- Creator:
- Independent Shopkeeper
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- File 646 788 In38
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Caption title., An address to Lord Hood and Pitt expressing outrage at a riot of sailors in Westminster and the damage done to the tradesmen in the area, on top of the grinding taxes imposed by the Pitt admisitration., Signed: An independent shopkeeper., "Bond-Street, Friday evening, July 25, 1788.", Westminster election handbill., Not in ESTC., and Partial watermark. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Great Britain, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1788, Retail trade, Taxation, Public opinion, and Sailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Card to Lord Hood
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- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.01.01.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A stout farmer rides (left to right) past an inn on a cow. The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Ho[rses]'. The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn, and snaps his fingers, saying, "Pitt be D------d". A basket containing poultry hangs from the saddle. Part of the inn is on the left of the design, its sign is a stout man holding a foaming tankard gazing at three sacks, inscribed 'Joe Jolly 1784' (a '7' appears to have been etched over the '4'). Five amused spectators stand by the door; from a window above two men applaud the farmer."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue of a print originally published in 1784., Pitt's budget of 1784 imposed an annual tax of 10s. on saddle- and carriage-horses, exempting those used for trade and agriculture. On 27 November 1784 one Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to and from the market of Stockport in protest against the horse-tax. See Chambers, 'Book of Days', ii. 627, where there is a copy of a similar print., and For a variant state, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jan. 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation, Horses, Farmers, Cheering, Cows, Defecation, Geese, Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Spectators, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > How to avoid the horse duty [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [5 April 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.04.05.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat held together by a military belt. In his left hand is a ragged hat. He says, with a broad grin: "Wounds, when Master Billy sees I in a Red-Cap, how he will stare! - egad; I thinks I shall cook em at last. - well if I could but once get a Cockade to my Red Cap, & a bit of a Gun - why, I thinks I should make a good stockey Soldier!" The shop is that of 'Billy-Black-Soul [Pitt], Hatter, & Sword-cutler \ Licenced to deal in Hats and Swords.' Above the door (right) are the royal arms and 'Stamp-Office' (the tax on hats being levied by a stamp). Within the window are crossed swords and military cocked hats with a number of stamps bearing the royal arms. In the foreground (left) is a pile of dead cats with a paper: 'List of Cats Killed for making skin caps 20000 Red 5000 Tabb ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull evading the hat tax
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > La bonnèt-rouge, or, John Bull evading the hat tax [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mustapha
- Published / Created:
- [1795]
- Call Number:
- File 763 795 M991 pt. 1++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Mustapha's adoration of the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent. Part 1
- Description:
- A satire on Pitt., Signed: Mustapha., With a small woodcut of Pitt in profile in third line of title, between the words 'Pittander' and 'Omnipotent'., Imprint continues: ... where may be had, the pasquinades of Pittachio in two parts, Dundassio, &c. Also just published, the second edition of The shaver's new sermon for the fast day., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Riebau, No. 439, Strand; and sold by all newsmen ...
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mustapha's adoration of the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent Part I.
- Creator:
- Mustapha
- Published / Created:
- [1795]
- Call Number:
- File 763 795 M991 pt. 2++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Mustapha's adoration of the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent. Part 2
- Description:
- A satire on Pitt., Signed at bottom of text: Mustapha., Parts 1 and 3 were "Printed for G. Riebau" and this part is homogeneous with these., With a small woodcut of Pitt in profile in third line of title, between the words 'Pittander' and 'Omnipotent'., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Riebau, No. 439, Strand; and sold by all newsmen ...
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mustapha's adoration of the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent. Part II.
- Creator:
- Mustapha
- Published / Created:
- [1795]
- Call Number:
- File 763 795 M991 pt. 3++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Mustapha’s adoration of the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent. Part 3
- Description:
- A satire on Pitt., Signed: Mustapha., With a small woodcut of Pitt in profile in third line of title, between the words 'Pittander' and 'Omnipotent'., Imprint continues: ... where may be had Pittachio in two parts. Part I and II of Pittander omnipotent. Harlequin impeacher, &c. Also the second edition of The shaver's New sermon., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for G. Riebau, No. 439, Strand; and may be had of all newsmen ...
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mustapha’s vision. Addressed with humble and devout adoration to the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent. Part III
- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- File 53 P68 P691++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- A satire on Pitt's government suggesting his adminstration was a theatre. The layout of the sheet mimics that of a contemporary playbill., "Price one penny."--Following imprint., With a oval vignette of a ship surrounded a floral border, between first two words of the title., and For further information, consult library staff (object file: File 763 795 M991 pt. 1-3++)
- Publisher:
- Printed for and sold by J. Bullock
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, English and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Pittpatche's Requisition!? Proclamation extraordinary? Given at our Court of Pandaemonium, the seventeenth day of February, in the year of our lords, Old Nick and the King. ...