Title from published caption.
Design for a print published with caption title: Popular Indignation- or John Bull in a Rage.
Preliminary drawing for a caricature print published in London on April 26th 1805 by S.W. Fores; the etching is signed "Warren Lee Delt.", with the printmaker identified by George as the caricaturist Charles Williams (died 1830). See BM Satires 10393.
Drawing shows John Bull, a sturdy countryman, standing in open country, with raised bludgeon and clenched fist, driving the terrified Melville (Henry Dundas) into a pit at left. Flames issue from the pit, and three demons, one with a pitchfork, receive Melville. Above Melville, and in the upper left corner of the design, Pitt (burlesqued), with wings, is flying, but about to fall head downwards, since a hand extended from the upper margin clips a wing with an enormous pair of shears; feathers drop downwards. On the extreme right is the corner of a stone building, its door inscribed "Co[utts's] Bank". Alexander Trotter kicks furiously at the closed door holding the knocker, a ring in a lion's mouth. Across his shoulder is a sack inscribed "Navy Office". John Bull's dog tears at the sack, and has made a large rent from which fall coins and notes.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, associated name.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.