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James Gillray
1756-1815
The minister endeavouring to eke out Dr. Pr-ty---n's bisho-prick / JS ff.
aquatint with etching
image: 306 x 236 mm; plate mark: 326 x 245 mm; sheet: 353 x 267 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2552
Published:
[London] : Pub'd March 1787 by R. Phillips, Southwark, [1787]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Counterfeit signature; print by Gillray. Cf. BM Satires.
Summary:
"Pitt (left) holds up the dome of St. Paul's which he is about to place over the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral (right). He stands in a graveyard at some distance, and leans forward, on tip-toe, his right foot resting on a rectangular tombstone inscribed 'Hic jacet' and decorated with a bishop's mitre, a winged skull, and cross-bones"--British Museum online catalogue.
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