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House-breaking before sun-set / PR ft.

P. R.

House-breaking before sun-set / PR ft.

Published

[London] : Published Jany. 6t 1789 by R. Butters, 79 Fleet Stt., [1789]

etching & drypoint
image: 290 x 223 mm; plate mark: 327 x 250 mm; sheet: 309 x 223 mm
Peel 3367
Notes
Title from item.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Under a sinking sun in which is drawn a crown, with the words "Obscured, not lost", a masked figure with a crow-bar labelled "Begum Sophistry" and the Prince Regent with a broken axe labelled "Presumptive Rights" try to break down the door of the Treasury, while Edmund Burke picks the lock, labelled "G R", with keys labelled "Tropes"; behind them stands a man in black with a lantern labelled "Loyalty", a belt labelled "Truth" and a clapper labelled "Vox Populi"; from the window of the Treasury, Pitt attacks the house-breakers with a blunderbuss labelled "Constitution". Cf. British Museum online catalogue.

Associated names
Butters, Robert, active 18th century-19th century, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints