File:The congress or the necessary politicians (BM 1868,0808.4528).jpg
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The congress or the necessary politicians |
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Description |
English: Two men seated in a 'necessary house'. One (l.) is tearing fragments from "Resolution[s] of the [C]ongress"; he turns in profile to the left. The other, wearing spectacles, is reading intently a book called "Answer to a P[amphlet en]titled Taxation. . . . Tir . . ." On the wall behind them two prints are stuck up, one a bust portrait of Wilkes as "Mayor" (partly cut off by the left. margin of the print), the other a caricature of a tarred and feathered man; above this is etched "Album vertor in Alitem &c", and below, "[Por]trait of W------P------Tarr'd & Feather'd 1774." 1775
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Depicted people | Associated with: Dr Samuel Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1775 date QS:P571,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4528 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The Resolutions of Congress, 14 Oct. 1774 and the Association 20 Oct. 1774 were widely printed in the English Press, e.g. 'London Chronicle', 15-17 Dec. 1774. See S. E. Morison, 'Sources and documents illustrating the American Revolution', 1929, pp. 118-25. They include a non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation association, cf. BMSat 5284. The book which one of the politicians is reading is evidently 'An Answer to a Pamphlet entitled Taxation no Tyranny, addressed to the Author and to Persons in Power' [published by John Almon, 1775]. The sub-title of S. Johnson's pamphlet, 'Taxation no Tyranny', published in Feb. 1775, is 'An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'. The Congress sat from 5 Sept. to 29 Oct. 1774. For tarring and feathering cf. BMSat 5232, and p. 169. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4528 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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