Plum pudding Billy in all his glory [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd by I. Notice Oxford Road
March 27th, 1784

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.7 x 27.8 cm., on sheet 24 x 31 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6471

Notes:

Title from item.
Mounted to 29 x 37 cm.

Abstract:

William Pitt, seated in front of a gaping audience, receives from a kneeling Sir Watkin Lewes a plum pudding decorated with a leek, emblem of Wales. Behind his chair stands Wilkes holding a chamber pot. Above their heads hang several fox brushes. The print is a reference to the reception for Pitt at the Grocers' Hall on February 28, 1784.

Topics:

Chamber pots
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Plum puddings
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

784.03.27.02+

Orbis Record:

7004933

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05460

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727465

PID:

digcoll:947434