- 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]
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- Published / Created:
- March 31, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.03.31.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A flock of geese, i.e., Westminster electors, chants Fox's name and pecks at grains thrown them by Lord North from the purse "Treasury grains" he is holding under his arm. Next to him, a smiling Charles Fox, with a "list of voters" in his hand, promises the geese "anything for your votes." Behind them, Edmund Burke holds a flag inscribed, "for the liberty of the flock." Standing behind the geese is William Pitt who declares himself their guardian against the "wolves in sheeps cloathing."
- Alternative Title:
- Westminster candidate coming north about the geese
- Description:
- Title from etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 26 x 33 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the Act directs by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Political elections, Geese, Bribery, and Corruption
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The West-tr candidate coming north about the geese [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately March 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.03.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, shown as a lion holding a sceptre and seated under a canopy, receives a deputation of ganders led by a fox (Charles Fox) and a muzzled bear (Lord North). The first of the ganders reads a petition requesting the dismissal of the elephant (William Pitt) who stands to the lion's left. On the right side of the throne, a bull (John Bull) with its head lowered, appears ready to attack the deputation. The text of "The ganders address" is etched below the image, together with the text of "The lion's answer" in which the King rejects the petition
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The text of "The ganders address" has the same manuscript corrections as listed in George., and Mounted to 45 x 32 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Petitions, Bears, Elephants, Foxes, Geese, and Thrones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The ganders addressing the lion to have the elephant remov'd [graphic].