John Bull & his dog Faithful : "Among the faithless faithful only found".

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James Gillray
1756-1815
John Bull & his dog Faithful : "Among the faithless faithful only found".
[London] : Pubd April 20th 1796 by H Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.409
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[London] : Pubd. April 20th 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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By James Gillray.

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Print shows John Bull, blind, maimed, and ragged, walking beside a chasm, the edge of which stretches across the foreground of the design. His wooden right arm terminates in a hook to which is attached a cord from the collar of a greyhound with the head of Pitt. Pitt drags him forward and slightly towards the gulf; in his mouth is a large bare bone, his collar is inscribed 'Licenc'd to Lead'. In John Bull's left hand is a staff, on his back a burden inscribed 'Loans'. He has a wooden leg, which a dog with the head of Sheridan and a collar inscribed 'Licenc'd to Bite' is biting savagely. Behind and on the extreme right is a dog with the head of Grey, and a collar inscribed 'Grey Hound'; he bites John Bull's coat. Fox, a mastiff with a fox's brush, stands behind Pitt, wearing as collar inscribed 'Licenc'd to Bark'.

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