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The State Pack-Horse   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Charles Mosley

Published by: Philip Overton
Title
The State Pack-Horse
Description
English: Political satire on Robert Walpole's reaction to the Duke of Argyll's opposition: in the foreground, a scene outside the Exchequer, a gothic building, in London where Walpole hands a bill for £5000, lettered "You are hereby empower'd to quiet ye North", to a man standing beside a pack-horse laden with bribes (including bags of money, exchequer tallies and promises of honours) and chewing at a thistle, an itinerant musician plays the bladder and string; behind, to right, a wizard draws a magic circle on the ground while indicating the devil flying above on a broomstick, and to left a Scotsman holds a picture of the ass of Balaam (which confronted his master after being cruelly treated) with the angel holding a scroll lettered, "The Duke of Argyl Speech"; in the distance, a scene outside the city of Edinburgh where, to right, a man wearing a sash directed by the devil unloads the horse's pack while one group of men backs off and another reaches for the bribes; to right, Argyll is greeted by a deputation of gentlemen gathered beneath a pennant; the verses below allude to Argyll's metamorphosis from ally to opponent of Walpole. 13 September 1740
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Depicted people Representation of: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
Date 1740
date QS:P571,+1740-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 320 millimetres (cropped at top)
Width: 408 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3627
Notes

Stephens records an advertisement for the print in the London Daily Post, 15 and 16 September 1740, "This Day is publish'd ... A New Political Print, entitled, The Indefatigable State-Pack-Horse, design'd by several great Masters from the Original Plan laid down by the Champion ... Sold by Phil. Overton at the Golden Buck, in Fleet-Street; and by the Printsellers of London and Westminster"; the advertisement quoted the verses below the print. The Champion was an opposition journal published by James Ralph and Henry Fielding.

Argyll had supported Walpole until the Porteous riots of 1736 when an angry mob had killed the captain of the Edinburgh city guard; Argyll voted in parliament against reprisals. The print alludes to Argyll's enthusiastic reception in Edinburgh in June 1740. He was immensely influential in Scotland and his opposition was to contribute to defeat for Walpole in the Scottish elections of 1741.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3627
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