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The Sour Prospect before us, or the Ins throwing up   (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
Title
The Sour Prospect before us, or the Ins throwing up
Description
English: Ministers, seven isolated figures, vomit copiously at the prospect of being turned out. They are (left to right) Lord Chatham, First Lord of the Admiralty, vomiting an anchor; the Marquis of Stafford, Lord Privy Seal, vomiting a zebra, inscribed 'Privy Seal'; the zebra or 'Queen's Ass' (cf. BMSat 7488, &c.) here probably indicates special attachment to the Queen. Lord Camden, Lord President of the Privy Council, emits a paper inscribed 'Precedency'. He moved (11 Dec.) for a committee to report on precedents relating to the Regency, Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, v. 213; 'Parl. Hist.' xxvii. 667. Richmond, Master of the Ordnance, emits a cannon and balls (cf. BMSat 6921, &c). Lord Sydney, Secretary of State, emits a sealed letter inscribed 'Secretaryship'. Thurlow vomits the Great Seal in its bag, Pitt a key, probably that of the Treasury, as in BMSat 6378. c. end January 1789
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Depicted people Associated with: Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 111 millimetres
Width: 404 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.5842
Notes

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

The dismissal of the Ministry would have immediately followed the passing of the Regency Bill; the Opposition were confident of office, and posts had been allotted. Cf. Sir G. Elliot, 'Life and Letters', i. 260-3, and BMSat 7509.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5842
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