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Richard Newton
1777-1798
The Libertine Reclaim'd, or, John Bull Bullied
etching
plate mark: 251 x 352 mm; sheet: 255 x 357 mm
Peel 3410
Published:
London : Pubd by W Holland No. Oxford St., August 1792
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Bibliography:
Robinson, Nicholas K. Edmund Burke : a life in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Press,1996, page 162 (reproduced).
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Title from item.
Printmaker from the Yale Center for British Art online catalog.
Image coterminous with plate mark.
Summary:
Print shows John Bull kneeling in prayer at left, bent over under the onerous weight of "Taxes" strapped to his back; at right, Richmond addresses George III, as a farting fairy bearing a staff with a bonnet rouge and flying a flag which reads "Rights of man", flies away to the shores America at left; he says "Behold the wonderful effects of gunpowder", and George responds "Wonderful indeed ha ha where are the patriots now!"; Pitt stands at the king's back, saying "It was the Proclamation annihilated them", while at far right, with his wrists in chains which are held by Pitt, stands Burke, saying "And my letter."
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