Master Billy's hobby-horse, or, His triumphal entry into Downing Street [graphic] / Anl Scratch d.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub. Feb. 26, 1784, by W. Welles, No. 132 Fleet Street
[1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 248 x 352 mm., on sheet 27 x 37 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6425

Notes:

Title from item.

Abstract:

William Pitt, riding a rocking horse, contemplates the locked gate to the "Treasury" in front of him. In his left hand he holds a whip inscribed, "prerogative," followed by the words, "pro me." Under his right arm is a "Royal primer" and the horse's rockers are inscribed, "despotism" and "aristocracy." A blast of foul air from his buttocks, signed, "my honor," is directed at the face of Charles Fox behind him. Pointing to the Treasury building, Fox proclaims service for the country to be his motivation.

Variant Titles:

His triumphal entry into Downing Street

Associated Names:

Collings, Samuel [Printmaker]

Topics:

Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Hobby horses
Pitt, William, 1759-1806

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1784
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1784

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

784.02.26.02+

Orbis Record:

6974413

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05415

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727422

PID:

digcoll:947419