incontrovertible Evidence Natives Annihilated. Witnesses Biassed Defence Denied.' 4 June 1788
Etching with hand-colouring |
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Depicted people | Representation of: Richard Brinsley Sheridan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1788 date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1948,0214.512 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Sheridan's much expected and famous speech on the charge against Hastings relating to the Begums of Oudh began on 3 June and continued on 6, 10, and 13 June. It was extravagantly praised by Burke, see Moore, 'Life of Sheridan', 1825, pp. 324-76. It disappointed Sir G. Elliot on the final day (as theatrical and rhetorical). Grenville, who heard both it and the earlier speech on the same subject in the House of Commons, thought it contemptible, the earlier one admirable. See Sir G. Elliot, 'Life and Letters', i. 206 ff.; Rogers, 'Recollections', 1859, p. 181; R. C. Rhodes, 'Harlequin Sheridan', 1933, pp. 109-11. The speech is ridiculed in R. Broom's 'Letters of Simpkin the Second', Letters IV, V, VI, 1789. See BMSat 7331. For Sheridan as Burke's mouthpiece cf. BMSat 7139. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0214-512 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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