- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 19th, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.01.19.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lord Thurlow depicted as a schoolmaster is seated on the left. He wears an enormous wig, and holds in his left hand the book "A new guide to India" and in his right a birch rod. Facing him stands Pitt dressed as a young girl, with a key (to the Treasury) hanging from her belt. On the wall behind them hangs a portait of the King labelled "a great Whig", a bust of Fox labelled "a true Whig" on top of a bookcase containing Newbery's Works, and a map with the face of Shelburne titled "a false Whig." The "h" in the first word of the title is inserted above the "i".
- Alternative Title:
- Master Billy learning his task and Wiggism, or, Master Billy learning his task
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Pubd for S.W. as the act directs, by J. Cattermoul, No. 376 Oxford Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government and Bookcases
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Whiggism, or, Master Billy learning his task [graphic]
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