An excrescence; A fungus alias a toadstool upon a dung-hill

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James Gillray
1756-1815
An excrescence; A fungus alias a toadstool upon a dung-hill
[London] : Pubd Decr 20th 1791 by H Humphrey, No 18 Old Bond Street, [1791]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.596
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[London] : Pubd. Decr. 20th 1791 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [1791]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Printmaker from George.

Summary: 

Print shows the head of Pitt travestied as a fungus; his long neck represents the stalk, which grows out of a crown resting on a dunghill on which sprout three satellite toadstools.

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